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.
@faithlierheimer "We have a self serve report for that, do you want to share your screen so I can walk you through it?"
@kellogh Same boat. I quit Twitter for a couple months after the first big masto migration but got sucked back in when most of Data Twitter went back. That was a mistake. Now I want the bird to hurry up and die already so I can be free.
@joranelias arrow datasets + dplyr?
@shanselman ghost kitchen energy
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
@arynn Thank you, I really don't think I'm terribly smart though, and even if I were, that wouldn't be enough. I think it's mostly about being stubborn and willing to suffer for the sake of self-improvement.
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