Michael Dewar

Hi, I'm not here any more. I'm @[email protected]

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

moving over to mastadon - I'm @[email protected]. Weird thing: scrolling through twitter for about 6 minutes looking for posts from people I actually follow and there are almost none. It's all trash. Mastadon is better almost immediately.

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

If expired certs are your only problem then you have ALL THE PROBLEMS.

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

They've trained an AI to explain AI papers. It's almost taking the piss https://t.co/Aa1Z35srPU, but not quite.

Man Carrying Thing, as always, comes to mind:
"The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully." - Wallace Stevens

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

moving back to Python from Go is oddly miserable? I've gotten so used to clicking on the function name in the docs to get straight into the code; suddenly that being more than one click makes libraries seem obtuse and sorta defensive.

[Tony Haile @arctictony]

New product idea: corporate training software where they give you all the multiple choices up front and if you get 100% you don't have to sit through an hour of animated videos.

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

When did we start calling normal old data “tabular data”? Not that I’m annoyed by it, I just didn’t notice it needed qualifying. What other fun qualifiers do we use now?

[Dylan B. 🌱 @DylanBrownie1]

Lisa Nandy is the mood of the entire nation. #LizTrussPM #WhereIsLizTruss #Parliament

[Jeroen Janssens @jeroenhjanssens]

"this is becoming epic. deep breaths" -- @wesmckinn 11 years ago about #pandas.

Spot on.

Wes, congrats on the release of Python for Data Analysis, 3e! https://t.co/ylDEzud7yv

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

are there lots of scams on linkedin? Seems like the opening for everyone that pings me is: what's your phone number.

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

@yaxu also I always wonder for things like this if you might have more success interpreting the signal directly (e.g. ditch the freq domain) e.g. count extrema (most-stretched) and average the period between 'em over different sized windwos. Also I'd ask @noahfeehan and @tomstafford

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

@yaxu just in case you've not done this already: strong reccomend to draw the spectrogram/periodogram/scalogram of your data and make sure you can roughly see what you're after in the freq domain.

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

@G_Karadzhov @tomstafford @noahfeehan @jeroenhjanssens just a follow up to this - grudingly I installed miniconda on the new machine I'm setting up and it is *excellent*. I don't know if it's just because it's been a while since i dug into python but the tools now seem so evolved since last time I was here.

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

ok ok FINE I'll install a python env manager thinger. I've only used my new laptop for about 2 weeks & already I've got ~700 different vers of python (and pip?) installed. Uh small question though: what does one use in '22? When I was young we were supposed to use pyenv I think?

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

@NadiehBremer hello! Have really been enjoying your work after @revdancatt pointed me in your direction. Would love to get your thoughts on a little idea if you've a moment!

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

In my 6 years of building data science product, nothing has been more important than observability. ML, feature building, high volume data processing are all hard & prone to bizarre issues. It’s surmountable if you can see what you’re doing, and utterly impossible if you can’t.

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

Having a lovely stroll through generative art and data viz at the moment; wasn't ready to immediately bump into NFTs though! Can't tell how i feel about them, but it's definitely making this space feel different to 4+ years ago....

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

@gerwitz @eyeofestival This is a very good shout, though tbh it was at Eyeo this thought started to occur to me. I've not been for years though, maybe they've converged by now! Will have a look at the latest.

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

So there’s a world of generative/programmatic art things that I’m loving, and a world of data viz that I have always loved, but the two seem to remain stubbornly distinct. Am I missing something/someone?

[Michael Dewar @mikedewar]

@revdancatt I am very excited for any more Cobra Mk III related plots! I will have to up my Twitter monitoring somehow. Unless you have other announcement mechanisms?