Davis Bennett
@davisvbennett.bsky.social
Open source software developer. I spend a lot of time working on Zarr. Formerly worked on bioimaging data stuff @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
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SEVERAL Followers Georgs here absolutely wrecking the linear regression, which is something my 14yo just covered in math class
Jake, what is happening on twitter dot com??
I could have sworn the #numbers guys used to have a little more heft…
I could have sworn the #numbers guys used to have a little more heft…
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
SEVERAL Followers Georgs here absolutely wrecking the linear regression, which is something my 14yo just covered in math class
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
what's the plan here
September 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
what's the plan here
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I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Should We Let Public Transit Die?
Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service.
www.bloomberg.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
metal railings at work in Baden Baden
September 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
metal railings at work in Baden Baden
dang @thorlabs.bsky.social what's with these wild dovetailed posts:
September 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
dang @thorlabs.bsky.social what's with these wild dovetailed posts:
banishing **kwargs with a runtime type checker + a bunch of new types in github.com/zarr-develop...
add a runtime type checker for metadata objects by d-v-b · Pull Request #3400 · zarr-developers/zarr-python
This PR adds a runtime type checker specifically for checking JSON-like data against a type definition. It's currently a draft while I get the test suite happy and refine the API, but it's ...
github.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
banishing **kwargs with a runtime type checker + a bunch of new types in github.com/zarr-develop...
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Tonight, when leaving Athens by ferry, I got surprised by this beautiful spectacle. I think they were using the ferry as a wind shield and maybe also the lights to spot fish. They followed the ship for about 30 min.
June 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Tonight, when leaving Athens by ferry, I got surprised by this beautiful spectacle. I think they were using the ferry as a wind shield and maybe also the lights to spot fish. They followed the ship for about 30 min.
If anyone has thoughts / opinions / concerns about how Zarr Python represents array data types, please check out github.com/zarr-develop... and give feedback!
refactor v3 data types by d-v-b · Pull Request #2874 · zarr-developers/zarr-python
As per #2750, we need a new model of data types if we want to support more data types. Accordingly, this PR will refactor data types for the zarr v3 side of the codebase and make them extensible. I...
github.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
If anyone has thoughts / opinions / concerns about how Zarr Python represents array data types, please check out github.com/zarr-develop... and give feedback!
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🚀 New preprint! "Spatial Data Science Languages: Commonalities and Needs" 🌍
Exploring challenges & insights from #rstats #python & #julialang for spatial data handling—geodetic coords, data cubes, and more!
🔗 Read here: https://arxiv.org/html/2503.16686v1 […]
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Exploring challenges & insights from #rstats #python & #julialang for spatial data handling—geodetic coords, data cubes, and more!
🔗 Read here: https://arxiv.org/html/2503.16686v1 […]
[Original post on fosstodon.org]
April 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🚀 New preprint! "Spatial Data Science Languages: Commonalities and Needs" 🌍
Exploring challenges & insights from #rstats #python & #julialang for spatial data handling—geodetic coords, data cubes, and more!
🔗 Read here: https://arxiv.org/html/2503.16686v1 […]
[Original post on fosstodon.org]
Exploring challenges & insights from #rstats #python & #julialang for spatial data handling—geodetic coords, data cubes, and more!
🔗 Read here: https://arxiv.org/html/2503.16686v1 […]
[Original post on fosstodon.org]
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Get in the trousers, Wallace!
W&G Evangelion
W&G Evangelion
Wallace & Gromit Anime OP
YouTube video by Nikosnoip
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March 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Get in the trousers, Wallace!
W&G Evangelion
W&G Evangelion
This was extremely fun to work on, thanks @earthmover.io for the opportunity!
2/ This delivers a 14x speedup in opening Google’s ARCO ERA5 dataset. Shout out to guest author @davisvbennett.bsky.social , @xarray.bsky.social and @zarr.dev contributor. earthmover.io/blog/xarray-...
Accelerating Xarray with Zarr-Python 3 | Earthmover
We have recently dramatically improved the performance of Xarray’s Zarr backend. This post explores how we’ve improved the “time to first byte” metric, building on Zarr-Python’s new asyncio internals.
earthmover.io
February 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This was extremely fun to work on, thanks @earthmover.io for the opportunity!
Novel locking mechanism for this sliding door
January 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Novel locking mechanism for this sliding door
aesculapian snake seen in northern italy
January 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
aesculapian snake seen in northern italy