Allan

Curiosity powered data viz / designer. Sustainability advocate. Husband. Father. In a love hate relationship with technology.
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[Allan @exactlyAllan]

A very good, thoughtful take on climate change - https://t.co/EFwOJYilLT

[Leonardo @leonardofed]

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[MachinePix @MachinePix]

Time-lapse of roboforming sheet metal, by Machina Labs.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

New research on 25 melatonin gummy products found that 22 contained different amounts of the sleep aid than what was listed on their labels. One contained 347% more than the advertised amount, while another contained no detectable melatonin at all. https://t.co/m7QE3ZDz48

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Disney layoffs have substantially impacted FiveThirtyEight. I am sad and disappointed to a degree that’s kind of hard to express right now. We’ve been at Disney almost 10 years. My contract is up soon and I expect that I’ll be leaving at the end of it.

[Allan @exactlyAllan]

https://t.co/MYo1klkw9U

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

Why is LA California's biggest city?
Why is the state's capital Sacramento, only the 7th biggest city?
Why is SF so important despite being on hills?
Why did San Jose pass it in population?
What's the role of the Central Valley?

How to understand California:

[Allan @exactlyAllan]

Good day to check out the wind map for the bay area - https://t.co/xMHmy9ocHj

[Allan @exactlyAllan]

lol @Twitter never heard of anybody making you PAY for 2-factor. Little bit "you better pay for our security services, shame if anything were to happen..." eh?

[Mark Harris @harrism]

My colleagues Michael Wang and Thomson Comer will be presenting at #GTC23 about our work on the @RAPIDSai cuSpatial library. Join for a fascinating discussion on GPU geospatial analytics and a killer #Python demo. Don't miss it! Register now: https://t.co/V9MWbMHbPU

[Eade @eade_bengard]

Levees are breaking- that’s planted acreage under that water. During the last flood it wasn’t quite growing season in CA but this time it is. Makes me wonder how much this will impact supply. These are not small growers

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment: https://t.co/TwLFssyALF

[Allan @exactlyAllan]

Ive become the dad that goes around the house closing windows and turning off lights muttering 'thats just money flying out the window'...

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

Distribution of ChatGPT users in the US.

[Pat @PFarnach]

There we go, all 219k trees animating smoothly on desktop and mobile with postprocessing on.

https://t.co/lyp8XTqlRY

#webgl #threejs

[Lick Observatory @LickObservatory]

Image taken today. Lick Observatory got 15 inches over the last 24 hours, with about 2 inches on the ground previously. The forecast is saying up to another three inches today, and possibly another one inch through tonight. Mount Hamilton Road is closed. Please stay home safe.

[Allan @exactlyAllan]

By popular request, now its easier than ever to try @RAPIDSai with popular viz libraries - just copy and paste!

[RAPIDS AI @RAPIDSai]

Please tag us in all your pretty pictures. If we get enough good stuff, who knows? Maybe we'll start an instagram. https://t.co/yt9Z4zWTvI

[Koen Bok @koenbok]

The popular current design style for websites is basically 80s empty VHS tapes. Pretty cool.