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@smallnstatistics Thanks. Glad to hear you find it useful.

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@smallnstatistics Thanks. Glad to hear you find it useful.

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Obligatory phone camera photo of tonight’s #BloodMoon. #BeCarefulLink

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Obligatory phone camera photo of tonight’s #BloodMoon. #BeCarefulLink

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Blurry photo of small red moon during lunar eclipse.

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Quick heads up for any #Moog #Matriarch owners out there who may have been using the web-based Global Settings Editor that I wrote for it.

I inadvertently broke the editor last week when I moved my personal website https://mark.reid.name to GitHub. It turns out that that redirected https://mreid.github.io to the new URL which broke some javascript dependencies in the editor (yay, software!).

Anyway, it is fixed now and available here: https://mark.reid.name/matriarch-edito r/

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Quick heads up for any #Moog #Matriarch owners out there who may have been using the web-based Global Settings Editor that I wrote for it.

I inadvertently broke the editor last week when I moved my personal website https://mark.reid.name to GitHub. It turns out that that redirected https://mreid.github.io to the new URL which broke some javascript dependencies in the editor (yay, software!).

Anyway, it is fixed now and available here: https://mark.reid.name/matriarch-edito r/

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@mikefriedline How did the 100k run go?

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@mikefriedline How did the 100k run go?

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@Cmastication I’m cautiously optimistic about this move. The main difference between Twitter and here is federation.

Being able (in principle at least) to trivially move to a server that can enforce policies you are happier with along with the ability to block entire severs should hopefully mitigate the spam/hate issues. The lack of a centralised algorithm deciding how to clutter up your feed should work against weird amplification dynamics and pile ons.

Plus, there’s an edit button here. :)

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@Cmastication I’m cautiously optimistic about this move. The main difference between Twitter and here is federation.

Being able (in principle at least) to trivially move to a server that can enforce policies you are happier with along with the ability to block entire severs should hopefully mitigate the spam/hate issues. The lack of a centralised algorithm deciding how to clutter up your feed should work against weird amplification dynamics and pile ons.

Plus, there’s an edit button here. :)

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@Cmastication I try to secure research funding so my postdoc doesn’t end?

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@Cmastication I try to secure research funding so my postdoc doesn’t end?

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@Cmastication Eternal September… again.

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@Cmastication Eternal September… again.

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It seems that we have a neighbourhood Echidna! Spotted this one in the park at the end of our street.

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It seems that we have a neighbourhood Echidna! Spotted this one in the park at the end of our street.

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@chris_brockett @riedl The lack of drop off in follower numbers might be explained by people leaving but not bothering to delete their accounts. I did that, my reasoning being that: a) it’s extra work to delete an account (especially if you want to download your tweets first), and b) there’s little downside to having but not using an account.

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@chris_brockett @riedl The lack of drop off in follower numbers might be explained by people leaving but not bothering to delete their accounts. I did that, my reasoning being that: a) it’s extra work to delete an account (especially if you want to download your tweets first), and b) there’s little downside to having but not using an account.

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@riedl Agreed. Just started using it yesterday and am finding it a lot more usable than the default one. One big improvement being bookmarks. I wasn’t able to figure out how to save them using the official Mastodon app.

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@riedl Agreed. Just started using it yesterday and am finding it a lot more usable than the default one. One big improvement being bookmarks. I wasn’t able to figure out how to save them using the official Mastodon app.

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@roydanroy Thanks. Glad you liked the track. I put out a bunch of new ones just recently: https://markreid.bandcamp.com/album/wi nd-wound-close

There isn’t anything quiet as slow and atmospheric as “Send and Return” but “Transport”, “Surface Tension”, and “Just” touch on some similar moods/sounds.

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@roydanroy Thanks. Glad you liked the track. I put out a bunch of new ones just recently: https://markreid.bandcamp.com/album/wi nd-wound-close

There isn’t anything quiet as slow and atmospheric as “Send and Return” but “Transport”, “Surface Tension”, and “Just” touch on some similar moods/sounds.

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It had been out of action for some time (thanks to my old hosting service messing up my account) but joining Mastodon finally spurred me to resurrect and lightly update my personal website: https://mark.reid.name

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It had been out of action for some time (thanks to my old hosting service messing up my account) but joining Mastodon finally spurred me to resurrect and lightly update my personal website: https://mark.reid.name

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@mikefriedline Wow! That’s impressive. I’m hoping to run a 50km sometime next year.

Best of luck and I hope it goes well.

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@mikefriedline Wow! That’s impressive. I’m hoping to run a 50km sometime next year.

Best of luck and I hope it goes well.

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@carondolet Yeah, hashtags seem to be a good starting point. Already found a number of interesting accounts that way.

I'm also finding it easier to talk more here too. It feels a bit like the early days of Twitter (I joined there in 2008) before there were huge accounts, massive reach and the potential for big pile-ons.

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@carondolet Yeah, hashtags seem to be a good starting point. Already found a number of interesting accounts that way.

I'm also finding it easier to talk more here too. It feels a bit like the early days of Twitter (I joined there in 2008) before there were huge accounts, massive reach and the potential for big pile-ons.

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Whoa! There is an edit button here. Truly living in the future now.

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Whoa! There is an edit button here. Truly living in the future now.

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I got a suggestion to use hashtags to help kickstart my network here. So here's a hashtag-dense list of my interests:

I'm a data-focused #machinelearning engineer at #Apple, working with #PyTorch, #Spark, and #Python which I write with a #Haskell accent. I used to work in #LearningTheory.

I enjoy long distance #running and #trailrunning and am training for my first #ultramarathon.

In my spare time I make electronic #ModularSynth/#Eurorack music and am learning #JazzPiano and the #GameOfGo.

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I got a suggestion to use hashtags to help kickstart my network here. So here's a hashtag-dense list of my interests:

I'm a data-focused #machinelearning engineer at #Apple, working with #PyTorch, #Spark, and #Python which I write with a #Haskell accent. I used to work in #LearningTheory.

I enjoy long distance #running and #trailrunning and am training for my first #ultramarathon.

In my spare time I make electronic #ModularSynth/#Eurorack music and am learning #JazzPiano and the #GameOfGo.

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I didn’t really post much on Twitter in recent years but I really did enjoy the humour, music and book recommendations, and more technical posts about maths, ML, distributed systems, and programming languages. Recently though the signal to noise ratio for those topics was getting worse and worse, hence the #TwitterMigration.

It sort of feels like starting over from scratch here, which is both good and bad. If anyone has any recommendations of accounts to follow I’d appreciate them.

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I didn’t really post much on Twitter in recent years but I really did enjoy the humour, music and book recommendations, and more technical posts about maths, ML, distributed systems, and programming languages. Recently though the signal to noise ratio for those topics was getting worse and worse, hence the #TwitterMigration.

It sort of feels like starting over from scratch here, which is both good and bad. If anyone has any recommendations of accounts to follow I’d appreciate them.