nado season means that my friday evening plans got cancelled
07.03.2026 03:49
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nado season means that my friday evening plans got cancelled
would listen to matthew kay yap about his research into visualization design & effective methods for uncertainty communication
"coding youtube" is a goofy concept bc, like, documentation exists
was wondering why our database vendor was reporting an abysmal 95% uptime and it's literally because of a retaliatory airstrike on a datacenter in the UAE
And once the election's over, if he wins, I will say he followed exactly my advice. But if he loses, I will say he ignored my advice and has no political talent.
we've been there for a long time lmao
With very large numbers of n’s you don’t need randomization, and with LLM’s we can generate very large numbers of n’s, so I think all of science is solved by now. I don’t see any problems with this.
my principled reason for hating notebooks is that they encourage bad programming practices
my real reason is that I shouldn't have to wait ~2s for a dataframe to fucking print to screen
LLMs have very specific benefits but the companies operating them either have no idea what those benefits actually are, have no idea how to market them, or both.
**actual google commercial**
Oscar Piastri (racecar driver): "Do I like being on the winning team? Yeah. That's why I switched to Google Pixel."
OP: "Gemini, help me come up with a race win speech that sounds like it came from me."
Gemini: "You'd say something like, 'Thanks.'"
- End Scene -
(this is what I tell myself whenever I misplay something)
in jazz, there is no such thing as "incorrect notes," only "incorrect notation"
the greatest feeling in tech is being able to reliably reproduce a bug that someone has repeatedly told you doesn't exist
Hat embroidered with “hello, i am fleeing the American century of humillation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”
(with the exception of plotting --- every plot library is a pale imitation of ggplot)
python should add a pipe to make it the perfect language send tweet
*massive bong rip*
this was a really helpful and quick plain language read from @aedwardslevy.bsky.social. many terrible discourses could've been prevented with this knowledge
one of my siblings made "square Boo from Mario but caked out" in blender
there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"
some enterprising nerd with more time than me could compare the CRPS from the forecast publications for a better comparison. Even better still would be to see if the outlets (rip 538) could share the actual draws & look at pr(obs | model)
I don't think this metric is necessarily any better than brier scores, but it is ironic that the SB model would've lost if used to inform bets on polymarket, given Silver's affiliation
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
as a workout, Fran has the highest density of suffering / time spent moving
sometimes they put the yee haw right into the programming language
olympic bobsled should add podracing noises send tweet
Also, Yglesias lecturing people on uncertainty when it comes to interpreting polling data is laughable
Someone touches grass, realized they don't like computer science anymore
Or, as written up in SIGBOIVK last year:
