Sandy Vanderbleek

programming is like math except with hidden constantly changing definitions you have no control over

I got into med school at the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine, start next month in Meridian!

@StickyNutsack @yaghsizian @twobitidiot do mcat scores, gpas, etc have any connection with clinical outcomes? a doctor's qualification is passing their boards and their residency, everyone has scores above average to be considered and evals, recomendations, research, and memberships/service are what makes the cut

I want to explain why DEI is insidiously evil in one sentence. Your reaction to this will reveal your intellectual honesty and appetite for solving problems: My son had a black woman doctor last weekend at urgent care, and I instantly knew she was statistically less qualified.

cute

might as well memorize the periodic table

NEW: we may have passed peak obesity 🎉📈📉🙏 In what might be one of the most significant trends I have ever charted, the US obesity rate fell last year.

I draw mathematical worlds. These ideas don't fit on the page: They're too abstract, too far reaching, or too high dimensional. To draw them, I cheat. Here are some shortcuts and shorthands I use while illustrating math 🧵

@d_feldman Ouch I thought this was a joke and it is real 🤮

you might call it a "cheap shot," but i prefer to think of it as readily affordable and widely accessible

some stuff i did recently! sound design by @obifobi147

chemistry is wild

MLPs are so foundational, but are there alternatives? MLPs place activation functions on neurons, but can we instead place (learnable) activation functions on weights? Yes, we KAN! We propose Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN), which are more accurate and interpretable than MLPs.🧵

It turns out that different notions of higher-order/synergistic/emergent effects are all just Möbius inversions of macro quantities on different decompositions. I've started to collect some in this table, but please let me know if you find any more! arxiv.org/abs/2404.14423

Alright I’ve made enough progress towards my med school goals that I can officially say fuck the tech industry, while individuals have been good to me the industry as a whole has treated me like shit and I’ve busted my ass and given my life to it, so yea, fuck the tech industry

An epoch @ Fission is now over. I'm searching for a dope role that leverages my varied background & abilities. Resume: zee.town/zeeshan/resume/ GH: github.com/zeeshanlakhani Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user… Into: PL & type systems, Rust, network fns, dist. systems & compute, Wasm.

@stv_kn ha well I’m not looking for rigor just a career that interests me and pays well, and to get away from RSI and a desk job

@haskellandchill I think every square of inch of medicine will fill you with dread. The rigor is orders of magnitude lower there than in software today.

actually I’m gonna go be a doctor, get back to me when proofs are mainstream in programming

how does a girl find a husband if she rarely leaves her house and also doesn't use dating apps

@rogerkver Yeah because individuals don’t coerce other individuals

Voluntaryism is the idea that all human interactions should be free of coercion, based on individual self-ownership. This is in contrast to statism, which is based on coercion justified by collective ownership. #cryptocurrency enables self-ownership for everyone.

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