Avi Bryant

@avibryant

Happiest when working on Random Forests from random beaches.

Galiano Island
Joined November 2006

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  1. Retweeted
    Dec 20

    So I'm an American living in Sweden, the socialist nanny-state hellscape of the GOP's fantasies. Here's what it's like to live in a country with a high effective tax rate and a commitment to spending for the common good:

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  2. 17 hours ago

    ITYM the Vancouver-Seattle-Portland-SF-LA corridor.

  3. Dec 19

    Looking very forward to making a pilgrimage to this at some point once the open houses start next year.

  4. Dec 19
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    Dec 19

    ”One of the reasons Canada strikes many visitors as civilized is that the rules of arithmetic generally are understood and respected on both sides of the political spectrum.”

  6. Dec 18

    Oh. My brother informs me that this was, in fact, more or less the rules we used to play by as kids.

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    Amtrak Train 501 was running along a new, $181-million route primarily funded by the federal government.

  8. Dec 18

    Game idea: Battleships, but you take 5 shots at a time and all you know is how many of them hit, not which ones. Harder variant: all you know is if the number of hits was >= the result of a secretly rolled six-sided die.

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    Dec 18
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  11. Dec 15

    Major new household technology purchase (with no microchips in sight): BlazeKing catalytic wood stove. Still have lots to learn but already blown away by the engineering.

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  12. Dec 15

    Hard to do justice to how ethereal this light is.

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    Dec 14

    It seemed like a weird pivot for a podcast app.

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    Dec 13
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    Dec 14

    It's difficult to understand the rationale for a policy that will harm consumers, civil society and the most dynamic parts of our economy. We'll all come to regret this.

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    Dec 13

    What I want to see is a statically typed language with an interactive environment in the spirit of Smalltalk or Self

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  17. Retweeted
    Dec 13

    It has begun! Margo Seltzer moves from Harvard to UBC. My prediction: this is only the first in a long line of researchers who will be moving from the USA to Canada for better funding (Margo gets $1M each for 7 years), and more inclusive/non-toxic immigration policies.

  18. Retweeted
    Dec 12

    Orbital mechanics side note: when one thing orbits another, they're really both orbiting the point between them where the mass evens out

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    Dec 12

    I still like ’s phrase on this the best: if the world was data driven, it would see that people love looking at car accidents and create more of them. It is time for FB and Twitter to move beyond car accidents.

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  20. Dec 11

    Yeah. I'm still stuck in particular on how weird and interesting it is that the chain rule is now a key primitive of software modularity/composability.

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