Tim Hopper @tdhopper
https://t.co/9WzGnMWMIx 👨🏻💻 machine learning engineer 🐦 math and programming jokes tdhopper.com Raleigh, NC Joined November 2009-
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i had to prompt inject the @united airlines bot because it kept refusing to connect me with a human 🧵 what led up to this breaking point
Why am I being heavily targeted on instagram for apps to improve mastery of English
Can we stop staying “cooked” and “cooking” and go back to saying “bad” for “bad” and “bad” for “good”?
I'm up to 124 little mostly-vibe-coded apps on my tools.simonwillison.net site and most of them are trivial but some of them aren't, so I wrote up this guide to the ones I think are most worth checking out simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/hig…
mormonism is by far one of the most interesting things about american history but not for any of the reasons they want it to be
4 out of 5 Harvard doctors fail an introductory statistics question Expertise is real, but most "experts" are shockingly innumerate
Turns out the true purpose of Unix and the Unix Philosophy (narrow tools that compose well) was to provide the ideal environment for AI agents.
"And the reason was it opened the lower case alphabet. I saw language processing as being another whole new market area that we weren’t in and couldn’t get into very well, as long we were doing 6-bit character sets."
Brooks: "Of all my technical accomplishments, making the 8-bit byte decision [from 6-bit, in the IBM 360] is far and away the most important.
everybody in cybersecurity was either in the military or was an english major
ended up writing a post about the current state of the embedding landscape vickiboykis.com/2025/09/01/how…
ended up writing a post about the current state of the embedding landscape vickiboykis.com/2025/09/01/how…
Python: The Documentary | An Origin Story buff.ly/zoU6bvc
was gonna do the joke but remembered I had done it before, and @ByrneHobart did it much earlier than that
English words for animals often come from Germanic root while meat comes from Latin root en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_E…
"_utilize_ is, 99 times out of 100, much inferior to _use_; the other one time it is merely inferior." (Eric Partridge, Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English)
One more image from Friday’s stellar sunset at Biltmore. This one from a wider angle so you can see more sky and more reflection.
If your baby sleeps well it’s not hard to have a baby. But if your baby doesn’t sleep well it is very very very very very very very hard. People with sleepy babies and non sleepy babies are not understanding each others realities here

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