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looking at the data | product engineering @nomic_ai | fmr. @michigandaily web editor

NYC
Joined February 2012
The needle is cool but I like this view better, captures both the changing forecast and the forecast certainty
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made the needle for snow accumulation robertlesser.com/snow-needle…
Need an nyt needle for accumulation
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playing around with IntersectionObserver, it gets so much easier to reason about when it jumps out at you. you should use it!
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From the same spot this morning
It's okay to stare. i would too. 📷: mingomatic/IG
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Very excited about this model, and for new ways to understand and explore embedding space 🔭
Announcing Nomic Embed v1.5 🪆🪆🪆 - Variable sized embeddings with matryoshka learning and an 8192 context. - Outperforms OpenAI text-embedding-3-small across output sizes. - Open source, open training code, open data. Day 0 in @langchain, @llama_index and @MongoDB
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Earthquake depth (a rare z dimension in geo-spatial contexts) allows for interesting ways to peak into the earth's crust.
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Thank you for the recognition @observablehq! This was such a fun project and wouldn't have been possible without Observable
🏆 This year, we would like to recognize extraordinary members of our community; those who have gone above and beyond. These engaged and supportive community members help us grow and develop as we make data accessible to everyone. 👉 ow.ly/2PkQ50M7Hqz
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Are players more likely to only tweet out their better results? Based on an a comparison of word difficulty vs. tweet volume, the answer appears to be yes. Read the full analysis: observablehq.com/@rlesser/wo… 4/4
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What properties made a word more difficult? The top two were double letters and uncommon letters. 3/4
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The hardest past words, according to twitter? SWILL, FERRY, PROXY The easiest past words? POINT, THORN, TAPIR Here are the top 10 hardest and easiest words of the past 81 games: 2/4
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