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Sam Babichenko 🇺🇦

@SamBabichenko

I like math. Quantitative analytics @wellsfargo. Views/Opinions are my own and not my employer's

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alz
@alz_zyd_Aug 4
A puzzling thing about all this grocery uproar: - Roughly 6-8% of the median US household's income is spent on groceries, so like $4000 a year - Even if applied to literally all groceries a person buys, a 15% discount is like $600 a year, which honestly is... kind of pathetic?
Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) profile pictureClay Travis
@ClayTravisAug 3
New York City will require IDs to prove you live in the city in order to shop in the city owned grocery stores. So you need an ID to shop in the city’s stores, but it would be racist to require an ID to vote. Perfection.
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Mini Modu@MinModulationMay 2
you can also remove the W entirely and also get your answer
le.hl (@0xleegenz) profile picturele.hl
@0xleegenzMay 1
Me realizing that if you replace the "W" in "What", "Where", "When" with a "T" you will answer the questions
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🖤Adelaide🩶@BreadstickMommy30 Aug 2025
this is a ham. would be a shame if someone put an s and an e next to it
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Thiha Aung@taung009 Dec 2024
Yes!
Caglar (@caglar_ee) profile pictureCaglar
@caglar_ee8 Dec 2024
Video lectures, Probability Theory by Todd Kemp mathweb.ucsd.edu/~tkemp/Prob… UC San Diego Math 280A Probability Theory I youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… UC San Diego Math 280B Probability Theory II youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… UC San Diego Math 280C Probability Theory III youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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Agus 🔸
@austinc330121 May 2024
Ok this paper is a huge breakthrough in Mechanistic Interpretability. This is wild, I'm so happy A small explanation in thread
henry (@arithmoquine) profile picturehenry
@arithmoquine21 May 2024
WAKE UP BABE NEW ANTHROPIC BANGER MECHINTERP PAPER JUST DROPPED
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Visakan Veerasamy
@visakanv17 Mar 2024
this is a 1996 guide on how to help someone use a computer. it’s strikingly resonant with ‘how to be a parent’, or really ‘how to help anyone with anything’. a nice example of “the universal within the particular”
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Omar Rizwan (@rsnous) profile pictureOmar Rizwan@rsnous28 Jan 2024
Replying to @tylerangert
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owen cyclops
@owenbroadcast11 Feb 2024
i grew up outside a large city. around thirteen, i became vegan (sorry). when i told people around me that cows make milk after becoming pregnant, like humans, everyone told me i was very stupid and misinformed. they all thought there was zero analogy - cows just made milk.
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Henry
@henrl19 Dec 2023
I’m so excited to learn during the exam tomorrow
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Almost Sure@Almost_Sure17 Dec 2023
you ever noticed, when hearing about the death of someone, that often they were in their ‘death bed’. Why would you even buy such a thing? That’s just asking for it. If anyone buys me a death bed, I hope you kept the receipt, because it’s going right back to the shop!
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Saverio Spagnolie@SaverioIV13 Sep 2023
It turns out that sparkling water and raisins are *fascinating*. My daughter and I happened upon this effect playing together in the kitchen a long time ago, and I couldn't help but explore the system more deeply... 1/n arxiv.org/abs/2308.12927
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Aella
@Aella_Girl18 Aug 2022
it feels less like i'm gaining levels and more like im accidentally discovering that the world is lower level than i thought it was
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Evan Washington@evanewashington16 Sep 2022
someone asked @jweisber what the most overrated paradox was, so I made a tier list of my opinions
## Paradox Tier List **S-Tier** (severely underrated): Unexpected Hanging, Simpson's, Twin, Fitch's, Meno's paradox, What the Tortoise Said to Achilles **A-Tier** (underrated): Sorites, Friendship, Bertrand's, Arrow's impossibility theorem, Rule-following, Goodman's new riddle of induction **B-Tier** (correctly rated): Russell's, the Liar sentence, Sleeping Beauty, Newcomb, Condorcet, Fermi, Moore sentences, Mere addition, Allais **C-Tier** (meh): Curry, Ellsberg, Birthday, Grandfather, Crocodile dilemma, St. Petersburg, White Horse **D-Tier** (overrated): Lottery, Preface, Berry, Skolem, Wollheim, Free Will, Richard's **F-Tier** (severely overrated): Chicken or the egg, Raven, Hedgehog's dilemma, Monty Hall, Zeno, Banach-Tarski, Hilbert's hotel

ALT ## Paradox Tier List **S-Tier** (severely underrated): Unexpected Hanging, Simpson's, Twin, Fitch's, Meno's paradox, What the Tortoise Said to Achilles **A-Tier** (underrated): Sorites, Friendship, Bertrand's, Arrow's impossibility theorem, Rule-following, Goodman's new riddle of induction **B-Tier** (correctly rated): Russell's, the Liar sentence, Sleeping Beauty, Newcomb, Condorcet, Fermi, Moore sentences, Mere addition, Allais **C-Tier** (meh): Curry, Ellsberg, Birthday, Grandfather, Crocodile dilemma, St. Petersburg, White Horse **D-Tier** (overrated): Lottery, Preface, Berry, Skolem, Wollheim, Free Will, Richard's **F-Tier** (severely overrated): Chicken or the egg, Raven, Hedgehog's dilemma, Monty Hall, Zeno, Banach-Tarski, Hilbert's hotel

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Chris Olah
@ch40214 Sep 2022
I've never had so many "this can't possibly be true, we must have a bug" results in the course of a research project before. I'd like to take a moment to walk through some of the very strange (and surprisingly beautiful) things we found.
Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) profile pictureAnthropic
@AnthropicAI14 Sep 2022
Neural networks often pack many unrelated concepts into a single neuron – a puzzling phenomenon known as 'polysemanticity' which makes interpretability much more challenging. In our latest work, we build toy models where the origins of polysemanticity can be fully understood.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl3 Oct 2021
I dislike "everyone is beautiful" or "you're beautiful just the way you are" - this pressure that if you're unattractive, you should 'pretend' that you're beautiful. This privileges attractive people and expects the unattractive to pretend that they don't have any disadvantage.
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Wei Ji Ma@weijima012 Feb 2021
When I had just started my job at @NYU_CNS @NYUPsych in 2013, I pitched a project to incoming graduate students. It was a wild new direction for me: using board games to understand how people think ahead. 7.5 years later, we have a preprint. psyarxiv.com/rhq5j/ 1/
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ahmed@ahmedallibhoy20 Nov 2020
I really admire people who are able to make accessible introductions to technical subjects in the form of twitter threads. I'll give it a shot myself, even though I can count on one hand the number of followers who would be interested. Today's topic: What is a Kalman filter? 1/
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PBF Comics@PBFcomics23 Apr 2020
Sir Leopold
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〈 Berger | Dillon 〉
@InertialObservr6 Mar 2020
dividing by 0 just to feel something
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math prof@mathematicsprof5 Mar 2020
In calc when teaching the 'min surface area of a can with given vol, of which soln is diameter = ht, I wrote a cat foot company telling them how much they'd save by making their cans taller. Got a letter from the marketing dept telling me a million reasons for the can's design.
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Ben Bartlett@bencbartlett28 Jan 2020
+, Σ, and ∫ are just different evolutions of the same Pokémon
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