Thomas Powers

@thepowers.bsky.social

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ML scientist, transit advocate with Seattle Subway

A greater yellowlegs looking for food in the receding tide
A bald eagle flying low over the shore
A house finch clinging to a small branch
A little egret on a dock in Murano, an island in Venice. The bright white bird is in direct sunlight with a stark shadow beneath it. The sun bleached dock takes up the lower third of the picture with lightly rippling water of the canal in the background above
Comment thread on an Instagram post by Ken Jennings: @devonbreithart: Ken, what do you think about them trying to cut Ballard light rail whoiskenjennings: @devonbreithart It really sucks @devonbreithart: @whoiskenjennings agreed! Would love to get you involved with @saveballardrail...but I'll also settle for a jeopardy category on the history of Seattle transit @saveballardrail: @whoiskenjennings our favorite game show host speaking facts here
Ferries on the sound at twilight with rain clouds over the Olympics
Video of the salmon run at tonight's Mariners game. Humpy jumps out to an early lead fueled by a roaring crowd filled with 20k humpy shoulder plushies. A bear ambushes Humpy and Sockeye wins instead.
Text from the KUOW article about toxic compounds in tires. The policy response from WSDOT and King county are deeply unserious. They will not make a difference. We need to get people out of cars. "With that in mind, the Washington Department of Transportation is planning a $6 million project to treat stormwater runoff from the I-5 Ship Canal Bridge, to be completed in 2028. King County is testing different "bioretention soil mixes" to determine the optimal combination to eliminate 6PPD-Q before it enters waterways. Additional studies related to 6PPD-Q are underway in Redmond, Spokane, Tacoma, the Snoqualmie Reservation, and at Washington State University"
Two silhouetted ferries cross the Puget Sound just after sunset. The sky along the mountains on the horizon is a vivid orange with blue-gray clouds
A view of a foggy train yard before sunrise. Low-lying fog has settled over train cars and airplane fuselages.
A ferry on Puget Sound silhouetted by the afternoon sun
Mt Hood from the view of my airplane window. The shadow extends out behind it over fog blanketing the lower lying mountains
Sunset in 2025. Setting sun colors layered clouds as a ferry curves around Alki point
TabPFNMix TabPFNMix is a hybrid machine learning model specifically designed for tabular data. It combines the strengths of tree-based models, such as gradient boosting machines (GBMs), with neural networks to achieve superior predictive performance. The model leverages the Pattern Feature Net (PFN) architecture, which captures complex interactions between features while maintaining computational efficiency. The TabPFNMix model can be represented as: fTabPFNMix where is a tree-based feature transformation, and is a neural network that processes the transformed features.
Sunset turning the cloudy sky orange over Puget Sound
Two ferries on Puget Sound reflecting the golden morning light with low lying clouds overhead and fog on the horizon
A ferry crosses the sound. The evening light creates a nice yellow and orange backdrop to the low-lying clouds. The Mariners have won game 5 of the ALCS, propelled by a grand slam from Eugenio Suarez.
Sunset over Puget Sound on a mostly clear day. A cloud partially blocks the sun as it sets creating sun rays and a narrow reflection off the water.
Victor robles telling the praying mantis on his hat how many outs there are
A Kitsap fast ferry traverses Puget Sound. The morning light colors a clearing sky on the horizon while nearer clouds layer above
A view of the Seattle skyline and train tracks. Low lying fog shrouds the space needle and skyscrapers beneath an otherwise clear bright sky.
A ferry traverses the Puget Sound on a calm fall morning. In the background, fog clings to the hills beneath pastel shades of morning light
Fog settled in behind the cranes at the port of Seattle with a clear view of the mountain behind on a calm fall morning
Tugboat chugging across Puget Sound on a rainy day. The islands and peninsula in the background are shrouded in mist
Ferry crossing Puget Sound. The clouds above have a watercolor texture to them as they merge into the fog below
A view of the Cliffs of Moher. The vibrant blue ocean contrasts with the greens, yellows and greys of the cliff stone, grass, and moss. In the very center near the edge of the cliff is O'Brien's Tower
A pair of ferries and two sailboats on the sound under a clear sky with smoke obscuring the Olympics
View of Puget Sound at sunset. Views of the Olympics are blocked by smoke from the Bear Gulch Fire that turns the sun red filters the fading light with orange and yellow tones.
Smoky orange sunset over a farm in Quebec with wispy clouds and a green field and trees
Sunset over a silhouetted Fremont (self-titled center of the universe) in Seattle
Alpine stream with scattered trees, bushes, and wildflowers in front of Mt Tahoma which has a cloud hat
A ferry crosses Puget Sound beneath an overcast sky with textured clouds
Sun shining through the fog at the horizon on a residential street. Trees, power lines, and cars fade into the fog
Sunrise reflecting off of clouds over the Skagit River with low lying fog and silhouetted trees
Sun rays filtering through clouds over Puget Sound with a single sailboat in view on the water
Sun rays shooting through clouds over the estuary
Sunrise light over a foggy farm
Dawn light over mountains and low lying clouds
Sparrow perched on a branch
Picture of the Puget Sound in the evening. The sun is filtering through rippling clouds and smoke
Fast ferry moving across the sound. Fog in the background looks like a waterfall flowing over the hills
Ferry on the sound in the peach colored morning light
Ferry traversing Puget Sound on a calm morning with smoke and clouds on the horizon
Sun shining through clouds over water at mid-evening
Ferry view of the sound
Great blue heron on a roof
Ferry on the Puget Sound with dramatic clouds
Caspian tern gliding over Puget Sound
Great blue heron perched on a log
Post from Steve Perrault: "Rafael Devers is O-19 with 15 Ks. That's almost impossible to do. Not even sure sitting him will change much right now. This is brutal."
Depiction of a 16th century Irish feast
Quote of post saying "I have poison ivy all over my body and I'm in agony lol" The implication is that Alex Goldman tried to do fashion with poison ivy
Razorwire fence protecting an empty lot providing ambience to a Seattle area bus stop
da fuck they doin ove der meme with the cat in overalls peering over a snowbank
Weird portrait the Bleacher Report posted after the USWNT won the world cup. The front row features players, but behind them are a bizarre mix of American athletes, celebrities, fictional superheroes, and sitcom characters
The sentient shock monster who lives in transformers
Make noise for this dog
New paper testing the performance of ChatGPT (both GPT-4 and GPT-3.5) over time on a series of tasks
Screenshot from Oregon Trail. It reads: the river is too deep to ford. You lose 35 bullets, 2 wagon axels, 2 wagon tongues, 4 oxen, and Phoenixor and Mark have drowned
Quoting the tweet: in fact, while Hitler has become the great symbol of evil in history books, he too was less evil than Lenin because Hitler only targeted people he personally believed were harmful to society whereas Lenin targeted even those he himself did not believe we're harmful in any way