Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

first of all: this sounds super neat second of all: damn, I missed my chance to claim CRAN real estate with "weird"

Also this is clearly fiction and a superpower: someone can *think* in LaTeX

I like to read comics to disconnect. And then the new (Marvel) Ultimates goes and throws some LaTeX typesetting in the proper orientation for the character but backwards for the reader and I'm now just really stressed this won't compile correctly. I am not having a good time right now!

1/ Per occasional and sporadic reminder, this is a pizza account. In the last 8 days, I made 20 pizzas, 13 of them on Friday the 13th. All of them a regionally specialized style of Massachusetts: the south shore bar pie. Let's take a look at most of them, specific pizzas in the thread

We know what this account is all about.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

Periodic reminder that this is a pizza account. I don't make the rules.

We know what this account is about I do not need to remind you (but I will)

@fishtopher.bsky.social has great advice. I gave today to Annex Cat Rescue (annexcatrescue.ca). They do wonderful work. They helped a beautiful singing (screaming) lion find a home and helped me find my best (screaming) little buddy. Cat tax paid below.

There has to be a better name for this

Fascinating deploy story (I hope?). We launched a HR policies chatbot and I think some of the most extensive work was done on intent detection to prevent these cases below. It wasn't easy! It's a hard problem!

The stats behind the Chinese transition to renewables are absolutely staggering (300 nuclear plants of energy generation created per year!). Actually we do have the solution to carbon emissions, and the economics are now undeniable. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Occasional reminder that this is actually a pizza account South shore bar style (45% hydration, 10% oil). Di Napoli tomatoes, scarmoza, nduja

For more than 9 years, I have remained irrationally angry that Dunkin' Donuts does not exist in Canada

*slaps roof of powerpoint* you should see how many slides this machine can cram into 60 minutes (the answer, currently, is 160 and likely to go up)

A friend's dad was the fire fighter supervising pyro at Fenway Park for The Rolling Stones (2005?). Got us in, last minute, for free. Basically at the stage. Turned around and saw, if I recall correctly, that Doug Flutie and Arnold Schwarzenegger had worse seats than 2 broke college kids

🚨 JOB KLAXON 🚨 We're hiring a software engineer on our product development team. This role helps take the models and data feeds and then them into products/integrations for our users. If you have questions, please reach out. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

On top of that, every year since 2016 (barring 2020) around July 6, we visit Indie Ale House (not on bluesky) because that's the first place we visited on arrival. I used to add it to the same Twitter thread every year. But I deleted that nonsense. So continues the tradition of Indie Ale House

Today, American independence day (and nearly 9 years to the day I came to Canada), I will take the oath to become a Canadian citizen. By swearing allegiance to King Charles Someone at immigration thought this would be funny (I think it's funny too)

Happy Canada Day to everyone, even the snowbirds and hosers

NOW THIS IS LAWNCARE

Come join our team! We're looking for someone to join us to help build up and support our on-prem (and eventually hybrid) platform(s) infrastructure. We've included a lot of the tech we currently use in the job call. Please reach out if interested www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

a question mark changes the response. truly incredible

it's actually a very bad thing that we can "prompt engineer" bad responses

incredible citations. keep it up.

For the Monday crowd: we're hiring! We're looking for a sysadmin/platform dev person to join the team to help support all the tech we use to develop and deploy data science solutions across our hospitals www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Toronto pizza has gotten real good with a lot of options in the last few years and I love it

We're hiring! We're looking for a sys admin/platform dev type person to join the team. Lots of cool tech we use listed here (and some other cool tech, like XNAT, is not) If you have questions, please reach out! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

As a Derek also from New England that's also on vacation this week almost strictly for the purposes of sorting out long overdue personal items and errands: ouch.

honestly I like the sound of mean square blunder more than mean square error

b -> a

weird way of spelling data collection platform

What does one do with left over tteokbokki? Pizza. half mashed potato + caciocavallo, half tteokbokki topped with stracciatella post bake

We had the pleasure of hosting a data scientist from Sahlgrenska (Sweden). Anna spent time shadowing how we bring healthcare ideas to deployment. She spent time with us during a particularly interesting period: redeployment after massive transformation (new EPR) sahlgrenskaliv.se/ai-i-praktik...

PARQUET Please Again, I Request that you Quickly and withoUt delay sEnd me any Thing but an excel file

Congrats to these folks for beating our 5 person costume world record! #5treetcar has some training to do. www.instagram.com/p/DIGqmZVMwA...

My LinkedIn has been flooded with "cautionary tales" of how good ChatGPT is at faking reciepts from restaurants. First of all I don't get it. Second of all every example has actually been bad with glaring errors (spelling, alignment) What an interesting platform over there at LinkedIn

Sour cream and onion potato chip inspired pizza. Thinly sliced Yukon, chives, caciocavallo, galotyri, breadcrumbs, pepper, onion salt

sort of avant-garde pizza: mashed potato pizza. delightful. stolen from/inspired by Cafe San Gennaro in Montreal

Elsevier and other publishers could really gain some (but not much) good will back from academics if they sue the pants off Meta

celebrating St. Patrick's day as intended and in line with tradition. With a green slushie wheat beer from Sam Adams

Typical Boston. Trying to have their own pizza rat, many years later, and completely missing the mark. (obligatory Yankees Suck)

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

It's because they aren't search engines but now largely sit with or in place of search engines My take away from all genAI is that people want better search with plainer language input and short (but 100% accurate) summaries and pointers But that's not quite how latent spaces work

First time I've called my senators. Please call yours today.

I was one of the participants, apparently. When I saw the 250: I accepted. I've also declined every non monetary offer since (which is many many more invites)