Currently being humbled by kaggle right now. Looked at some of the top code in a competition I'm testing out and thought 'I can do better.'

Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it (speaking primarily of economists and Luddites here)

I suppose all ideological battles are on temporary pause until we can read this, huh?

As someone who has also had a spinal fusion operation (mine was cervical) and years of horrific pain, I think the x-ray photo on his profile is far more important in understanding the shooter's motivations for attacking a health insurance CEO than any retweeting activity or Goodreads reviews.

So, young italian guy from a large east coast family with a construction business and members in politics. Has a family member mistreated by medical system. Possibly mistreated himself (the back thing.) Like all young men is swimming in masculine ideology about strength but is then weakened.

So the UHC CEO shooter is a data engineer? This is going to blend my interests in a weird way. I do think 'data' professions put people in interesting positions in society, wonder if there's some correlation to more radical critiques because of it?

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research

Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it

www.nber.org/system/files...

More thinking about starter packs. Helps bootstrap new users into their communities and makes bluesky feel instantly lively. But also perhaps accelerating winner-take-all dynamics? Wondering how you encourage a flattening out of community?

Feels like there needs to be a way to discover people on a topic who aren't included in the most popular starter packs. Like a 'lowbies only' feed for data or politics or whatever.

Yes, but also the definitely correct take is that Kamala Harris lost because Joe Biden isn't the type of leftie I am.

My profile pic on twitter was Tony Lawson, need to find a new unique person for this new site.

Where are the combative people on bluesky? Looking to follow a few. Twitter has way too much ragebait but bluesky has not enough disagreement.