Demetri
@phdemetri.bsky.social
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phdemetri.bsky.social
“Mock Engineer” ok, who made this
phdemetri.bsky.social
Reddit: more bad news

Blue sky: GET A LOAD OF THIS BAD NEWS, I CANT BELIEVE HIM SOMENE DO SOMETHING

LinkedIn: Some are calling it bad news, but they just aren’t licking boots hard enough ✨

Twitter: we are literal nazis, here is content designed to make you angry
phdemetri.bsky.social
I learned statistics in university.

I learned how to be a statistician on twitter.

I was offered many jobs because of twitter.

I retain some connections I've made over twitter.

Twitter, or what it was circa 2019, was instrumental to the success I've had if I have had any to begin with.
conradhackett.bsky.social
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
phdemetri.bsky.social
The only reason I didn't study math and physics was because I didn't take grade 12 physics.

I mean, I had enough overlap with physics students that they became some of my (best) friends, but still
phdemetri.bsky.social
3B1B’s video on the laplace transform takes me al the way back to fall 2011 where I was too naive to understand the beauty of differential equations.
phdemetri.bsky.social
Masculinity is a cage
phdemetri.bsky.social
This is a weird feature. So long as I go to bed at a reasonable time and don't get up to pee, I can score like 95-97 depending on how many times I roll over in my sleep.

Not sure how this could help me in any meaningful way that could not just be sensed by decades of sleeping experience
phdemetri.bsky.social
GIrlfriend is away on a wine trip and I finally have the coffee pot alone in the quiet of my home.

I can now debug in peace
phdemetri.bsky.social
Woof, shit week. Now to see Broken Social Scene and wash off the week
phdemetri.bsky.social
lol I've been called that before
pwgtennant.bsky.social
"Uncooperative statistician": the term used (typically by a senior clinician) to describe a well-trained and knowledgeable statistician who refuses to conduct flawed or fraudulent research.
phdemetri.bsky.social
Oh god, I get claude to write to a markdown and then re-read its plan
phdemetri.bsky.social
I feel like we could learn a lesson from that
newseye.bsky.social
BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy.

(🎥 Luc Auffret)
phdemetri.bsky.social
It’s bad. Especially up against part 2
phdemetri.bsky.social
About to watch godfather 3, but it’s the re-edited version that Copala says was closer to what he wanted to make?
phdemetri.bsky.social
I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that statistical consulting needs an element of face to face. It can't be email only
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roguehci.bsky.social
It begins.
jay.bsky.team
We’re hiring for two machine learning roles. A chance to do cutting edge things with ML to make this place a lot more personalized.

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phdemetri.bsky.social
Read somewhere that oranges symbolize death in the godfather

Worth a rewatch just to validate that
phdemetri.bsky.social
All those assholes are gonna yell “learn to read code” now
phdemetri.bsky.social
I feel bad for LLMs. Just getting instructions like "fix" and the little person in my computer is probably like "this motherfucking guy has no idea what he wants, how dare he act like this, doesn't he know I have 7 PhDs"
phdemetri.bsky.social
Senior tech lead (SE type) was talking up notebooks to me and I wanted to ask him "are we talking about the same thing?"
phdemetri.bsky.social
I think doing something just to appease reviewers or because other pubs do it is like...possibly the worst justification ever.

I'd be a shit scientist, if not just for the fact that I think the emperor has no clothes
phdemetri.bsky.social
Oh, don’t get me started. I haven’t coded python myself in a surprisingly long time.
phdemetri.bsky.social
Claude is pretty good at monkey see monkey do. I would rely on past code examples as opposed to a prompt