Frédérique Mittelstaedt

Kudos to the train driver who kept us informed as well as he could, even as eventually the power, lighting and PA went out. Also a big thanks to all #tfl and #networkrail staff who helped with the evacuation!

Also got stuck on the @HeathrowExpress tonight. Evacuation of the #heathrowexpress and #elizabethline trains is now in progress! #tfl

@lpark12345 @HeathrowExpress Yes!

The reality behind this is horrible

Right time for a PISA thread. I'm going to start by talking about what I think is the most important chart in the report and then make a few other points.

I feel attacked 😂 @Spotify @caribouband @petshopboys

🧈 I made my own butter cake 200g of sugar €0.29 Vanilla extract €0.05 200g rising flour €0.158 4 eggs €0.87 200g butter €1.50 Oven energy €0.40 +=€3.72 This is 20 slices Cafe here sells 1 buttercake slice for €4 So €80 - €3.72 = 96% profit margin We can make €76 profit per cake If we make 1000 cakes per month we can make €76,000/mo profit What if we make 10,000 cakes We're pivoting from AI to butter cakes

@iwontoffendyou This is a cute problem :) The solution is r ≈ 0.21384. Here's my approach: gist.github.com/gfmio/6a57aaaa…

Hiring our first employee today. Gave this insanely hard problem for round 1, try it out if you're free:

I just think it is interesting that the lower end of the starting salary for an Associate Professor in Physics at Oxford is £51k, and the starting salary for an intro data science job is around £55k.

@levelsio Thailand is a 3rd world country PART2

“Thailand is a third world country” The third world country:

Sky Kistler from my team at @Reddit talking about our benchmarking and cost/performance optimiser system for #kafka #kafkasummit #reddit

Sky Kistler will be presenting our work on building a cost and performance optimiser for #Kafka tomorrow at 11am. #kafkasummit #london #streaming #kafka #flink #reddit

@AdrielVelaz and I will present our streaming platform Snooron based on #Kafka and #Flink #StatefulFunctions and the history and evolution of streaming at @Reddit tomorrow at 9:30am. #kafkasummit #london #streaming #kafka #flink #reddit

I'm excited to attend and speak at Kafka Summit London together with my team from @Reddit today and tomorrow! Join us for our talks and come and say hi if you're attending! #kafkasummit #london #streaming #kafka #flink #reddit

HOW TO RELIABLY STOP HICCUPS: Hiccups = phrenic nerve-to-diaphragm spasm. To de-spasm that circuit, inhale maximally (via your nose) 3 times with no exhales in between. Then hold your breath for 15-30 seconds & then slowly exhale (via your mouth). Done.

The famous "36 questions that lead to love"... don't. The NYT and everyone else reported a different set of questions from the same authors, modified to be less romantic! The original set of *40* questions wasn't online, but I emailed the authors and got a copy. Details in 🧵

Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages buttondown.email/hillelwayne/ar…

My son, who is a software engineer, just told me that people who know software just had their Elon Musk realization.