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· Jul 24
Revisiting Moneyball
Data, sports, payrolls, and memes
djpardis.medium.com
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.
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finally i can publish my curling article.
Finally, I can publish my curling article.
Some might call it shameless. We call it an Olympic sport/stormwater management chip and roll.
neorsd.medium.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
finally i can publish my curling article.
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Are LLMs really a breakthrough?
Wes McKinney says he didn’t see it at first.
Now he says if your code isn’t automatically reviewed by adversarial agents, you’re doomed.
In the latest episode of Data Talks on the Rocks, Mike and Wes talk about how AI is transforming the way he builds software.
Wes McKinney says he didn’t see it at first.
Now he says if your code isn’t automatically reviewed by adversarial agents, you’re doomed.
In the latest episode of Data Talks on the Rocks, Mike and Wes talk about how AI is transforming the way he builds software.
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Are LLMs really a breakthrough?
Wes McKinney says he didn’t see it at first.
Now he says if your code isn’t automatically reviewed by adversarial agents, you’re doomed.
In the latest episode of Data Talks on the Rocks, Mike and Wes talk about how AI is transforming the way he builds software.
Wes McKinney says he didn’t see it at first.
Now he says if your code isn’t automatically reviewed by adversarial agents, you’re doomed.
In the latest episode of Data Talks on the Rocks, Mike and Wes talk about how AI is transforming the way he builds software.
Why do the agents rewrite documents sequentially letter by letter? Can't they just cp or mv? What am I missing?
February 11, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Why do the agents rewrite documents sequentially letter by letter? Can't they just cp or mv? What am I missing?
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Since there's (shockingly) been a lot of pushback on this ...
Every one of those last 10 World Series has featured at least one team with a title drought of between 14 and 108 years.
And eight or them featured a team that had gone at least a quarter-century.
#facts
Every one of those last 10 World Series has featured at least one team with a title drought of between 14 and 108 years.
And eight or them featured a team that had gone at least a quarter-century.
#facts
Your annual MLB vs NFL parity report
Champs last 10 seasons:
MLB: 7 teams
NFL 6 teams
Teams in "finals" last 10 seasons:
MLB 13
NFL 9
Reminder: The NFL is the "any team can win" league
Champs last 10 seasons:
MLB: 7 teams
NFL 6 teams
Teams in "finals" last 10 seasons:
MLB 13
NFL 9
Reminder: The NFL is the "any team can win" league
February 9, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Since there's (shockingly) been a lot of pushback on this ...
Every one of those last 10 World Series has featured at least one team with a title drought of between 14 and 108 years.
And eight or them featured a team that had gone at least a quarter-century.
#facts
Every one of those last 10 World Series has featured at least one team with a title drought of between 14 and 108 years.
And eight or them featured a team that had gone at least a quarter-century.
#facts
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I see the agent class has distributed their talking points
February 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I see the agent class has distributed their talking points
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What are some of your favorite album/LP covers of all time?
February 8, 2026 at 2:01 AM
What are some of your favorite album/LP covers of all time?
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Excited to announce that the Applied ML Conference that I've been involved with in Charlottesville, VA is back again this year, April 17-18!
And we have exciting news that @vickiboykis.com will be our keynote speaker!
Learn more and submit a proposal to join her: appliedml.us/2026/
And we have exciting news that @vickiboykis.com will be our keynote speaker!
Learn more and submit a proposal to join her: appliedml.us/2026/
February 5, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Excited to announce that the Applied ML Conference that I've been involved with in Charlottesville, VA is back again this year, April 17-18!
And we have exciting news that @vickiboykis.com will be our keynote speaker!
Learn more and submit a proposal to join her: appliedml.us/2026/
And we have exciting news that @vickiboykis.com will be our keynote speaker!
Learn more and submit a proposal to join her: appliedml.us/2026/
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this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...
git/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc at master · git/git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documen...
github.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...
What did you ship this week?
February 4, 2026 at 3:45 AM
What did you ship this week?
The kind of thing that makes me wish I came up with it
The OP found manually approving Claude Code’s actions to be a hassle, so he built a physical approval stamp to authorize commands in a traditional East Asian style.
January 31, 2026 at 5:08 AM
The kind of thing that makes me wish I came up with it
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You all miss OldTwitter^tm
I miss LiveJournal
We are not the same
I miss LiveJournal
We are not the same
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 AM
You all miss OldTwitter^tm
I miss LiveJournal
We are not the same
I miss LiveJournal
We are not the same
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Another day, another patch.
January 27, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Another day, another patch.
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"stay in the loop" ... I see what you did there.
January 27, 2026 at 10:26 PM
"stay in the loop" ... I see what you did there.
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Remember when the social networks were good for finding communities, connecting with people, finding gigs, and stuff
January 27, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Remember when the social networks were good for finding communities, connecting with people, finding gigs, and stuff
What's a good DJ newsletter/magazine to stay in the loop in 2026?
January 27, 2026 at 7:50 PM
What's a good DJ newsletter/magazine to stay in the loop in 2026?
Why can't we have nice things?
Welp. Coalesce is no more.
I fear I'll officially no longer be attending any corporate conferences.
#DataBS
I fear I'll officially no longer be attending any corporate conferences.
#DataBS
January 27, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Why can't we have nice things?
Why can't we have nice things?
That's pretty shocking news, Native Instruments, one of the largest companies in music making software, is in preliminary insolvency.
This will have some serious ramifications for both users and employees
cdm.link/ni-insolvency/
This will have some serious ramifications for both users and employees
cdm.link/ni-insolvency/
Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency - CDM Create Digital Music
According to insolvency documents, Berlin-based Native Instruments GmbH (also parent to iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx) is in preliminary insolvency proceedings. This is devastating news for ...
cdm.link
January 27, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Why can't we have nice things?
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Little-known fact: AWS S3 rewrote almost everything in the request path to Rust (!) for better performance.
From Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, who has been heading up AWS S3 for 10+ years.
Full episode in The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast: youtu.be/5vL6aCvgQXU
From Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, who has been heading up AWS S3 for 10+ years.
Full episode in The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast: youtu.be/5vL6aCvgQXU
January 25, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Little-known fact: AWS S3 rewrote almost everything in the request path to Rust (!) for better performance.
From Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, who has been heading up AWS S3 for 10+ years.
Full episode in The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast: youtu.be/5vL6aCvgQXU
From Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, who has been heading up AWS S3 for 10+ years.
Full episode in The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast: youtu.be/5vL6aCvgQXU
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🧪 Awesome announcement from the @quantstack.bsky.social team! Introducing notebook.link, share your computational notebook and have them run directly in the browser with no setup, powered by Jupyterlite and the xeus stack.
#datascience #scientificcomputing
#datascience #scientificcomputing
Introducing notebook.link: The Future of Notebook Sharing
Reimagining how you share, collaborate, and run Jupyter notebooks — all in your browser.
medium.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:05 PM
🧪 Awesome announcement from the @quantstack.bsky.social team! Introducing notebook.link, share your computational notebook and have them run directly in the browser with no setup, powered by Jupyterlite and the xeus stack.
#datascience #scientificcomputing
#datascience #scientificcomputing
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Such a long, long time to be gone… and a short time to be here. RIP Bob Weir
January 11, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Such a long, long time to be gone… and a short time to be here. RIP Bob Weir
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Beyond PPO - The New Wave of Policy Optimization Techniques for LLM Post-Training by yadnyesh
He goes deep into the policy-optimization rabbit hole and dumped his “policy optmzn techniques beyond ppo” notes into one post. He has covered grpo, dr.grpo, gspo, dapo, cispo, gmpo, rspo, and sapo.
He goes deep into the policy-optimization rabbit hole and dumped his “policy optmzn techniques beyond ppo” notes into one post. He has covered grpo, dr.grpo, gspo, dapo, cispo, gmpo, rspo, and sapo.
Beyond PPO - The New Wave of Policy Optimization Techniques for LLM Post-Training
PPO used to be the default workhorse for RLHF because it’s reasonably stable and easy to reason about, but at LLM post-training scale its tradeoffs start to bite: the critic/value model is expensive t...
ydnyshhh.github.io
December 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Beyond PPO - The New Wave of Policy Optimization Techniques for LLM Post-Training by yadnyesh
He goes deep into the policy-optimization rabbit hole and dumped his “policy optmzn techniques beyond ppo” notes into one post. He has covered grpo, dr.grpo, gspo, dapo, cispo, gmpo, rspo, and sapo.
He goes deep into the policy-optimization rabbit hole and dumped his “policy optmzn techniques beyond ppo” notes into one post. He has covered grpo, dr.grpo, gspo, dapo, cispo, gmpo, rspo, and sapo.