5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: People call him a hero. They’re right. And the fact he’s call Ahmed al-Ahmed truly shows it’s not about race or ethnicity - it’s culture and mindset. reddit.com/r/GuysBeingD... #Bondi #BondiBeach #BondiAttacl #Hero #Terrorism

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: I love stories like this - a “normal” person living in a council flat experienced a problem, so she built a solution, using debt instead of equity, hustling and taking risks to make it succeed. www.enterprisenation.com/learn-someth... #Entrepreneurship #Business

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: Another fascinating science video with amazing visuals from Steve. Liquid and gas are the same!? youtu.be/J_vXK9uvRf4 #Science

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: An engineer solving a real problem for a real person and then sharing the design online for free. The world needs more people like this bloke. youtu.be/9vW12gQ4Klc #Engineering #ProblemSolving #PositiveVibes

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: A professor was researching human rights abuses in #China, so China sued the uni, threatened their staff in China, and effectively blocked Chinese students from attending. In response, the uni silenced the prof - money talks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: One of my favourite podcasts has a new podcast! www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0xn... @nosuchthing #NSTAAF #Podcast #Knowledge #RandomFacts

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: A bunch of useful tips, although quite American (i.e. direct), so factor in cultural differences. Try: speaking concisely; using data, stories, and pauses; taking risks with comments and questions; being warm but competent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYaz...

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: Beautiful, and I learnt a lot - for example, as you go up, temperature increases until ~50,000m. Also, how high the Tsar Bomba nuclear cloud reached - terrifying. The music is nice too. neal.fun/space-elevat... @neal.fun #Space #Atmosphere

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: Network theory (graphs, shortcuts, hubs) is fascinating. Combine it with game theory and you can see why civilisation is collapsing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlo... #Veritasium #NetworkTheory #Disease #Society #Civilisation #SixDegreesOfSeparation

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: Physics is weird. Water equalisation depends on the height, not the volume or mass. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7NH... #Physics #Science #Paradox #SteveMould

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: I’d love to see more of these. I hope they have trackers too; that would be fun to watch. Sadly it’s just a simulation for now. interestingengineering.com/energy/solar... #Energy #RenewableEnergy #SolarPower #SolarEnergy #Trees #Korea

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: They don’t leave, they just fund the media to say that they will. Tax reform is needed. taxjustice.net/press/millio... #Tax #TaxReform #WealthTax #Inequality #Millionaires #Fearmongering #Government #Policy

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: We improve with every relationship. The thing you did that caused your previous breakup? You learnt from it, and no longer do it - making you better for the next person. youtu.be/GBIxoVLzbo8 #TheSchoolOfLife #Relationships #Breakups #Learning #Improvements

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: Sadly we’re starting to copy the US, dropping ‘u’s and swapping ‘s’s for ‘z’s. But we still have our snogs, our bollockings, our knobheads, and our wankers. God save the King. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... #English #Language #Britishisms #Americanisms

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: Speak with as many people as possible, ideally about their areas of expertise. And always give your best, and whatever you’re doing. usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-inc... #Luck #Success #ItsWhoYouKnow

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: There are some truly beautiful natural substances, so many colours. www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/minerals-... #Minerals #Gems #Gemstones #Stones #Crystals #Geology #Nature #Beauty

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: View all YouTube comments on a single page. Use in combination with an LLM, easy way to summarise! commentviewer.com #YouTube #Comments #Summary #LLM #AI

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: The sooner both regimes are over the better. One day Korea will be reunited. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Russia #NorthKorea #DPRK #SlaveLabour #Freedom

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: Emotions are easier to express, and resonate more intensely, in one’s native language. Love, anger - it’s harder in a second language. But it's possible. youtu.be/L_3KmTevD5o #Love #Relationships #Language #Multicultural #Communication #Emotions

5 #shareworth things: 1/5: We’ve medicalised every quirk and feeling. You're not shy, or dreamy, or late - you're broken. But it's wrong. Not everything has to be a diagnosis. You're allowed to be the unique, flawed human - as we all are. www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody-has...

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: #Communication and #money are the big ones. Quite large differences between young and old for some things - it seems older couples simply stop caring. www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-t... #Relationships #Marriage #Divorce #GenerationalDifferences

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: Domino’s Pizza knew Israel was about to attack Iran before Iran did. x.com/PenPizzaRepo... #Iran #Israel #Pizza #Pentagon #PentagonPizza

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: "Jesus was a 1st-century itinerant Jewish preacher who spoke Aramaic and was crucified by the Romans." Everything else is very possibly entirely made up. bigthink.com/big-think-bo... #History #Religion

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: More visualisations! No wonder I work in data. Put it on fast-forward mode and leave it for a few minutes. www.datapointed.net/visualizatio... #Math #Maths #Data #Visualisations #Factorialisation #Factors

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: Zooooom all the way in. It’s almost like a natural landscape. www.micro-pano.com/pearl/index.... #Art

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: Your guess for how long something will take is the median. However, it’s lognormal, so the mean is 1.6x that, and the 95th percentile is 5x. Don’t tell someone it will take take 4 hours (half a day), say 20 (2.5 days) thesearesystems.substack.com/p/task-estim... #Stats

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: One of my favourite YouTube channels. These sea monsters can be invisibly black, and the males are adorable… And, effectively, no more than living testicles. youtu.be/m-7E5_xXrvg #Nature #Animals #Science #Fish

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: AI video technologies have become incredible. The songs are great too. Not sure if the two channels are related. youtu.be/DeLOzasUClE youtu.be/vIg8gIJHnZU #AI #DPRK #NorthKorea #StarWars #LordoftheRings

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: He used a seatbelt and a work knife to fight off a snake, then caught speeding to hospital. How I miss Australia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWLd... #Australia #Queensland #Speeding #Police #Snakes #LawvsJustice

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEnh... The changing places title is irrelevant. It’s just a super cute video of a baby. #Babies #Funny #Frustrating #Parenthood

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: Fun animation of life (death?) expectancy based on the Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation. I may die in 5 years, but I’ll probably die in 55. flowingdata.com/projects/202... #Life #Death #MonteCarlo #Simulation #Statistics

5 #shareworthy things 1/5: What’s the solution? Perhaps rolling work weeks, where some doctors work Friday to Tuesday? After all, the work week is a societal construct (ask farmers). interestingengineering.com/health/frida... #Medicine #Surgery #Operations #Death #Tiredness #Timing

5 shareworthy things: 1/5: The future could be amazing, but terrifying. Will AI really revolutionise everything? And, if so, how should one prepare? Read: nosetgauge.substack.com/p/a-history-... Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/20cs... #Future #Futurism #AI #Technology

New project time! I built an ML model to predict the price of a diamond, then used GitHub Actions to containerise it with Docker and host it on Azure. www.jamesgibbins.com/basic-apis-d... #DataScience #MachineLearning #GitHub #Docker #Azure #Python #Diamonds

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: Convert any image into an Excel spreadsheet, where the RGB values are conditionally-formatted to display the image. Pointless, but fun. github.andrewt.net/mosaic/

"The median age of a renter in the United States was 42 years old as of 2024, up from 33 years old just three years prior." I wonder what the figure is for the UK? Will I still be renting in a decade? #Housing #HousingCrisis #CostofLiving #CostofLivingCrisis fortune.com/article/rent...

#Netflix beats #YouTube when searching "you" on #Google. Pretty impressive from the @netflix.com team. #SEO

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: A bunch of interesting #data about the current state of the world. #Technology ( #AI, #energy, #transport ) is getting better, but #society ( #relationships, #health, #trust ) is getting worse. www.contrary.com/tech-trends-...

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: Rick and Morty: The Anime. Even weirder than the original R&M shows, but I like it. I think. Stick to the Japanese language version. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_an... #RickandMorty #Anime

5 #shareworthy things: 1/5: Charts of the year, including #energy, #environment, #elections, and more. @statista.bsky.social #statistics #dataAnalysis #dataVisualisation #dataVis youtu.be/8oY_OjT0jFw

Time for something different - a dashboard! While Python is great for transforming and analysing data, it’s not the most end-user-friendly. So, I made an interactive Power BI dashboard. www.jamesgibbins.com/dvla-data-da... #DVLA #DataAnalysis #BusinessIntelligence #BI #Dashboard #PowerBI

I analysed #DVLA vehicle registration data to answer: 1. What are the most common cars in the UK? 2. Which old vehicles are having a comeback? (Might be an investment opportunity) Some results were genuinely surprising. www.jamesgibbins.com/analysing-dv... #DataAnalysis #Python #Cars #ClassicCars

Five shareworthy things I've come across recently: 1/5: 2024 was the year of democratic elections, but 2025 has a bunch too. Some might even be fair! youtu.be/uN5RWDh5GQg @tldrnews.bsky.social #Elections #Democracy #Politics

Five shareworthy things I've come across recently: 1/5: @gurwinder.bsky.social spoke with Luigi; he had a few issues, but didn’t seem crazy, just very concerned about societal conformity and loss of individual agency. www.gurwinder.blog/p/the-riddle...

Another little project - send a word or phrase to an API, and it will give you a sentiment score between -1 (negative) and +1 (positive). www.jamesgibbins.com/basic-apis-s... #DataScience #DataAnalytics #NaturalLanguageProcessing #NLP #SentimentAnalysis #API #Python #TextBlob #Flask #Docker #AWS

One of the podcasts I listen to most, The @jordanharbinger.bsky.social Show, has Feedback Friday. I felt it has become too negative. Can I support this hypothesis with data? jamesgibbins.com/podcast-sent... #DataAnalysis #NLP #SentimentAnalysis #TopicAnalysis #ThemeAnalysis #LDA #Python #Podcast

Like many people, I was a bit disappointed with my Spotify Wrapped this year. So, I thought I’d create my own. You can generate the insights with your data using my code too, if you want. jamesgibbins.com/spotify-wrap... #DataAnalytics #Python #Spotify #SpotifyWrapped

"I began to look at my own struggles and worries with a huge sense of compassion, and realise that I was just doing my best, and that it was good enough. Soon after, this widened to everyone: they were also just doing their best." - Simon Boas, #ABeginnersGuideToDying

Natural language processing (NLP) involves getting a machine to understand human language. I made a model to predict whether a tweet referred to a genuine disaster, potentially helping first responders. jamesgibbins.com/disaster-twe... #DataScience #DataAnalysis #NLP #Python #Twitter #SocialMedia

I typically don’t like arbitrary holidays, but I feel New Year is something different. It isn't just a societal construct; only a few days after the winter solstice, it is a sign of rebirth - the days start getting longer, and instead of moving away from summer, we start moving back towards it.