Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I want a "Restore pages" button even when Chrome *didn't* shut down unexpectedly 000
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I can do a lot of things on four hours of sleep, but reasoning about async/await is not one of them 000
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Honey like in that one Futurama episode actually exists!? 🤯 phys.org/news/2026-08...phys.org'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is now being sold online worldwideA few months ago, a friend of mine told me that his father-in-law had been rushed to the hospital after eating some wild honey brought back from the hills of Nepal. 000
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Really good post on LLMs and testing: nolanlawson.com/2026/08/16/y... Especially love the discussion of how essentially any bug can be fixed by humans or LLMs by coding a custom path for the relevant edge case, but humans understand that is a code smell and LLMs don't.nolanlawson.comYou can just choose how many bugs you want nowThere’s a bizarre aspect of AI coding that I’ve been trying to put my finger on, and I think it’s this: you can basically just decide how many bugs you want your software to have … 100
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Increasingly convinced that being able to write with a distinctive voice is going to become even more important to being taken seriously in the future 000
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 25/07/202611yo: "I appreciate wine. It makes Mommy happy." 🤦♂️ 000
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Corruption and graft and Feelings aside, I just generically love the concept of suspending a suspension www.espn.com/soccer/story...espn.comUSMNT's Folarin Balogun has red card suspended by FIFA, available to face BelgiumFIFA have suspended the red card USMNT striker Folarin Balogun received in the match against Bosnia-Herzegovina, meaning he is available to face Belgium in the round-of-16. 020
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 08/08/2025I want a contest where the prize is that a full tv crew and the best announcers in the sport of your choosing show up to broadcast your local rec league game. 101
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Something has gone haywire in an Amazon database somewhere 000
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 09/06/2026Big news: Capital Weather is now independent at CapitalWeather.com. We’re building a new home for trusted DC-area weather coverage — with around-the-clock forecasts, live updates and deeper local weather and climate coverage. 1/4 24818186
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Google stop offering to "enhance my slides." You're gonna give me a complex 000
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The Last Starfighter but instead of an arcade game it's mandatory corporate compliance trainings 000
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Great post, perfectly encapsulates something I don't see enough people taking about: these models are just not great at considering the ergonomics of the software they're writing 0152
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Crying laughing rn at this list of reinforcement learning failures: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 111
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Code design lesson for the day: always separate your data I/O from your algorithm logic 011
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 31/12/2025The more I play with bleeding edge data science tools the more I'm grateful for all of my time in grad school spent wrangling C++ compilers 100
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵python.orgThe official home of the Python Programming Language 12363772727
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/10/2025It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it. 161132045794
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 16/08/2025"Beginning from scratch with a complex system is a really bad idea." This line alone is gold. 000
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Oh cool, now astral has made all my PyPI expertise obsolete, just like my conda and pip and mypy and black and flake8 expertise. Thanks guys 🙃 000
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 08/08/2025I want a contest where the prize is that a full tv crew and the best announcers in the sport of your choosing show up to broadcast your local rec league game. 101
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 06/08/2025If you are considering writing an orchestration tool that must serialize all data to disk (or worse, remote storage) before passing it between each step, I beg you to reconsider your life choices 000
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 01/08/2025My number one tip for learning how to design better data analysis and modeling software? Spend a decade writing bad code, and then later having to refactor that code. I've found a lot of shortcuts to learn other data science skills but I've yet to find a way to truly short-circuit this one 120
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 26/07/2025You know, saying "you can either floss your teeth or get this needle stabbed into your shoulder" might actually get my kids to start flossing 010
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 30/05/2025There's the obvious "actually the space program had a ton of foreign-born contributors" and also the "some of those contributors were actual Nazis" responses here, but I just want to add that if you're at all interested in the space race I highly recommend the miniseries "From The Earth To The Moon" 100
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 12/05/2025“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house” 156127173347
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 06/05/2025When I ask people how it's going and they respond "can't complain," to me that just means they're not trying hard enough 000
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 24/04/2025@matt-levine.bsky.social coming in hot with an amazing explanation of a common #databs career arc in today's Money Stuff (bonus points for using astro🔭 as the example) 020
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook Eamonn Hart @eamonnhart.bsky.social · 14/04/2025The position of the democratic party should be "you can return him now, or we will come get him when we are back in power, and drop you off at the Hague on the flight home." 18727207
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/04/2025It’s been lost in the tariff news but the fact that the U.S. government can accuse you of a crime and send you to an El Salvadoran prison without trial, is legitimately scarier than the most hyperbolic claims of fascism made by the left during the election. 1882901690
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp. 108111285043
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Repeal the Alien Enemies Act. www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/p...cnn.comSupreme Court allows Trump to enforce Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now | CNN PoliticsThe Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for now, handing the White House a significant victory that will let immigration officials rely on a sweepin... 000
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Don't forget: at any point Republicans could stop the tariffs by simply voting to revoke the authority they gave the president to set tariffs. They're as complicit as the Executive branch in this wapo.st/3FW3Gk1wapo.stAnalysis | Tariffs are taxing GOP unityIn today’s edition … Trump throws support behind Sununu Senate run … daughter of Grijalva leads the field in election to replace her late father. 000
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me. 6844576914031
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 02/04/2025This is some fucked up shit right here: wapo.st/42dW9Vdwapo.stTrump administration says it mistakenly deported Salvadoran migrantThe government blamed “an administrative error” for the deportation of Kilmar Abrego García, a Salvadoran immigrant married to a U.S. citizen. Officials say they’re unable to return him to his family. 041
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Pete Hegseth in 2016: "How damaging is it to your ability to recruit or build allies with others when they are worried that our leaders may be exposing them because of their gross negligence or their recklessness in handling information?" 8649811313
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I called my senator who had not committed to a vote on Wednesday. I had to wait on hold for 20 minutes because so many people were calling. The person I spoke to said they were getting a lot of calls about it, and the next day the senator came out as a "no". It does work! 010
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I dunno, "I Don't Vote For Anything The President Wants As Long As The President Is Doing Blatantly Unconstitutional Things" seems like a pretty easy choice to me. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comAnalysis | Democrats’ impossible choice on the shutdownGaming out the pros and cons of a very difficult vote for the blue side. 000
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/03/2025100%. Do not enable all of this. A short term government shutdown is nothing compared to illegal systematic government shutdown via DOGE 1059184
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 10/03/2025All I want to do is talk about neat data stuff, but when shit like this keeps happening that feels so naive and useless. Call your congresspeople! 000
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I don't know who needs to hear this, but I called both my senators and my congressman today and it was super easy. In some cases you can just leave a voicemail, but the person I did have to talk to was super helpful and nice! 000
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025removal of Musk's goons from GSA and Treasury's payment system and appointment of an independent prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened should be the table stakes for any Dem votes on the budget or debt ceiling. Should get more than that, but that's a bare minimum. 553737788
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area 479103042543
Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 03/02/2025I just don't understand why democratic congresspeople aren't, like, going down to the usaid offices and forcing the doors open and kicking out people doing unconstitutional things. What else could they be doing that's more important? Make it make sense 100
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The ads write themselves. “Donald Trump has given Elon Musk control of your Social Security check,” over footage of Elon’s salute, a flaming Tesla, and Starship wreckage crashing to Earth. 371690417
Reposted by Andrew Schechtman-Rook 🎃Savage👻 @citizensavage.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Credible reports of NSF, DOE, EPA and CDC enforcing the illegal impoundment order from Trump's OMB in contravention of Judge AliKhan's temporary injunction. 331672588
