ML infra @ Google. Adequate parent. Dilettante on other topics, especially guitar. Opinions mine, not employers'.
Orinda, CA
Joined February 2011
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David Soergel @[email protected] retweeted
Katie Porter reads a book during the Speaker vote.
(Getty/Anna Moneymaker)
David Soergel @[email protected] retweeted
I know there's a war, but #Zelensky isn't under fire. He flew to the U.S. aboard a U.S. government private jet, arrived at the White House in a Chauffeur Driven SUV, yet showed up wearing a sweatshirt. It's better than a t-shirt, but I still maintain the proper attire is a suit.
David Soergel @[email protected] retweeted
Saying Donald Trump ruined the Republican Party is like saying spoiled mayonnaise ruined a pickle and shit sandwich.
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In reality, neurons are packed in so tightly that they make sardines look comfortable. Here are 364 neurons packed into a box roughly the size of a grain of sand. This dense reconstruction is from the Allen Institute's MICrONS layer 2/3 dataset. Rendered in #Blender3d
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LEGO machine for making domino runs. Each 'domino' is a stack of 5 1x3 LEGO bricks.
[📹 JK Brickworks: buff.ly/3hkt4ns]
David Soergel @[email protected] retweeted
"Unless things change dramatically, the millions of people #CRISPR could save will never benefit from it. We must, and we can, build a world with #CRISPR for all."
#healthjustice @igisci @nytimes
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reverbmachine.com/blog/decon… How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
David Soergel @[email protected] retweeted
too many smart people waste time on top-down thinking (what does utopia look like) rather than bottom-up (how to build dope shit in an imperfect world)
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In my reporting on clean energy misinformation I've seen one argument over and over.
Wind turbines kill birds.
While this is true, it misses an important piece of context:
Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x more birds per GWh than wind turbines do.
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David Soergel @[email protected] retweeted
Scary: 73 teams tested the same hypotheses with the same data. Some found negative results, some positive, some nada. No effect of expertise or confirmation bias. "Idiosyncratic researcher variability is a threat to the reliability of scientific findings." osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/c…
David Soergel @[email protected] retweeted
Graduate students, postdocs, and other represented workers deserve a living wage at the University of California.
It's not a proud day when the UC cannot provide this request.
My department runs the biggest major at UCR, Biology, and we are nothing without these folks.
David Soergel @[email protected] retweeted
.@loraxorg (1993): "The fact that meme viruses exist would be a useful meme to propagate"
(Monkey paw curls)
(Ominous scraping sounds begin outside the door)
David Soergel @[email protected] retweeted
Having giant tunnel-boring machines must come in handy when you need to dig a hole and just keep right on digging.
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I hope when the definitive history of the 2016 election is written, they include this tweet, which I feel captured the anxiety of the moment with the quiet grace of a poet.
