Greg Wilson
@greg.materialmachinelearn.ing
Data scientist, aerospace engineer, coffee geek, sarcastic more often than not
https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-wilson-6212572/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-wilson-6212572/
Great week for new frontiers in prosecutorial misconduct / incompetence
A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Great week for new frontiers in prosecutorial misconduct / incompetence
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wake up babe, new units of measurement just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
wake up babe, new units of measurement just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
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Just presented this! You can check out the code here:
(note: the layout is screwy and config options don't get shown, but not bad for coding by voice while out and about and not even looking at the results until around midnight). No code was actually touched by me.
github.com/kylestratis/...
(note: the layout is screwy and config options don't get shown, but not bad for coding by voice while out and about and not even looking at the results until around midnight). No code was actually touched by me.
github.com/kylestratis/...
November 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Just presented this! You can check out the code here:
(note: the layout is screwy and config options don't get shown, but not bad for coding by voice while out and about and not even looking at the results until around midnight). No code was actually touched by me.
github.com/kylestratis/...
(note: the layout is screwy and config options don't get shown, but not bad for coding by voice while out and about and not even looking at the results until around midnight). No code was actually touched by me.
github.com/kylestratis/...
They're really going all in on the horny teenager beat: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/m...
November 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
They're really going all in on the horny teenager beat: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/m...
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Remember when Childish Gambino released the video for This is America and everyone was amazed at all the symbolism? The stuff from the Trump admin is like the funhouse mirror of that with the polarity all flipped.
DHS and the White House just collab posted this on IG.
Appeal to Heaven flag squeezed in there amongst the rest of it
Appeal to Heaven flag squeezed in there amongst the rest of it
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Remember when Childish Gambino released the video for This is America and everyone was amazed at all the symbolism? The stuff from the Trump admin is like the funhouse mirror of that with the polarity all flipped.
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This week on Counting Stuff, using a cheap USB dongle and antenna to catch ads-b signals from airplanes going by and then decide and analyze the data #dataBS
www.counting-stuff.com/counting-the...
www.counting-stuff.com/counting-the...
Counting the planes overhead
Through the magic of RADIO WAVES~~~~
www.counting-stuff.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This week on Counting Stuff, using a cheap USB dongle and antenna to catch ads-b signals from airplanes going by and then decide and analyze the data #dataBS
www.counting-stuff.com/counting-the...
www.counting-stuff.com/counting-the...
This is amazing. Stop what you’re doing and watch this right now.
In February, @subpop.bsky.social came to me with an idea that I found hard to resist: @clppng.bsky.social wanted to play the Tiny Desk, like, ON the actual desk... with MIDI-controlled robots striking coffee mugs and shaking paper clips.
It's finally here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-k...
It's finally here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-k...
clipping.: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is amazing. Stop what you’re doing and watch this right now.
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Remember, the people doing this said Voting No on Issue 1 last year would stop gerrymandering. Now they do this.
They even manipulated the ballot language to confuse voters
This map directly violates the spirit and the letter of the Ohio Constitution.
Ohio has no rule law. Hasn’t in some time
They even manipulated the ballot language to confuse voters
This map directly violates the spirit and the letter of the Ohio Constitution.
Ohio has no rule law. Hasn’t in some time
My day yesterday:
10 am: teach election law class about the shameful history of legislative districts drawn to dilute/suppress urban voters
10 pm: see the new proposed Ohio map, and what the Ohio GOP wants to do to Cincinnati
10 am: teach election law class about the shameful history of legislative districts drawn to dilute/suppress urban voters
10 pm: see the new proposed Ohio map, and what the Ohio GOP wants to do to Cincinnati
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Remember, the people doing this said Voting No on Issue 1 last year would stop gerrymandering. Now they do this.
They even manipulated the ballot language to confuse voters
This map directly violates the spirit and the letter of the Ohio Constitution.
Ohio has no rule law. Hasn’t in some time
They even manipulated the ballot language to confuse voters
This map directly violates the spirit and the letter of the Ohio Constitution.
Ohio has no rule law. Hasn’t in some time
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The future of data connectivity is columnar. Today we launched
@columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇
@columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇
Announcing Columnar
Back to the future of data connectivity
columnar.tech
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The future of data connectivity is columnar. Today we launched
@columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇
@columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇
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I built a DAG diagram with garden hoses for teaching.
Pictured: a collider bias diagram, inspired by a blocked pipe situation I experienced (which I credit with giving me the intuition though it also ruined my belongings in the flooded cellar).
Pictured: a collider bias diagram, inspired by a blocked pipe situation I experienced (which I credit with giving me the intuition though it also ruined my belongings in the flooded cellar).
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I built a DAG diagram with garden hoses for teaching.
Pictured: a collider bias diagram, inspired by a blocked pipe situation I experienced (which I credit with giving me the intuition though it also ruined my belongings in the flooded cellar).
Pictured: a collider bias diagram, inspired by a blocked pipe situation I experienced (which I credit with giving me the intuition though it also ruined my belongings in the flooded cellar).
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I want homeless people living in the ballroom during the next administration. Don't bulldoze it. Turn it into a shelter. Instead of ignoring and turning away from the most marginalized I want them in a palce next to the president
October 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I want homeless people living in the ballroom during the next administration. Don't bulldoze it. Turn it into a shelter. Instead of ignoring and turning away from the most marginalized I want them in a palce next to the president
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A long overlooked clause in the Constitution makes our marching orders clear today:
Democracy, Guaranteed
Democracy Academy: The Guarantee Clause
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A long overlooked clause in the Constitution makes our marching orders clear today:
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You might have noticed lots of activity in the napari project recently! 🚀 We're grateful for a grant from CZI that's keeping us going, but grants don't last forever: we're trying to figure out sustainable long term funding. Read our blog post to find out how you can help:
napari.org/island-dispa...
napari.org/island-dispa...
October 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
You might have noticed lots of activity in the napari project recently! 🚀 We're grateful for a grant from CZI that's keeping us going, but grants don't last forever: we're trying to figure out sustainable long term funding. Read our blog post to find out how you can help:
napari.org/island-dispa...
napari.org/island-dispa...
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My stomach doesn’t take well to wheat but I ordered a French toast because I’m a gluten for punishment
October 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My stomach doesn’t take well to wheat but I ordered a French toast because I’m a gluten for punishment
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“I was documented from Day 1. I did everything I was supposed to do. I have zero criminal record….Yet I was detained for 73 days….I guarantee I am not on the Epstein list.”
- powerful words from Ayman Soliman
- powerful words from Ayman Soliman
October 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“I was documented from Day 1. I did everything I was supposed to do. I have zero criminal record….Yet I was detained for 73 days….I guarantee I am not on the Epstein list.”
- powerful words from Ayman Soliman
- powerful words from Ayman Soliman
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Welcome to Bluesky: Weird Al is on here but you sometimes don’t immediately get told that. That’s most of the important information.
October 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Welcome to Bluesky: Weird Al is on here but you sometimes don’t immediately get told that. That’s most of the important information.
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I gave an introductory talk to SF.gov about MCP: what it is, why you should care about it, and how best to implement it. If you're new to MCP or are looking for a quick intro to share, you might also find it useful, so I recorded it:
youtu.be/KG3VmuvyGc0
youtu.be/KG3VmuvyGc0
MCP Model Context Protocol: what is it, why should I care about it, and how do I implement it?
YouTube video by Laurie Voss
youtu.be
October 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I gave an introductory talk to SF.gov about MCP: what it is, why you should care about it, and how best to implement it. If you're new to MCP or are looking for a quick intro to share, you might also find it useful, so I recorded it:
youtu.be/KG3VmuvyGc0
youtu.be/KG3VmuvyGc0
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Lol on LinkedIn I saw a 100% serious, completely not ironic job posting for a part time data scientist... The job is to clean up and fix ai coded machine learning
October 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Lol on LinkedIn I saw a 100% serious, completely not ironic job posting for a part time data scientist... The job is to clean up and fix ai coded machine learning
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napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀
Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: https://napari.org/dev/release/release_0_6_5.html
Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: https://napari.org/dev/release/release_0_6_5.html
October 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀
Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: https://napari.org/dev/release/release_0_6_5.html
Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: https://napari.org/dev/release/release_0_6_5.html
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There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯
I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨
youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU
I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨
youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU
October 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯
I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨
youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU
I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨
youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU
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Check out the cool new “release highlights history” page @timmonko.bsky.social cooked up for us! 😍
napari.org/stable/relea...
Best of all: it’s automatically generated from release notes so it’ll always stay up to date.
napari.org/stable/relea...
Best of all: it’s automatically generated from release notes so it’ll always stay up to date.
Release Notes
Each section shows the highlights from recent releases. Click on the version links to view the complete release notes. Last updated: September 17, 2025 Recent Releases (Last 3 Months): Latest features...
napari.org
September 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Check out the cool new “release highlights history” page @timmonko.bsky.social cooked up for us! 😍
napari.org/stable/relea...
Best of all: it’s automatically generated from release notes so it’ll always stay up to date.
napari.org/stable/relea...
Best of all: it’s automatically generated from release notes so it’ll always stay up to date.
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I found out (the hard way) that uv isn't *quite* a fully-working pyenv replacement yet.
github.com/treyhunner/d...
Maybe this is something I'll talk about in my office hours today...
github.com/treyhunner/d...
Maybe this is something I'll talk about in my office hours today...
Add awful uv hack to get venv working · treyhunner/dotfiles@0381622
https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/8821#issuecomment-3309598391
github.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I found out (the hard way) that uv isn't *quite* a fully-working pyenv replacement yet.
github.com/treyhunner/d...
Maybe this is something I'll talk about in my office hours today...
github.com/treyhunner/d...
Maybe this is something I'll talk about in my office hours today...
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One of the most common uses of "vibe coding" I'm hearing from professional devs, outside of prototyping:
Building internal-only tools! Where you don't need to worry about security, scalability, malicious usage.
E.g. data visualization / data viewer tools. Used a lot for this!
Building internal-only tools! Where you don't need to worry about security, scalability, malicious usage.
E.g. data visualization / data viewer tools. Used a lot for this!
September 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
One of the most common uses of "vibe coding" I'm hearing from professional devs, outside of prototyping:
Building internal-only tools! Where you don't need to worry about security, scalability, malicious usage.
E.g. data visualization / data viewer tools. Used a lot for this!
Building internal-only tools! Where you don't need to worry about security, scalability, malicious usage.
E.g. data visualization / data viewer tools. Used a lot for this!
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* Honest, open dialogue between differing perspectives is a core value worth preserving.
* The form of such dialogue, without the honesty or openness, has been co-opted by bad-faith actors as a cynical strategy to garner respectability.
* There are plenty of suckers eager to fall for the ruse.
* The form of such dialogue, without the honesty or openness, has been co-opted by bad-faith actors as a cynical strategy to garner respectability.
* There are plenty of suckers eager to fall for the ruse.
September 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
* Honest, open dialogue between differing perspectives is a core value worth preserving.
* The form of such dialogue, without the honesty or openness, has been co-opted by bad-faith actors as a cynical strategy to garner respectability.
* There are plenty of suckers eager to fall for the ruse.
* The form of such dialogue, without the honesty or openness, has been co-opted by bad-faith actors as a cynical strategy to garner respectability.
* There are plenty of suckers eager to fall for the ruse.
Reposted by Greg Wilson
