A long-awaited update of federal employment data shows crippling staff reductions in some federal agencies and offices: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Announcing deck.gl-raster: 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐎𝐆 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠. No server required. 1.3 𝐠𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐭𝐞 COG, streamed directly into the browser: developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast... - GPU-accelerated raster reprojection - GPU image processing for colormaps, nodata values - Efficient use of COG overviews

news from PySAL world: we have a new package in the ecosystem(!) As of today, `gwlearn` is available in package managers. It provides a suite of tools for geographically weighted machine learning using a sklearn API. pysal.org/gwlearn/v0.1... great work by lead author @martinfleischmann.net

another sweet port from Kyle! A touch of background on the original, for those interested: knaaptime.com/urban_analys...

My favorite #Python package to use is spopt, a library for spatial optimization. It helps you with: 📊 Facility location planning; 📊 Sales territory design; 📊 Maximizing market share; And much more! Check it out here: pysal.org/spopt/

Is logistic regression "AI"? What about convex optimization? Is LLM AI? What about an image recognition system built without using "feature learning" techniques but done through "feature engineering"?

classic.

furthermore, i dont care how this game turns out, or how many caleb williams apoligistst there are, malik is a better qb

tom. it's not called the windy city because of the weather.

seen this floating around all day, with exactly this thought every time. If you're prepared to spend a 7th of this much, you have not spent enough time in the midwest. the Home Alone house has been valued under 3M until 2024 and its *in the chicago metro* www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

among the many distinctions in *geospatial analysis*, it seems like physical geographers use "AI" in the 'traditional' sense of, like, deep nets applied to imagery data. whereas human geographers use it in the LLM sense of, like 'please vibecode my work for me because i asked so nicely'

ima let you guys finish, but i live down the street from a frazier farms

this, 💯

it's kinda wild that the virtual line judge is basically never used to check first downs in the nfl (as of yet), but like every single offside call in the premier league is assessed with VAR (football/football)

TIL i learned colab comes with pysal 25.7 preinstalled. and, thats cool.

unrelated, im working on a proper 'big data' project with data much larger than memory (so requires lazy/distributed compute) and i guess im the only one on the internet who really dislikes the polars api. maybe just because its unfamiliar but i find it really cumbersome

was reading through the pandas3 release notes the other day and noticed they added support for [bodo](docs.bodo.ai/quick_start/...) as an engine in `apply` (already i was unaware you can use numba as an engine) ive never heard of bodo but it seems *awesome*? it's, like, jit and parallel at once?

PACKERS WIN THERE IS HOPE FOR AMERICA

caleb sucks! the bears are trash! 😝😝😝😝😝

I would love to see Parsons sack a ref

we just not gonna call micah getting held on every play?

dont let the commentators lie to you. caleb sucks. the bears are trash. and everyone in the nfc is deeply embarrassed chicago has a number one seed these are facts

man. @andrew.heiss.phd is [an open source] legend. I'm putting together quarto websites for my winter courses and following his examples is just impossibly useful. Down to the way he parameterizes using variables so content is reusable (i've also used his hikmah manuscript templates for ages)

/end ramble

wow.. where did lets-plot.org come from? ...undeniably impressive, especially the the geo-support.

In lieu of thanksgiving I suggest holding a sort of family court convicting your most annoying relatives of various offenses

no one, ever: i cant spell economics, but i've had a bank account most of my life. Let me tell you how finance *Actually Works* _fucking everyone_, at all times: i have zero training in urban studies but I stepped foot in a house once. I am the world's foremost expert on housing and development

My third point is that the large rise in Black unemployment over the past few months is a reminder that aggregate demand has important distributional consequences. Strong labor markets disproportionately help less privileged workers, weaker labor markets disproportionately hurt them.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

sometimes you have to call `plt.show()` to make quarto understand a figure is a figure 🤷‍♂️

This seems important. Current AI models can't read graphs. They "see" what they expect to see, even if the data shows something else.

slow clap

as part of this journey, i also learned that knitr (and thus quarto, as a side effect) can automatically translate interactive graphics (e.g. leaflet maps) into static images via webshot2 (github.com/rstudio/webs...), which is just awesome and i wish the jupyter engine could pull that off too

took me three days to realize the reason this quarto doc wont compile to pdf is latex chokes on the unicode characters that make up the tqdm progressbar

was about to issue effusive compliments, then noticed who's credited for the dataviz (and realized i dont have to because he knows his shit). Shoutout to @jensvb.bsky.social for the proper (and highly effective) use of diverging color

eagles, bears, and republicans all winning in the same 48 hours is the literal definition of the worst this country has to offer

Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them. Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in

spatial opportunity analysis as an input to policy is extremely important (and obviously very close to my heart). But it's stunning to me that these are still the methods employed, the methods doc is sooo sparse, and there's no open-source infrastructure driving any of this

So, what does our study find? The RxKids program is a program that started in Flint, which provides universal benefits during pregnancy & the first year of a child's life. We find that the "demand-side" effects of the program are sufficient to provide sizable spillover benefits.

oh silly WaPo, an interactive chart wont change anything. I explain this intro stats problem to my gambling buddies at least once a month and they all still think they're smarter than the laws of probability

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

I really really really liked The Oatmeal’s take on AI here theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

i interviewed remotely at UCL during the pandemic (with several faculty that i *deeply* admire). They had to stop me halfway through my opening spiel to let me know i was sharing the screen with my notes instead of slides. Mortifying. ...this feels dramatically worse bsky.app/profile/patt...

weighted results are also simple (70k observations this time). The histogram is still different from the original graph though (and the median rent actually drops a bit to 2270) @besttrousers.bsky.social are you doing something i'm missing? bsky.app/profile/knaa...

Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970

oh man that was awesome. reid sucks, maholmes sucks, kelce sucks. lets all get trevor lawrence tattoos watching the chiefs implode > waching the bears implode > watching the eagles implode

International student arrivals to the US dropped 19% this year, the biggest drop on record aside from the 2020 pandemic low.

Yeah. Fuck Penn State.

every single year i'm confident baseball is finally over. And every single year you losers disappoint me bsky.app/profile/lowr...