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Islands vs. continents: kind of arbitrary #insomniacrevelations 38 minutes ago via web
@wolever @karpathy My two hours traveling through LA to Pasadena/Cal Tech that one time was *quite* enough for me. about 6 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Montréal, Québec in reply to wolever
@wolever @karpathy If you think SF is weird you should try LA. I had a chance to spend 3 wks there in July for a summer school... No thanks. about 6 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Montréal, Québec in reply to wolever
@wolever @karpathy Um, nevermind, I missed your previous tweets @wolever. about 6 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Montréal, Québec in reply to wolever
@wolever @karpathy Wait, what? My impression was that it happened indoors. Did he get this guy while fleeing the scene? about 6 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Montréal, Québec in reply to wolever
@karpathy But even in that respect, T.O. wins due to drastically lower number of guns per capita, and higher difficulty of acquisition. about 6 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Montréal, Québec in reply to karpathy
@karpathy Sorry, only "murder capital of the US". Statistically you're still much safer in T.O. :P sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl… about 6 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Montréal, Québec in reply to karpathy
@karpathy Yeah, um, try walking around East Palo Alto at night. It was "murder capital of the world" for a few years running. about 7 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Montréal, Québec in reply to karpathy
AmandaMarcotte We're supposedly a Christian nation, but only half of Americans can name one gospel. #abigchunkareprobablyatheists about 7 hours ago via TweetDeck Retweeted by dwf and 9 others
statpumpkin Jose is the gift that keeps on giving // “@JoseCanseco: Mathematicly we would become extinct in 2 years without laws” about 10 hours ago via Twitter for Mac Retweeted by dwf
Well how about that: free refills on coffee (including iced) if you have even 1 cent on a Starbucks card. Good to know. #helpfulbarista about 7 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Montréal, Québec
(cont'd) Is she shedding her two-ish decades of PRC brainwashing? Maybe. Let's hope she doesn't rush to replace it with other easy truths. about 7 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Montréal, Québec
Looked over to see a girl with a Chinese localized laptop watching a documentary on YouTube about the Tianamen Square massacre. Interesting. about 7 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Montréal, Québec
jseabold yep is a python module for profiling compiled extensions pypi.python.org/pypi/yep about 11 hours ago via Choqok Retweeted by dwf and 1 other
@jseabold I've taken to just linking my Cython extensions against the MKL bundled with EPD using a standard BLAS header. It's pretty sweet. about 9 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Montréal, Québec in reply to jseabold
CMastication If my 15 year old hacked BofA, know what I'd do? Put that shit on her MIT application is what I'd do! Probably buy ice cream for her too. about 10 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone Retweeted by dwf and 5 others
@squideye Speaking of spooky online privacy stuff, I don't ever remember following Rupert Murdoch, and yet... about 9 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Montréal, Québec in reply to squideye
chanian $APPL: "At least 2-4 years of experience working a high volume wood burning pizza oven featuring thin crust..." jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=… via @xc 4:48 PM Jun 1st via web Retweeted by dwf and 5 others
Having some seriously bad dental luck lately. Extreme sensitivity, no cavity. 4:19 PM Jun 1st via Twitter for iPhone from Montréal, Québec
"750:1 compression?!" "That's the power of not encoding stuff." -- @Steven_Pigeon 12:19 PM May 31st via web from Montréal, Québec

Name Dave W-F
Location Montreal/Toronto
Web http://dwf.name/
Bio Machine learning PhD student at Université de Montréal. U of Toronto expat. Armchair wonk/media critic. Occasional musician. I write a lot of Python code.