Tim Book

Data Scientist. R, Python, Linux, science fiction, beer. Ally. He/him.

[Tim Book @NotTimBook]

@ZFleischmann @jabyess Yes!! The superior laptop

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@iammattduff @daveweigel You must really miss those shoes you left at work last year.

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@BirdWife_ Do they pay more for him to include the hyphen? Really confused why he alternates.

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@mostlyinane It’s the IKEA challenge for fascists.

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@baursafi HBD Baur!! 🎉

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@ASpittel TIL you can open a file without a read/write flag, and that if you iterate through it, you get the lines. Been writing open(...).readlines() for years to do this...

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It's begun. #AdventOfCode

[Tim Book @NotTimBook]

Explaining confidence intervals to undergrads be like

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

There's this dumb argument circulating that if you'd known in advance what would happen—i.e. Trump beating his polls—you shouldn't have Biden e.g. a 90% chance of winning. Actually, if you'd known in advance what would happen, you should have given Biden a 100% chance of winning!

[Tim Book @NotTimBook]

@iammattduff Last? He’ll be selling nutraceuticals on Trump TV in February.

[Nicole Janeway Bills @Nicole_Janeway]

If you're looking to break into tech or just want to learn more about careers in this space, I've organized a Speaker Series through @WomenWhoCodeDC - I'll be doing six interviews with women leaders via YouTube Live on Saturday, 9/26 starting at 11am. https://t.co/8sRGrij5pV

[Tim Book @NotTimBook]

@josephofiowa From our intro NN lesson 👀 @matthewbrems

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@josephofiowa Yup! I say "epic". "ee-pock" is British.

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@iammattduff I guess we are a literal prison state now? As in, he’s not letting us leave

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@mellissameisels @rstatstweet NSE (nonstandard evaluation) in the tidyverse was a bad idea. Going through all those hoops just to avoid quotation marks makes extending the tidyverse a nightmare.

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@Eva_Palmer 1) I hope it’s not too bad and you feel better soon!
2) I am taking this as a cautionary tale about cooking food. Will continue to eat frozen pierogis

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@iammattduff I just bought over $70 in frozen food, but if my Switch suddenly had Starfox 64 on it, I would starve to death in my own apartment.

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@iammattduff I've technically been under self-quarantine for almost a year now!

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@ASpittel @GA Sup coworker!

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@iammattduff Making lots of friends at work I see