Josh Peak

He/Him | Data Scientist | Data Engineer | Coffee Fiend | Meetup Organiser | FOSS Contributor | Pythonista 🐍

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

My priorities are:
- Myself
- Family
- Work
- Meetups
- FOSS

If I haven’t replied, it is because I am attending to something higher on the list.

It’s wild, Meetups and FOSS are pretty much run on the workforce labour equivalent of spot instances with a bid price of $0.01

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

Not all heroes wear capes. I’ve always said spreadsheets are gateway software development.

[Guido van Rossum @gvanrossum]

Yeah, so I helped the Excel team with this. Excited that it's out! https://t.co/zH1o2Fiaad

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

Has anyone else ever thought about how nodes in a cluster never need couples therapy or HR involvement to mediate because they have an agreed protocol and communication style?

Just me?

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

The fact the we as a society have figured out how to communicate at the speed of light (fibre optics) and the speed of electricity over copper wire (1/3 speed of light) so a whole planet of distance doesn’t matter is phenomenal

Now the limiting factor is emotional intelligence.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

This is how I explain overfitting now.

[Pablo Galindo Salgado @pyblogsal]

Python 3.11 is finally released. In the CPython release team, we have put a lot of effort into making 3.11 the best version of Python possible. Better tracebacks, faster Python, exception groups and except*, typing improvements and much more. Get it here:

https://t.co/WNlHRrD8Gg

[Chelsea Parlett @ChelseaParlett]

🤫

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

@bitprophet @jdriscoll Following this thread because I am also in the large nose whiskey sniffing club. Perhaps custom order from a glass blower, Etsy type of scenario?

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

Amazing and underrated interview with @nikitabase about the future of datastores.

It is a matter of time until Snowflake, Redshift and Databricks are all playing catch-up. As a consultant in Data & AI I am keeping at eye on @neondatabase.

[Nikita | Scaling Postgres @nikitabase]

I sat down with @alexbdebrie to talk about what's coming @neondatabase

[Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal]

new little song:

"The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)"

[Gwen @DataGwen]

babe are you ok? you’ve barely touched the dashboard you claimed was mission critical

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

@_maintainable We refactored! Only 2 GOTOs remaining.

[Sebastián Ramírez @tiangolo]

Probably all the async things in Python that claim high performance (throughput), including @FastAPI, are just powered by this. 🌪

✨ Uvloop ✨ is the secret ingredient underneath all this (e.g. powering Uvicorn).

This is what makes Python a good alternative to NodeJS or Go. 🤓

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

@MichelePlayfair I can’t unsee that my emails chains are just a stop motion animation of a conversation.

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

@SohanRai23 @willmcgugan learning platform budget is nice. We get to expense 1, I chose ORielly. But it’d be nice to self manage. Like once i have got what I want out of it for the month (or 2), cancel and pick up another platform that has the resources I want. So expense 1 and only 1 in any given month

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

@dabeaz Did you get side effects?

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

@bitprophet @Clidus I was symptomatic and positive on three consecutive home tests the other week. My wife was symptomatic but she was also negative on daily home tests for that week and negative on two PCR tests. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

@BMJHayward Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing! I did not know about the Apache Tika project. Handy to know for surfacing NLP data.

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

@AdiPolak @ApacheSpark I’m currently studying for my Databricks ML pro exam so it is very relevant and helpful filling in some gaps on the advanced topics. So thank you 🙏 😊

[Josh Peak @_neozenith]

Very much enjoying reading the early release content of “Scaling #MachineLearning on @ApacheSpark” by @AdiPolak

Truly amazing to get bleeding edge books with incremental chapter releases to provide the distilled narrative around complex topics.

https://t.co/H3qHsqJRW0

[Łukasz Langa @llanga]

So here's a short #Python story. My 14 yo son made a game for the Pew Pew console, a tiny Dance Dance Revolution clone. He learned to program the console at @deshipu's workshop at @europython this year. The final DDR clone was just 100 LOC and worked fine but there was a problem.