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I am here for sanity. Rainbows and unicorns only, please.
The reason we haven't reached AGI yet is because every LLM in the world has, by sheer coincidence, been trained with randomState=42.
September 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What I've learned in 25 years of #webdev:
2000: "widget"
2025: "component"
May 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Me defending my poor software design decisions: It’s not tightly coupled, it’s “appropriately coupled”.
March 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Me: walking in with my snake_case variable names.
#javascript: “Sir, I’m going to need you to leave, we use camelCase here.”
February 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
those who don't understand recursion are doomed to...
those who don't understand recursion are doomed to...
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February 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Me with React + #typescript.
Step 1: Make it work.
Step 2: Fight with all the red squiggly lines.
Step 3: Rename file to .jsx.
January 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Learning #nextjs after using Vite, I forgot how slow webpack is. Vite is, well, fast! I am also suspicious of server components and SSR in general due to painful memories of Gatsby. I do like fetching on the server tho.
January 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I was looking for examples of using OSM data in #rstats and landed on this awesome post by @andrew.heiss.phd. www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/06...
How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap | Andrew Heiss
Use R to get geocoded location and routing data from OpenStreetMap and explore our family’s impending 5,000 mile road trip around the USA
www.andrewheiss.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Codeclimate complaining about 5 arguments to a function? I really hate when I have to work in prod. Pedantic!
January 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My New Year blog post: not resolutions, just ideas: czep.net/25/happy-new...
Happy New Year 2025 | Variables and Observations
And thus begins a new year. As we pass the quarter-century mark since Y2K, it is remarkable how much the world has changed in so few short years. In the...
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January 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
What are your favorite public-use datasets for teaching #rstats? I’m looking for clean-ish and substantively interesting data to teach basic stats and data analysis. Recommendations?
December 18, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Just think: behind every accomplished pianist, is 10,000 hours of torture.
December 7, 2024 at 3:46 PM
AoC 2024 Day 6 #rstats Not displeased, but would have loved a non-brute force solution to Part 2...
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AoC 2024 Day 6
AoC 2024 Day 6. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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December 7, 2024 at 1:26 AM
I just completed "Guard Gallivant" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/6

In Part 1 I got away with not checking array bounds, but they were kinda essential for Part 2!
Day 6 - Advent of Code 2024
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December 7, 2024 at 1:02 AM
I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3

I love me some regexes in R: `pattern <- r"[mul\(\d+\,\d+\)|do\(\)|don't\(\)]"`
Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024
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December 3, 2024 at 5:34 PM
I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2

R |> Tidyverse
Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024
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December 2, 2024 at 10:36 PM
My 4-year old take on GraphQL and I still stand by it: "an extremely overengineered solution to the non-problem of attaching metadata to text files."
November 30, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Hmmm, ever since installing Bluesky, the battery on my phone is draining quickly. I think it’s just me tho.
November 29, 2024 at 4:40 PM
For the Nth time, I can never remember, do you string the lights from the bottom of the tree to the top? Or from top to bottom?
November 28, 2024 at 9:15 PM
The paradox of reading a good book: you want to finish it, but you don’t want it to end.
November 26, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Hello Bluesky! I am a data scientist and I'm likely older than most of you. But that doesn't mean I've figured it all out. I have habits and opinions and I'm sure a lot of them are wrong. So I'm here to learn, to share ideas, and to keep myself relevant in a field that I genuinely enjoy.
November 24, 2024 at 4:06 AM