'There were so many esses in it. It just had to be subversive.' Ex-Astro Research Software Engineer. Views are only my own.
Oxford, England
Joined August 2012
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Tim Staley retweeted
Taylor Swift is rerecording her albums because the first Taylor Series was only an approximation.
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I just found out the @CERN uses @FastAPI (and @pydantic) 🚀
...to control particle accelerators 🧪
...including the Large Hadron Collider 🤯
What is that word for humbled and frightened? 😅
epc-ccs.web.cern.ch/content/…
Straight out of @GreatDismal's Bridge trilogy
Tim Staley retweeted
Young Justin: “why do these people keep repeating the same guidelines? Surely everyone has heard by now.”
Middle-aged Justin: *simultaneously smoking five cigarettes*
Tim Staley retweeted
No resources or time to fit a neural network? Just do logistic regression. Technically, it's a neural network and your customers won't notice anything. Marketing is everything.
7/n
Tim Staley retweeted
oh no what has @awscloud done
I didn’t spend fifteen years yelling at people not to use S3 as a file system just to be undone by the S3 team itself!
Deep dive is here: aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage…
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If you're into Python packaging, good read here from @pradyunsg (pip maintainer and more :)) in response to the most recent Python Packaging survey
pradyunsg.me/blog/2023/01/21…
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I’ve been often asked why I’m using Nox for running my #Python test suites lately. I’ve been evading the question because I can’t explain it without contrasting it with Tox, a project very dear to my heart.
I’ve finally given in: Why I Like Nox: hynek.me/articles/why-i-like…
Tim Staley retweeted
girl goes to dr. says she's depressed. haskell seems harsh and cruel. she feels alone in cabal hell where dependency bounds are vague and uncertain.
doctor says "go to nliu.net. great haskell infodumps. should unblock you"
girl starts crying and says "but dr,,,"
Tim Staley retweeted
I suspect—& naturally I can't prove this—that if you want to enjoy marvelling at large language models, feeling you can genuinely hardly distinguish them from a human being, you had better do it while you can
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38. The result is a public ethical discourse of heroes and villains entirely unsuited to the reality of a bunch of flawed humans mostly trying to do their best but often failing
