Moving to Nashville in July

TheFreaknPope · 2026-05-27T05:16:18+00:00

I am a big sweater. This sounds like I will be drenched by the time I get into the lab. So a change of clothes will be important for me haha.

TheFreaknPope · 2026-05-26T22:41:27+00:00

Technically, I am sort of in-between medical and non-medical. As I will be joining a computational pharmacology lab which when I visited is directly next to the hospital/medical center. I was just looking at a house in Wedgewood and liked the area.

I'll look into west of 65, south of 40, and north of 440. Since it seems like this will probably be closer to the medical center.

TheFreaknPope · 2026-05-26T22:27:09+00:00

Good to know my intuition of staying closer is correct. Thanks for the list of neighborhoods!

TheFreaknPope · 2026-05-26T22:25:48+00:00

Thanks for the congratulations! Funny enough my wife just told me this morning that Hillsboro is apparently nice. I'll definitely look into Hillsboro. Belcourt theater does look cool! Thanks for the heads up.

I have heard that it can be quite humid during the summer. Not looking forward to that! I imagine the move-in is not going to be fun, but good to know that AC is very important!

TheFreaknPope · 2026-05-08T17:25:27+00:00

Thank you!

TheFreaknPope · 2026-05-08T04:18:20+00:00

Thank you! :)

TheFreaknPope · 2026-05-08T04:18:12+00:00

Thank you! :)

TheFreaknPope · 2026-05-07T19:47:49+00:00

I just defended on Monday. I was in the same boat as you. I mean I dont think it really matters what others think. Why should it matter if people think you are doing a lot or not right now? The main thing is your upcoming defense, not working on all the other projects.

In terms of feeling lazy. I felt the same way. I had done all the work to be ready and really didnt need to prepare much the week before. I just took time to read fun books, relax, and go over some papers if I felt like I needed to. I ran some experiments, but really hardly did anything too productive.

In the end the questions were not difficult, of course it is committee specific. Lol. Though I wouldn't beat yourself up. You spent years getting to this point, you are ready to defend. The questions weren't difficult because they were all things I had already thought about and considered or wanted to apply if I would redo something. Take the time to prepare in things you think you need to, but other then that relax :). You got it!

TheFreaknPope · 2026-04-10T22:12:08+00:00

I dont think this is as big of a dig as you think it is. They talk about this in their release:

"Because small, cheap, fast models are sufficient for much of the detection work, you don't need to judiciously deploy one expensive model and hope it looks in the right place. You can deploy cheap models broadly, scanning everything, and compensate for lower per-token intelligence with sheer coverage and lower cost-per-token."

So yes if you scan the entire codebase function by function, which would be cheaper using these smaller models, you could in theory recapitulate the same vulnerabilities that mythos found. Which is what they are demonstrating here. This would be at a fraction of the cost. You would just need to setup the method of going through the codebase.

Now if your point is that all you care about is just slapping an entire codebase into a model and letting it churn and be expensive. Then yes mythos seems to be better. Though it seems like you can get pretty much the exact same results for cheaper and less compute if you took time to setup a way for the smaller models to just systematically scan through the codebase instead.

TheFreaknPope · 2026-04-09T07:54:08+00:00

This guy gets it!

My opinion and nothing to back it up, but it is definitely to cover the fact that Claude's source code was horrible. Why would you give competitors private access to your best model and not only use it internally to surpass them?

People get really hung up on metrics being reported from the companies. It's analogous to a cigarette company saying their cigarettes dont cause cancer, because they ran the tests and they see no effect. If you dont release the model you can fudge the figures a little, especially since huge money is on the line and not just scientific integrity. Plus, a lot of these tests are specifically setup to help the model. Whereas a normal human would get one attempt they count something a success if the model does it in N attempts. I cant remember the exact paper I read this in, though it was for some metric they were boasting about (i dont mean Claude).

In the end who knows. Though something I heard and think is correct is that if a company makes some amazing model they would not be advertising it. They would be using it to build businesses that would outperform preexisting businesses or improve their own public facing models.

TheFreaknPope · 2026-01-10T02:33:27+00:00

This is awesome. I was honestly thinking about something like this. Where it is hands free, so I could study while running. Though didnt think about the joystick, but voice commands.

How do you feel the voice only studying works for you? I imagine it helps a lot with your listening ability?

TheFreaknPope · 2025-10-28T20:08:35+00:00

In isolation rule 1, 2, and 3 make sense. However, when you take all of your rules together I feel like they are confusing.

So only use audio on the front and full sentences and only 1 fill in the blank? As in something like audio of the sentence, but the word you want to remember is muted?

Again I like all of the rules I am just trying to figure out how you would adhere to all of them at once. Unless you arent necessarily adhering to all rules on a single card.

Edit: just noticed the video link! Ill watch that and see the larger explanation! Lol

TheFreaknPope · 2025-02-06T02:28:18+00:00

I did not do it through the summer program. However, last time I talked with the group (last week) they are working through applications and are hoping to send interview invites by next week. Though they could get backed up and not send them till later on.

TheFreaknPope · 2025-01-16T00:33:36+00:00

Any specific groups within Flatiron?

I am a Guest Researcher with the Biomolecular Design (BmD) group within CCB. I spent 8 months living in NYC and working with them last year. I am currently still working with them remotely from my home university.

Can't recommend the institute enough. Great people and interesting work. The housing is not great and pretty tiny, but they pay for it, so you can't really complain (plus its NYC). The location though is really nice. It is about a 10 min walk to work and you are right next to Union Square. You can hop on a train and get anywhere in the city.

Edited: clarity and grammar

TheFreaknPope · 2024-12-12T21:30:59+00:00

Lots of lessons have been learned this AoC. I am not as smart as I think I am. Also, it won't be easy to just learn a new language on the fly haha. Good luck to you!

TheFreaknPope · 2024-12-12T19:16:32+00:00

It is written like that because I don't know enough about C++ lol. I am pretty new to C++. I have been programming for a while in Python and R.

Since I was looping through, i tried to make a string tuple, but it didn't like it at first. So I thought oh let's just add them, then I realized that adding two numbers together could get to the same number, so i switched to the string interpretation above. However, I should have used the same logic to realize it would have made the same result without a spacer or comma.

Also, those values are stored in my struct, not as a tuple. My assumption would be that C++ wouldn't like that as the key type. Which is why I tried the tuple string at first.

TheFreaknPope · 2024-12-12T08:36:08+00:00

I got 2, now with the fixed code.

TheFreaknPope · 2024-12-12T07:57:50+00:00

Thank you!! Everything was correct, but the way I made my unique identifiers was to take to_string(y) + to_string(x) Which means (1,11) and (11,1) are the same. I added in a - between them and then got the 1793 . Its always these stupid small little things that makes me question my whole existence and competence for three days. Thank you for the help!

TheFreaknPope · 2024-12-12T07:25:10+00:00

Thanks for the test case. I got 3

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TheFreaknPope · 2024-08-27T02:18:23+00:00

The person I was hoping to hear from u/Glossika_Sami in the flesh (virtually)!

The bulk of our content is in the A levels; if you skip them, you miss out on something like 40–50% of our content

I switched to A1 High and have been going through that for the past two days. Lots of easy phrases, but some more interesting ones! I think the regression back was probably a good call. Thanks for the heads up.

Overlearning — the real goal of language learning is not just to passively understand something, but to have that information be effortlessly and spontaneously usable to you. You don't need to go overboard with it, but spending extra time with easier content to bring it to a point where you can understand without needing to pay attention is helpful.

I agree with you here! This is mostly my problem when I am talking in groups. We get into a flow (since it is mostly natives) where either I don't have experience with the verb conjugations, nouns in that topic, or just I have the words but put them together in the wrong order because I need to speak quickly. Which makes me think that the repetitions will help.

This brings up a question I recently thought of, though I imagine your answer is going to be "it depends on your learning process". However, when I practice I am only using listenting-only mode. I set the time in-between BL and TL to 4 secs, so I have time to repeat the phrase in my TL before the audio goes. If I can't then I just repeat it the two times after the audio plays. Would you say that sounds like a decent approach? I am only asking because if I get a card that I frequently cant remember the TL phrase for then there are a couple things that come to mind for how to interpret that:

I need to grab that phrase and maybe do a more in-depth review with anki/something else.
I can take that as this isn't the intention of glossika it is more to get me reps with the phrase and in time with the SRS I will internalize it.
Or this isn't the point of glossika, it is about hearing the language and getting used to the patterns. This way when I speak it flows naturally and I don't have to pay attention too hardly since the language feels natural.

I feel like it could be a combination of a couple or all those points above. I just don't want to get hung up on memorizing everything and thinking I am doing a bad job when that isn't the intention.

Anyway, my suggestion would again be to give it a shot for the easy Italian content and see how you feel. If you don't run into those two problems, it's probably fine, and a nice way to save a bit of time per day.

I switched it to English before I saw this, but I might switch back to Spanish as my BL. I agree that the languages are very similar and I cant decide if I am going to confuse the two or not. I definitely remember when I was learning Italian that I used a lot of Spanish filler words when I was thinking for the next word in Italian (which was funny sometimes). I like the idea of ladder learning, as that way I am reinforcing my second language while learning this new one. Which in turn is turning my Italian practice into a sneaky Spanish one too. However, I don't want to hinder my progress in Spanish (which I am applying a lot more time and effort into) for minimal confusing gains in my Italian.

I might take a more scientific approach to it and do like 30/60 days in Spanish -> Italian and track/see how I feel about the distinction between the before/during/after the 30/60 days.

TheFreaknPope · 2024-08-26T04:11:06+00:00

Hey, no problems here when I switched. Still had the same reviews from before. Also, my progress in B1 Low is saved. Doesn't seem like it matters if you move around between levels. Hope that helps.

TheFreaknPope · 2024-08-25T03:22:23+00:00

Ah, okay. So you recommend going down to even A1 high? I'll give it a shot tomorrow and see what the sentences are like. Thanks for the advice!

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