Irene Zhang

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Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. OS hacker. Cat wrangler. Shoe lover.
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I’m so glad that I have a good podiatrist and man, that makes me feel old.
@0xabad1dea can we please declare every Wednesday to be Odin’s day? https://noc.social/@todayilearned/116335906824040813
Today I learned (@[email protected])

TIL Thursday literally means Thor's day and Wednesday means Odin's day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1sal35l/til_thursday_literally_means_thors_day_and/

Noc.Social
imagine what a relief it would be to be this far from the Earth for a few days
She said that 1) 11 year olds are really not big enough to take on a full blackberry bush so it would take 3 of them all day to get one out. And 2) she probably should have been learning science or literature but I guess learning to spot and remove invasive plants is a more useful life skill
A coworker told me that she moved to Oregon in 4th grade and went to a magnet school in environmental conservation which mostly consisted of weekly field trips to remove invasive blackberry bushes and English ivy. This is the most PNW thing I’ve ever heard.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116307064675243366

France had this one weird trick to remove kings.

DAIR is a research institute that is highly sceptical about AI hype and the big tech companies behind it. You can follow their excellent video account at:

➡️ @[email protected]

They've already published over 100 videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://peertube.dair-institute.org/a/dair/videos

You can also follow their Mastodon account at @DAIR

#FeaturedPeerTube #AI #LLM #LLMs #ArtificialIntelligence #PeerTube

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RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nshrubs/116335919889857060

Whoo, we’re a country now? Let’s secede.

There’s a massive misunderstanding about how Japanese eat noodles. We don’t slurp it up, we inhale it. There’s a huge difference. The former makes a wet slurpy sound, but the latter is a sharp airy sound.
#japan #ramen #food