31 March 2025 Monday

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9 teaching
  Teaching
10 setup
  setup
11 Synthetic Datasets
  Synthetic Datasets
12 Hoops
  Hoops
1 Hoops
  Hoops
2 Synthetic Datasets
  Synthetic Datasets
3 To Pitt
  Colloq
4 Colloq
  Walk to Cyert

W: 5 DW: 3 OT: 2 ex

The ONE thing:

  • [ ] Synthetic Data Variance Study

To Do

  • Mail french press
  • Synthetic Data Variance Study
  • Setup April
  • [>>] Review March
  • [ ] Call Liberty mutual re:tree down
  • [ ] Understand Chuyuan's slides
  • [ ] Hemisphere plots
  • [>>] Write up bootstraping study
  • [>>] Schedule FNAL badging appointment
  • [ ] Make sum/SB/SR plots presentation
  • Move on Jim Parard
  • [>>] HGC Slides
  • [>>] Update the ETC docs
  • [>>] Taxes
  • [>>] Turnaround report
  • [>>] Understand changes in CMU CPI / UCSB CPI

Up at 7

M&T to school … H with me

Moving forward on Jim

Taught

  • Probability and Wave function
  • Chance found my mug !

setup

  • print french press return label
  • draft mail for Jim Picard
  • mail to Marina
  • Mail to Seth Eisenberg re:investing

Run3 Synthetic Data

  • see above

[BROKEN LINK: 9058CACF-33CB-48C6-AD39-A423366C0D23]

  • See above

Hoops / Steamroom

  • 4s and 5s (2nd court)
  • Good passing, good D, nice breaks, and some shots
  • 10' at Tmax = 124

Manfred get Lazarus Award !!!

  • put your people first
  • Really Enjoyed the feeling of someone else winning ! (Girard: "easy when not a rival" )

More Bootstrap study

Sent Picard offer letter

Colloq

  • HEP for AI Yoni Kahn
  • Theorist : known for methods to detect light DM
  • Hard Problem 1: How do we understand training?
  • Hard Problem 2: Where do scaling laws come from ?
  • Hard Problem 3: How to quantify uncertianty
  • Claim: We are very far from how learning works in the brain
  • Going to Ensemlble over models
  • Learning as a phase transition
  • Deeper is better up to a point … Surely f(data, problem) ?
  • Average at best

Walk to Cyert… Walk home

Some [BROKEN LINK: Myth of the Rational Voter]

Wes' FNAL Talk

  • see above

Late night Bootstrap studies