David Masad
@badnetworker
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Computational social scientist. Personal-capacity tweets about complex social systems (real and simulated). Also NatSec, Python, sci fi, cats and child.
Washington, DC
Joined September 2011
Since we just presented it at #SciPy2015, I guess it's officially out. Mesa: a Python agent-based modeling package.
github.com
Mesa is an open-source Python library for agent-based modeling, ideal for simulating complex systems and exploring emergent behaviors. - projectmesa/mesa
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Weird, usually my 57 year old second cousin with frosted tips brings his 21 year old dates to his family's holiday events.
Ok I’m sorry I need to tweet because I can’t take it. My 21 year old second cousin has brought a 57 year old man to Easter lunch. He has both ears pierced. He has frosted tips. He has said “that’s lit” twice. I’m vibrating with cringe and fascination.
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This is the wholesome equivalent of the video of the toddler solution.
Philosophers: the only way to solve the trolley problem is to kill one of these groups of imaginary people. Model railway dads:
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RT @SevaUT: an interesting part of that chomsky quote is comparing russia's actions to a "hurricane" like it's political force majeure and….
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Tis the season again.
I'd love to see the shape of the annual streaming count curve for Prince of Egypt.
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“We’ll get him another. I know a man in Pisa makes them ten for five florins and a round dozen for cash up front. And you get a certificate with St. Peter’s thumbprint, to say they’re genuine.”.
lmao the Russians put a piece of the True Cross on the Moskva and it’s now at the bottom of the Black Sea
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RT @DynamicWebPaige: "MALib is a parallel framework of population-based learning nested with multi-agent RL methods, using @RayDistributed+….
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Wanted @midjourney to make a hard sci fi book cover, but autocorrect changed it to 'civet' and I think it generated the next Children of Time/Ruin novel.
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Frongoo Genge is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
the 1950 Census attempts at using machine learning to automatically transcribe names are, I must report, delightful. (poor Frongoo Genge appears to be actually named something like "Georg Frengos")
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Possible methodologies to arrange spices:.- Spring layout on co-occurrence network.- PCA.- More generalized latent space.I'm sure I'm missing some.
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.@babynetworker wanted to play museum today with @DanielleAlberti's jewelry, and when we asked her where her museum acquired "the most beautiful things in the world" she said they "found them on the road". So I think she has a solid understanding of what the job entails.
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Despite my nerd magnet school having zero fights, at one point the administration decided to start a student hall monitor program. My friends and I wrote a whole manifesto founding the Hall Dis-Monitors, and staged extremely corny fake fights when our friends were on duty.
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RT @davidlazer: Just a quick follow on to this to say that Ryan is truly a star. This is academia's loss, but industry/tech's gain. Ryan is….
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RT @mark_riedl: Introducing NovGrid: a testbed for experimenting with RL agents facing novel environmental changes. .
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RT @DaniRabaiotti: My favourite thing is when people stick trackers on animals and one does literally nothing interesting and sits in 1 pla….
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A tabletop painted-miniatures game but instead of battles it's Regency-style parties, and players have to maneuver characters into the right company without violating the elaborate social norms.
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