Adulthood is weird because I’m actively excited it’s Monday because no one in my “weekend life” wanted to discuss Friday afternoon changes to financial model risk management regulatory frameworks with me.
I’m really fun at brunch.
European regulation got us USB-C for iPhones. Crossing my fingers we should be so lucky with this, as well.
These were great reads -- thanks for the links!
Do you have Opinions about Python packaging with uv? Let me know what I got wrong.
brandonrohrer.org/python_packa...
Includes
- How do I name projects? Packages? Modules? Repositories?
- What are wheels and sdists?
- What are build tools and why do they matter?
I love $DAYJOB . Only needs to be pared with an #oasmoadnrtvome hashtag* for peak corporate
*opinons are solely my own and do not reflect the views of my employer
This one got me especially because progressive disclosure (or "big idea first") is my number one soapbox for technical writing. I have a half written post/rant about why we can't have as much empathy for communication with other humans
platform.claude.com/docs/en/agen...
I've had this thought so many times about all of the Claude infra! Skills, tools, plan mode. Like, we were actually allowed to make step-by-step plans and design docs before writing code and share context before, too, y'all.
The Atmosphere is a rethinking of the Internet, with social connections that you control, built in. It allows you to do more with others, while maintaining more control over your own data and experiences.
9 months in and RDM Weekly has hit 700 subscribers! 🎉
I would love to hit 1,000 by July for the 1 year anniversary.
rdmweekly.substack.com
Looks like the #ATmosphereConf 2026 talks are now live on YouTube www.youtube.com/@atprotocoldev
If you care about the future of decentralized social media (and how you can contribute), check it out! Seems like great mix of product / governance / tech material with a truly hopeful bent
These are amazing changes!! Collaborative editing is the number one thing that occasionally sends my team back to Google Docs, and of course the speed of Rust goes without saying. Cannot wait!!
@quarto.org v2 on the way!! So much to love:
⚡Rewrite in blazingly fast Rust
🚧Improved error messages
🤝Collaborative editing
Simple question! All you need to know is your prior be on a Don Berry bring the same Don Berry and the likelihood of the correct Don Berry making a stats podcast
Somehow I was vaguely (but only very vaguely) aware of the name and might have been able to say he was a Bayesian. It’s been a delight to learn more about his work!
Yes!
(Caveat: much like “would you have a cup of coffee”, it’s hard for me to imagine when I would say no to “would you read a book”. But this also sounds truly awesome, unique, and needed)
Good started episode: www.berryconsultants.com/resource/50-...
Lovely discussion/examples of how slight tweaks in estimands and methods fundamentally change the research question
I deeply believe causal thinking is core to good DS regardless if you do analytics, ML, etc
A new-to-me resource is the excellent In the Interim podcast on clinical trial design
Comes out weekly and takes the sting out of my Monday commute
Check it out! www.berryconsultants.com/resources/po...
Slide is the perfect word. So much of it is so “polished” and “glossy” but short of any depth or grit. You can barely “stick” to it when you must
Boggled why they'd hire a bad cover band for a national broadcast
Boggleder to come on here to learn that was the actual Chainsmokers
As data scientists I know we are supposed to lead with a problem not with a tool
…but I’m desperately trying to think what’s the soonest I can find a reason to use this
Basketball watching me: 28 seconds left. Still plenty of time to turn this around
Manager me: Wow if we don’t stay disciplined, this 9 month deadline could be really tight
Have the misfortune of reading not one, not two, but three Gemini-authored docs today, and feel truly overdosed and that much glib and overly glossy prose. The real giveaway is the "Cute Catchphrases" that Gemini loves to self consciously capitalize and quote. Ooph
I just know you all wanted to read 3000 words from me about my post-AtmosphereConf roadmap. Right?
There are some big thoughts in here that I love to get people's eyes on— weeks and weeks of Atmosphere work! Please dig in.
Truly one of my adulthood joys has been discovering all of the social sciences I missed in my youth! Eternally grateful for experts that have distilled so much of it for the rest of us so accessibly
As someone that learned regrettably little history in a STEM-driven youth, this was a truly excellent book about the reconstruction amendments
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Good morning to those who don't find (or pretend to find) this sentence ambiguous!
> All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
(SCOTUS hears Trump v Barbara today)
Just two different silly methods for making a function with known area and domain/range between 0 and 1 (beta is a CDF of the beta distribution)
Totally agree the piecewise is more typical. I actually included the other exactly because it creates bizarre results on precision and recall
So ironically enough a few slides later I have my own Anscombe-like rant showing a bunch of different curves that all have the same AUROC but differ in any metric one might actually care about bsky.app/profile/emil...
And that's wildly even more true of SQL. Every time I hear "text to SQL" I think: have you seen SQL.
Taking down workday is true hero stuff. Praise Bobby.
(Coincidentally my nephew's name which no one understands why I find so funny)