Dan Tuohy

@tripsnek

tripsnek.com - Europe Travel Itinerary Optimizer Software person. Primarily Node/Angular/TypeScript. AI R&D since 2005. Things I like: Static typing, genetic algorithms, Rick Steves, liberal democracy 📍Atlanta, Georgia

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Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· 17d

PC slow for about a year, which I ignored and was apparently a failing hard drive. Finally cloning it over and Git diff gives me a fun peek at whatever sectors were corrupted. For my entire main project, looks like the only casualty was.....the water quality in this picture from gudvangen Norway?

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· 20d

This is a much better reflection of the reason voters don't like taxes. Most of them have been told since childhood taxes are totally unnecessary, even indistinguishable from theft. It's been a wildly successful project.

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· 21d

Lionel Hutz Puncutation meme: America First? No, Forever Wars!

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· 22d

If there is ever a wikipedia article for Thirsty Bitch...

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· 23d

And hey, fair's fair. This was the cover of the economist as voters went to the polls to "punish" harris for the "terrible" biden economy.

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· 26d

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· Jul 10

Just can't beat the lauterbrunnen valley

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· Jul 7

Not according to people with money on the line

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· Jul 4

Happy 250th. Greatest country in history, but the tree looks thirsty.

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· Jun 27

Astonished that I can photograph the big dipper from the dead center of Madrid with my phone how is this possible

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· May 31

Jim Downey meme "Jeff Epstein? The financier?"

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· May 23

"This is brilliant...but I like this" meme where options are "autonomous AI agent" and "unconditional love and acceptance"

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· May 22

Major upgrade to tripsnek's base map, which now synthesizes the Rick Steves breakdown of major cities and regions with a (hopefully) easy to interpret view of the public transit network. The goal is to make it easy to see at a glance what you can efficiently incorporate into your plans.

Map of Spain and Portugal, with major cities and regions (e.g. Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Andalucia, the Algarve) color-coded to Rick Steves ratings, overlayed with a view of the public transit network with the high-speed AVE lines in prominent purple.

The same sort of visualization, but for all of Europe.

Zoomed in view of Italy: Cinque Terre and Tuscany have expanded to show specific cities within regions.

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· May 22

they've even hardened against the massachusetts jailbreak

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· May 19

cross 📈 📉

Polymarket graph showing - for the first time - democrats as most probable winner in texas.

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· May 16

Just biked the new SE/S parts of the beltline (not "open" yet, but everyone seems to just ignore the "stay out" signs). The infrastructure they have put in place to weave into the existing - presumably lower income - neighborhoods down 60 foot embankments is kind of jaw-dropping? Well done.

Spiralling access ramp with 60-80 feet tall pillars connecting neighborhood to beltline

Hundreds of feet of switchback access ramp.

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· May 14

"believe it or not, jail" meme

"ivermectin, more expensive? believe it or not, republicans"

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· May 9

tim robinson hot dog sketch where he starts randomly listing pornography sites as a bizarre commentary on society while stealing suits

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· May 6

Out of curiosity, I asked Claude if it would be a good idea for Anthropic to host it on SpaceX infra. "the competitive conflict alone would make it a non-starter for any serious AI lab."

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· May 4

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· May 2

so after alex jones dug into the genuinely weird as fuck tim&eric adult swim sketches he is responding by...well here he's drinking the "blood of the forsaken" but guaranteeing us that it is adult blood and that he made sure of that because he doesn't want to get in trouble

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· Apr 30

so we'll be getting a boebert/mtg dynamic from these two

Fetterman on Graham Platner:

“Democrats really, really like Platner in Maine, but the Republicans fucking love him.”

“If Maine wants an asshole with a Nazi tattoo on his chest, they get him.”

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· Apr 30

There is a reason for this. In the entirety of human utterances as indexed in google's databases, the phrase has only been used one time: An anecdote in a book by Carrie Fisher's brother. And this is in fact likely the exact occurrence Trump was handed by his lackeys ("old mafia term")

Reynolds attempted to convince Beatty to change the word to “screw” in the script, but the actor, who was eager to shock audiences, declined. Fisher wouldn’t know what happened next until Beatty, now 81, told him about a year ago.

“He said, ‘Your mother looked at me, and she said, ‘If you touch my daughter, I will have you 86ed — you know, eight miles out, six feet down.’ He knew what that meant, ‘cause that was the old mafia term... He was like, ‘No problem, Debbie.’ And he never touched Carrie.”

But while Reynolds was attempting to protect Carrie from the wilds of Hollywood, Fisher was having his own fun. He claimed actor Tony Curtis became his pot dealer at one point when the family was living in New York City.

Google search results for "eight miles out, six feet under" for 1900-2024 showing only results from the Carrie Fisher book

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· Apr 26

fantastic meme format in its day

jonathan swan looking at bullshit covid data trump handed him, then looking perplexed

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· Apr 26

get a load of google's helpful answer

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· Apr 26

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· Apr 23

It's in this category - bending reality, down to even math, even when it doesn't matter, to fit whatever the buffoon has said.

Trump holding the hurricane sharpie map.

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· Apr 22

he was jealous phelan showed trump a fancy boat that he wanted to show him

NEW: John Phelan has been fired as Navy secretary after months of simmering tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to U.S. officials.

Top Pentagon leaders were particularly annoyed last fall when Phelan pitched the idea for a modern battleship directly to Trump, bypassing Hegseth, the officials said
https://wsj.com/politics/national-security/john-phelan-quits-as-u-s-navy-secretary-4fcd286b

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· Apr 21

oh lol he literally invented word embeddings which is....like...the whole deal

Career and research
After his PhD, Bengio was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT (supervised by Michael I. Jordan) and AT&T Bell Labs.[23] Bengio has been a faculty member at the Université de Montréal since 1993, heads the MILA (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms) and is co-director of the Learning in Machines & Brains program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.[18][23]

Along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, Bengio is considered by journalist Cade Metz to be one of the three people most responsible for the advancement of deep learning during the 1990s and 2000s.[24] Bengio et al. introduced the neural probabilistic language model, which learned distributed representations (word embeddings) for words to overcome the "curse of dimensionality" in natural language processing.[25] Among the computer scientists with an h-index of at least 100, Bengio was as of 2018 the one with the most recent citations per day, according to MILA.[26][27] As of August 2024, he has the highest Discipline H-index (D-index, a measure of the research citations a scientist has received) of any computer scientist.[28] Thanks to a 2019 article on a novel RNN architecture, Bengio has an Erdős number of 3.[29]

Dan Tuohy@tripsnek· Apr 20

helping friend with resume anyone have any tips/pointers it seems like it might be urgent