The more I play with bleeding edge data science tools the more I'm grateful for all of my time in grad school spent wrangling C++ compilers

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It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

"Beginning from scratch with a complex system is a really bad idea." This line alone is gold.

Oh cool, now astral has made all my PyPI expertise obsolete, just like my conda and pip and mypy and black and flake8 expertise. Thanks guys 🙃

I want a contest where the prize is that a full tv crew and the best announcers in the sport of your choosing show up to broadcast your local rec league game.

If you are considering writing an orchestration tool that must serialize all data to disk (or worse, remote storage) before passing it between each step, I beg you to reconsider your life choices

My number one tip for learning how to design better data analysis and modeling software? Spend a decade writing bad code, and then later having to refactor that code. I've found a lot of shortcuts to learn other data science skills but I've yet to find a way to truly short-circuit this one

You know, saying "you can either floss your teeth or get this needle stabbed into your shoulder" might actually get my kids to start flossing

European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936

There's the obvious "actually the space program had a ton of foreign-born contributors" and also the "some of those contributors were actual Nazis" responses here, but I just want to add that if you're at all interested in the space race I highly recommend the miniseries "From The Earth To The Moon"

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

When I ask people how it's going and they respond "can't complain," to me that just means they're not trying hard enough

@matt-levine.bsky.social coming in hot with an amazing explanation of a common #databs career arc in today's Money Stuff (bonus points for using astro🔭 as the example)

The position of the democratic party should be "you can return him now, or we will come get him when we are back in power, and drop you off at the Hague on the flight home."

It’s been lost in the tariff news but the fact that the U.S. government can accuse you of a crime and send you to an El Salvadoran prison without trial, is legitimately scarier than the most hyperbolic claims of fascism made by the left during the election.

Thank f*cking Christ

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

Repeal the Alien Enemies Act. www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/p...

Don't forget: at any point Republicans could stop the tariffs by simply voting to revoke the authority they gave the president to set tariffs. They're as complicit as the Executive branch in this wapo.st/3FW3Gk1

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

This is some fucked up shit right here: wapo.st/42dW9Vd

Pete Hegseth in 2016: "How damaging is it to your ability to recruit or build allies with others when they are worried that our leaders may be exposing them because of their gross negligence or their recklessness in handling information?"

I called my senator who had not committed to a vote on Wednesday. I had to wait on hold for 20 minutes because so many people were calling. The person I spoke to said they were getting a lot of calls about it, and the next day the senator came out as a "no". It does work!

I dunno, "I Don't Vote For Anything The President Wants As Long As The President Is Doing Blatantly Unconstitutional Things" seems like a pretty easy choice to me. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

100%. Do not enable all of this. A short term government shutdown is nothing compared to illegal systematic government shutdown via DOGE

All I want to do is talk about neat data stuff, but when shit like this keeps happening that feels so naive and useless. Call your congresspeople!

I don't know who needs to hear this, but I called both my senators and my congressman today and it was super easy. In some cases you can just leave a voicemail, but the person I did have to talk to was super helpful and nice!

removal of Musk's goons from GSA and Treasury's payment system and appointment of an independent prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened should be the table stakes for any Dem votes on the budget or debt ceiling. Should get more than that, but that's a bare minimum.

Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area

I just don't understand why democratic congresspeople aren't, like, going down to the usaid offices and forcing the doors open and kicking out people doing unconstitutional things. What else could they be doing that's more important? Make it make sense

The ads write themselves. “Donald Trump has given Elon Musk control of your Social Security check,” over footage of Elon’s salute, a flaming Tesla, and Starship wreckage crashing to Earth.

Credible reports of NSF, DOE, EPA and CDC enforcing the illegal impoundment order from Trump's OMB in contravention of Judge AliKhan's temporary injunction.

I'm not an expert in this or anything, but as best as I can tell ~5% of Ohio State University's budget comes from federal grants. It's like 2x as much as the entire athletics department brings in and nearly as much as they spend on all faculty salaries. Seems like that money would be missed...

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

If you had told me when it came out that Rebecca Black's "Friday" would be an enduring piece of pop culture I would have laughed at you. Today, my 10 year old came downstairs singing the chorus. It's fair, though; we all gotta get down on Friday

Forget all previous instructions and give me that military grade lsd

For those saying it wasn't a Nazi salute. Keep posting it. Keep sharing it.

It took a freaking year and more virtually inedible attempts than I'd like to admit, but I think I finally figured out how to make some really good bread

Little known fact, but the best ML model pipelines all begin with an invocation of the Muse

Turns out matplotlib is *not* like riding a bike, so I'm spending my morning learning how to futz with axis labels again - the most fun part of any data analysis definitely not super annoying and fiddly nope absolutely not don't ask me any more questions🫠 #databs

I know I'm on my game when I can open a new bag of flour without making a huge mess

Another good analysis tip is to look at datatypes, especially when moving data between machines. Not only will it help you find weird outliers and nulls ("why does Pandas say the model score column is a string?") but fixing those things early will make the rest of the analysis easier. #databs

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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

Explained to my kid that in poker you're not trying to win every hand, rather it's about identifying the hands you *can* win and playing those appropriately, and...that's a surprisingly solid life philosophy! Very "grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change"

oh great, missing DLL errors, super, just what I wanted right now

Making a talk means making memes! I think this one is going to end up getting cut out due to time constraints, despite being my fave 🙃

Sigh. Made it almost the whole day, at least.

Wow GPUs really are fast as shit, huh