Exploratory Data Alex
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Trying to do data science more scientifically at Microsoft
Peter EllisI wrote an #rstats blog post to remind myself that just because a log transform improves an ordinary least squares regression in conventional terms (eg makes it more linear and residuals less heteroskedastic), doesn't mean it is more fit for purpose. http://freerangestats.info/blog/2023/07/30/log-transforms
Lorin Hochstein 
Corollary: If your intervention did not lead to your desired results, you don’t understand how the system works.
Brett CannonI published a new blog post explaining how virtual environments in #Python work. I also used the post to announce my lastest project: microvenv.
https://snarky.ca/how-virtual-environments-work/
https://pypi.org/project/microvenv/
How virtual environments work
After needing to do a deep dive on the venv module (which I will explain later in this blog post as to why), I thought I would explain how virtual environments work to help demystify them. Why do virtual environments exist? Back in my the day, there was no concept
sanae 
(SF)I have a theory that, while LLMs (Large language models, like ChatGPT) don't really reflect how most people think, reason, and write
However, they do reflect how VCs tend to think, reason and write: they don't actually understand what they are saying or what they are doing, and their abilities are largely an illusion based on a mix of having a staggering number of resources at their disposal, and also on vacuuming up other people's work and claiming it as their own
Vicki BoykisHappy International Women’s Day! 💐
Ways to celebrate:
• Share salaries and negotiation strategies
• Ask women to give talks that are not about being a woman in tech
• Invite women into rooms where decisions are made and intro them to senior people in your company and field
• Spend time leveling up women technically through code reviews
• Offer equal maternity and paternity leave timelines and talk about this in interviews
• Create teams and companies with an affordance for flexible work
More specifically, I recently restarted a powerlifting training program and am finally taking the mobility, recovery, and nutrition aspects of it seriously, and I'm finding it highly therapeutic.
Finally (as I'm pushing 40...) realizing what "self care" actually means to me. It doesn't mean relaxing or pampering myself, it's about making time for a healthy quantity and quality of exercise, nutrition, and sleep, every day. It may mean something different for you. Definitely something I recommend reflecting on.
David Keyes@alexkyllo @deanmarchiori That's exactly what I'm writing about in my book!
There's this barrier between computer use and computer programming and it's mostly *not* computer science knowledge, but complexity of languages and the tools for working with them. I want to lower this barrier. I doubt that "low code" tools are the way, but rather, more powerful, higher-level languages and scripting interfaces with more approachable tooling.