Alex Wenzel
Postdoc at UC San Diego studying cancer. Academic unionist and transit enthusiast. Trying to make buses less invisible. Medic main in TF2. he/him
- These are funny, but they also offer an intuitive look under the hood at how an LLM works. It builds a series of words based on the input series of words and infinitely tunable configuration. Though usually less clumsy than this, it generates text based on its owners' decisions. It doesn't think.
- We need to better communicate to the general public the fact that science is often as much about ruling a variety of things out as it is proving specific things to be true.
- Reposted by Alex WenzelNEWS: Thanks to courageous West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley and his brilliant attorney, Sam Petsonk, over 100 NIOSH workers in Morgantown, WV just got their jobs back and the crucial Coal Workers Surveillance Program will be restored. They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.
- - Everyone moves faster, including people who still have to drive - Emergency vehicles are faster - Numerous health, safety, and general quality-of-life metrics improve NYC congestion pricing is an unequivocal validation of everything transit advocates have been saying for years.
- Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0
- They posted Abrego Garcia's wife's address on Twitter.
- “ICE can't claim to be protecting the privacy of immigrants while kicking down doors and smashing car windows,” she said. “And ICE is quick to reveal personal data when it suits their interest.” www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
