David Gasquez @davidgasquez@mastodon.xyz
💜 The future is open.
☮️ The future is purple.
👩🎤 And it's already here.
RT @Pedram_Navid@twitter.com
when you’re the first data hire
Designing metrics is hard. Here is a great guide with a few tips!
RT @MaxCRoser@twitter.com
Mini-thread on why to donate.
– If you do have a high income then this is largely because you were lucky to be born at the right place and time.
– If you were born in the past or in a low-income country you'd be poor.
[See my post 'What is growth?' https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-economic-growth]
RT @MaxCRoser@twitter.com
What dataset or database that is not open-access currently would you wish to become open-access?
Thinking in Events. From Databases to Distributed Collaboration Software.
RT @bennstancil@twitter.com
I wanted to finish this two days ago, but didn't get it done until this morning. So...
it's friday let's fight
https://benn.substack.com/p/analytics-is-at-a-crossroads
RT @davidgasquez@twitter.com
Idempotence Now Prevents Pain Later.
https://ericlathrop.com/2021/04/idempotence-now-prevents-pain-later
RT @davidgasquez@twitter.com
Convex and Concave Dispositions. By Vitalik Buterin.
RT @Kpaxs@twitter.com
Can we fix the system?
If you haven't yet, go read "Meditations on Moloch" by @slatestarcodex@twitter.com.
"If everyone hates the current system, who perpetuates it? And Ginsberg answers: Moloch"
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
RT @tastapod@twitter.com
“Let’s get rid of all the X” is often “I don’t understand what X does, so I am going to assume that what they do doesn’t have any value.”
Chesterton’s Fence: Don’t remove something until you have invested the time to find out why it is there. The answer may surprise you.
RT @DynamicWebPaige@twitter.com
The HuggingFace / spaCy partnership is a beautiful example of opting for *collaboration* and support, rather than competition. 💖
Less confusion for users; less fragmentation in the ML and NLP ecosystem; and a more holistic story for Transformers and language models. Very cool! https://twitter.com/huggingface/status/1415002821607428098
RT @davidgasquez@twitter.com
Why most analytics efforts fail. By @crystalwidjaja@twitter.com.
https://www.reforge.com/blog/why-most-analytics-efforts-fail
Some great insights on the process to fix the root causes of most event analytics mistakes.
RT @davidgasquez@twitter.com
Such a fun read on meta-rationality and Bongard problems in particular. 🧠
RT @lak_gcp@twitter.com
Anomaly detection in time series data: all you need in BigQuery is two lines of SQL. @GoogleCloudTech@twitter.com https://link.medium.com/HnhthO4NThb
RT @fulhack@twitter.com
I wrote a blog post about how to build at data team in the form of a story (and it ended up being about 4x longer than I anticipated): https://erikbern.com/2021/07/07/the-data-team-a-short-story.html
RT @obsdmd@twitter.com
Obsidian for Mobile is finally here!
Get it at https://obsidian.md/mobile
We're also on Product Hunt and Hacker News today. If you're an active member of these communities, we'd appreciate if you can swing by to support our launch!
Product Hunt link: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/obsidian-for-mobile
RT @bufferdevs@twitter.com
🎤 From Support to Engineering 🎤
Check out our latest episode featuring special guest @mickmahady@twitter.com as he chats with @JordanMorgan10@twitter.com and @hitherejoe@twitter.com about making a switch from support to engineering.
Listen today right here: https://anchor.fm/bufferoverflow/episodes/The-Journey-from-Support-to-Engineering-e13n5va
The future is now! 🤖
RT @github@twitter.com
Meet GitHub Copilot - your AI pair programmer. https://copilot.github.com
