Victor Geislinger

Hi! I'm Victor! Here's a quick intro :D These days I focus on ML/AI at Google but have been a teacher, data scientist MLE, etc. I try to be genuine & positive so when I leave this world it's in a better state than I found it You can likely find my other online presences on GitHub.com/MrGeislinger

Not going to lie, there are some temptingly good bumper stickers in this

Good ol' LDA I feel like it's a blast from the past for nlp 🥹

New Animorphs book just dropped

A coworker shared this to our chat yesterday & no joke, it's been stuck in my head since Still not sure how I feel about it as I cycle between laughter & tears anyway, lgtm 💃🏼 youtu.be/3TNpOD6bov8

Trying to find books on René Descartes & Isaac Newton to read to my 6 year olds' class & then donate but I'm surprised how many are just AI-generated books I found a good one on Descartes but having trouble finding one for Newton. Would love any recommendations!

Walked into this today, and all I can think about is penguins #rstats

remote ssh + spinning off agents in the cli when you're out & about away from a desk is such a vibe

My wife chuckles whenever I watch Numberblocks with my kids— I'm in just awe with how well they convey 'number sense' explicitly & implicitly! This one on shapes is sooo good at showing how both numbers & geometry can be flexed & combined youtu.be/wa6Itbqw29g

Shower thought

all new things are just old things...

Feeling much better after sleeping for the whole day. Topping it off with a little drink mix & I feel like a brand new person Feels like magic

I don't understand how it's legal to sell a washing machine with a built-in digital timer but doesn't actually correspond to minutes Stupid machine has been on '5' for the past 6 minutes in its spin cycle & I got places to be (see? even 'dumb' tech can hallucinate)

One of the strangest things about having a newborn again is how quickly the patterns & procedures come back to me I feel like a sleeper agent that's been activated back into 'baby care mode'

basically me looking at these charts youtu.be/k7q0Y2W0Rn4

Wife's hooked up to monitor contractions wife to me: oh good, you have data occupy you me: 100%— oh look at that, this one's lasting a lot longer! her: oh yeah it's basically the same thing 🙄 (but seriously we both laughed because I couldn't help myself peeking at the data last time) #dataBS

Still wild to me I can have AI help me put together a full app so quickly Put together this little web app in under an hour today. Basically helped recreate what I made a while ago to include linked text, quoted posts & such. But man makes little frontends which was almost my biggest hang-up

Recently read Dark Archives with a friend after their suggestion Interesting history on human-skin bound books— surprised how mostly made around 1800s but also makes sense. Again, history points to a privilege class that had difficulty humanizing others side note: first ebook I read for some time

I think How to Keep House While Drowning is a nice little booklet to help with some down-to-basics strats on just trying to get through life I think it reads well as a quick guide over a cover-to-cover read. Even if you're not 'struggling', I'm pretty sure anyone can get something from this book

Scream with Me was another read w/ a friend Interesting book but don't know if I completely agree with idea that the horror movies were necessarily inspired the movie, the set of movies discussed do seem to have at least hit the public consciousness during the same time as related social issues

Was on my to-read list longer than it should've been but had finally gotten to Careless People And I don't think I have anything new to say that wasn't already said before— just wow & also, unfortunately nothing in there I don't find surprising

Finally got to reading Cultish and this is another book where I was sort hoping for more linguistics haha But it was a very interesting book & confirmed what I had feelings about Crossfit from the 20-teens (reminded me of this old video: https://youtu.be/pqb9pBJweVU)

Technically, I was rereading The Martian but this time I did it with a friend for our mini 'book club'. This was after watching the movie (read it back in May) & I feel that the book, the audiobook, & the movie are all great in their own special ways :D

Catching up on my reading log…. Back in April, read Shady Characters which was a fun little vacation read about punctuation. I think the ☞ manicule might be my new favorite

Was thinking about my trusty ol' ML workhorse w/ 128gb RAM & dual 3090 TIs has mostly stayed off for the past few months Been wondering what to do with it, but a friend brought up selling the GPUs (& RAM) could be worth it : ( But winter's coming— could always just run it as a heater lol

My kids have now learned how to use the index to find countries in their kid's atlas. They were showing me how to find 'Ireland' so they could tell me about leprechauns Haven't been prouder of my little nerds

Just got a call from a friend who took today off to run errands and one of her errands is calling friends she hasn't seen in a long time and saying she misses them and loves them.

Wild to me that I totally agree Been volunteering in building tools for my kids' school & activities. I can put out good & solid software in a few days that would've taken me multiple weeks if not months & it's only getting easier/faster Crazy part: I'm just using antigravity w/ Gemini Flash

Frankly this weekend has been personally exhausting while simultaneously having my brain not forget wife being 38 weeks pregnant I no joke played the "you're a regular guy" mantra in my head & it got me through 😌 youtu.be/uN961aqY8tk

I know this is probably true, but I'm honestly surprised it's not significantly more since GPT-2 dropped Might be more a reflection of the majority of text I read: books, surprisingly little internet from select ppl/sources. But its effect is spreading; so many emails w/AI from ppl I actually know

Our family is replacing the fridge & I underestimated how attached my kids are to the old one tears in their eyes: we've known it our whole lives! They've asked me to take multiple photos & videos of them with the fridge

Nothing beats leftover Chinese food re-heated on the stove

More data from hobbies, more happiness from hobby #databs

One was (X-t X)-inv X-t Y in an econometrics class. Can't say I reach for that one a lot But the other was "The mean of an indicator is a probability" in a proof-heavy ML theory class which curiously has proven a lovely little "obvious once you heard it" coding hack (versus sum(num)/sum(denom))

Realized in this moment that with a backwards hat & eating chips over a green-glowing keyboard working on dual monitors, half of which is covered by a terminal, I am a stereotype bro-grammer

Seeing this van gave me such a smile only to be saddened by the realization that a non-insignificant number of people won't get the logo Stay in school kids & take calculus to have a wider appreciation of the world's wonders (specifically math jokes & puns)

Oh I like this idea— something that doesn't give an explicit 'probability' of being AI-written (what's an individual's threshold with an arbitrary probability?), but points to the smells It's not going to be perfect but puts power in the human to decide (not just another algorithm to blindly trust)

This pretty much sums up a team of 'data scientists' I was on #databs

My twins have been working on making their 'Night of Terror' movie since yesterday They have their notebook to write their plan: - only for older kids (8&up) since it'll be scary - the villain's name: Escoma - it'll be a musical Wild hearing kid creativity building the plot together

"You were riding in the morning, or at night, or on a quiet road, or a main road. The only time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely that you are both everywhere and nowhere." buff.ly/bSa1Wm5

If you're wishing you could go back to school for linguistics, here's your annual reminder that Crash Course Linguistics @thecrashcourse.bsky.social exists! I worked on it with linguists @superlinguo.bsky.social and @jessgrieser.com, host Taylor Behnke, @complexly.org and @thoughtcafe.bsky.social!

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Playing w/ the data from my little bluetooth thermometer over the weekend takes me back to my early data science days 📊♥️

They’re SUCH GOOD BOOKS omg. Check them out ASAP

oh hot damn