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One thing I like about this place is how folks list the company they work for in their bio. Look at us. We’re incredible. All of us with our lives and lil jobs

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Me: *fills myself up with delicious, nutritious food* My body: Thanks, now time for a little treat

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Know your triggers, and have a plan for how to cope with their effects in a healthy way

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Kirsten Lum @machsci.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I love when Instacart suggests wines to pair with the string cheese I just added to my cart.

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Don’t think of it as whether the data has error or not. Most of the time it will. Think of it as whether the error in the data will cause you to make a different decision than if the data was perfectly clean. Most of the time it won’t.

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Conversely, database tools should offer some affordance for enforcing correct joins, especially in cases where identifiers are not unique in this way. But they don’t! Inexplicable to me.

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And all the cloud platform maxxers were like

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One of the biggest things I learned this year is there are several things you can do with your body to activate debug mode on your mind. They’re so simple, the mind generally won’t put up much resistance to doing them. But in order for it to work, you have a template for a healthy mind to install.

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Kirsten Lum @machsci.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Identifiers which are only unique within another identifier’s scope (e.g., product IDs that are only unique within their category) are the submarine screen doors of data.

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If you give an analyst tabular relational data, they’re going to build a world model, part 1

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Kirsten Lum @machsci.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

3 year-old: This is a special coffee. It’s called — juice! Do you want to try some?

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Kirsten Lum @machsci.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The #1 skill for delivering ML models at an eye watering pace is setting performance goals. The goal is not to build the best model. The goal is to build a model that beats the status quo, and get it in production as fast as you can. It works like this:

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Defining a sustainable business optimization metric that is not dollars is extremely hard.

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When something is going wrong, try skipping over the, “Why is this happening?” phase, and going straight to the, “What would happen if…” phase. Not only is the problem usually solved faster, you often learn the why in the process.

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AI doesn’t have a problem writing code. It has a problem creating a system of inputs and outputs.

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Kirsten Lum @machsci.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Claud’s favorite way to gaslight me: “Ah apologies, that code only works with newer versions of this package. Let’s try something else.”

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Because all data is either a snapshot of reality or a proposal for how to categorize and describe it (aka facts and dimensions)

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Kirsten Lum @itskirstenlum.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas to all those who don’t celebrate but would still welcome sincere wishes for their peace and flourishing.

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All I want for Christmas is uuuuuniversally unique identifiers instead of incrementing integers!

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Don’t ask me to make a “quick spreadsheet” for someone because I’m going to use the full might of my Excel skills and it’ll look better than everyone else’s lol

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Toum is the savory version of whipped cream

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Like making me play flawless Stravinsky on my MX Keys

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