Anyone ever use the geometric Poisson distribution? If I've implemented it correctly in Stan, it's giving me better fits than negative binomial according to PSIS-LOO-CV with a big count occupancy model.
Aaron Steven White
@aaronstevenwhite.io
computational semanticist. into modular synths and rum. https://aaronstevenwhite.io
Training a semantic tagger/parser for ~30 datasets right now, and it is truly wild that, even if this ends up SOTA on all of them, this is at best something that gets shoved into an appendix nowadays.
Hypo is now out! It provides a rich metadata layer on top of @grain.social records, including gear and workflow abstractions as well as tools for photo annotation and search. If you shoot film, it also provides a stockpile tracker, shot logger, and development timer.
Hypo
Hypo is a tool for organizing and sharing your film or digital photography: the gear you shoot, develop, and scan with; the workflows that take a film roll from capture to finished scan; and the prove...
hypo.graycard.app
Congratulations to Dr. Jin Dou (@jin-dou.bsky.social) on successfully defending his dissertation yesterday!The dissertation focuses on understanding how humans process naturalistic speech using EEG. Check out all the awesome work he did during his PhD! powerfulbean.github.io
Doing some final tweaks on the lexicons for a little hobby project.
New preprint on scaling data collection in field work contexts. lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/010...
Large-Scale Data Collection in Fieldwork Contexts: A Case Study of Clause Embedding in Zulu - lingbuzz/010099
Some research questions require large-scale acceptability judgment datasets to answer them. Constructing such datasets can be challenging when the researcher has limited familiarity with the language....
lingbuzz.net
16-year-old me seizing my faculties to buy these Sparta tickets.
Multiple generations of JHU semanticists at @elm-conference.bsky.social (with nearly half current and prior JHU x Rochester: four UR + one RIT).
Couple months late on this, but I am obsessed with the breakbeat on Arlo Parks’ Get Go. (Discovered via this great Tape Notes interview with her and her producer Baird.)
TN:183 Arlo Parks & Baird
Podcast Episode · Tape Notes · June 9 · 1h 30m
podcasts.apple.com
Been quiet on @layers.pub the last couple months, but have some stuff coming soon I’m really excited about.
"Archaeologists Unearth ‘Prototype’ of Stonehenge Monument Nearby." Thing is, it was written in Python by a bunch of physicists. No comments, no structure, no tests. A big dude with a black robe and very long beard kept saying, "Can we just build this fucking thing in C already?" So they did.
Just finished scanning negatives from my trip to Denver and really like how these shots of the Populus building came out. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus...
If you're at CVPR, come visit me at demo session 4 (booth 2) this afternoon from 4:45-6:45pm to chat about FOVEA!
FOVEA | FOVEA Documentation
FOVEA: Flexible Ontology Visual Event Analyzer. Author ontologies, annotate video, and extract grounded claims through persona-based interpretive lenses.
fovea.video
Heading to Denver for CVPR tomorrow then Philly for ELM next week, but really wondering why I’d ever leave Rochester in late spring.
It’s 2010. Time has not yet branched. You hop on your fixie and crank this.
Pantha du Prince | Music | Black Noise
New Album "Garden Gaia" out 26 August 2022. All information, tour dates, videos and much more about "Pantha du Prince" alias Hendrik Weber.
panthaduprince.com
Bought my 6yo a cd/cassette boombox today, and afterward we went to the used record shop to pick out a cd. He picked out Autobahn by Kraftwerk, which he is now referring to as his new favorite record…so dad achievement unlocked.
Have made martinis with Dolin Dry for years but just cracked a fresh bottle of Noilly Prat and don’t think I’m going back.
What kind of sociopath takes time out of their day to vote in a local election against their school district’s budget?
