ML infra @ Google. Adequate parent. Dilettante on other topics, especially guitar. Opinions mine, not employers'.
Orinda, CA
Joined February 2011
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David Soergel @loraxorg@mastodon.social retweeted
Katie Porter reads a book during the Speaker vote.
(Getty/Anna Moneymaker)
David Soergel @loraxorg@mastodon.social retweeted
I know there's a war, but #Zelensky isn't under fire. He flew to the U.S. aboard a U.S. government private jet, arrived at the White House in a Chauffeur Driven SUV, yet showed up wearing a sweatshirt. It's better than a t-shirt, but I still maintain the proper attire is a suit.
David Soergel @loraxorg@mastodon.social retweeted
Saying Donald Trump ruined the Republican Party is like saying spoiled mayonnaise ruined a pickle and shit sandwich.
David Soergel @loraxorg@mastodon.social retweeted
In reality, neurons are packed in so tightly that they make sardines look comfortable. Here are 364 neurons packed into a box roughly the size of a grain of sand. This dense reconstruction is from the Allen Institute's MICrONS layer 2/3 dataset. Rendered in #Blender3d
David Soergel @loraxorg@mastodon.social retweeted
LEGO machine for making domino runs. Each 'domino' is a stack of 5 1x3 LEGO bricks.
[📹 JK Brickworks: buff.ly/3hkt4ns]
David Soergel @loraxorg@mastodon.social retweeted
"Unless things change dramatically, the millions of people #CRISPR could save will never benefit from it. We must, and we can, build a world with #CRISPR for all."
#healthjustice @igisci @nytimes
nytimes.com/2022/12/09/opini…
David Soergel @loraxorg@mastodon.social retweeted
reverbmachine.com/blog/decon… How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
David Soergel @loraxorg@mastodon.social retweeted
In my reporting on clean energy misinformation I've seen one argument over and over.
Wind turbines kill birds.
While this is true, it misses an important piece of context:
Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x more birds per GWh than wind turbines do.
🧵
David Soergel @loraxorg@mastodon.social retweeted
Scary: 73 teams tested the same hypotheses with the same data. Some found negative results, some positive, some nada. No effect of expertise or confirmation bias. "Idiosyncratic researcher variability is a threat to the reliability of scientific findings." osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/c…
David Soergel @loraxorg@mastodon.social retweeted
Graduate students, postdocs, and other represented workers deserve a living wage at the University of California.
It's not a proud day when the UC cannot provide this request.
My department runs the biggest major at UCR, Biology, and we are nothing without these folks.
David Soergel @loraxorg@mastodon.social retweeted
.@loraxorg (1993): "The fact that meme viruses exist would be a useful meme to propagate"
(Monkey paw curls)
(Ominous scraping sounds begin outside the door)
David Soergel @loraxorg@mastodon.social retweeted
Having giant tunnel-boring machines must come in handy when you need to dig a hole and just keep right on digging.
David Soergel @loraxorg@mastodon.social retweeted
I hope when the definitive history of the 2016 election is written, they include this tweet, which I feel captured the anxiety of the moment with the quiet grace of a poet.
Moving to @loraxorg@mastodon.social; see you there. #TwitterMigration