Measuring how much of the sky is visible
At a given place, how much of the sky is visible? Here's a way to figure out an estimate.
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The important, mundane parts of data science plus assorted fun with hobbies and tech. Every week since 2019.
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New data analysis can be faster, but MUST be grounded in slowness
LLMs and "AI" are at the forefront of making things "faster", but fast does not equal correct despite what many say.
More fun with world generation
Hi subscribers, I've spent much of this week chipping away at the worldgen game in the small gaps of free time that I have, so here's an update on this bit of silliness. It's gotten to a surprisingly interesting place even though there'
So how does lightning locating work?
Between advanced math and radio sensors, it's possible to locate where lightning strikes from hundreds to thousands of kilometers away. It's wild.
The fun challenge of enterprise product research
Consumer data science is hallmarked with massive datasets and other challenges. Meanwhile, enterprise products show a very different kind of challenge that I love.
No infrastructure is permanent, but it's up to us
Some post travel reflections on urban infrastructure and age and how changes happen to infrastructure
Learning By Building: Fantasy World Generators
The weird ins and outs of procedurally generating a literal world for simulation purposes
Learning By Building: Trading Platforms
So many details
Silly projects for vacation posting!
Nothing says "ready for vacation" like... frantically booking hotels and stuff last minute because I've been too busy with stuff to finalize pesky details like where I'll be sleeping. Anyways, I'll be out and about roughly 3 weeks with nothing but my
Unstructured data is still a pain in the butt (but less impossible now)
Far from the best way, but it's probably the way many of us are choosing for... reasons
Our most important skill, spotting and questioning assumptions
Out of all the things we can do, so far, working with deep, buried assumptions is probably the hardest to learn and teach
The "art" part of setting metrics
Many would describe setting metrics as a art and a science. This is about the artsy part.
Moving data around still sucks
This week, in between a bunch of other chaos, I got to do something that only happens once a decade... I bought a new Network Attached Storage (NAS) server (a Synology DS1525+) to replace my older DS1315. Between the DRAM shortage and hard disk shortages, it wasn't a
Things are simple until they are complex
Stories of how a simple thing can get really messy.
Novelty at work is a weird thing
It's not just the "blessed" few who get to work on novel data problems. Every one of us likely does so at least a couple of times in our careers. We just don't realize it.