Andrew Christianson

data science, machine learning, probabilistic tools and the systems that support them. here for the papers.

[Andrew Christianson @askristjansson]

@charliermarsh surely the thing watching over the repo and swooping down to eat dead things should be called `vulture`?

[Andrew Christianson @askristjansson]

@Dodgers @TeoscarH Let’s go Teo!

[John Cassil @johncassil]

Why is https://t.co/o0wNDrIKHz down?

All of CRAN is down? No one can download R or update their docker images right now. And no status pages to help?

#rstats

[Andrew Christianson @askristjansson]

@ctjlewis Easy to get sample data/code like that crossed up when it's not test{ed,able}. Almost makes one miss the days of R CMD check barfing on issues in \example{...}

[Andrew Christianson @askristjansson]

@ctjlewis and since their rng.sample takes messages from self.train-samples in self.train_samples_per_prompt-sized chunks, using that to resample is fine.

[Andrew Christianson @askristjansson]

@ctjlewis Their implementation of that could be much, much better, but it’s doing more than just flatten + concat

[Andrew Christianson @askristjansson]

@ctjlewis Their code implies those objects are dicts, each with a question/answer pair in keys ‘problem’ and ‘answer’ respectively? So they need to be transformed a bit to fit the list-of-messages format they’re looking for

[Andrew Christianson @askristjansson]

@ctjlewis are the elements of self.train_samples dictionaries with role/content/name keys s.t. they can just be jammed into the prompt list?

[Andrew Christianson @askristjansson]

@Microsoft @MicrosoftR CRAN timemachine snapshots appear to have an expired cert: https://t.co/06zAAAm40M

[vicki @vboykis]

More like this imo

[Andrew Christianson @askristjansson]

@dabeaz Very desirable for unpacking an Optional e.g. f(*maybe_list or []). No need to mess it up with more parens

[Pinboard @Pinboard]

The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy

[Andrew Christianson @askristjansson]

@r_buyer @halvarflake @inge4pres @rakyll @OptimyzeCloud For one https://t.co/T39t5PN7AW

[Andrew Christianson @askristjansson]

@RyanGK_ I don’t get it, this is a list of my favorite foods

[Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor]

Maybe my most controversial opinion: Email is currently the optimal form of business communication. It's slightly more cumbersome but that encourages much more thoughtful writing.

[Andrew Christianson @askristjansson]

@abhi1thakur @lcjr86 I’d argue it’s even simpler than that. The basics of file handling are important regardless of resource constraints; opening and (naively) parsing a csv is a dead simple test of that knowledge

[Jessica Taylor @JessicaTaylor]

Ayes: Cruz, Hawley, Hyde-Smith, Kennedy, Marshall, Tuberville

[Chip Huyen @chipro]

I'm of the increasing belief that the main technical challenge for companies to successfully adopt ML isn’t the lack of functionality, but legacy systems.

The bigger a company is, the more existing tools it uses, and the slower it will be in adopting new tools.