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data scientist / engineer of sorts at @voltrondata. odds, ends, #rstats, 🐍

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@yomments @vanillaopinions How are New Yorkers so reliably provincial

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@TheTechEng @NickTagliaferro Fixed-width files can be a pain to parse, but a well-structured one is not worse than a csv, a nonstandard format which is also very old and far more ubiquitous

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@histofarch @HProggy @mualphaxi Except we don’t have a housing shortage because it’s comparably easy to build here.

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@mattyglesias 30% of white people in the US have basal cell carcinoma at some point https://t.co/EkUZxIr6XE

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@QuinnyPig yes this is how not to get sued for securities fraud

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@DefectiveBecca Oof, I’m sorry. I’m still hung up on seeing radiology reports before appointments to talk about them with your doctor, so you get all the life-changing news via a mobile notification with zero context

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@mcnees Ok y’all really need to learn how A/B tests work before critiquing

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@DynamicWebPaige Just played Exo One, which is gorgeous and trippy and all about creative traversal. Leaving Game Pass soon, if it hasn’t already

And I second Tunic if you haven’t played it already

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@ChelseaParlett Talks are encouraged. Academic papers are hard to align with normal work usually (but probably welcomed if done outside), but informal publishing (blogs etc) is valued. And a former employer would help you get patents (they own it, of course, but your name is on it).

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@ajordannafa What? There are so many right now! E.g. Remedy. Its catalog is solid, Control was 10/10, Alan Wake 2 looks so good I’m considering playing survival-horror

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@michael_chirico Except it keeps getting warmer after the summer solstice and colder after winter. Not sure why the offset—thermal mass, maybe?

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@seanjtaylor Yep, this seems right https://t.co/HmfVlHBcPE

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@seanjtaylor Farmers market, because it’s a market comprised of farmers (theoretically, anyway), not a market that belongs to farmers (in which case it should be the plural possessive)

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@PhDemetri Well first you need to do a fit/test split

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@Villagrana_M @wvistheduck As someone who has lived in both cities, the Chicago loop doesn’t solve the problem. Both need bigger loops farther out so the system is good for anything but commuting

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@wvistheduck Bikeshare and pray for good weather. Avoid the two 30-min waits for trains at all costs

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@doodlestein @walterfwiggins @chrisalbon conda is heavy, but anaconda isn’t? And you can still install from a requirements.txt with conda/mamba if you don’t need the yaml

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@s_gruppetta_ct @ChrisCarleone @chrisalbon Lucky all the projects you contribute to use a single Python version. At some degree of mess, conda/mamba becomes necessary

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@ajordannafa …and I’m still turning down recruiters with ranges like this

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@ajordannafa I mean I started with a BA and 0 (depending on how you count) years of professional DS experience near the top of that range. Other qualifications, of course, but still