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It’s a great program. If you are interested in space and qualify, don’t hesitate to apply!

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

This is a great demonstration for anyone who does visual data analysis. There are 12 black dots – but you'll have trouble seeing more than one or two at a time. The human visual system is not an especially reliable way to process images or extract features from out-of-the-ordinary visual fields. 🧪☀️

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

Checking in a little bit later now and we're still on a roll, up to just about 13.5M users from ~6.2M users 2 months ago. Good thing there's nothing exciting happening next week and things will be nice and normal and stable for a while...

Have been on a system modeling kick for last few weeks, with this probably being the last thing I model for a while (still need to write a summary about modeling building from the three models I worked on recently). lethain.com/engineering-...

Here is an excellent and modern introduction to CRDTs. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

The day a child is born is the most dangerous day of their lives. This is shown on a log scale, with US per-day data. Over the following days & weeks, death rates decline sharply, but remain high. Months later, the risks continue to decline, at a slower rate.

who did this

IT'S A MOON MOON. IT'S A MOON MOON. DROP EVERYTHING AND LOOK. IT'S A MOOOON MOOOOOOON. science.nasa.gov/missions/luc...

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Yet another road map of the Roman Empire. But this time, the roads glow as they should. 😎 #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Our systems are currently experiencing some degraded performance as a result of record-high traffic. You may notice some slowness in-app as a result. Our team is working to resolve this issue. You can view our system performance status here: https://status.bsky.app/

This is so astonishingly dumb I just spent 20 minutes summarizing it for Slack friends (all links to docket entires at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63107798/mata-v-avianca-inc/. I paid 20 cents to get one of these you're welcome)

Excuse me—your data has not been “breached,” it’s been “made highly available.”

Worth sharing from time to time. https://xkcd.com/2739/

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First conference post on Bluesky? #DevOpsDaysCC23

Today’s visit was to Cordoba, Spain. Cute narrow streets, orange trees everywhere, and an impressive mosque that was converted to a church. We would love to visit again but that will be in winter as today we had ETEMPOVERFLOW caused by a balmy 37C 🥵

Et tu, Brute? 🙂

It's fascinating that the average user who responded to this survey that I shared on Twitter is basically like me, which perfectly demonstrates that we tend to follow and interact on social media with people very similar to ourselves. Help me get a more diverse sample! https://tally.so/r/3yXGOd

We keep traveling and discovering new cities. Today, Granada (Spain) Veredict: Amazing. 5/5 will visit again! PS: it’s very hard to pick only four. Photos are straight off the phone, and without any processing

Pleasantly surprised about Valencia in Spain

This video is about a cool glass technique, but is actually a video showing participatory knowing vs propositional knowing. It's brilliant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1KT8PS6Zs4

Hello bsky!