Help why does my UMAP look so strange

I remember I was once at A. Murat Eren (Meren)'s old UChicago office and noticed he had a swoopy looking keyboard. I didn't understand why it was used. After only computational work the last 4 years, I get it. A good keyboard can be expensive, but so is having a repetitive stress injury.

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Increasingly finding this helpful: Data "analytics" is about what happened. Counts. Amounts. Description of the past Data "science" is about what we can infer from that beyond that dataset (inference), causal conclusions, and what we can predict in an automated way (ML)

I guess this should be Barclays Bank US, it's entirely possible Barclays Bank has far better service than their U.S. counterparts

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This made me lol pretty hard.

Denver vs LA Western Conference game 2 was the wildest end to a basketball game I've seen in ages.

THE JOY OF WHY podcast is now available on YouTube! In this episode, Terry Tao weighs in on what "good" mathematics is. youtu.be/z-VFby8rWZE?fe… Quanta Magazine

This GeoGebra app by Walther Stuzka, a retired physics teacher at a high school in Vienna, Austria, lets you explore the famous brachistochrone problem (path of quickest descent): geogebra.org/classic/jxesaf… For background, see this Grant Sanderson video : youtube.com/watch?v=Cld0p3…

@Kyle_Ireton That’s the life of being a statistician. Everyone wants your help, until they get your help

Is there a worse airline than United Airlines? Going on a nearly 2 hour delay for a regional domestic flight. Trying to see if there's anything worse out there because United Airlines feels like the bottom of the barrel.

Everyone is all LLMs this, LLMs that, meanwhile people are dropping preprints like...KAN: Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks arxiv.org/html/2404.1975….

Todays lesson: read the error messages. Like really read them.

Seriously TEP 3 multihour outages in 72 hours???

I like that the eDNA metabarcoding ecology people are reinventing the amplicon analyses of microbial ecology from 10-15 years ago. This is a mostly solved problem.

I did some differential equation systems programming in The Julia Language and I kinda liked it? Like way more than I expected.