May 31 : Overrated
#Bales2026FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon ๐ฝ๏ธ ๐ฌ
#LifeOfPi (2012)
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
Admire cinematography only
Another day messing around with GPUs, conda, python this-and-that. Segment Anything indeed... Say what you like about Otsu, at least it will work out of the box on the crappest computer on the planet.
Just helped someone in my lab with a coding problem. Ended up writing the commands out by hand on a piece of paper. I feel like some kind of yesteryear LLM.
Email from a colleague to a large distribution list, signing off with โEnjoy the long weekend and the sun!โ.
Effectively ensuring thunderstorms via sod's law.
I just made myself a Post It holder for my desk and am feeling pretty pleased with myself
(I feel sure I must have stolen this idea from someone at some point... if anyone knows who please let me know so that I can credit them)
Q&A after seminar.
Q: *mentions relevant paper*
A: thanks! I will check it out.
Q: it was published in Nature.
A: well, it might still be true.
It made me laugh anyway.
Writing is thinking.
But alsoโฆ
Making figures is thinking.
At least it helps me to write by clarifying what we're trying to say and then go back to writing.
Predatory conference madness in my Junk folder just now.