Working with (synthetic) time series data? Check out the new release of TSGM!

Now powered by Keras 3 🎉 — with support for PyTorch, TensorFlow, and (partially) JAX backends.

🛠️Try it out and share your feedback!

GitHub: github.com/AlexanderVNikitin/tsgm
Paper: shorturl.at/ABylf

🏆 Honored and humbled by this recognition! Huge thanks to @bolozna.bsky.social and Antonis Matakos for their guidance and support. Excited to keep building on these ideas and push them further 📚

Step 1: 🚨 Wake up to a system failure because API requests are timing out

Step 2: 💻 Drop this gem into slack "I did implement throttling, retries, and sleeping... but probably not enough"

Step 3: 🫠 Realize that this applies to both my code AND my life

Genuinely curious: where do you see the data science function and why?

📊 Reporting & Analytics Support
or
🛠️ Engineering & Development

#datasky #mlsky #databs

💭 Every failure is a chance to improve the system.

My favorite technical moments aren't the flashiest 💥.
Sometimes a bug fix is just a few lines of code, but the real work is asking "why" and "what if" (many times).

🌟 "A fundamental architecture practice is defining words, making sure that the definitions of these words are clear. It isn't just about getting along better with people. It'll end up in the code, it'll end up in the database"

Developer Voices is always 🔝

At no other time have I learned so much and so fast as while working side-by-side with a "data-conscious" software engineer. SOLID (pun intended 🤓) SEing practices and mindset are must-haves across most roles for a team that aims to ship and maintain production-grade data products.

Almost every influence operation account is run by actual people who craft their messages individually. They're still inauthentic accounts that are coordinating to manipulate the discussion on a platform in a desired direction or to influence people into thinking a certain way!

Bluesky search tips

Advanced search operators + Google search tricks +Tools to get profile info in one pic

#osint #socmint

functional programmers opening Advent of Code day one be like "zipWith!"

🎉 Advent of Code Day One: got my shiny stars ✨✨ by solving the puzzles in Python, Rust, Scala, and TypeScript! 🧩💻

Python 🐍: safe bet
Rust 🦀: rewarding and fast if it compiles
Scala: I super love FP ❤️ but I forgot how messy the Java stacktrace is 🐘
TypeScript: maybe the least interesting for AoC?

Just found out about LocalStack 🤯 It allows to run and test #AWS CDK applications on a local machine (as opposed to my usual synth, push and pray 😂). It could go into CI/CD as well. I feel such a noob for discovering it only now. Anyone has experience with it? docs.localstack.cloud/getting-star...

My intrusive thought for today: pandas 🐍 and functional programming patterns ✨

`.pipe()` and chaining are great for readability and resemble a functional programming style, but pandas does not fully adhere to functional programming principles due to its handling of mutable objects and side effects

Going back to basics and diving into a classic 📚🎓. Earlier this month I was reading how, if data scientists lack in the basics of SW engineering, there is a higher risk of failure for ML, if it even reaches production. 💡 Does a skill gap exist, and if yes, why and how should it be fixed? 🤔 #databs

One of my toxic traits is cringing when #oop in #python is misused to define classes that have no meaningful behavior. Why defining a class with all its overhead to do what a function or a few lines of code could handle? 💻🤔 #TechPetPeeves #coding

Alas

Thorn between plain #python and spinning up #kafka for fault-tolerant data ingestion from bluesky firehose on a standalone VM. No configurable infra or cloud services—only old-school garage tinkering allowed. 🛠️ So hard to shift mindset! Curious to hear thoughts from #databs about the tech stack 😊💻🔍

Probabilistic Uncertainty xkcd.com/3007

I'm a die-hard fan of `pyenv` + `pipenv`/`poetry`, but `uv` made setting up a new project with local #python a breeze even in Windows. 🚀✨ Kudos to astral.sh team! (And yeah, will ask Santa for a non-Windows laptop for personal use) 🎅💻 #devtools