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Adam Austin
@ataustin.bsky.social
Director of data science, fanboy of #rstats

Make interoperability, not war.

Also at @ataustin@fosstodon.org
Aurora down in northern Illinois. Only the third time I've seen it
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
These are so precious to me that they're for display only. I've never put a drink in them 😂
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
*cracks knuckles* let's go AI fishing
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Chicago showing off today
#chicago
October 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I was just using MS Copilot's "think deeper" mode to produce and modify a silly Halloween image, and when it returned the image it also coughed up the back-end prompt it was using to reply to me. Love that it got the word count wrong, too.
#copilot #genai
October 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
October 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
There's no other way, honestly
October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I was master of ceremonies today at my company's annual analytics day celebration. So I came dressed as Data. Obviously.
#dataBS
October 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
October 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The proliferation of half-baked, disjointed AI tools jammed into every app in a company's ecosystem underscores the desperation to deliver in the wake of CharGPT. In the long run, this terrible UX has probably made consumers more wary of AI and less certain how to engage with it
October 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Reminds me of another classic (author unknown):
September 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My .bashrc sends warmest greetings
September 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Found it! Had to dig into the settings to find a link to the help page. The set of contexts in which the feature actually gets used is so narrow that it makes Magic Cue not that magic, which I guess is why they've only touted one or two use cases in official announcements.
September 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Join us!
August 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Y'all, I waited three months for this book to come in at the library. Cheers.
August 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
That free-return trajectory tho
August 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
look everyone let's just settle this thing
#chatGPT
August 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
As a little experiment, over the summer I've been using the Gemini chat on my Pixel phone as my personal mixologist. I've really enjoyed almost all of its recommendations! Here's a lil thread with some thoughts on the interaction with the AI >>
#genAI
August 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Maybe it'll all work out after all
August 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
July 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I just do not understand why people at work tell me my opinions are too strong
July 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
UPDATE: got home well ahead of the rain.

I don't normally do product placements but the Aventon Level has been a beast of a commuter e-bike
July 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I don't mean to brag but I have been making some *killer* pisco sours this summer
July 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
trying to beat the rain on my bike commute home, and it's amazing how relevant Office Space continues to be in our lives
July 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
me to my corporate team-building overlords
June 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM