Benjamin Han

@BenjaminHan@sigmoid.social
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Husband, father, runner, German learner, piano player. A curious soul living in #PacificNorthwest. Working on Knowledge + #ML + #AgenticAI at .

#Running 5/25/18-7/15/25: (dist # time pace/mi date)

5K 774 21:11 6’49” 7/7/25
10K 241 44:16 7’07” 3/23/25
15K 17 1:09:25 7’27” 4/6/25
HM 59 1:39:07 7’34” 3/16/25
M 26 3:25:52 7’51” 4/13/25
50K 8 4:47:35 9’15” 6/22/25 (moving time)

2025: 1,565.9/2,400mi (2024: 2,375.4mi)
Max dist: 35.28mi 6/22/25

#nlp #nlproc #knowledgeGraphs #classicalMusic

Running recapshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz7qd_EMlRkR4hTs6HgmqK_LMgALFvemt
Benjamin Han2h ago
randomized9h ago

Threshold test to mt Soubran to see the sun goes down

Poke @Johan_Barelds

#vacations
#trailrunning
#runnersofmastodon
#running

Benjamin Han3h ago

Gen Z's broken school-to-work pipeline https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/gen-z-job-market-ai-unemployment

#ai #employment #jobs #education

Gen Z's broken school-to-work pipeline

The career guidance they're getting from their parents, teachers and counselors isn't in sync with their economic reality.

Axios
Benjamin Han4h ago

#Mozart's #Clavichord
Alexander Gergelyfi, Georg Nigl

https://classical.music.apple.com/us/album/1813879894?l=en-US

#classicalMusic #appleMusicClassical #commute #vocal #periodInstrument

Mozart's Clavichord by Alexander Gergelyfi - Apple Music Classical

Listen to Mozart's Clavichord by Alexander Gergelyfi. 2025. 17 tracks. 1 hour, 21 minutes.

Apple Music Classical - Web Player
Benjamin Han13h ago
Rich Stein (he/him)1d ago

A story of running, aging resilience and tragedy (not necessarily in that order). Focus on the resilience. And the running.

As my wife says repeatedly, age is not a disease. Don't stop.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/sports/fauja-singh-dead.html
#running #resilience

Fauja Singh, Master Runner at an Advanced Age, Is Dead

Competing in a marathon in 2011, he claimed to be 100, though his exact age remained a mystery. “I run while talking to God,” he said in explaining his endurance.

The New York Times
Benjamin Han13h ago

J. S. #Bach: Partitas
Céline Frisch

https://classical.music.apple.com/us/album/1811295663?l=en-US

#classicalMusic #appleMusicClassical #commute #harpsichord

J. S. Bach: Partitas by Céline Frisch - Apple Music Classical

Listen to J. S. Bach: Partitas by Céline Frisch. 2025. 40 tracks. 2 hours, 32 minutes.

Apple Music Classical - Web Player
Benjamin Han1d ago
randomized1d ago

OK I am back home. Yesterday hike was just the perfect balance between hard, beautiful, challenging. I fear i won't find a match soon.

Think I've done my longest EG gain in 1 shot, from 1000 to 3000m .

Spent the night in a refuge and went backdown in the valley

Brain and myself very grateful to body for supporting us in those epic trips without a single blister ,black nail or painful muscle.

#vacations
#trailrunning
#runnersofmastodon
#running

Benjamin Han1d ago
Vojtech Cahlik1d ago

I'm happy to speculate that our general technique for grounding explanations in LLM reasoning, presented at last week's XAI 2025 conference, could pave the way for finally cracking natural language explanations.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11248

#AI #genAI #LLM #LLMs #ExplainableAI #AIsafety #NLP #ML

Reasoning-Grounded Natural Language Explanations for Language Models

We propose a large language model explainability technique for obtaining faithful natural language explanations by grounding the explanations in a reasoning process. When converted to a sequence of tokens, the outputs of the reasoning process can become part of the model context and later be decoded to natural language as the model produces either the final answer or the explanation. To improve the faithfulness of the explanations, we propose to use a joint predict-explain approach, in which the answers and explanations are inferred directly from the reasoning sequence, without the explanations being dependent on the answers and vice versa. We demonstrate the plausibility of the proposed technique by achieving a high alignment between answers and explanations in several problem domains, observing that language models often simply copy the partial decisions from the reasoning sequence into the final answers or explanations. Furthermore, we show that the proposed use of reasoning can also improve the quality of the answers.

arXiv.org
Benjamin Han1d ago

“On downhills, which you’re more likely to encounter regularly on a trail, your quad muscles lengthen more than they would on a flat or uphill, putting more tension on the muscle fibres. That eccentric nature of downhill running induces more lower limb muscle damage for up to several days after exercise, a 2020 scientific review published in Sports Medicine found.”

#running #trailrunning https://mastodon.nl/@Johan_Barelds/114850778797295261

Johan Barelds 🇪🇺 (@Johan_Barelds@mastodon.nl)

Nice read about the differences between Road and Trailrunning. "you want to move your feet as rapidly as you can tippy tap them while still maintaining good posture"" "The best downhill runners are moving their feet fast enough that any misstep is already corrected for by the next step." This is something I recognize already from when we where hiking the mountains decades ago. #Trailrunning #runnersofmastodon #UltraRunner #Running https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/motivation/a65316745/trail-running-versus-road-running/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Mastodon.nl door Stichting Activityclub
Benjamin Han2d ago
Thomas 🔭🕹️2d ago

Why isn’t there a super-automatic espresso machine that you can wear as a backpack or helmet

TECH INDUSTRY WTF ARE YOU EVEN DOING

Benjamin Han3d ago
randomized3d ago

You want moutain lakes ,
Because I have moutain lakes.

Plus a natural crystal clear pool, in which I fully immerged myself. (I have proof but you won't see proof)

15k, 1000mEG

#vacations
#trailrunning
#runnersofmastodon
#running

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Show threadBenjamin HanJul 6

2/n

Temperature at 8am was ~55F, and was ~74F when I finished. Directly under the sun with no cloud or shade added another 5-10F. But I should not complain compared to many other geolocations! Getting used to heat hopefully will help me in my coming marathon race in August.

#running #LongRunSunday #PacificNorthWest #photos

Show threadRobinJul 7
@BenjaminHan Another nice run.
Have to say, you do find some fun scenery along the way. That giant ogre of the forest between the two trees that you're standing in front of, is seriously cool.
Show threadBenjamin HanJul 7
@robchapman Thanks! Here is more info on the troll: https://www.visitissaquahwa.com/places/northwest-trolls/
Issaquah's Troll, Jakob Two Trees - Visit Issaquah

Experience the awe-inspiring Northwest Trolls project, featuring hand-built troll sculptures by artist Thomas Dambo. Explore the stories that connect Coast Salish tribal communities with Danish and Scandinavian traditions, all through the lens of environmental art.On the Rainier Trail, Park at Community Center, 301 Rainier Blvd S

Visit Issaquah
Show threadRobinJul 7
@BenjaminHan Love what they stand for...and that there are 6 in total.
Hmm, now you have a challenge, 5 more long runs, to visit the other 5 trolls