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Andre Bach

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Doing Data Science, by way of Physics. In San Francisco, by way of Detroit.

I'm #reading Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers goodreads.com/review/show/56…


5 of 5 stars to Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir goodreads.com/review/show/55…


5 of 5 stars to Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki goodreads.com/review/show/55…


4 of 5 stars to Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty goodreads.com/review/show/55…


4 of 5 stars to A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers goodreads.com/review/show/55…


4 of 5 stars to Coffeeland by Augustine Sedgewick goodreads.com/review/show/53…


5 of 5 stars to Rediscovering Travel by Seth Kugel goodreads.com/review/show/53…


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There are two types of people. Those who delete the question mark and everything to the right of it in shared URLs and those who have no idea what I'm talking about.


3 of 5 stars to The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal goodreads.com/review/show/52…


5 of 5 stars to Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky goodreads.com/review/show/50…


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New York's salary transparency laws went into effect today. You owe it to yourself to: 1. Check what your company will pay new hires 2. See if you're paid to industry standards 3. Have convos if you deserve more $$$ Let's talk about how to accomplish all that. 🧵:


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"The essential truth of every social network is that the product is content moderation, and everyone hates the people who decide how content moderation works. Content moderation is what Twitter makes — it is the thing that defines the user experience." theverge.com/2022/10/28/234…


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I just completed an important space history video restoration project, there's an often shared video showing a Mac Portable ejecting a floppy disk in zero G, but it's painfully low quality, so I found a better source and cleaned it up.


3 of 5 stars to A Practical Guide to Conquering the W... by K.J. Parker goodreads.com/review/show/50…


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The @sfchronicle itself posted a mea culpa article about how the data used in its "shoplifting isn't up" article was bunk, but the damage was already done. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sho…

hspter's tweet image. The @sfchronicle itself posted a mea culpa article about how the data used in its "shoplifting isn't up" article was bunk, but the damage was already done. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sho…
hspter's tweet image. The @sfchronicle itself posted a mea culpa article about how the data used in its "shoplifting isn't up" article was bunk, but the damage was already done. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sho…

When you don’t understand how numbers work



Andre Bach reposted

Pandas DataFrame output is now available for all sklearn transformers (in dev)! scikit-learn.org/dev/auto_examp… This will make running pipelines on dataframes soo much easier, and provides better ways to track feature names! thanks to @thomasjpfan @glemaitre58 and Christian Lorentzen!


4 of 5 stars to How to Rule an Empire and Get Away wi... by K.J. Parker goodreads.com/review/show?id…


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So the big NYT article about California high speed rail is not actually saying anything new. It's the latest from a former LA Times reporter who spent the last 12 years writing based hit pieces about the project. I shut my blog down years ago. But it's time to debunk him again.


3 of 5 stars to The High Sierra by Kim Stanley Robinson goodreads.com/review/show?id…


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