Alex Malins

Head of Data Team @ Kraken Technologies & Octopus Energy Japan. Own tweets. 千葉県に在住しているイギリス人。計算科学／データサイエンス／OSS開発の課題。個人の意見です。🇬🇧 🇯🇵

[かずなり | 生成AI活用術 @MacopeninSUTABA]

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[Alex Malins @AlexMalins]

@Struan_Tokyo Shame as it was a great place 😢

[Dr. Ocharo. Bluesky same username @savvykenya]

My first article for @japantimes is online! https://t.co/nBl1JrRFxw

[Arthur Spirling @arthur_spirling]

not an RCT so obviously can’t claim causality. If anything it’s probably bookings causing the eclipse

[Demetri (is over at the other place too) @PhDemetri]

It’s much easier to thumb through a real book than it is a pdf. I also somehow remember stuff better from a real book.

[Alex Malins @AlexMalins]

@laurie_ljg If you like you’re welcome to this Buffalo WSR-2533DHP2 I have sitting around. Works ok and is flashed with OpenWrt. 🛜

[Paul McMahon @pwim]

“We’d love to have woman engineers on our team, but we don’t get any applying to us” is something that I've heard many times. If you want to improve the gender balance of your team, this is one best articles I've seen. https://t.co/cwmdquu7zO

[Charlie Marsh @charliermarsh]

Announcing uv: an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust.

uv is designed as a drop-in alternative to pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv.

With a warm cache, uv installs are near-instant. Here, it's > 75x faster than pip and pip-tools.

[Charlie Marsh @charliermarsh]

"[uv] is great. It cut my build times in half. You should be using in all your projects." -- @ryxcommar

https://t.co/NJzQy1r1d3

[Alex Malins @AlexMalins]

🎉 Harlequin now supports Databricks 🎉

Harlequin - the SQL IDE for your terminal - now has an adapter enabling Databricks connectivity.

harlequin-databricks ver 0.1.0 was released to PyPI yesterday 🖥️

https://t.co/LTTEXUd5Nl
https://t.co/BPyoD9oxav
https://t.co/FsBnV3eFhN

[Azby Brown @AzbyB]

SAFECAST will be having our annual New Year's Party in Tokyo on Sun. Jan. 14 from 5:30pm. There will be food, drinks, and live music, plus we'll fill everyone in on what we've been up to and have planned. Pre-registration is appreciated. Info below.
https://t.co/g3gUSYUQDG

[Alex Malins @AlexMalins]

@retirejapan_OG Does that figure exclude your coaching income? RJ surely has a “loss-leader” benefit on that respect?

[Tomahawk @TomahawkSki]

かなり詳しく書かれている… https://t.co/DoN6G5kqFh

[tom ッ @tom_antok]

If I'm writing Python code I’m actually a C programmer.

[Alex Malins @AlexMalins]

Geeky video share - A better Lunn checksum for validating credit card numbers 💳
https://t.co/UKZ2ZfX5gV

[Alex Malins @AlexMalins]

@Struan_Tokyo It’s Japan and it’s unfortunate isn’t it. They cut down a huge wood near Ryukeidai High School too to build the logistics park 😒

[Alex Malins @AlexMalins]

@AaronMcDaid @PhDemetri In ML contexts accuracy is often defined as the number of correct predictions over the total number of predictions: https://t.co/nA8Pxx3P31