Neuro PhD, DataViz
Melbourne, Australia
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Errol Lloyd retweeted
The great hidden infection hypothesis. I love AIHW’s work, the charts are all from them. The common theory says that mortality shifted from predominantly infectious disease, towards chronic disease, in the 20th century. Due to advances in vaccination and antibiotics, mostly. /1
ALT Graph showing age-standardised mortality rates in Australia in the 20th century for infectious diseases. A rapid, dramatic decline.
Errol Lloyd retweeted
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Errol Lloyd retweeted
I think 2023 will be "use polars for most everything" then "transition to pandas to work with external (i.e. visualization) libraries". Benchmarking its still faster to read and manipulate into polars AND THEN export to pandas. Talk about fast
Errol Lloyd retweeted
To think, all of this could have been avoided if google hadn’t shut down reader.
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As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea.
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Errol Lloyd retweeted
no words, RIP Angelo Badalamenti one of the greatest. please watch this.
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also watch other talks by rich hickey like this one youtu.be/LKtk3HCgTa8
Errol Lloyd retweeted
Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine
blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022…
Errol Lloyd retweeted
my current expectation is that New Twitter is a success in the sense of making money and growing users and a failure to me in that it ends up with fewer nerds and more hard core reality tv fans. scaled /pol/ mixed with /b/ instead of “hey check out this cool thing!”
Errol Lloyd retweeted
The dream was for all scientific literature to be open access, hyperlinked, and when possible, rigorously checked by software that could catch errors (e.g. proof assistants).
Instead, we get software that spews out faux-coherent garbage, adding errors, polluting the infosphere.
Errol Lloyd retweeted
In 20 years, people will view content created before 2021 as pure and untainted by GPT. They will mine it in the same way that pre-WWII steel is salvaged from shipwrecks for Geiger counters because they aren't tainted by nuclear fallout.
Search results probably tainted already.
Errol Lloyd retweeted
There wasn't a breakdown of the methodology. My focus is on the fact that political decisions & significant investments are now based on the assumptions that large swathes of the earth are becoming uninhabitable. There's a tacit acceptance about it; a kind of terrible determinism
Errol Lloyd retweeted
While I no longer work there, I find it a little unfortunate how successful Amazon is. Because one of their ongoing strategies is to ship and meet deadlines through pure heroics, late nights, and overwork from ICs. And the simple reality is it works really well.
The best demonstration of what is science I can provide is now this Nashville country guitarist’s journey into tearing down the lies and brand slavery of the electric guitar industry: m.youtube.com/watch?v=wcBEOc…. Amazing stuff!
