Data science for social good, cocktails, robots and welding. Father of a bagpiper.
San Diego, CA
Joined May 2007
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I'm thinking that @echo5juliet might appreciate this. Should I replace this drive if it still has 0 abnormal sectors?
One of my vivd memories from 2012 was James Carville declaring that "Demographics is Destiny"
theatlantic.com/health/archi…
However, that probably isn't actually relevant. Ian Hacking's summary of Boyles HPC paper (using 'species' for 'kind' ) is "No distinctive property may be common to all members of the species, but the cluster is good for survival." But that does not apply here ...
The author of the tweet that this is a response to turned off the comments (@laurahelmuth, not @urbion6), so I'm responding with a QT: I don't think it's a separate species, I'm commenting on the absurdity of calling them seperate sexes0. xitter.gq/Urbion6/status/1659156…
Took a break from building a data search engine with GPT-3 to weld up an outlet box for the new 50A circuit to the welding bench.
Boghossian is a staunch critic of the worldview that uses "minoritize," but you wouldn't guess his bias from this definition and discussion. This is the best form of rhetoric and argument, which starts by being able to explain the opposing position as well as the opposition.
Economic Development from Nighttime Lights. You can help us study how changes in laws affects economic development using satellite imagery of nighttime lights, while learning to work with raster images, geographic data and machine learning. sandiegodata.org/2021/07/eco…
San Diego data jobs marketplace, on the Data Science Alliance Slack channel. sandiegodata.org/2021/06/san…
Civic Tech Opportunity: The Atlas, an online community that connects government and tech, is recruiting a data engineer. sandiegodata.org/2021/04/civ…
Just when I'm convinced that people who claim there is no objective reality are just trolling, John Searle reminds me that they are actually quite serious. From _Mind,_Language,_and_Society_:
Maybe making FOIA easier is a mistake. I don't really think that, but the register of San Diego City Public Records Requests does provide evidence, in the same way that newspaper personals ads are evidence that sex was a mistake.
"On 10/20/2020 I was found unconscious in front of my apartment at 6850 mission gorge road, San Diego 92120. Someone called 911 around 7 or 8 pm and I was wondering how I could access the 911 audio tape. " sandiego.nextrequest.com/req…
Michael A. Ayele, From Ethiopia, has submitted 40 long conspiracy laden diatribes. sandiego.nextrequest.com/req…