“No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time.

It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day.

It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7.

Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.”

A fancy model won’t magically compensate for poor understanding of your data.

A VERY common mistake in data analysis is jumping to complex solutions too early. AI has made this even easier by making sophisticated tools extremely accessible.

Sometimes, a linear model or a PCA already tells you most of the story.

Complexity has its place.
But using it too early often masks problems instead of solving them.

Often, the real bottleneck is not the model.
It’s how little we understand our data.

England today

by Alex Norris: https://webcomicname.com/image/152958755984

“ You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.”
-Rebecca Solnit

#Solnit #resist #nokings

A spiral ramp leading up to a pedestrian walkway over the M8 in the Anderston area of Glasgow. This is needed because the motorway, built in the 1960s, sliced this community in two. As a result, land which used to be occupied by homes and businesses has become a dead space, now occupied by a spiral of concrete, and has been for the last 60 years.

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#glasgow #anderston #urbanplanning #urbandevelopment

Genuinely one of the worst things for me about the vibe coding apocalypse is that it is steadily eroding my patience in code review.

It used to be that if you identified issues with someone’s code, you could explain why, and help your coworker learn and grow as a professional. And sometimes they’d respond by explaining why they did it that way, and then you get to learn and grow as well.

Now a lot of the time when I do code review, I feel like I’m not actually investing my time in learning, just giving them something to copy paste into an AI chatbot without engaging with either the code or the feedback.

About the Chrome LLM thing:

Google has been working for 15 years now (maybe longer) on dismantling the Internet that you love and cherish.

Fuck them. Don't use their stuff. It's toxic. All of it.

Does anyone have a #selfhosted service they find useful for, like, coordinating neighborhood groups?

My wife and I host a neighborly potluck every few weeks, and I'd love to have a way to keep in touch with our neighbors, coordinate events, and chat in a space that's not a bunch of different group texts. I'm watching @Bonfire's work on federated groups closely, and suspect their "Community" flavor may be precisely what I'm looking for when it's ready, but I'm also curious if there are other offerings in this space.

The Hungarian version of "the tables have turned" is "the ice cream licked back."

🍦

#Hungary #language