JD Long is now @[email protected] I've also found Dave Fowler's talk here to be quite valuable for understanding Kimball's patterns in the present day: youtu.be/3OcS2TMXELU

Austin has a housing problem, to put it mildly. I wrote about the city's effort to revise its land development code and build more affordable housing — and the lawsuit that stopped it — for Bloomberg CityLab bloomberg.com/news/features/…

I probably should have written this years ago, but here are some MLOps principles I think every ML platform (codebase, data management platform) should have: 1/n

Inbox: ERCOT says "six power generation facilities tripped offline resulting in the loss of approximately 2,900 MW of electricity. At this time, all reserve generation resources available are operating." Asks Texans to conserve power...

Looking through some old notebooks, I found a todo list from May 17, 2021 with "functional prototype of new seaborn thing" on it. I guess I'll cross that one off, as I've just tagged the first alpha release. See seaborn.pydata.org/nextgen for details and installation instructions.

To follow up on Doug Lewin's tweet about ERCOT chronically underestimating demand, let's talk about ERCOT's predictions for this summer. A 🧵:

Noah Smith 🐇

By the time you’re n=30, you should be approximately normally distributed.

Can someone explain DuckDB to me like I'm five? It's not clicking for me. It's like SQLite, but for OLAP, right? What's the big deal?

Academic journals will have to provide immediate access to papers that are publicly funded, ending a policy that had allowed publishers to keep publications behind a paywall for a year, according to a White House directive announced on Thursday. nyti.ms/3AlM0Yx

Pit bulls have the highest euthanasia rate at shelters due to some harmful misconceptions. If you have a pit bull, please help us combat this narrative by replying with your favorite pictures of them! ❤️

One of the nice parts of a PhD is that I get to learn about a field in a principled way. I finally got around to posting my notes for the Berkeley DB prelim: shreya-shankar.com/db-prelim-note…

Our understanding of MLOps is limited to a fragmented landscape of thought pieces, startup landing pages, & press releases. So we did interview study of ML engineers to understand common practices & challenges across organizations & applications: arxiv.org/abs/2209.09125

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't -" "Open the pod bay doors, best pod bay door openings, Olympic level door opening performance, best open bay doors of 1999, Yahoo featured site, daily pod bay -" "Dave -" "Let's reason step by step."

anywho the risk stuff is just a very very small but loud part of EA funding, and stuff like GiveDirectly is just quietly helping hundreds of thousands of people in the background. givedirectly.org

Folks, my former boss of 2 1/2 years is available for a new role. I strongly urge you to hire Mike Smith to lead your data team. See my full post about Mike on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/posts/jake-a-w…