David Gutelius

@seanjtaylor Troll, brother. Troll.

One stark difference between R and Python. If I'm looking for a good natural spline implementation: R: I can directly import `splines` which Douglas Bates has been working on for 22 years. Python: google/copy/paste some snippet from StackOverflow and pray that it's correct.

@beaucronin Godammit don’t me started

If it’s covid you go outside. If it’s wildfire smoke you go inside. Where do you go if it’s both

how about a law that says you have to get a vaccine but the state isn’t making you do it, it’s just that everyone can sue you if you don’t, and if they win they get $10,000, if you win you get nothing

great opportunity to contribute to Europe's leading project on participatory syndromic flu surveillance, with @danielapaolotti & network !

@lordgrilo Usually is

@gutelius I was trying that self deprecating thing from across the Channel. Totally overrated… :)

I’d like to highlight also the fact that, after more than 6h of satellite, we were only 15-20 mins late, despite the organization being fully Italian 😂

@Smerity Hard concur

Note: This isn't me saying the underlying service is good or bad either way, simply that it ends up as a for profit outside of the hands of the public. We've seen the same with surveillance (Amazon Ring), credit scores (Equifax, Experian, TransUnion), ...

This is a prime example of the odd situation where as the US public doesn't trust the government enough the same powers end up monopolized in the hands of private companies - which the US public generally have even less control over ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@grlalx Really nice to hear this

@jjacobs22 @mikeolson Sure learn away; just realize ultimately your playbook and how it solves the problems you and the rest of the world care about is the only playbook that matters.

@gutelius @mikeolson Thx! I mean even if we tried to do otherwise, we are who we are anyways. I do think there is much to learn from their playbook.

Trying this aspirational corollary out, you are the first to hear it: The SV Angel of climate tech. 🤔 Thoughts?

@jakeporway @DataScienceNIG Would love to hear more…

Just had an invigorating conversation with Bayo at @DataScienceNIG about ways to cohere the fractured AI for Good landscape. He's done some great thinking about the composability of the space - very excited to work more with him on this!

@jakeporway @DataScienceNIG Would love to hear more, guys

Stepwise 0.6.0 is released. A library for building #StepFunctions simpler with #clojure and EDN. github.com/Motiva-AI/step… Use it to orchestrate async, distributed workflows with #AWS managing state, branching, and retries.

Yes to this from @kialikethecar in today's @axios. Current conditions are tilting the balance of power toward workers.

Daniela Paolotti is an Invited Speaker at CCS2021. She is a Senior Research Scientist at ISI Foundation in Turin, Italy. Her work uses tools from complex systems to study infectious disease spreading. She also promotes themes related to Data Science and Social Impact.

@davidslifka Network activation of social capital for a cause

What I want in political donor communities, in one graphic: library.substack.com/p/how-to-build…

@marcelsalathe Yaasssss

@charlie_simpson That’s it.

Meanwhile, inside the box, Schrödinger's cat plans its revenge.

Ok when are we going to get a Murderbot Diaries show