@bsiepe.bsky.social congrats on the SAA poster award! It was really. I’ve chatting with you yesterday and watching your presentation this morning.

@leonieschorrlepp.bsky.social thanks for the very nice presentation at SAA and giving a peek into the realities of the participants. For an engineer like me it made it real and authentic in a way that methods’ talks don’t always do.

It’s a great program. If you are interested in space and qualify, don’t hesitate to apply!

Congrats!

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

An optical illusion "hides" 12 black dots in a grid of grey lines. Astonishingly, it is very difficult to see more than one of them at a time.

This is a great demonstration for anyone who does visual data analysis. There are 12 black dots – but you'll have trouble seeing more than one or two at a time. The human visual system is not an especially reliable way to process images or extract features from out-of-the-ordinary visual fields. 🧪☀️

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La relación señal/ruido en los temas que me interesan ha pasado a ser más alta aquí.

I'm veering a little into armchair psychology in saying this, but I think another big factor is folks ending up in leadership roles without the requisite appetite for risk. When people don't feel comfortable with the risk inherent in some decisions, they retreat to lowercase data for answers

@annarhudson.bsky.social this looks like made for you 🙂

SNAFU sounds appropriate

Graphic shows dramatic reduction in polio, rubella, mumps, measles, and hepatitis A cases after the introduction of vaccines for each disease.

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction

Graphic from Edward Tufte
More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

a man in a white tank top and hat is standing on a boat in the ocean . ALT: a man in a white tank top and hat is standing on a boat in the ocean .

Hello from another happy beta user 🙂

With the upcoming release of ghostty 1.0, I expect some renewed interest on terminals. It will remain niche but I think some of your fantastic writing on how the terminal works sounds fantastic! Can’t wait to read!

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Checking in a little bit later now and we're still on a roll, up to just about 13.5M users from ~6.2M users 2 months ago.

Good thing there's nothing exciting happening next week and things will be nice and normal and stable for a while...

Eng org seniority-mix model. One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company maintains their current margin and grows revenue at 25-30%, or they instead grow slower and increase their ...

Have been on a system modeling kick for last few weeks, with this probably being the last thing I model for a while (still need to write a summary about modeling building from the three models I worked on recently).

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Approaches to Conflict-free Replicated Data Types | ACM Computing Surveys Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) allow optimistic replication in a principled way. Different replicas can proceed independently, being available even under network partitions, and always co...

Here is an excellent and modern introduction to CRDTs. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

That’s what happens when compiler developers who are used to have their own pass change careers to build cameras in phones.

The day a child is born is the most dangerous day of their lives.

This is shown on a log scale, with US per-day data.

Over the following days & weeks, death rates decline sharply, but remain high.

Months later, the risks continue to decline, at a slower rate.

who did this

An image of the asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon, except that the moon is a binary pair.

IT'S A MOON MOON. IT'S A MOON MOON. DROP EVERYTHING AND LOOK. IT'S A MOOOON MOOOOOOON.

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A map showing the roads of the Roman Empire as floating illuminated lines

Yet another road map of the Roman Empire. But this time, the roads glow as they should. 😎

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

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This is so astonishingly dumb I just spent 20 minutes summarizing it for Slack friends

(all links to docket entires at www.courtlistener.com/docket/63107798/mata-v-a... I paid 20 cents to get one of these you're welcome)

Excuse me—your data has not been “breached,” it’s been “made highly available.”

Que necesidad? 🤷‍♂️

Worth sharing from time to time.

https://xkcd.com/2739/