Sean Butner

@srbutner

bad at twitter. literature, data science, poorly executed jokes. tweets != endorsements

Madison, WI
Joined July 2013
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    25 May 2016

    More things change, more they stay the same.

    3 retweets 9 likes
  2. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    This 'worst volume slider' contest is UX gold:

    92 replies 7,331 retweets 11,279 likes
  3. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    Congrats to MIT CSAIL HCI doctoral students and on receiving their hoods today!

    3 retweets 24 likes
  4. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    Training ImageNet in 1 hour with 256 GPUs, minibatches of 8192. From Facebook's FAIR: 1 hour... incredible

    11 replies 254 retweets 528 likes
  5. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    New research lets us teach agents to compete, collaborate, and communicate. Creates agents w/clever teamwork

    57 retweets 139 likes
  6. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    If you are watching please make a call about saving the while you get more popcorn. It's still in trouble.

    13 replies 283 retweets 516 likes
  7. Retweeted
    Jun 7

    Populated by an machine ecology of chatbots that attempt to sell each other porn and dick enlargement pills

    People: if Twitter never turns a profit and starts to fall apart, will it be...
    1 reply 6 retweets 8 likes
  8. Retweeted
    Jun 7

    Context: modifies cars for autonomy by actuating regular controls (brakes etc) while hacks past them. Dangerous?

    Replying to @kentindell @edsammy and 3 others
    A real challenge is modifying opaque systems. It's hard to know when you violate a safety case.
    3 replies 4 retweets 2 likes
  9. Jun 7
    Replying to

    but after all the violence and kerfuffle--plenty of wheat to winnow

  10. Jun 7

    the convergence of disciplines in the hype-splosion of AI research makes for wonderful threshing. So many hammers. so many nails.

    If using category theory in an AI paper, plz show how it is better than a simple mapping. In my ignorance, I see math, math, trivial results
    1 reply 1 like
  11. Jun 7
    Replying to

    Actual medical records of certain mental health issues can be stumbling blocks for prospective lawyers, doctors, etc.,

  12. Jun 7

    or gets incorporated into a consumer profile database crawler, and jumps the gap to employers, creditors, landlords, professional assocs...

    Replying to @yoavgo @zehavoc @alvations
    And where does this info go? Who else can see it?
    2 replies 1 like
  13. Retweeted
    Jun 6

    Tupper's self-referential formula is a formula that visually represents itself when graphed at a specific location in the (x, y) plane.

    43 replies 1,467 retweets 2,569 likes
  14. Retweeted
    Jun 5

    DrQA—Extending machine reading to open domain question answering over Wikipedia—/ AI at

    2 replies 70 retweets 159 likes
  15. Retweeted
    Jun 5

    great overview of the evolution of convolutional architectures

    2 replies 98 retweets 229 likes
  16. Jun 4

    Y tho?

    How to Create Convolutional Neural Networks Using and
    2 likes
  17. Retweeted
    Jun 4

    WELCOME, FRIEND!!!

    I've started a Patreon because I want to teach people how to make the internet a weirder place. (Please RT!)
    1 retweet 16 likes
  18. Retweeted
    Jun 4

    Specious accuracy is ignored because it gives a comforting "scienciness" to output. Some sort of standard would be useful.

    Why most outputs from data-analysis packages are false And no one cares, no responsibility
    3 retweets 1 like
  19. Retweeted
    Jun 1

    this is so scifi

    Reconstructing faces a monkey saw from patterns of neuronal activity recorded from the monkey's brain:
    2 replies 10 retweets 34 likes
  20. Retweeted
    Jun 2

    The Ken Loach ad is great but holy shit at this

    268 replies 10,978 retweets 14,528 likes
  21. Retweeted
    May 31

    TOO REAL MAGICAL REALISM BOT

    A congressman discovers that information does not exist, and is relieved.
    1 reply 7 retweets 29 likes

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