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Data things in 📍Philly. Soon 📍NYC. Data scientist, strategist and engineer 👨‍💻. Weightlifter 🏋️. Home cook 👨‍🍳. Traveler 🧳. Recently married 🏳️‍🌈
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Wild www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing: - Complaints about car-honking are down 70% - The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48% - 6 million fewer cars - Half as many traffic-related injuries - 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

submitted 43 days ago • 67 comments

"Rather than focus on curing Alzheimer’s, I spend my day scrambling just to keep those scientists employed." We asked Philadelphia scientists, doctors, and researchers to weigh in on Trump's federal funding cuts. Their responses were bleak—for all of us. New @phillymag.com:

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Whoah.. sonnet was *not* distilled "3.5 Sonnet was not trained in any way that involved a larger or more expensive model (contrary to some rumors)." —Dario Amodei darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-...

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

👉 DeepSeek may well have broken OpenAI’s Terms of Service and distilled their intellectually property without permission 👉 OpenAI may well have done analogous things to YouTube, New York Times, and countless artists and writers. 👉 Karma is a bitch.

submitted 119 days ago • 53 comments

I don't have any quantitative comparison to make here, but Claude feels so much better to use than Gemini. The character training really shines. #llms

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

I was tagged the other day by someone kindly sharing my Python Rgonomics post and realized that my thesis of "tooling keeps improving" held up too well and some of the recos have changed Hence, here's the 2025 update: www.emilyriederer.com/post/py-rgo-... Now feat uv (vs pyenv, pdm) and Positron

submitted 121 days ago • 6 comments

Install and run Open WebUI in one command w/ uv: `uvx --python 3.11 open-webui serve` h/t @simonwillison.net #openwebui #llm

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

Two weeks ago a I finally got rid of a deep learning PC I had built back in 2016. Glad to see local development for AI is still going strong. #ai #locallama #llm #datascience www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/243...

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

Can’t believe there were like 6 months last year when I thought I would have to use LinkedIn as my primary social media platform

submitted 151 days ago • 13 comments

LLMs have been crammed into so many different products as sparkle, magic wand, or crystal ball buttons. This feels like a bad UX. How do I know what's going to happen when I click that button?

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment

Updated my handle to a custom domain! Pretty straightforward and an interesting way to "verify" your account.

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

"I meet lots of idealistic folks who think that all they’re missing is money, or credentials, or access to the levers of power. More often, what they’re really missing is friends."

submitted 165 days ago • 1 comment

I had an old boss tell me that most of programming is reading code. This is even more true today with LLMs spitting out code of questionable quality.

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

New post: From PDFs to AI-ready structured data 📃✨ A deep dive into document processing, layout analysis and a modular workflow for building end-to-end document understanding and information extraction pipelines using PDFs, Word documents, scans and more. explosion.ai/blog/pdfs-nl...

submitted 177 days ago • 6 comments

When large language models surpass neuroscientists for prediction of results of experiments nature.com/articles/s41... "which presages a future where LLMs assist humans in making discoveries. Our approach is not neuroscience specific and is transferable to other knowledge-intensive endeavours"

submitted 182 days ago • 7 comments

A vertical takeoff of life science with #AI LLLMs. Publication of 10 new foundation models of Proteins, DNA, RNA, methylation, cells, and interactions, evolution, and design in the past couple of weeks! Unprecedented progress, reviewed in the new Ground Truths erictopol.substack.com/p/learning-t...

submitted 185 days ago • 15 comments

New at Science Evo, a large language of life (LLLM) genomic foundation model, predicting & generating tasks from molecular to genomic scale science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 195 days ago • 3 comments

Will this be the twitter replacement that sticks? I miss data science and academic twitter :(

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments