Christa van der Walt (@christawalt) 's Twitter Profile
Christa van der Walt

@christawalt

Teacher disguised as lecturer, language obsessed and deeply concerned about the lack of a reading culture in SA.

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calendar_today26-07-2009 17:53:00

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Other people: using ChatGPT to do useful stuff, like programming. Me: "Please write me a Gen-Z inspired thank-you note for someone's conference contribution"

Other people: using ChatGPT to do useful stuff, like programming.

Me: "Please write me a Gen-Z inspired thank-you note for someone's conference contribution"
Cate Lombardo πŸ“š (@bleuroses) 's Twitter Profile Photo

β€œI have no patience with people who grow old at sixty... Sixty should be the time to start something new, not put your feet up.” ― Mary Wesley Read More Women #marywesley

β€œI have no patience with people who grow old at sixty... Sixty should be the time to start something new, not put your feet up.” 
― Mary Wesley  <a href="/WomenRead/">Read More Women</a>  #marywesley
Christa van der Walt (@christawalt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today a chatbot gave me a Yes/No option to the question if I will give feedback on the interaction and help to make it better and I said β€˜no’. #RageAgainstTheMachines. 😝

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#NewProfilePic Speaking at the first post-COVID, in-person conference of the SA Language Teachers Association. Loved every minute, attended (almost) all the sessions. 😁

#NewProfilePic Speaking at the first post-COVID, in-person conference of the SA Language Teachers Association. Loved every minute, attended (almost) all the sessions. 😁
Christa van der Walt (@christawalt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When I’m having a conversation with somebody about something and they say, β€˜I wrote an article on this. Give me your e-mail and I’ll send it to you’, they’re kind of killing the personal connection. And the conversation. Plus, I won’t read the article.

Kareem Carr, Statistics Person (@kareem_carr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Every Data Scientist needs to know these ideas. They will blow your mind. 1. Correlation vs Causation P(A | B) is the probability of A given B. It is the probability that we will observe A given that we have already observed B. P(A | do(B)) is the probability of A given

Every Data Scientist needs to know these ideas.

They will blow your mind. 

1. Correlation vs Causation

P(A | B) is the probability of A given B. It is the probability that we will observe A given that we have already observed B. 

P(A |  do(B)) is the probability of A given
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"You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language." β€”Joseph Brodsky