Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

appreciated this essay about “technical” skills by Sasha Laundy (“If you've ever said "soft skills" and felt weird about it, this essay is for you”) https://sashalaundy.com/writing/technical-skills/

Aujourd'hui, j'ai peur. Un parti fasciste et raciste est aux portes du pouvoir en France. On peut déjà voir ses sympathisants s'exciter sur les réseaux sociaux, promettre "qu'il y en a qui vont devoir partir", ou "qu'ils vont casser du PD".

Voilà le sens du vote RN (1/10)

Just a casual reminder that Germans who “didn’t bother to vote” in 1932 didn’t get a chance again until 1946, after Hitler’s death. — There’s a lesson there.

How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster.

#UKPol no CW because #HigherEd

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jul/02/how-the-tories-pushed-universities-to-the-brink-of-disaster

You can now watch the talk on "The Perfect Python Project" that I gave on Saturday at North Bay Python on YouTube. Please share and enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcfERM6fcgU

#python #NBPy

All over the world, voters should know, that whenever politicians talk about immigrants, it is because they have no solutions to the problems that matter most.

Healthcare crisis in the UK? Talk about immigrants.

Children getting shot because of idiotic gun laws in the US? Talk about immigrants.

"Look over there! Someone is coming too eat you cake!", is the oldest trick in the book, and politicians use it for the sole purpose of moving attention away from their own political incompetence.

Andrej Karpathy announced his upcoming LLM course - LLM101n, a few days ago. The course is not available yet, but the course syllabus is available on the course repo:

https://github.com/karpathy/LLM101n

There is no timeline for the release of this new course.

#llm #DataScience #AI #deeplearning #MachineLearning

Ok kids, here we go:

#Bandwagon, the open #Fediverse alternative to #Bandcamp is ready for its first steps into the light.

I have a waitlist online at
https://bandwagon.fm if you'd like to try it out.

I'm planning to build the first (dozen? I don't know) profiles in the waitlist personally, with an email questionnaire and FaceTime follow-ups if necessary.

Once I'm confident in the UX, we'll open up self-serve signups for everyone.

How many professional programmers are working on pointless and/or actively harmful products?

Give me your best guess.

(If you vote, please boost to diversify the results. It’s polite.)

@scottwilson @b0rk I remember when people who wrote in Visual Basic were scoffed at but there was a lot of industry-specific software written by subject matter experts that wouldn't have been written at all without access to easy-to-learn and understand languages.

If you are drafting figures for a scientific paper or presentation, remember that https://scidraw.io/ exists: a repository of free SVG cartoons for science.

#SciDraw is supported by the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.

All content on SciDraw is shared under creative commons license (CC-BY) unless stated otherwise.

#inkscape #SVG #science

Vaults are the most mysterious things inside the cell. This profile of Leonard Rome - the Vault Guy - is fascinating.

#cellbiology

https://www.science.org/content/article/biologist-aims-solve-cell-s-biggest-mystery-could-it-help-cancer-patients-too

Check it out, the #Shiny extension for #VSCode now supports both Shiny for R apps *and* Shiny for Python apps in everyone's second favorite IDE!

Along with the updates come a few neat features for deploying your Shiny apps as serverless ShinyLive apps using https://shinylive.io, or for saving a ShinyLive app as local #RStats or #Python files.

Learn more and see the extension in action in our release post: https://shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/shiny-vscode-1.0.0/

I am so deeply, deeply tired of every god damned "can be answered with a tutorial" technical question search being overwhelmingly flooded with videos. I don't want videos. I don't want to *listen* to something I can read. I am at least 50% deaf. GIVE ME WORDS DAMN YOU. WOOORDSSSSS!

I collected all my writing on PCA into a free long-form math book.

https://peterbloem.nl/publications/unraveling-pca

It's called "Unraveling principal component analysis" and it contains a narrative explanation of PCA all the way down to the foundations.

That means it discusses eigenvectors, singular value decompositions, the spectral theorem, low-rank decompositions and much more.