Errol Lloyd

The great hidden infection hypothesis. I love AIHW’s work, the charts are all from them. The common theory says that mortality shifted from predominantly infectious disease, towards chronic disease, in the 20th century. Due to advances in vaccination and antibiotics, mostly. /1

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I think 2023 will be "use polars for most everything" then "transition to pandas to work with external (i.e. visualization) libraries". Benchmarking its still faster to read and manipulate into polars AND THEN export to pandas. Talk about fast

To think, all of this could have been avoided if google hadn’t shut down reader.

As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea.

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

@willmcgugan Umm … all of it! Would a custom action be callable on clicking a link? (Apologies, not too familiar with textual)

Links work! The is a personal project BTW. Not officially part of Textual. Still working out what--if any--should be rolled back in to the main project. i.e. The MD document, the TOC or the browser. Or all of it? #textualmdbrowser

Free speech is back!

no words, RIP Angelo Badalamenti one of the greatest. please watch this. twitter.com/DuganAmanda/st…

@apmeehan @nem035 @paulg also watch other talks by rich hickey like this one youtu.be/LKtk3HCgTa8

If you think ChatGPT and AI are amazingly creative, wait till you hear this thing called “live music.”

Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/12/0…

my current expectation is that New Twitter is a success in the sense of making money and growing users and a failure to me in that it ends up with fewer nerds and more hard core reality tv fans. scaled /pol/ mixed with /b/ instead of “hey check out this cool thing!”

The dream was for all scientific literature to be open access, hyperlinked, and when possible, rigorously checked by software that could catch errors (e.g. proof assistants). Instead, we get software that spews out faux-coherent garbage, adding errors, polluting the infosphere.

we criticize hollywood for lazy tropes but our two main antagonists right now is a former kgb agent with a penchant for poisoning and an emerald mine heir who wants to live on mars. if these were bond villains they’d be dismissed as caricature

@ESYudkowsky In 20 years, people will view content created before 2021 as pure and untainted by GPT. They will mine it in the same way that pre-WWII steel is salvaged from shipwrecks for Geiger counters because they aren't tainted by nuclear fallout. Search results probably tainted already.

@ChrisHopkins99 There wasn't a breakdown of the methodology. My focus is on the fact that political decisions & significant investments are now based on the assumptions that large swathes of the earth are becoming uninhabitable. There's a tacit acceptance about it; a kind of terrible determinism

While I no longer work there, I find it a little unfortunate how successful Amazon is. Because one of their ongoing strategies is to ship and meet deadlines through pure heroics, late nights, and overwork from ICs. And the simple reality is it works really well.

@devgerred Origami + custom key bindings for window/buffer mngmt; Vintage/neovintageous for vim emultn; Project Manager; File Manager; LSP + servers (incl clangd?) if that’s your thing; BracketHighlighter; MarkdownEditing;MarkdownPreview