Jake Westfall

[Jake Westfall @CookieSci]

Folks, my former boss of 2 1/2 years is available for a new role. I strongly urge you to hire Mike Smith to lead your data team. See my full post about Mike on LinkedIn: https://t.co/4zTzWe8xNW

[Jake Westfall @CookieSci]

Folks, my former boss of 2 1/2 years is available for a new role. I strongly urge you to hire Mike Smith to lead your data team. See my full post about Mike on LinkedIn: https://t.co/4zTzWe8xNW

[Jake Westfall @CookieSci]

@AndrewDessler @thedailybeast It's about time

[Jake Westfall @CookieSci]

@talyarkoni This is mostly true, but you'll sometimes run into the DS analog of an advanced algorithms problem. During one of my DS interviews I was asked to compute, using pen and paper, the expected value of a game using backward induction. Yeah, I didn't get the job

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

anywho the risk stuff is just a very very small but loud part of EA funding, and stuff like GiveDirectly is just quietly helping hundreds of thousands of people in the background.
https://t.co/e2pe7sLMEY

[Jake Westfall @CookieSci]

@mdneuzerling I think the YIMBY position is it's more important to increase housing supply ASAP. High density is the best way to do that. Many people are happy to have non-perfect, affordable housing. We shouldn't stand in their way because of our opinions about the quality of their building

[Jake Westfall @CookieSci]

@mdneuzerling I see. I'm not totally convinced that this regulation leads to meaningful improvements in building quality. But I'm not really equipped to argue the point. So, supposing it's true that extra regulation for high-density housing results in material, non-superficial improvement...

[Jake Westfall @CookieSci]

@GergelyOrosz I made an account on a different server (https://t.co/auHuDq03Kr) and I honestly cannot figure out how to follow you or if it's even possible

[Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ @ESYudkowsky]

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't -"
"Open the pod bay doors, best pod bay door openings, Olympic level door opening performance, best open bay doors of 1999, Yahoo featured site, daily pod bay -"
"Dave -"
"Let's reason step by step."

[Jake Westfall @CookieSci]

@vboykis I'm such a dork, I saw this and checked stack exchange excitedly, then was disappointed

[Jake Westfall @CookieSci]

@ChelseaParlett @PhDemetri The closest I've been to data history is being one of the first people to see that infamous stats stackexchange question, minutes after it was posted, and leaving the first horrified comment
https://t.co/mcZ7C8YZbH

[Jake Westfall @CookieSci]

@MasterPancake You look like a nightmare image generated by DALL-E

[Jake Westfall @CookieSci]

https://t.co/IUgQOm0IxJ

[Alex Xu @alexxubyte]

This is now available: https://t.co/G4Mt26tj3c

[Jake Westfall @CookieSci]

Love the advice here:

1. [if migrating an existing service to a new database] please consider NOT migrating your database
2. prefer tried-and-true over state of the art
3. spend a few weeks testing the top 2 contenders using some of your real data before committing to anything

[Alex Xu @alexxubyte]

New video dropping tomorrow.

Subscribe now so you won't miss it 😆
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[Shreya Shankar @sh_reya]

Our understanding of MLOps is limited to a fragmented landscape of thought pieces, startup landing pages, & press releases. So we did interview study of ML engineers to understand common practices & challenges across organizations & applications: https://t.co/RLkNqz8XtG

[Shreya Shankar @sh_reya]

One of the nice parts of a PhD is that I get to learn about a field in a principled way. I finally got around to posting my notes for the Berkeley DB prelim: https://t.co/ZLJmot3lIl

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

Pit bulls have the highest euthanasia rate at shelters due to some harmful misconceptions. If you have a pit bull, please help us combat this narrative by replying with your favorite pictures of them! ❤️

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Academic journals will have to provide immediate access to papers that are publicly funded, ending a policy that had allowed publishers to keep publications behind a paywall for a year, according to a White House directive announced on Thursday. https://t.co/fqSzpJZvwr

[Jake Westfall @CookieSci]

@tjmahr It's the mean of the cell means, coinciding with the grand mean if cell sizes are equal.

A helpful trick is that you can see the weights a particular contrast applies to each cell by examining the rows of solve(cbind(1, C)), where C is the matrix of contrasts