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B. David Tyler

@drbdt.bsky.social

1.3K followers 180 following 390 posts

UMass faculty. Notre Dame & UMass alum. Studies rivalry, identity, social sport consumption. Has unabated love of data. Causes existential crises through Excel.

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B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · Nov 14

Well, someone had to do it. Here's a starter pack for Graph Databases.
bsky.app/starter-pack...

I put a few accounts to get it rolling, but please chime in with suggestions to build a better curated list.

#graphdatabase #neo4j #database #data

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B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 1d

Basketball on grass

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B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 1d

Will you allow a guess after the five questions? I was all set to make my guess, and then it ended

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 5d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 5d

Is the last one the plot of Arrested Development?

a woman wearing glasses and a pink turtleneck says my eyes are up here

Alt: Kitty from Arrested Development saying, "my eyes are up here"

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B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 6d

I checked these out after seeing your post. They're worse than I imagined.

Here are some links:

Rally cap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiEm...
Hop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq47...
Tap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhQ_...

Oh, this one isn't ba... Nevermind.
www.youtube.com/shorts/JjPnK...

Rally Cap: MLB + AI from Google Cloud put the tradition to the test

YouTube video by Google Cloud

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B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 10d

I would have never thought of that

B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 10d

Best single feature in 40 years... that's tough. It started with so much already, so there aren't that many features that are anywhere close to PQ.

B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 10d

Perfect.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 11d

How tragic that we had to live some of our years with only lotus 1-2-3

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B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 11d

Excel turns 40 today. Probably. This is a date-based issue, so we can't be sure if Excel handled it correctly.
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...

Excel Turns 40: Join the Celebration! | Microsoft Community Hub

This year marks a major milestone—Microsoft Excel turns 40! In honor of four decades of innovation, we’re kicking off “40 Days of Excel”, a global community...

techcommunity.microsoft.com

B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 12d

I'm so solidly in Camp Refuse-video-if-it-could-be-article that I look first for the transcript, then only watch the video if the transcript was confusing.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 15d

We'll beat 'em with field position!

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 18d

OK!! #DataBS conf starts in 45min and I'm gonna be busy hosting, SO, things to know:

Chat is on discord, NOT zoom: bit.ly/databs-chat

Last min registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Official Schedule: databsconf.com/schedule/

Join the Approaching Significance Discord Server!

Check out the Approaching Significance community on Discord - hang out with 946 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 21d

I interested in how to handle this with our data. We had to have way more conversations than I'd expected about LIU (Brooklyn + Post) and IU Indy (née IUPUI).

B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 21d

Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full

Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty

Seussist: 1 cup, 2 cup, red cup, blue cup. This cup has a little lip. From this cup you can take a sip.

B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 22d

No no no no.... You're looking at it all wrong. You don't have disdain for your users. You love them so much that you're giving them exponentially more choice in their variable name options.

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Sam C. Ehrlich @samcehrlich.com · 23d

The lawsuit is over a post-NIL gap that exists between F-1 (student) and P-1A ("internationally recognized athletes") visas.

Student-athletes have traditionally gotten F-1 visas, but F-1 regulations place significant limitations on holders' abilities to make money in the US.