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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 29/09/2026

I'm sorry to say this applies double to babies.

David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 26/09/2026

Claude just said something is load-bearing, despite my custom instructions being very clear about that phrase but at least it had the sense to add: "sorry — but literally, here, it is: the whole plan rests on it". 2026, man, what a time to be alive.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 25/09/2026

Haha I know, when mine says 0:09 you know it's nearly done 🤣 make it make sense!

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Guardian has printed articles week after week foregrounding the narrative that 'councils are at breaking point' because of the 'burden' of SEN kids having the gall to ask for support that allows them to access the same education as their peers. The focus always on cost, not human dignity.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 21/09/2026

Haha yes "Jupyter within an IDE" is like using an IDE but not really. I would still reach for my trusty (vanilla Jupyter) notebooks for any analysis, but I will be the first to admit I haven't modernised my own data stack. I'm sure there are better tools out there now.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 20/09/2026

Do notebooks like Jupyter count as "outside of an IDE"?

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you are convinced that AI is, despite its flaws & ethical failings, a reliable research tool, ask it a specific question in a domain you know very well. Most people - understandably - ask LLMs questions about areas they're not experts in. They can't judge if the information is accurate.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 06/09/2026

I don't know what "liking" this means but I mean it to mean: sending you good vibes. Having to do any sort of home renovation (on top of everything else in Life) with an impending baby is certifiably Not Fun.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 06/09/2026

Teaching kids how to use an encyclopedia in 2026 feels delightfully rebellious, but also more important than ever!

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 17/08/2026

This is the kind of email Claude could never write.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 14/08/2026

I wonder how much is to do with the attention economy. Maybe we don't trust the reader to remember something if the author doesn't repeat themselves 10 times. Maybe in the moment it annoys me but I wouldn't remember anything from a short book where each point was only made once, I don't know!

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 13/08/2026

OK fair, maybe the publishers don't mandate it, but I'd say the majority of nonfiction I read is too long and feels like padding. Maybe it is down to the authors, but if the publisher's incentives are really aligned with shorter books, do the editors not get involved?

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 13/08/2026

See also: most nonfiction books should be a third of their actual length. I imagine there are publisher pressures forcing people to pad out to 300+ pages but the worst reader experience is finishing (or not) a nonfiction book and thinking it could have been a blog post.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 13/08/2026

Had no idea this was a thing, opted out. Thank you for your service 🫡

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 28/07/2026

Laughed out loud at "minor works of culture", sorry.

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Bhav Patel (Dodonerd) @bhav.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Half Stack Data Science by @davidasboth.com and @shaunmcgirr.bsky.social might be my new favourite podcast.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 28/07/2026

NEW favourite??? BRB gonna go cry

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 26/07/2026

New episode! How will we learn things in an age of AI? Recorded it a while ago, but luckily the topics haven't been made obsolete by recent developments in AI (always a risk). open.spotify.com/episode/3Ch2... #databs #datasky

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S05E03 - How will we learn things?

Half Stack Data Science · Episode

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 17/07/2026

Good advice, I've sort of been assuming all the ideas are already in my brain, but I also often forget why I walked into a room so perhaps some humility and research are in order.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 17/07/2026

The goal for me here in the first instance is not to publish, but to write. I suppose my question is do I hone my craft more by finding competitions, writing groups, peers, or do I just... write a novel and think about the rest later. Or both? Maybe it's not even a useful question, I don't know.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 17/07/2026

I've had a nonfiction textbook published and it was loads of work, paid badly, totally worth it. Feels like writing fiction would be very different, because in the textbook world I had a signed contract before writing a single word.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 17/07/2026

I did your Couch to 80k and the January writing exercises, write more than ever but still sporadically. What's the next step? Just write a novel? Enter writing competitions to hone my writing and get feedback? The ultimate goal is "do more writing to fulfil my creative side" but also "write a novel"

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 16/07/2026

Of course I made that up, this is social media. That reality doesn't exist, and it's just my opinion. Gung-ho was clearly exaggeration. And I do think regardless of how England lost, the media would have attacked Tuchel. Maybe fewer individual fans, but he wouldn't get a free ride as being unlucky.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 16/07/2026

Also - Tuchel would have been crucified if they had gone more gung-ho and lost ("why didn't they try to defend the lead?"). Can't win in his position unless you actually win!

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 16/07/2026

Ooooh that one, I remember that!

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 16/07/2026

It's like "Good Advice Libby's work here is done"

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 16/07/2026

Ouch, did they ever get punished for that song?

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 16/07/2026

Why not very likeable? Interesting. They play some nice football, grind out exciting wins, have a genius among them, and clearly want to win and are fired up with passion. They're also not as bad at playacting as Portugal or Brazil (both much less likable imo). I don't know, they're hardly Paraguay.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 09/07/2026

My favourite AC by a long way (the original, I didn't know there was a remaster, which likely wasn't necessary). People say "it's not really an AC game like the others" and I don't know, maybe that's why it's my favourite 🤣

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 08/07/2026

I think as a society we went wrong when we started using the word "curious" to mean "weird" rather than "inquisitive".

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 02/07/2026

Not bad. Who wouldn't want to see the game reduced to a keeper vs keeper battle?

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 02/07/2026

You know what's even worse though? The thing they do in other sports where one side is randomly "assigned" the winner in case of a draw, e.g. fencing (I believe). Also, replays wouldn't work for knockout tournaments. So what... indefinite extra time? That also sounds bad. Not an easy problem!

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 02/07/2026

As a fan, I hate penalty shootouts more than anything. Even winning on penalties outweighs the stress. Fun if you're a neutral though. Some counterpoints: 1. This WC we've had exceptionally exciting shootouts so far. 2. Extra time was at its worst when they introduced the silver goal in 2004.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 24/06/2026

There are definitely too many Slack channels in the world. That said, I do miss our company one that was dedicated to finding the best flavour of yoghurt in nearby supermarkets.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 23/06/2026

Don't get me started... as an instructor, I've often been benchmarked on NPS and you can get a "bad" NPS score with an average of 7-8 out of 10. And the benchmark scores can be like "over 20 NPS is good" like ?!? So many things wrong with it.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 19/06/2026

Imagine seeing that on LinkedIn and clicking the clap emoji

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 15/06/2026

As with most Olympic sports, everyone becomes an expert in them temporarily, then we don't speak of them for 4 years

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 15/06/2026

I disagree, it's great to watch if you're Hungarian because it's one sport we're consistently good at. But I admit I don't watch it outside of the Olympics...

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 15/06/2026

Where does water polo rank? Underrated "put ball in goal" sport.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 14/06/2026

Particularly hard for generalists who don't have their identity rooted in any one of the N groups they're part of. I feel like a "casual" in all of my interest areas!

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 09/06/2026

What a matchday in Hungarian football history @tmortimer.bsky.social

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 08/06/2026

"You're absolutely right for wanting to turn off the lights! Here's why it's a great idea..." *continue ad nauseam*

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 07/06/2026

The data it captured in the washing machine will be WILD though.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 07/06/2026

Sorry you're having a tough time, Tim. Burnout is so hard to see coming, and rest can feel both impossible and a luxury. A wise man once said, in his Couch to 80k writing bootcamp, something like "your worth isn't based on what you produce". Perhaps those words can make their way through. Take care!

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 03/06/2026

BRB, grieving something that I didn't know didn't exist.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 03/06/2026

But Bhav, I was taught to just drop outliers because they skew the data?!?!

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 03/06/2026

I can relate. I've switched careers somewhat every 5 years so far, and I'm up to year 6 in the current one. I'm definitely feeling The Itch but finding it harder and harder to tell people what I do (because it's: "lots!"). It seems to me generalists have a worse time with this in, ahem, general.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 03/06/2026

Do you not think you have some audience from your "personal brand" (🤮)? I've enjoyed the books of yours I've read so far, the podcast, the writing bootcamps, and I'd genuinely be interested in reading whatever else pops out of your brain. I wonder how much of that is a neurodivergent thing.

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