As you already know, we're back! 👋 There will be food, drink and a chance for you to nerd out with other data professionals. All the details are on the link below so register now and join us on October 27th! 👇 meetup.com/PyData-Lancast…

Pleased that I will be speaking at the relaunch of PyData Lancaster - come on down for some food, drink and chance to chat with others in Lancasters growing tech scene! #DataScience #pydata #lancaster

Chaotic Evil: using single letters, camelCase and snake_case combined as function arguments #programming #RStats #DataScience

Chaotic Neutral: Using ML as an acronym in an technical paper to refer to Machine Learning, Meta Learning and Maximum Likelihood without ever clarifying which one you mean. #DataScience #AcademicTwitter #MachineLearning

Me, every day:

Looking forward to trying out the new VS Code based Positron IDE by Posit PBC (the makers of RStudio) -> check it out here github.com/posit-dev/posi…

Shout out to services that have added WhatsApp to MFA rather than texts - amazing for the times with no access to mobile service or when abroad. Banks/Finance companies should copy PayPal UK and others

Thinking about the architecture that would be suited to solving the ARC-AGI challenge: it demonstrates the lack of reasoning capabilities of LLMs - I am more skeptical that this is the final test for "AGI" #LLM #AGI #AI

To be a long time England supporter #ENGSPN #EURO2024

This excellent post by Amit Patel is everything I did not think I needed to know about Hexagons: redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

Does anyone have any good examples of use of stem and leaf diagrams? Or are they now archaic and should be removed from teaching? #stats #visualization

I just fixed slack

dear RL reward function designers: I hate that my AI-generated code is putting everything in try-except blocks. The program executes without exceptions but it’s all wrong and such a pain to debug. I cannot seem to steer my prompts out of this undesired behavior 😭

When did Microsoft make copying images into Office so much more difficult? Every time I muscle-memory paste this appears - meaning I have to right-click and go to a menu-item. Is there some reason that this is the default? #office #microsoft #softwaredesign #uiuxdesign

Beautiful, but rare, sight