@badnetworker

Computational social scientist. Personal-capacity tweets about complex social systems (real and simulated). Also NatSec, Python, sci fi, cats and child.

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Since we just presented it at #SciPy2015, I guess it's officially out. Mesa: a Python agent-based modeling package. github.com/projectmesa/mesa

GitHub - mesa/mesa: Mesa is an open-source Python library for agent-based modeling, ideal for...

Mesa is an open-source Python library for agent-based modeling, ideal for simulating complex systems and exploring emergent behaviors. - mesa/mesa

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If a 3D projection wore pants...
Sanjay Manohar@BrainInTheMind22 Apr 2022
3D plots upset me so frequently that I made this teaching aid. #DataScience #Datavisualization
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the virgin old lady who swallowed a fly vs the chad gadya
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Weird, usually my 57 year old second cousin with frosted tips brings his 21 year old dates to his family's holiday events.
ChihuahuaEnjoyer420
@tweetsandboobs17 Apr 2022
Ok I’m sorry I need to tweet because I can’t take it. My 21 year old second cousin has brought a 57 year old man to Easter lunch. He has both ears pierced. He has frosted tips. He has said “that’s lit” twice. I’m vibrating with cringe and fascination.
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This is the wholesome equivalent of the video of the toddler solution
Ben Phillips@benphillips7616 Apr 2022
Philosophers: the only way to solve the trolley problem is to kill one of these groups of imaginary people. Model railway dads:
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Contrast with xitter.cf/delmoi/status/88242410…
忍者の神 Marxist-Yeagerist ⌬
@delmoi5 Jul 2017
This toddler's beautiful solution to the philosophical trolley problem shows how children are the future.
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Seva@SevaUT16 Apr 2022
an interesting part of that chomsky quote is comparing russia's actions to a "hurricane" like it's political force majeure and not a series of choices. once again everyone (except the US of course) is mechanistically enacting the laws of history
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Tis the season again
David Masad@badnetworker28 Mar 2021
I'd love to see the shape of the annual streaming count curve for Prince of Egypt.
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“We’ll get him another. I know a man in Pisa makes them ten for five florins and a round dozen for cash up front. And you get a certificate with St. Peter’s thumbprint, to say they’re genuine.”
Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppy_haze14 Apr 2022
lmao the Russians put a piece of the True Cross on the Moskva and it’s now at the bottom of the Black Sea
A screenshot of a news article from TASS, the Russian state news agency, saying “Christian relic, a True Cross piece, to be kept at Russia’s Black Sea fleet flagship. The relic is a wood chip only several millimeters long embedded into a 19th century metal cross.” Included is a photo of the missile cruiser Moskva, now sunken.

ALT A screenshot of a news article from TASS, the Russian state news agency, saying “Christian relic, a True Cross piece, to be kept at Russia’s Black Sea fleet flagship. The relic is a wood chip only several millimeters long embedded into a 19th century metal cross.” Included is a photo of the missile cruiser Moskva, now sunken.

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cts🌸
@gf_25613 Apr 2022
average api consumer vs average web etiquette ignorer
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"MALib is a parallel framework of population-based learning nested with multi-agent RL methods, using @RayDistributed+#RLlib. Focus: efficient code reuse and flexible deployments on different distributed computing paradigms." 💻github.com/sjtu-marl/malib 🤖malib.io/
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Wanted @midjourney to make a hard sci fi book cover, but autocorrect changed it to 'civet' and I think it generated the next Children of Time/Ruin novel.
AI generated image of industrial blacks and space-lava reds with a bright circle; in the middle is the silhouette of a tethered robo civet. Book style text shapes at the bottom, illegible.

ALT AI generated image of industrial blacks and space-lava reds with a bright circle; in the middle is the silhouette of a tethered robo civet. Book style text shapes at the bottom, illegible.

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Frongoo Genge is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
Ariel Edwards-Levy@aedwardslevy1 Apr 2022
the 1950 Census attempts at using machine learning to automatically transcribe names are, I must report, delightful (poor Frongoo Genge appears to be actually named something like "Georg Frengos")
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Possible methodologies to arrange spices: - Spring layout on co-occurrence network - PCA - More generalized latent space I'm sure I'm missing some.
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.@babynetworker wanted to play museum today with @DanielleAlberti's jewelry, and when we asked her where her museum acquired "the most beautiful things in the world" she said they "found them on the road". So I think she has a solid understanding of what the job entails.
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China's dumb cyberpunk present.
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Despite my nerd magnet school having zero fights, at one point the administration decided to start a student hall monitor program. My friends and I wrote a whole manifesto founding the Hall Dis-Monitors, and staged extremely corny fake fights when our friends were on duty.
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Mark Riedl@mark_riedl25 Mar 2022
Introducing NovGrid: a testbed for experimenting with RL agents facing novel environmental changes arxiv.org/abs/2203.12117 github.com/eilab-gt/NovGrid Novelty is a sudden change to the world dynamics at test time, after an agent’s policy has converged and learning is turned off.
On the left a grid environment with a door that takes a yellow key. Underneath a reward curve. On the right the same environment but the door needs a blue key. Underneath a shallow reward curve for non-novelty aware agents and an steep curve for novelty-aware agents.

ALT On the left a grid environment with a door that takes a yellow key. Underneath a reward curve. On the right the same environment but the door needs a blue key. Underneath a shallow reward curve for non-novelty aware agents and an steep curve for novelty-aware agents.

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My favourite thing is when people stick trackers on animals and one does literally nothing interesting and sits in 1 place 99% of the time and the researchers are like oh yeah that weird datapoint is Lazy Geoff, he doesn't ever do anything for reasons we don't entirely understand
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A tabletop painted-miniatures game but instead of battles it's Regency-style parties, and players have to maneuver characters into the right company without violating the elaborate social norms.
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