Hello! By way of an #introduction, I am

* a married Dad of two amazing young kids;
* an academic in Oxford, still going on the same problems that I did not solve during my PhD—Gaussian processes, Bayesian optimisation, Bayesian quadrature, Probabilistic Numerics (check out our book: https://probabilistic-numerics.org/textbooks);
* a co-founder of https://www.mindfoundry.ai;
* concerned with topics related to disability and chronic illness, after getting Long Covid (now recovered);
* in general, fairly weird.

You find the switch to Mastodon quite hard / you don’t like the app / you find the app slow, counterintuitive, and unaesthetic?

LIFE CHANGER: You don’t have to use Mastodon on the Mastodon app! 🤯

I switched to Metatext (available for iPhone, not sure for Android) and this makes the whole experience *so* much more enjoyable 😍 It takes to 2 seconds to download and reconnect to your account via your instance/server!

Explanations here: https://mastodon.social/@ejpcollins/109296458385010644

Intro: I’m a researcher at Google working on multimodal language and vision tasks and models, especially text-to-image (I co-led the Parti effort, see Parti.research.google).

Having a curious look over here to understand how Mastodon is shaping up while the birdsite appears uncertain.