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Trying out Miznon, the new pita/mediterranean restaurant at Union Station (got the eggs-no-steak pita sandwich 🥙 😋)

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I ABSOLUTELY adore having this view every day while commuting to work 😊 #toronto #canada

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The breadth of the data science field makes it hard to retain everything you’ve learned, since no job uses every tool. To offset this, I’ve found extremely useful to have a daily flashcards practice.

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Glad to have gotten back to running today after two weeks of either snow-covered sidewalks or too much cold (or both!) (I think I've settled for-8 as my tolerance threshold)

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TIL that if you want to remove the first and last items of a Python array/list you can do this: _ , *middle_nums, _ = nums (Leveraging sequence unpacking) and it just… looks so good? Although the traditional slice approach: nums[1:-1] is still probably more readable #python #datascience

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Turned the old blog post of LLM-based tools for #rstats into a Quarto guide. Includes even more packages now plus a roundup of relevant courses and tutorials luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/

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Every data project scope creep starts with: "Just one small addition..." That's how your 2-day dashboard becomes a 2-month enterprise solution. Learn to say: "Happy to help! Let's schedule a quick chat to scope this properly and adjust timelines." Boundaries save careers. #DataScience #Analytics

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Today is my first Canada-versary 🎂🥳🇨🇦🍁

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The ebook2audiobook is a new open-source project that enables the conversion of ebooks into audiobooks. It supports 1124 languages 🚀. Key features: ✅ Web GUI interface ✅ Docker image 🐳 ✅ Works with CPUs and GPUs License: Apache 2.0 🦄 github.com/DrewThomasso... Image credit: project doc

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Going full Marie Kondo with my files with this OpenAI wrapper for file organization I built with Claude Sonnet. It reads from a .md file that contains the 'official' file system hierarchy and whenever I want to find or save something I just describe the file

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January 2025 wallpapers just dropped

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New Year's breakfast with some friends 😋🍳🎆

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I love reading books written by hosts of podcasts I listen to because I can read them with their own voice in my mind 😆 (it's happening to me now with Deep Work by Cal Newport)

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Evening of playing with my timetracking data and tweaking g̶g̶p̶l̶o̶t̶s̶ plotnine plots (periods have cheesy names because they're like the 'Yearly Themes' from @cgpgrey.bsky.social / @myke.social / @cortexbrand.com but just 6 months long, so... half-yearly themes)

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"Memory updated"

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Libraries closed = Coffee shop day @ Page One Café :)

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Rectified Linear Unit - AI Flashcards

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2025 resolutions: be more honest with my time tracking

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Microsoft announced this week that they are opening VScode's Copilot for free. Here is a short explanation of how to set it. Make sure you update to the most recent version first 👇🏼 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Ae... #VScode #Copilot

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Holliday project: online editor #Quartopub & #Ipynb with your code phobic friends (send them a link they edit & save to GitHub)!

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A completely absurd bug I found today in the Apple ecosystem: Shortcuts complications (being able to launch a Shortcut from a Watch face) stopped working on my Apple Watch It turns out the solution is to… toggle the 24-hour time clock!

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Using my last days as registered student to try out the VR headset we have in our library 😶‍🌫️

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I've been having unreasonable amounts of fun by asking Claude Sonnet to solve code problems and then adding "suggest a chaotic solution that, while not being technically wrong, would make a code reviewer want to quit their job and run to the hills"

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My transformation into an Andrew Huberman Bot is now complete

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Microsoft released a Python tool to convert OFFICE DOCUMENTS to Markdown 🤯 github.com/microsoft/ma...

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I just can't believe that the economic capital of a G7 country can't have a decent and reliable subway system

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Running PyTorch on VS Codespaces through an iPad mini because why not

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Jane Street is hosting a market data forecasting competition on Kaggle: www.kaggle.com/competitions...

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First below-zero run in Toronto! 🧊 (trying to maintain the habit of running every day despite the weather)

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My pet peeve with collaboration tools is when they don’t make it clear what will happen on other people’s end if you press X button Like, you want to turn on Speaker Coach on Teams, or Pageless view on Google Docs, will that change what other users see ? Will they be notified? Who knows!

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The thing that really differentiates Bluesky is that it doesn’t feel like it was designed by a bunch of people who will lose their jobs if I spend a little less time on Bluesky.

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3rd day of wearing a continuous glucose monitor and I've already found surprises on what spikes my blood glucose (and also that my fasting BG is on the upper range of what's considered 'normal' 😅)

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I joined the Continuous Glucose Monitor crew! I’ll be wearing one for a couple of weeks to learn how different foods affect my blood sugar (and to answer the classical question “does X break my fast?)”

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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 ) 🫣🫠😡😡😡

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Hi Apple Watch 10 👋🏼😁

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Any place can be an office if you really want it, including a McDonalds in Downtown Toronto

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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

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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”

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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

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