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Choose joy.
Graph of the day from private eye
September 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Graph of the day from private eye
The spurious correlation generator has added AI explanation, images and papers! This is gold. #databs
www.tylervigen.com/spurious/cor...
www.tylervigen.com/spurious/cor...
Popularity of the first name Theodore correlates with Fossil fuel use in Burundi (r=0.981)
As the name Theodore gained popularity, more parents were inspired by President Theodore Roosevelt, known for his strong conservation efforts. This led to a spike in naming children after him and a su...
www.tylervigen.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The spurious correlation generator has added AI explanation, images and papers! This is gold. #databs
www.tylervigen.com/spurious/cor...
www.tylervigen.com/spurious/cor...
Cursor rules rule! The git integration is also so good for removing some pain. Summarise these commits or those prs.
July 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Cursor rules rule! The git integration is also so good for removing some pain. Summarise these commits or those prs.
Today friend sent me this fantastic blog on hiring for joy. blog.leadinginnovation.co/p/hire-for-joy
Choose joy.
July 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Today friend sent me this fantastic blog on hiring for joy. blog.leadinginnovation.co/p/hire-for-joy
Agentic dev is git worktree's moment to shine
June 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Agentic dev is git worktree's moment to shine
So we now have smart nearly free agents, but customer service from Amazon is actually worse than 5 years ago.
The help trees that never lead to your actual problem game
The help trees that never lead to your actual problem game
June 19, 2025 at 6:37 AM
So we now have smart nearly free agents, but customer service from Amazon is actually worse than 5 years ago.
The help trees that never lead to your actual problem game
The help trees that never lead to your actual problem game
You should try ruff for linting. It's very fast.
June 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
You should try ruff for linting. It's very fast.
"AI will automate all the boring stuff" - me about to use Claude code.
"It wrote all the code but is stuck on an import error" - me actually using Claude code.
#databs
"It wrote all the code but is stuck on an import error" - me actually using Claude code.
#databs
June 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
"AI will automate all the boring stuff" - me about to use Claude code.
"It wrote all the code but is stuck on an import error" - me actually using Claude code.
#databs
"It wrote all the code but is stuck on an import error" - me actually using Claude code.
#databs
Economics (and exponential price falls) win.
It used to be the right thing. Now it's the boringly obvious thing
It used to be the right thing. Now it's the boringly obvious thing
Inside Florida's unlikely transformation into a solar superpower theprogressplaybook.com/2025/05/04/i...
Inside Florida's unlikely transformation into a solar superpower
Favourable economics and abundant sunshine are fuelling a solar energy boom in the conservative state.
theprogressplaybook.com
May 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Economics (and exponential price falls) win.
It used to be the right thing. Now it's the boringly obvious thing
It used to be the right thing. Now it's the boringly obvious thing
There seems to be a bit more vendor post gumph on #databs than there used to be. Any way we can hide this or discourage it? I'm here for the humans and their bs
May 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
There seems to be a bit more vendor post gumph on #databs than there used to be. Any way we can hide this or discourage it? I'm here for the humans and their bs
We are so interconnected and dependent on our engineering systems. It's amazing how little they fail! Espero que todos son seguro!
The latest news about power outages in Spain and Portugal. Friends from these countries, how are you doing? Do you have electricity?
◾️ Flights at major airports and trains in the region were delayed or canceled.
◾️ Flights at major airports and trains in the region were delayed or canceled.
April 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We are so interconnected and dependent on our engineering systems. It's amazing how little they fail! Espero que todos son seguro!
Just nothing, is a decent on iberian power outage right now apparently! Post mortem is going to be interesting! Anyone got good data?
April 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Just nothing, is a decent on iberian power outage right now apparently! Post mortem is going to be interesting! Anyone got good data?
Corruption used to be hidden.
Now it happens on public on the block chain.
That's progress. Tech has worked out how to scale corruption and it's not pretty.
Now it happens on public on the block chain.
That's progress. Tech has worked out how to scale corruption and it's not pretty.
You can pay the president of the United States directly in crypto and he’ll have dinner with you if you’re a top spender.
I remember when Americans used to tell me Nigeria was the most corrupt country in the world. 🤣
I remember when Americans used to tell me Nigeria was the most corrupt country in the world. 🤣
Trump's memecoin dinner contest earns insiders $900,000 in two days
The coin’s value jumped more than 50% after its website said Trump would have dinner with the top 200 holders.
www.nbcnews.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Corruption used to be hidden.
Now it happens on public on the block chain.
That's progress. Tech has worked out how to scale corruption and it's not pretty.
Now it happens on public on the block chain.
That's progress. Tech has worked out how to scale corruption and it's not pretty.
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My climate change dashboard is updated for this month...
Higher resolution graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... 🧪⚒️
Higher resolution graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... 🧪⚒️
April 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
My climate change dashboard is updated for this month...
Higher resolution graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... 🧪⚒️
Higher resolution graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... 🧪⚒️
Not just the data dictionary we want, the data dictionary we need:
www.urbandatadictionary.com
#databs
www.urbandatadictionary.com
#databs
Urban Data Dictionary
The definitive, no-nonsense guide to everything data and analytics. Meet the Duolingo for data - because your boss expects you to already know this stuff.
www.urbandatadictionary.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Not just the data dictionary we want, the data dictionary we need:
www.urbandatadictionary.com
#databs
www.urbandatadictionary.com
#databs
I now see that I put more effort into researching this than... The US govt shortly before tanking the stock market.
Hey #econsky can anyone share a good infographic or visualisation or data set on the tariffs, especially e.g. between the US and EU. I'm interested to see what the data says!
April 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I now see that I put more effort into researching this than... The US govt shortly before tanking the stock market.
Hey #econsky can anyone share a good infographic or visualisation or data set on the tariffs, especially e.g. between the US and EU. I'm interested to see what the data says!
April 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Hey #econsky can anyone share a good infographic or visualisation or data set on the tariffs, especially e.g. between the US and EU. I'm interested to see what the data says!
This is a really enjoyable read
We don't talk enough about Scaling to Catastrophe in distributed systems. Today's post, part 2 in the Physical Properties of Data series, explores the different scaling phases through the lens and math of the Universal Scalability Law. www.graphiumlabs.com/blog/part2-g... #databs #dataengineering
Part 2: Working with Gunther's Universal Scalability Law — Hypergraph by Graphium Labs-
This post will help you understand where you are on the scaling life cycle and therefore how close or far you are at any given time to a critical failure point.
www.graphiumlabs.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is a really enjoyable read
Who needs eventual consistency when you can have eternal inconsistency?
The only time numbers from different systems doing who knows what need to match is finance related systems and systems designed to work in lockstep... Reconciling anything else is futile and probably a form of torture for data folks
January 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Who needs eventual consistency when you can have eternal inconsistency?
This explorable explainer of transformers and LLMs is amazing! It's also running gpt2 in the browser which is pretty cool in itself! poloclub.github.io/transformer-...
#databs
#databs
Transformer Explainer: LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained
An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT.
poloclub.github.io
January 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This explorable explainer of transformers and LLMs is amazing! It's also running gpt2 in the browser which is pretty cool in itself! poloclub.github.io/transformer-...
#databs
#databs
Trying to understand MSTR and BTC and it feels a lot like: “Everyone can make money”, just like the mortgage market before ’08. A lot of funky products -> a crazy bull run where everyone profits?!
January 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Trying to understand MSTR and BTC and it feels a lot like: “Everyone can make money”, just like the mortgage market before ’08. A lot of funky products -> a crazy bull run where everyone profits?!
I hadn't come across sdf before today's announcement of the sale to dbt. It looks fantastic, can't wait to be using it. I really like blog.sdf.com/p/announcing... explaining it. #databs
This pic is sales enough:
This pic is sales enough:
January 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I hadn't come across sdf before today's announcement of the sale to dbt. It looks fantastic, can't wait to be using it. I really like blog.sdf.com/p/announcing... explaining it. #databs
This pic is sales enough:
This pic is sales enough:
This needs to be on #dataBS
Don’t think of it as whether the data has error or not. Most of the time it will.
Think of it as whether the error in the data will cause you to make a different decision than if the data was perfectly clean. Most of the time it won’t.
Think of it as whether the error in the data will cause you to make a different decision than if the data was perfectly clean. Most of the time it won’t.
January 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This needs to be on #dataBS
Since 2006, when China's Annual CO2 Emissions overtook U.S.'s. China's emissions have increased again by @5.5 billion tonnes. More than U.S.'s total emissions!
ourworldindata.org/grapher/annu...
ourworldindata.org/grapher/annu...
Annual CO₂ emissions
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from fossil fuels and industry. Land-use change is not included.
ourworldindata.org
January 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Since 2006, when China's Annual CO2 Emissions overtook U.S.'s. China's emissions have increased again by @5.5 billion tonnes. More than U.S.'s total emissions!
ourworldindata.org/grapher/annu...
ourworldindata.org/grapher/annu...