Ted Pavlic (he/him/his)

Checking out one file at a time from a central server? Wouldn't it be funny if the age of agentic coding will mark the return of Subversion... "Redesigning source control at Anthropic" \ Anthropic www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

Did you hear about the kid who misspelled "impunity" in the spelling bee? They still let him win.

Electronic tiltmeter buried in active volcano in Hawaii. Pretty sure that spike on October 9 was the earthquake in Panama.

Update: Latest version can export any analysis shown in the current view to code for #MATLAB, Core&Tidy #Rstats, and #Python. This goes beyond exporting graphs but actually provides code for doing the analyses (including checking for the conditions necessary to meet the assumptions of those tests).

I haven't maintained my own CV in LaTeX for a while, but I used to have a popular LaTeX CV template that I moved archived to Github some time ago. I had some extra cycles, and so I went and updated it today to support PDF/UA accessible LaTeX. See: github.com/tpavlic/late...

He's a very patient pup.

Cool (or warm) Kilauea #volcano satellite imagery (interferometry). Inferred position of magma wedge are the yellow lines. The blue (red) regions is movement away from (toward) the satellite. Ground "crinkled" to make room for the dike wedging itself up through it around the yellow dashed lines. 🧪

Has anyone else's admin made the decision to get rid of office trash service? Seems to be a new pattern emerging. Creates a kind of "workday walk of shame" as people carry teabags and coffee pods all around a building looking for just one trashcan. My kingdom for a trashcan!

Cities as refuges for those who the rest of the nation cast out as their families failed to love them. Under that framing, cities may be a symptom of something that's wrong, but it's not really clear it's something that's wrong in the cities.

New 🧪 findings show Rosalind Franklin had an earlier X-ray crystallography photo revealing the helical structure of DNA, and her notes about THAT photo showed she recognized it was a helix (and even estimated turn length). Explains why later photograph didn't have notes (and Watson took sole credit)

A new widget for my stochastic sim course that might be useful for more general #stats courses -- can act as a web-based replacement for basic JMP. Load data sets at top, do parametric and nonparametric one-sample, two-sample, and multi-comparisons/ANOVA. tpavlic.github.io/asu-simulati...

Did you hear about the guy who wanted to use Spearman correlation to analyze his team's data? They decided otherwise. Sadly, he was outranked.

Fun Fact – In Robert's Rules of Order, you do NOT need a motion to approve minutes at the start of a meeting. The chair just asks if there are corrections. If there are, there can be votes on the corrections. If there are not, the chair can declare them approved.

Are there any myths about volcanos that associate the processes within as gastrointestinal discomfort of the God's? All of the dissolved gas coming out, the grumbling earthquakes of pressurized ground, the different ways magma can be forced out as lava – It's basically a big gut!

New widget for my stochastic #simulation course that I hope will be useful for other #statistics and #probability courses. Gallery of common probability distributions with info on logical origins, parameters, and how to sample from them among other things. tpavlic.github.io/asu-simulati...

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

Last week, my goldendoodle Rosie ate a dead bird, shat feathers, got impacted, and ended up at the vet. But just imagine. She could’ve made history and advanced science.

These #ants are on a roll!

Another Monte Carlo methods explorer for my simulating stochastic systems course. Demos 6 applications of Monte Carlo methods for estimating output distributions from stochastic models (queueing, inventory, reliability, and more -- 3 dynamic + 3 static). tpavlic.github.io/asu-simulati...

If anyone looking for a postdoc with fantastic genomics/bioinformatics skills + strong intellect + great energy, please let me know! Preferably West Coast or remote/hybrid options & the candidate is open to a short (1 year) or longer term appointment

NSF is consolidating its geoscience research grants into a new program, GEOcore and reducing annual grants to $110 million total in 200-350 awards. Typical was about $300 million in 1,200 awards. Not including institutional grants ($1.3 billion/yr) and those may be gone. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Another concept explorer for my stochastic #simulation course. This widget focuses on what a confidence interval is (tab 1) and then pivots to explaining the 4 major Variance Reduction Techniques in Monte Carlo methods (tabs 2–5). tpavlic.github.io/asu-simulati...

New widget for my stochastic sim class. This one has three tabs about pseudo random-number generation (LCG, CLCG, MRG) that transition into four tabs about the tournament-based AI #watermarking used in modern LLM's, like Claude and Gemini. Related topics! tpavlic.github.io/asu-simulati...

For those who frequently enough download a roster from #CanvasLMS and need to quickly turn a column of ID's into a comma-separated list and don't have the time to do it programmatically or with a text editor, here you go. List/Column to CSV, 100% local: links.asu.edu/listtocsv

Professors on TV: 'Marx was right!' Professors in reality: '"Data" is plural!"

C'mon, @thisamericanlife.org! You setup two Claudes talking to each other, waiting for their human to intervene, and you don't make ANY references to Samuel Beckett? You may as well have named them Vladimir and Estragon! "Escape Claudes" www.thisamericanlife.org/896/i-know-w...

OpenAI is cutting off access to its models from Cursor after the SpaceX acquisition of Cursor. As with Twitter, acquisition of Cursor by SpaceX will severely degrade its quality and user base. "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX" openai.com/index/our-de...

What luck! Got conditions just right to take this super sharp image of the lunar #eclipse with my 2023 Samsung GS23 Ultra smartphone!

Where do you put the AI-powered tutor bots that your university is likely putting pressure on you to implement for your course? Along with linking them to/near the assignments, I'm also trying putting them under the Instructional Staff Support Hours. Logical if they work, right?

#Kilauea #volcano starts another eruption. Precursory flows now -- probably fountains in a few hours. 🌋 🧪 www.youtube.com/live/HggWKlZ...