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I have finally published my post about Moneyball, as promised (a long time ago). If you're interested in baseball, numbers, or movies, please take a look. I'd love to know what you think.

cc @matsonj.com @alexnoonan.bsky.social

djpardis.medium.com/revisiting-m...
Revisiting Moneyball
Data, sports, payrolls, and memes
djpardis.medium.com
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this time of year brings a mix of emotions, i know.

i hope this season, whatever you celebrate or may be struggling through, brings you a bit of peace somewhere.

this may be a message for you. maybe just give it a call.

216-361-6772.
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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wow tap & quickslice in the same day. there's never been a better time to sync the atmosphere
My crazy idea to cram all of the AT Protocol into a single deployable container. Works with SQLite, Postgres and potentially more data stores in the future. Steps are literally deploy container -> import your lexicons -> backfill -> build your app with the GraphQL APIs.

quickslice.slices.network
quickslice - Introduction
quickslice.slices.network
December 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Better at serato shortcuts than vscode
December 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
My brain cannot comprehend how Framer works
November 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is a great point. AI-generated code doesn't allow you to escape the abstraction level at which it is generating the code.
The best analogy to me is compilers where you have to reason at the higher level ignoring the bytecode or assembly. If our high level language is going to be English language prompts we will need to stay up there through the full writing, reviewing, and maintaining cycle.
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I’m confused about why he didn’t get the job. He answered the question correctly.
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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grease floats.

when it flows in sewage and into our plants, it thickens as temps fall, separating in our settling tanks.

the churning water forms grease globs that build like snowballs, and operators remove them so they don’t clog the process.

listen. don’t pour grease down your drains.
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, while strong, required no enunciation to prove it so. – Thomas Hardy
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Trying out FSNotes and pretty impressed so far. Ticks a lot of my boxes

- Markdown in a folder
- iOS + OSX app
- Integrates with Git/Github to auto commit changes
- Syncing if you put your folder in iCloud Drive

bunch more, too.

github.com/glushchenko/...
GitHub - glushchenko/fsnotes: Notes manager for macOS/iOS
Notes manager for macOS/iOS. Contribute to glushchenko/fsnotes development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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> Our central finding is that causal decoder-only Transformer language models are injective almost surely.

I don't read enough ML theory papers like this. Very interesting results here.

As part of the injectivity proof, it's shown that transformers are also real analytic.
LLMs are injective and invertible.

They show that different prompts always map to different embeddings, and this property can be used to recover input tokens from individual embeddings in latent space.

Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511
October 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Last I recall it’s the mathstodon.xyz instance specifically that supports it. I don’t think just any Mastodon instance supports LaTeX otherwise.

LaTeX support is one of the few things I miss about it, but I didn’t often find myself making frequent use of the feature anyways.
Mathstodon
A Mastodon instance for maths people. We have LaTeX rendering in the web interface!
mathstodon.xyz
October 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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The future of data connectivity is columnar. Today we launched
@columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇
Announcing Columnar
Back to the future of data connectivity
columnar.tech
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I need a new laptop. What should I get
October 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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We love it when filmmakers take direct inspiration from great artists and classic paintings. Here are some of our favourites…

First up, The Truman Show (1998) and Au clair de lune (1956) by René Magritte.

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October 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Hugging Face’s new overview of OCR models and when to fine tune etc huggingface.co/blog/ocr-ope...
Supercharge your OCR Pipelines with Open Models
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
October 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Preseason: THE DODGERS ARE RUINING BASEBALL

Regular Season: LOL DODGERS

World Series: THE DODGERS ARE RUINING BASEBALL
October 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Has AWS tried distributed fault-tolerant design principles
October 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
AWS is down so I can't use the bathroom at my WeWork
October 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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So excited to join the AWS team! Just pushed my first code update!
October 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Remember that time someone matched the #moneyball trailer up to the #Simpsons? You can still watch it on the wayback machine! web.archive.org/web/20130727...
web.archive.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Current frustrations with Claude

◻️ Web search returns hallucinated URLs
◻️ Low-quality illustrations/graphics/graphs

Which makes sense, but what is one to do in the middle of a project
October 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I’m so excited for this book.
Hello! I'm very proud to announce that my yearslong research project into the lost Sphere computer, corporation, and community has launched a crowdfunding campaign today for a professionally-printed hardcover book, with a compelling narrative and images! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo...
Go Computer Now! – The Story of Sphere Computers
A book telling the extraordinary story of Sphere, a 1970s Utah personal computer maker far ahead of its time—until its sudden collapse.
www.kickstarter.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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"Free verse" doesn't mean randomly inserting linebreaks into sentences, and too many people think it does
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Rest In Peace, Diane Keaton. Obviously as authentic and unique as she was brilliantly talented. This one really hurts.
October 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM