Andromeda Yelton

@thatandromeda@ohai.social
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Hi! I’m the same thatandromeda you may know from elsewhere online. Studied #math, taught #Latin to middle school boys, trained as a #librarian, ended up writing #software for a variety of libraries and adjacent organizations. Things I’ve obsessed over include nonprofit governance, #weightlifting, #knitting, #singing, my cats, and #planes (working slowly on my pilot’s license). Married, mom to a teenager, extremely online for a long time. #introduction
Sitehttps://andromedayelton.com
GitHubhttps://github.com/thatandromeda
Andromeda Yelton1d ago
Girl on the NetDec 29, 2024

Would you like to see something astonishing?

Recently, a friend gave me a gift that she had been working on for almost a year. It was initially a gift for my 40th, but it took longer to make than she anticipated (BIG UNDERSTATEMENT).

It is - I cannot stress this enough - the coolest and most incredible thing I have ever owned, and I am moved beyond words that someone would put the time in to create something this awesome. For me (!!!).

Here is the London Underground Map... in cross stitch.

Andromeda Yelton2d ago
Grant Gould2d ago
https://toyotaresearchinstitute.github.io/lbm1/
This is the big publication that my department at work has been working on for many months now; I think it's pretty neat.
I am by nature an AI-skeptic, but this work has raised my personal estimation of ML-based vision, language, and action models from "about as important as Kalman filters" to something closer to "about as important as the early Internet."
It also shows that in the robotics field you can build impressive ML models with non-billionaire quantities of in-house, non-scraped data, and that's pretty cool.
Oh, and we're already hard at work on the sequel.
In summary: Do robotics, it's really nifty, especially with my coworkers.
A Careful Examination of Large Behavior Models for Multitask Dexterous Manipulation

A Careful Examination of Large Behavior Models for Multitask Dexterous Manipulation

Andromeda Yelton3d ago
someone asked how classes work in programming and I wrote a mini-novel in Slack so now it is a blog post https://andromedayelton.com/2025/07/08/how-i-think-about-classes/
how I think about classes

Someone in a Slack I’m in asked for advice on how to understand classes in programming, and I wrote a mini-novel about how I understand them, so I figured it might as well be a blog post! Her…

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Show threadAndromeda Yelton5d ago
@hedgielib @platypus Franklin and Marshall was freaking OBSESSED with its trees in the 90s
Andromeda YeltonJul 5
Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 3

If you ever want feel-good tears, go read the reviews of electric tricycles.

There are so many great stories and photos of people regaining mobility, reconnecting with their spouse/friends/family, and just having fun.

#cycling #biking

Andromeda YeltonJul 5
Yvonne PerkinsJun 29

New owners of a home in Melbourne discover an extensive model train set-up under the floor when they move in.

#Melbourne #ModelTrain

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/i-was-shocked-melbourne-mans-unbelievable-find-after-buying-house/m4sksfer8

'I was shocked': Melbourne man's 'unbelievable' find after buying house

Daniel Xu has loved trains since he was a child. In a surprising twist of fate, he now lives above an extensive hobby train network set.

SBS News
Andromeda YeltonJul 4
VashtiJul 4
Why #Ao3 was down yesterday:
Show threadAndromeda YeltonJun 25
@chronodm i did not find that opening a new window helped! oyyyyy. (Or...well. Maybe it would have if I just opened a new window instead of closing & reopening terminal entirely???) But I did find that it was happier to accept typeface changes than size changes.
Andromeda YeltonJun 25
Brian BoyerJun 25
THIS IS A GODDAMNED LEGAL AGREEMENT FFS DOCUSIGN
Show threadAndromeda YeltonJun 24

@AmazingMeagen ohhhhhh yeah that's not gonna help

:(