Really can't seem to stop watching glass fruit being cut!

Wow - CA and NY pay out a lot more than they get back to the Feds.
usafacts.org/articles/whi...

Compelling visualization showing global temperature over time. It's the last bit that is compelling. Avg is about the same, but variation is increased.
fb.watch/z1Axq0JLi-/?...

Tariffs = Tax = Higher Prices.
I'm getting emails from ecommerce companies warning of price increases.

“It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.”
— Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
#tariffs

Gaslight me on this:
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Progress on the elusive sequence-based recommendations.
arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13909
#machinelearning, #MLSky, #DataScience

Operationalizing Machine Learning: An Interview Study by @joehellerstein.bsky.social, @adityagp.bsky.social, et al. Particularly love the part on "Retrofitting Explanations".
#MachineLearning #MLOps #Datascience.
arxiv.org/pdf/2209.09125

The Secretary Problem. An oldie, but so relevant to many business problems (and personal ... eg. when to stop looking for a parking spot).
www.jstor.org/stable/2243190
#Algorithms #DataScience

Since everyone else is doing ...
Fun trend intro'd by Kevin Weil of OpenAI: prompt ChatGPT: "based on what you know about me, draw me a picture of what you think my current life looks like."
(got the econ, evolution, AI, volleyball stuff right ... but it did for like many, it hallucinated a cat)