M A Osborne
Parent, spouse, Australian, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae on Fridays, AI must be good for humans, robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb
- 9YO was just telling me about a Geometry Dash player who “is really good, even though he’s 39 years old”. I am 44. I will never recover from this devastating blow
- Epilogue: I got another email like this today, and then I looked up the paper and discovered that it was real, I had co-authored it and then forgotten about it
- My work is so influential that prospective PhD students are now being influenced by papers that an LLM thinks I wrote but actually did not
- Haven’t been posting much, but I would like to confirm that I am still masking and still haven’t been reinfected with covid (funny how that works)
- None of us play, but we would like to buy a piano keyboard for our kids: shouldn’t be top-of-the-line, but shouldn’t be junk, either. Any tips appreciated!
- Copenhagen, 2024
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- Apes smart enough to figure out the various disciplines of complex science explaining how deeply they are screwing up the thin eggshell of biosphere that is their only plausible home, yet too dumb to do anything about it
- I just got my Covid booster, and you should, too!
- Multilayer pony My little perceptron
- Covid is still out there, and masks still work
- 5,290 papers will be published at NeurIPS this year. If you could still get the proceedings in a book, it would be like 50,000 pages long. That’s 14.5 papers a day to read each and every day until the next NeurIPS
- Danes keep assuming I am foreign because I am wearing a mask and TBF they’re correct
- This one always gets me going
- Counterpoint: if you are not pregnant, please also get a Covid vaccine
- The first song from the first album of the first dancehall DJ—first and best
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- New single from Stand High Patrol is hot
- More than a dozen cyclists waiting at the lights ahead of me—cycling is quite big in Denmark!
- After nineteen years, I am living near the ocean once again, and it feels like the cancellation of a debt
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- There is no email I am reading faster than one that begins “X would like to recall the message…”
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- The longer I am off it, the clearer it becomes to me that it was profoundly unhealthy for me to be on X/Twitter
- Reposted by M A OsborneI want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
- Just took 6YO and 9YO down to the beach for pizza and icecream. Speaking hypothetically, how bad would it be if I phoned it in at work for, say, the next ten or so years
- One thing you see a lot in Denmark is cargo bikes transporting *adults* in the front (that is, two adults to the bike), which I think is fantastic
- Hugh Mundell was tragically shot dead in 1983 aged only 21—what a loss
- Love this cover of one of my favourite songs
- Dennis Bovell hitting this groove for six
