I have for new job been using DataDeps.jl it is nice to just pick up a package I wrote during grad school and have barely touched since, and it still 1) works 2) is completely fit for purpose. It's like I want someone else's data on my computer and I don't want to think about it

So Runge-Kutta methods are just midpoint methods with more sampling points? and slopes caculated from other samples to workout where next samples go? And usually, adaptive time stepping?

After many years I am back in classical ML land. I return to a question i had back then. Is it a standard technique to orthogonalize features before applying Decision Tree type methods? (e.g. run PCA first) It makes excellent sense to me and seems to work. Does it have a name?

me trying to do things in python is very funny. Its like "How do i install mamba? why are all the instructions deprecated? Did i install mamba wrong? oh no i did"

urggg breaking changes in python 3.12, distutils standard library was removed. This language is so unstable, people shouldn't use it. It has broken one of the tools i install through apt on ubuntu's package manager. Why ubuntu not bundle compatible versions?

I am so far testing negative for covid post juliacon. I know at least 4 people have tested positive since. I was N95 masked during flights/airport, and spent most of my time in the outside main track, plus in peak vaccine efficacy period. But still can get unlucky.

I would strongly encourage male speakers at tech conferences not to make jokes or give funny examples about women. (Even ones that are not obviously sexual)