franciscoyira

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Data Scientist in Toronto 🍁. Learning in public. #rstats, #python, data viz, ML, causal inference. Ravenclaw 🦅. 🏳️‍🌈
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I’m a weirdo who likes to own his music and today I realized with horror that Apple remotely DELETED a song I purchased from the iTunes Store (and that was download to my iPhone ) 🫣🫠😡😡😡
Hi Apple Watch 10 👋🏼😁
Any place can be an office if you really want it, including a McDonalds in Downtown Toronto
Anthropic just published the system prompts of Claude and it's so funny that they have to beg the model not to start every response with "Certainly!" as Copilot does
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts#july-12th-2024
System Prompts - Anthropic

See updates to the core system prompts on [Claude.ai](https://www.claude.ai) and the Claude [iOS](http://anthropic.com/ios) and [Android](http://anthropic.com/android) apps.

Anthropic
I have these “eras” playlists and it’s WILD that in less than 5 months I’ll have to create another one for “Late 2020s”
This week I discovered that I can make Soylent ice cream 😋
I just added more powder and less water (and cocoa powder for flavour) then froze for 1 days and thwarted overnight

I'm really pumped by the announcement of Positron (new data science IDE built on top of VS Code by Posit, ex RStudio) but I can't get it to integrate with WSL as seamlessly as VS Code or even RStudio (Server).

Supposedly, launching it from an Ubuntu WSL terminal (e.g. 'positron .') should do the trick but it still appears tied to the R and Python interpreters from Windows -/

The Lillian H. Smith library in Toronto 📚

I finally found a good iOS fasting tracker that doesn’t try to upsell me into a 100 USD subscription every time I open it

It’s called Serene and it also has Shortcuts and Widgets support! https://apps.apple.com/app/id1454644270

‎Intermittent Fasting Timer

‎Serene Fasting tracker is the best app to track your fasts. It is good for window and intermittent fasting too. If you want to have the best tool to keep track of your fasts, this app is the right choice​. Serene supports: - Custom Fasting times - Analytics - Add fasts manually - Export data to PD…

App Store

Testing a new monetization strategy for my data science blog. Let's see how it goes!

(I think this may work for in-depth, long articles like those I tend to write, and I prefer this to ruining the blog visual appearance with ads that people will block anyway)