PhD, Nanophotonics, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Chemistry/Mathematics, University of Idaho; Software Developer @YouGov; Author, https://xitter.cf/t.co/C4bWeIRL7D

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Joined April 2022
Apparently I am pillow
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Zero security impacts today Because we’re running Python servers
🚨 Security vulnerabilities reported in a SINGLE day: PHP — 2 CVEs Node.js — 10 CVEs NGINX — 5 CVEs Go — 1 CVE GitLab — 12 CVEs eMudhra — CA certificate compromise
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First foray into microcontrollers
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Replying to @mattyglesias
So miserable
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Replying to @SledgeDev
You need a skelly
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Ben Affleck after a day of writing Python:
Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models “I’ve always been kind of into computers since I was young. Then, when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. The visual-effects workflow for many years has included machine learning, so I can write pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that. “With convolutional neural networks, which were the precursors to what the transformer can do, which is much more computation simultaneously, you would do things like look at what’s called a tensor. That’s the numerical translation of a visual image in numbers, like the batch number, the frame number and the red, green and blue values of each pixel in each frame. It’s just that simple. That numeric is called a tensor. “You’d use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns that reveal what’s called edge detection or feature extraction, which is identifying patterns well enough to know, this is where the window ledge is, so we can more easily take the green-screen image out and replace it with something. “That was familiar to me early on because, prior to Artists Equity, I had a small visual-effects company. I’ve worked with GPUs a lot too. The visual-effects guys said, ‘Hey, you should see. There are a couple: Google and this other company, OpenAI, are doing really interesting stuff with transformers in video.’ “I’ve learned that I can actually just call up and go, ‘Hey, it’s Ben Affleck. Can I come see what you’re doing?’ Sometimes people say yes, to my astonishment.”
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Replying to @0xEthanS
We went late May, couldn’t have asked for better conditions
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Some good ones over the years
can't compete aesthetically with the ms. zader, but here are four of my favorites of just me
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