Me: Can we get some Fourier analysis? Michelson: We have Fourier analysis at home. Fourier analysis at home:

What is a 'memecoin' anyway? Ryan Broderick in the Garbage Day newsletter describes it succinctly: "Crypto firms want to monetize the very concept of a meme. Which is as insidious as it is extremely lame." (Garbage Day newsletter and content here www.garbageday.email/subscribe?re...)

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Loath to admit it, but 95% of my hair product choices are driven by whether it smells good.

This feels like beating a final boss in an AI game. Like the screen should pop up with job postings for becoming an AI engineer at Google if you can type a search that stumps their AI process.

Something is rotten in the state of Ohio #databs

Richard Bamattre @bamattre.bsky.social · 2y ago

I used a #huggingface zero shot classifier to figure out the sentiment of Hamlet's dialogue using #polars and Gen Alpha slang. I have no regrets but I do feel really old. #databs #dataviz #python Note: I'm using a wider definition of gyat as surprise at anything 😐 Code: github.com/bamattre/tid...

Don’t think of it as whether the data has error or not. Most of the time it will. Think of it as whether the error in the data will cause you to make a different decision than if the data was perfectly clean. Most of the time it won’t.

One of the biggest tips I have for anyone doing data analysis, especially data from people, is to spend some time drilling down to the most granular data and just looking at individual records. You will find the craziest shit you never imagined and your analysis will be better for it #databs

When you are working on a data side project, do you usually start with the problem to solve and find the data to answer it? Or do you start with the dataset and go down the rabbit hole to see what you find?

Telegraphs and Morse code have always been intrinsically linked in my mind. Reading "The Information" by James Gleick @around.com and learning there were at least half a dozen early iterations for conveying language through an electrical wire is fascinating. Also begs the #dataBS question -

Telegraph tech and Morse code have always been intrinsically linked in my mind. Reading "The Information" by Gleick and learning there were at least half a dozen alt iterations for conveying language through the medium of electricity that were tested and then abandoned is fascinating.

Tangentially related to the original post - but say the obvious thing! Connect the dots! One of the biggest differentiators I've seen in good senior/leadership folks in tech is that yes, they have next-level skills but also, they SHARE THEM IN A CLEAR AND OBVIOUS WAY.

arynndoesdata@arynn.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you are passing an array from JSON you have to use UNNEST in order for SQL to read it in an IN statement. I'm sure someone will be like "ThAt'S sO oBviOuS". And I'm here to tell you - it was not.

My inbox filling up with meeting cancellations due to holiday schedules is the BEST early gift.

Welp.

Nico Ritschel@nicoritschel.com · 2y ago

TIL about Q# woah

How can we visualize what a book ISN'T talking about? With an anti-tag cloud! See the most common English words that are never mentioned in a text. www.bewitched.com/demo/anti/

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Happy working on side projects day for all who celebrate! 🥳🤩

A corollary: if there is coding shown in a movie/TV show, I am def pausing it to see the code.

Kelly Vaughn@kvlly.com · 2y ago

If you're coding near me at a coffee shop, there is a 100% chance I'm going to have to try and see what you're building. I don't make the rules.

If you're coding near me at a coffee shop, there is a 100% chance I'm going to have to try and see what you're building. I don't make the rules.

"Nobody’s logging on expecting profundity, hilarity, or sincerity. It’s the place where people strive to be the most anodyne versions of themselves, pleasant and inoffensive. Artificiality, in other words, is what everyone is expecting." Scathing review of LinkedIn, imo.

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 2y ago

Analysis finds over 54% of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated; LinkedIn says it doesn't track how many posts are created by AI (Kate Knibbs/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

"This place is not a place of honor...no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here...nothing valued is here." I miss a lot of pop culture references but saw this one on bluesky recently and wanted to share the chilling (but fascinating) source of this one.

The Gini coefficient is the standard way to measure inequality, but what does it mean, concretely? I made a little visualization to build intuition: www.bewitched.com/demo/gini

Interested in machine learning in science? Timo and I recently published a book, and even if you are not a scientist, you'll find useful overviews of topics like causality and robustness. The best part is that you can read it for free: ml-science-book.com

Found a name for my next S3 bucket

bobby@bobbylewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

fridays on bluesky

Live look at my laptop after I forgot to include a break condition in my while loop #databs

Alison Malört@alisonmalort.bsky.social · 2y ago

It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.

When you try to convert your text into smaller pieces but it gives you eggs, that's a yolkenizer

Vicki@vickiboykis.com · 2y ago

when you try to convert your text into smaller pieces but all it gives you is Elvish, that’s a tolkienizer

Agree with this - knowing when to "call it" is a skill. When is the model iteration as good as it's going to get? When is add'l analysis and rabbitholing no longer serving the original business need?

Jelena Jansson ⚡️@jelenajansson.bsky.social · 2y ago

You know what - quitting early isn't failing - it's sometimes making space. Knowing when to quit a class, pass on a certificate, or end a hobby at the right time, is a power move.

Lots of fun stuff being made lately using the Jetstream, the firehose of all Bluesky posts. Here’s a growing thread of my favorites. (Send me more!)

Martin Wattenberg@wattenberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

See the colors of BlueSky, live! www.bewitched.com/demo/rainbow... This little visualization scans incoming posts and draws a stripe every time it finds a color word.

Please and thank you.

arynndoesdata@arynn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Can we make a pact? Never make the assumption when a woman joins a call that she isn't technical. Ask first. It takes 2 seconds.

I'm obsessed with everything about this video. If a prospect stops responding to me, I'm just gonna send them this link. youtu.be/Am7kr_lLbsw?...

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“Only Murders In The Building” but played by Data Engineers trying to figure out who broke the production pipelines. In this new #dataBS podcast, we will …