Sébastien Pierre
@ssebastien
data visualization, open data & digital activism. Former director of @FFCTN, now GM at Advice Link.
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A generational takeover, maybe the same will happen with votes!
Here's a new generational divide: 67 is now a more popular number than 69.
It would be good for political leaders to look at the numbers and adjust their stance accordingly.
What I'd say to the 65,000 unemployed young people in NZ is move towns and compete harder against the other 340,000 people wanting work or more work... There are 20,000 job vacancies out there! Nevermind that most of them are wholly unsuited to you. Try harder bottom-feeders.
It's interesting how AI chats are becoming a new medium. Google was the Internet's front door, now AI chats are the entire house, and rooms are for rent to content providers and shopkeepers. Slight nostalgia for the old Internet.
The ability to learn and adapt is opening up the path to being alive. Impressive demo.
And I would say that any copy written by or with AI should indicate its origin. It's an ethical question at this stage.
Going forward, AI assistance must be disclosed for Ghostty contributions: github.com/ghostty-org/gh…
Glad to see there's still fresh thinking for UI fundamentals
We should correlate more often political decisions and macro economic data. Words are nice, actions are good, but data is best.
Data from Stats NZ today demonstrates how far we have fallen in the labour market. Between June 2019 and June 2023, we put on 225,000 new jobs. Since then, we have lost 31,216 jobs. A job lost every 34 minutes. A thread
people often ask me why i build things that already exist i like building my own things — it’s the best way to truly learn how algorithms, software & solutions work i would never had appreciated the work by graphics programmers if i didn’t know how webgl/opengl shaders worked
Here's a neat little visual compendium of key macroeconomics concepts
Macroeconomics studies how the economy works as a whole. Understanding the big picture is crucial. Here are the 15 most important concepts in macroeconomics:
Wait, what? "It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch." blog.google/technology/res…
There was a level of hackability both in MacOS and GEM that is still unmatched today.
I used to mess around with ResEdit way more than I should have on my family's Macintosh Performa.
This kind of story needs to be told more widely: the extra money yielded from tax breaks will bring short term benefits (and even then...) and long term negative impact, some of which may be critical for a few, typically those in need (of healthcare, shelter, education, etc).
I’d far prefer a functional health system to the $10 a week you gave me. Being turned down by the Orthopaedic department for an MRI delayed my MS diagnosis by a year. That’s a year of treatment lost.
Policies matter, illustrated
Every 6 minutes, another NZ citizen votes with their feet. Apparently our love of chucking people on the dole, abject failure to plan strategically, and stupid 8-wire approach to hard and soft infrastructure, is making NZ a less attractive place for kiwis to live. Fancy that!
An interface defines the metric of search space
Still boggles my mind how transactions on non productive assets (real estate) can have such a drastic impact on the economy. I guess the upside is that it's sort of a closed circle with mostly internal actors, so more controllable?
As interest rates fall, mortgage lending will pick up. Once the net flow of mortgage $ into our economy turns positive, we will see profits and jobs increase. We will call this 'growth'! This Govt, like the ones before it, will claim credit. Credit where credit is due! [Ends]
![MusicalChairs14's tweet image. As interest rates fall, mortgage lending will pick up. Once the net flow of mortgage $ into our economy turns positive, we will see profits and jobs increase. We will call this 'growth'!
This Govt, like the ones before it, will claim credit. Credit where credit is due! [Ends]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GaoRzklbEAAGbxO.png)
![MusicalChairs14's tweet image. As interest rates fall, mortgage lending will pick up. Once the net flow of mortgage $ into our economy turns positive, we will see profits and jobs increase. We will call this 'growth'!
This Govt, like the ones before it, will claim credit. Credit where credit is due! [Ends]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GaoSMinaUAAdhq-.png)
There is beauty and simplicity in DIY
I call this one "Your Just is my Hassle": Developer A: "Let's just use a Library so we don't have to do The Thing ourselves." Developer B: "Let's just do The Thing ourselves so we don't have to add a Library."
Yes, it was simple and game changing.
I'm repeating myself, but social bookmarking (del.icio.us) was the most useful social app. People would save links they themselves found interesting (revealed preferences) vs posting (often stated) opinions, that's what made it so useful. We need to bring it back, etc
I wish more people would bring innovation back to the desktop. This reminds me of MacOS 9 (I'm getting old!)
Shuffleable stacks for #picotron 0.1.1d: because what is the point of a desktop analogy if you can't organise your stuff into piles (mousewheel to flip through).
Ok so the stochastic parrot hypothesis is proven?
1/ Can Large Language Models (LLMs) truly reason? Or are they just sophisticated pattern matchers? In our latest preprint, we explore this key question through a large-scale study of both open-source like Llama, Phi, Gemma, and Mistral and leading closed models, including the…
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