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Andrew Weeks

@meloncholy

“A feeling of pensiveness from eating soft fruit.” Product Data Scientist in fintech.

London Katılım Ocak 2009
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Andrew Weeks
Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@captain_mrs @me_ander If you do make one, please say. I’m enjoying being there right now: feels like Twitter 10y ago/blogs 20y ago, and most people use CWs so I can opt in to difficult content only if I’m ready for it. But yours is 1 account on here I really miss.
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Mrs C@captain_mrs·
@me_ander oh yeah I have 0 mastodon accounts it seemed too intimidating lol
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Mrs C@captain_mrs·
the thing keeping me on twitter is quick-switching between multiple identities. i can't move in anywhere else and keep this number of masks
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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@nathanbenaich I don’t get it. Is Flow really just a build-to-rent corporate landlord? Which is a valid business model, but also a fairly mature and low margin one. Plenty offer community events and communal areas too. What’s the edge? ft.com/content/17b26f…
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Nathan Benaich
Nathan Benaich@nathanbenaich·
Bizarre commentary on what it’s like to rent. Dunno what rentals you’ve lived in and why homes are any different… Communities don’t depend on the ownership model. They depend on people just talking to one another and being nice and friendly.
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca

a16z.com/2022/08/15/inv… 🔥🔥🔥

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Andrew Weeks
Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@captain_mrs Interesting! It feels like xueshen (1) would be more prone to fixed mindset risks than xueba (2) though, which wouldn’t bode well long term. Or is it just presence of effortlessness?
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Mrs C@captain_mrs·
in chinese high schools, there is an explicit 4 tier status system 1. get good grades without trying hard 2. get good grades by trying hard 3. get bad grades by not trying hard 4. get bad grades despite trying hard this pattern seems pretty universal in lots of other contexts
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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@fochti @AutisticCallum_ Is this because of associative thinking? (cf. Temple Grandin) For me at least it often needs a number of hooks to provide enough context to remember, but once I do I’m usually fine.
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Callum Stephen (He/Him)
Callum Stephen (He/Him)@AutisticCallum_·
The autistic urge to put tremendous effort into something, and then when it’s done, instantly forget all about it. I can put hours, days and even weeks into projects, hobbies and life experiences and - then - a week later, not remember enough to answer basic questions about them.
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Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا)@alexhanna·
Can a Parisian woman of color explain why I have only been in Paris for a week and a half and yet have gotten propositioned/harassed on the street more than I have in the past six years
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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@slaterstich Maybe I’m being naïve here, but isn’t this something you should filter for when finding a job? How are decisions made? How are strategic priorities aligned to daily work? What does the data team own? How do you deal with feasibility and value risk?
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Slater Stich@slaterstich·
the reason data quality is bad is because most data teams have zero power over the creation of data. it's like a soviet supply chain, where the end consumer has to accept whatever the factory churns out.
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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@JanelleCShane Do you know if “prioos” works better than an English-sounding word you make up yourself in terms of image consistency?
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Janelle Shane
Janelle Shane@JanelleCShane·
This is more my experience with this experiment. Prompted #dalle with "two dogs talking about apples, with subtitles" and then plugged in "alpidess" and got... alps? And "prioos" is some food, but also some people and a landscape. Mostly not convincing, alas
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Janelle Shane@JanelleCShane·
This is a fascinating thought! I *think* I may occasionally see an effect, though most nonsense words I've tried to feed back don't make sense in context. This might be one. Had #dalle generate "two cats talking about winter, with subtitles", then "whiter wher os whitt" gave me:
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Giannis Daras@giannis_daras

DALLE-2 has a secret language. "Apoploe vesrreaitais" means birds. "Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons" means bugs or pests. The prompt: "Apoploe vesrreaitais eating Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons" gives images of birds eating bugs. A thread (1/n)🧵

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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@vboykis 3 months in I have now learned “Hello” and “Pleased repeat in English”, alongside really useful stuff like “Sở thú có một con rồng”
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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@vboykis Learning Vietnamese. Spent the first month convinced the only fruit people ate there was papaya.
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vicki
vicki@vboykis·
I think The Owl wants me to do something but I’m not sure what
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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@mekkaokereke @stuffysour Thanks, shall watch that tonight! And you could well be right: I may have been extrapolating too much to the downstream impact of others taking credit on career vs the owning work itself.
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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@paulg Yes, though (some!) can look the part dressed comfortably. Was walking round London with my visiting parents and we were invited in when passing Sotheby’s. They were dressed in old, slightly shabby hiking clothes. Half the staff thought they were there to buy.
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Paul Graham@paulg·
And incidentally, don't give me any crap about dressing up being part of the culture in England and France. It is, but the people who work in fancy shops are not upholders of culture. They're just looking for signals of wealth.
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Paul Graham@paulg·
Going to visit some antique shops in London, and I have to choose between dressing comfortably and being dissed by the staff, or not and maybe not.
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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@QiaochuYuan I try to do this too. For me it’s about countering negative self talk, providing a more positive—more realistic—narrative to my life. Has reduced the negative thoughts, and it’s honestly quite freeing!
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QC@QiaochuYuan·
i mostly don't think this works and it felt fake and lame and bad to me for a long time but lately i've been catching myself doing a kind of congratulating myself after doing things i'm glad i did. but it feels good and i don't feel like i'm forcing it
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QC@QiaochuYuan·
once, a long time ago, the rationalists were briefly into this idea of "operant conditioning yourself" for doing things you wanted to do - e.g. going "yes!" and pumping your fist after you completed a task on your to-do list
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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@FlipChartRick In my experience, it’s people who have never built anything, and don’t understand how much more difficult that is than destroying something.
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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@toby_n Anecdotal, but (uncapped) electricity costs estimated to ~double next year for service charge where I live. One of the big property managers.
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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@elsalwilliams I’m sorry. It’s horrible. I’ve done both but managed to resume thanks to support. Please know it’s not your fault, and you are still the best version of yourself as much as the parts you see today.
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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@alexpghayes Do you mean Product Data Science, or have I misunderstood? Starting with discovery (Marty Cagan) / customer development: problem first.
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Andrew Weeks@meloncholy·
@techpriest @PaulMainwood It’s a powerful message. At current levels, expect Covid - No vaccine — every 4 years - 2 doses — every 8-10 years - 3 doses — every 60-70 years Was on the CEV list, but having had my booster that’s a risk I’m prepared to take to enjoy life again. twitter.com/paulmainwood/s…
Paul Mainwood@PaulMainwood

Trying to keep objective. But looking at the numbers around boosters, my main concern is that the results are being absurdly undersold. Most people are sick of COVID, sick of being told what to do, and are thinking of boosters are a nice-to-have. They are transformative. (1/4)

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Paul Mainwood
Paul Mainwood@PaulMainwood·
Absolutely not the way you want to accelerate vaccine (and particularly booster) uptake. But very glad to see that the Austrian roll-out can ramp up to meet their demand. Rest of Europe (including the UK) needs to aim for at least this kind of booster pace, right now.
Edouard Mathieu@redouad

With cases still rising exponentially and a new lockdown announced last week, Austria has seen an incredible growth in vaccinations in the last two weeks. 1% of the country's population is now getting a vaccine dose each day, of which about 0.2% are first doses.

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