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mike.stringer.io
People, data science, and design. Critical friend of technology. Chicagoan. Currently: dad, fractional leader, nerd Previously: IDEO partner, Datascope cofounder, physicist, nerd
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Iris, Tulips, Jonquils, and Crocuses https://www.wikiart.org/en/alma-woodsey-thomas/iris-tulips-jonquils-and-crocuses-1969

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i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of harper’s bazaar: thread

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TIL if you toast sugar for a couple of hours at 300F it gets much less sweet (and tastes better and has a lower glycemic index) while retaining its magical baking properties so you can use enough to do this tapioca protection trick and get perfect cherry filling

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Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days: www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...

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@taylorlorenz.bsky.social on #FreeOurFeeds www.usermag.co/p/freeourfee...

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This paper describes user research on speech recognition software, long before accurate recognition was technologically feasible. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... This was written over 40 years ago. Technological feasibility doesn't need to get in the way of figuring out if something can be useful!

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one of the nicer cat-shaped beverage coolers I've seen www.dezeen.com/2025/01/08/y...

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This is such a cool idea! Get an inside look into the life and work of an open-source developer and chat about NLP and more. I'll probably hang out in the chat for a bit as well 💙

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I made a simple chrome extension to copy the URLs of every tab in the current window to the clipboard github.com/stringertheo...

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Every year on 1 January, Public Domain Day celebrates the artistic works that enter the public domain, becoming free for everyone to use, share, and adapt. Wikimedia volunteers are at the forefront of sharing these works while navigating copyright restrictions. ➡️ w.wiki/CbAe

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For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education

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Went to a beach on the northern California coast a couple days ago and it happened to be the lowest tide of the day. Totally alien landscape out there in the crevices, making me dream up ideas for new #weaving projects. #DHmakes

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good paintings in the replies

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I wish people would post more links to interesting things I feel like Twitter and LinkedIn and Instagram and TikTok have pushed a lot of people out of the habit of doing that, by penalizing shared links in the various "algorithms" Bluesky doesn't have that misfeature, thankfully!

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Moon – ciechanow.ski/moon/

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This had me searching for where I can buy Canadian/European Kit Kats

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Always looking for good, clear, compelling essays to help introduce students to the notion that data can’t be “objective” or all-encompassing.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Updated my profile. "I used to be a nerd. I still am, but I used to be, too." -Mitch Hedberg I'm pretty sure

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Everything about this is so good

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Vintage (1997) article on generative AI www.nytimes.com/1997/11/11/s...

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Interesting juxtapositions in this one

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spent some time today integrating new suggestions into the Tiny Tools Directory- it's now got over 1000 artful toys, tools, and pieces of joyful software to it. kind of amazing, this world of generous making tinytools.directory

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

Did my pen plotter followers make it over here? I just opened signups for the fifth-annual #ptpx exchange (a global exchange of postcards made with pen plotters). If you plot, sign up here: forms.gle/pKJ1RBXCVAWF...

submitted 95 days ago • 6 comments

A bunch of reasons for modeling other than prediction

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testing to see how quickly this shows up in firehose/custom feed (sorry followers) stringer

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

When people ask me for a shortlist of things to read for people curious about data science, this is almost always in the list no matter who's asking

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

...let’s substitute ["learn to code" with] a different phrase: “learn to cook”. People don’t only learn to cook so they can become chefs. Some do! But many more people learn to cook so they can eat better, or more affordably... - Robin Sloan in

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One of the best parts of 2020

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For everyone to have the opportunity to be involved in a given group and to participate in its activities the structure must be explicit, not implicit. - Jo Freeman in www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyran...

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“[T]he results of the study are less testaments to the ‘quality’ of machine poetry than to the wider difficulty of giving life to poetry… Participants favoured poems that were easier to interpret and understand.” theconversation.com/new-research...

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@suethetrex.bsky.social this you? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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😂😂😂

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I just updated observablehq.com/@stringerthe... with data from 2024, and with charts showing dry and wet streaks, inspired by @denisedslu.bsky.social in www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

#30DayMapChallenge Day 10: Pen and Paper This was a fun one as it touched 2 areas of interest - sketchy visualization design and visual rhetoric. Simulated hand drawn maps in Plot using Rough.js and used it to illustrate some rhetorical figures of visualization: observablehq.com/@jwolondon/t...

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feel free to play with these sketchy faces 🤷🏻 observablehq.com/@stringerthe...

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

got @frontpagesbot.bsky.social up here on Bluesky

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An experiment with something like ridgeline maps, except with dots: here's the Chesapeake bay with (1) randomly sampled dots, (2) dots sampled on a grid, and (3) lines. Combined day 1 (points) and day 2 (lines) of #30DayMapChallenge

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Digging this fun historical perspective on the like button from Carina Albrecht in the Harvard Data Science Review. Thanks to @cheeflo.bsky.social for turning me onto this one.

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