Alex Lundry
@alexlundry.bsky.social
Data scientist, data visualizer, pollster and (adjunct) professor. Husband, father, dog-owner, musician, and prolific reader. Northeast DC via Northern New Jersey.
Seems a little young to be teaching parameters, tokens, and quantization…
May 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Seems a little young to be teaching parameters, tokens, and quantization…
This chart, from Ben Fritz’s excellent WSJ article on Marvel today, tells a hell of a story…
May 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This chart, from Ben Fritz’s excellent WSJ article on Marvel today, tells a hell of a story…
More intermissions please! This is the (re)innovation that the movie theatre experience needs.
January 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
More intermissions please! This is the (re)innovation that the movie theatre experience needs.
And we thought cell phones at the theater are bad…
December 26, 2024 at 3:34 PM
And we thought cell phones at the theater are bad…
Does it bug you as much as it bugs me that the shortest day of the year doesn't also have the latest sunrise and earliest sunset? I don't like that asymmetry...so I made a dataviz to help me better understand it and maybe see the underlying pattern better. 📊 #dataviz
December 21, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Does it bug you as much as it bugs me that the shortest day of the year doesn't also have the latest sunrise and earliest sunset? I don't like that asymmetry...so I made a dataviz to help me better understand it and maybe see the underlying pattern better. 📊 #dataviz
“The Hike” by Drew Magary: This is what you would get if Guillermo Del Toro rewrote “The Wizard of Oz” with a middle aged male protagonist. An engaging breezy read that gave me some super weird dreams and got me wondering if I had successfully gotten myself off of my own “path”. 4/5⭐️
November 30, 2024 at 3:27 PM
“The Hike” by Drew Magary: This is what you would get if Guillermo Del Toro rewrote “The Wizard of Oz” with a middle aged male protagonist. An engaging breezy read that gave me some super weird dreams and got me wondering if I had successfully gotten myself off of my own “path”. 4/5⭐️
“The Kaiju Preservation Society” by John Scalzi. This book is pure bubble-gum sci-fi in the best possible way. So much fun. I’m sure the movie rights have already sold; what an incredible addition this would be to the Godzilla-verse! 4/5⭐️
November 26, 2024 at 5:10 AM
“The Kaiju Preservation Society” by John Scalzi. This book is pure bubble-gum sci-fi in the best possible way. So much fun. I’m sure the movie rights have already sold; what an incredible addition this would be to the Godzilla-verse! 4/5⭐️
Finally tried the Spotify AI playlist generator. It did not do well. First ask? Songs that are like the Beatles that aren’t by the Beatles. It gave me a list entirely of Beatles songs. After revision I asked it to only give me songs recorded after 2000. It failed.
November 25, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Finally tried the Spotify AI playlist generator. It did not do well. First ask? Songs that are like the Beatles that aren’t by the Beatles. It gave me a list entirely of Beatles songs. After revision I asked it to only give me songs recorded after 2000. It failed.
Also just finished “Nexus” by Yuval Harari. Not the tour de force of Sapiens or Homo Deus, but an important big picture look at AI. I have a ton of thoughts to put in longer form, but until then know this is a worthwhile “big think” book if you’re at all interested in our AI driven future. 4/5 ⭐️
November 23, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Also just finished “Nexus” by Yuval Harari. Not the tour de force of Sapiens or Homo Deus, but an important big picture look at AI. I have a ton of thoughts to put in longer form, but until then know this is a worthwhile “big think” book if you’re at all interested in our AI driven future. 4/5 ⭐️
Just finished The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce, a sweet reflection on life, death, and the potentially soft barrier between them wrapped up in a cozy haunted house story. 3/5 ⭐️
November 23, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Just finished The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce, a sweet reflection on life, death, and the potentially soft barrier between them wrapped up in a cozy haunted house story. 3/5 ⭐️
Tonight’s sight reading project. There are some funky chords in there!
November 21, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Tonight’s sight reading project. There are some funky chords in there!
Christmas came early! Got a great deal on a two year old Yamaha upright with a silent system, replacing a truly POS decades old Geyer I’m pretty sure we got off of the free section of Craigslist many many moons ago.
November 14, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Christmas came early! Got a great deal on a two year old Yamaha upright with a silent system, replacing a truly POS decades old Geyer I’m pretty sure we got off of the free section of Craigslist many many moons ago.
We have a winner!! Emily from Alaska whose issue was advocacy for the ELSA Act!
November 12, 2024 at 7:12 PM
We have a winner!! Emily from Alaska whose issue was advocacy for the ELSA Act!
Can you answer these final round questions?
November 12, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Can you answer these final round questions?
Final round! Down to five students!
November 12, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Final round! Down to five students!
We are down to 10 finalists! Time for Round 3 where students talk about their essay which identified a local issue and proposed a solution.
November 12, 2024 at 4:28 PM
We are down to 10 finalists! Time for Round 3 where students talk about their essay which identified a local issue and proposed a solution.
A few of the questions:
November 12, 2024 at 3:41 PM
A few of the questions:
Today I’m attending the National Civics Bee at the US Chamber! Injecting some post-election Hope-ium into my veins.
November 12, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Today I’m attending the National Civics Bee at the US Chamber! Injecting some post-election Hope-ium into my veins.
If you see this post a concert pic you took
November 10, 2024 at 10:37 PM
If you see this post a concert pic you took
And when I’m not skeeting about issues or data, it will probably be books and music, my passions and what takes up most of my no -work energy. Of course there’s also my dog (Doozy) and kids which are all amazing too, natch.
November 9, 2024 at 1:13 AM
And when I’m not skeeting about issues or data, it will probably be books and music, my passions and what takes up most of my no -work energy. Of course there’s also my dog (Doozy) and kids which are all amazing too, natch.
I did not have a Finneas / Attacca Quartet collab on my bingo card.
November 9, 2024 at 12:55 AM
I did not have a Finneas / Attacca Quartet collab on my bingo card.
Art but make it album covers? Basquiat…Biggie
November 8, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Art but make it album covers? Basquiat…Biggie
Took a much needed break today and wandered the Hirshorn. A few favorites from there: Leger, Lawrence, Osmegos/Banksy and Diamond
November 8, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Took a much needed break today and wandered the Hirshorn. A few favorites from there: Leger, Lawrence, Osmegos/Banksy and Diamond
This is an important point from Yuval Harari’s “Nexus”- I think these questions of whether AI has human-level intelligence are misplaced. It’s an entirely different kind of intelligence all together.
November 7, 2024 at 10:04 PM
This is an important point from Yuval Harari’s “Nexus”- I think these questions of whether AI has human-level intelligence are misplaced. It’s an entirely different kind of intelligence all together.