If you ever wondered where my account handle came from, you can find out in the first post on my new Substack: open.substack.com/pub/neurobon...

An introduction...

...and an explanation

open.substack.com

I wanted to send a broadcast message over our Google Home speakers, and the Google Home app told me I had to go to the Gemini app to do that. That didn't work, but I did get to have this unhinged conversation, so consider me a satisfied customer.

Playing around with the latest image generation models (via Adobe Firefly, which is allowing unlimited generation until 1/15), and thought I would share how it turned out (results in thread):

Someone once said that it is better to burn out than to fade away. However, I believe that in my case, I will do neither. Instead, my brain will lose the will to remain semi-solid, and it will drool out my ear.

I woke up this morning in Manhattan, and I am now in San Francisco, but somewhere in between, I testified before the House Financial Services Committee in Washinton, DC.

Saturday "booking a 5-day BOS-JFK-DCA-SFO-BOS flight itinerary" vibes.

I have been asked to testify before the Senate _again_ in a few weeks, and now I am wondering if it is a fashion faux pas to where the same tie in consecutive testimonies only weeks apart.

Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮 #histsci She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002🧵

Today was a blur, but at some point earlier in that blur, I testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment.

No, YOU'RE ordering four dress shirts at 8PM in different sizes and fits, to pick up in-store tomorrow, because you have to fly to DC on Tuesday to testify to Congress and don't have a shirt you can wear with a tie.

His opposition to what now?

Forget ChatGPT! This will revolutionize science! openCHEAT: Computationally Helped Error bar Approximation Tool - Kickstarting Science 4.0 eggerbernhard.ch/SIGBOVIK_ope... Plenty of happy users since 2021! 1/5

OK, so here's the deal, wolf. You can have some of this meat we're cooking by this fire, but in exchange, we're going to selectively breed your children, and your children's children, and so on—for 50,000 years—until they are basically ridiculous muppets.

Please do not use.

Just another normal day, sharing my knowledge and advice with the people of BlueSky.

David Cox@neurobongo.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am not telling you not to have orgies, just best to keep that separate from any crime you do.

I have been a little bit scarce on social media in the last few months. Some of that has just been from being busy at work, but some of it has had to do with my father's passing. He hated the very idea of social media, but he religiously followed my Twitter, and then Bluesky, feeds. /n

Has anyone run the numbers on how much coverage a genetic database would need to have to get different levels of specificity in matching? I imagine once you get to a certain level of coverage, you can narrow down the possible set quite aggressively.

David Cox@neurobongo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Someone asked me if face recognition/AI will catch the NYC assassin guy. I guess it's possible, but my money is on the DNA (if it's his). If anyone up to a third cousin (less than 1% shared heritable variation) used 23andme, then have a lead and can start walking the family tree.

btw, this is my guess on why they collected that backpack with an excavator when they found it. Don't want to risk destroying or contaminating any genetic evidence present at the scene. Wouldn't be surprised if they sterilized the excavator shovel before collection as well.

David Cox@neurobongo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Someone asked me if face recognition/AI will catch the NYC assassin guy. I guess it's possible, but my money is on the DNA (if it's his). If anyone up to a third cousin (less than 1% shared heritable variation) used 23andme, then have a lead and can start walking the family tree.

Someone asked me if face recognition/AI will catch the NYC assassin guy. I guess it's possible, but my money is on the DNA (if it's his). If anyone up to a third cousin (less than 1% shared heritable variation) used 23andme, then have a lead and can start walking the family tree.

It begins.

My daughter hit me yesterday, completely out of the blue, with a detailed and thoroughly researched presentation entitled "Why I should learn to play the harp"

tfw when I am the sole technical person a reception full of business people.

My wife, asking me cautiously (but somewhat nervously) if there is an upper limit to the number of watches a person can or should acquire.

fwiw, this is the posture that axolotls take when they're about to attack

So many job opportunities available these days.

Intellectually, I am aware that turkeys can fly. But it is another thing altogether to see two of them bomb into my backyard at speed. I feel like my brain is not really ready to accept this fact.

I just tried to type "Arduino," and my phone autocorrected it to "STFU no"

SF weather is so weird. The Bay Area is experiencing a historic heat wave, and it's positively chilly in the city.

I have been asked to testify before congress in two weeks, and my dominant emotion is "I sure hope that suit I bought but never had time to try on actually fits"

Today I learned that gates 52A-G (and ONLY those gates) at LAX terminal 5 exist in an alternate universe, and must be reached by taking a shuttle bus clear across the airport. Unexpectedly, there is a lounge just for those gates. I was the only person in it.