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David Neuzerling

@md.neuzerl.ing
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Data scientist and R engineer. Also Python and Julia. Accidental econometrician. I mostly post about R, sometimes Georgism/YIMBYism and Warhammer. Melbourne, Australia. Blog: mdneuzerling.com

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 01/10/2026
Doesn’t feel very personal
Screenshot of an email, cropped to just the subject, salutation, and first line of the body. Text reads:

“Participate in the AI-DMI Survey 2026

 
Dear %%FIRST NAME%%,
 
I am writing to personally invite your”
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 28/09/2026
I played one recently where all bosses required parrying, but trash mobs discouraged it. Too dangerous when you could just stab twice to take care of them. I have no idea what that game expected of me.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 27/09/2026
Side note, she’s now comfortable with me giving her a little scritch on the back of the neck. I used to be a pigeon hater but I’m a convert now. Pigeons rule
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 27/09/2026
Incredible play from my Magic the Gathering opponent, didn’t see that coming at all
A spotted dove next to a Magic the Gathering card, a 2/2 token Bird with flying
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 23/09/2026
Some folks in my area complained about a guy bringing his bunny rabbit to the park. I cannot imagine my life being so perfect and trouble-free that “the community is using communal space” would make it onto my list of concerns. Honestly, I’m jealous.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 20/09/2026
Education is all about the process, not the outcome, which is fundamentally incomprehensible to the tech bros. They would treat it as a problem like “maximising exam scores” and solve that instead
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 15/09/2026
One time I gave a presentation on wine data analysis and I claimed that a rosé was a mixture of red and white and afterwards a person came up to me and yelled at me in French
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 14/09/2026
For the last 2 years I have been tracking a generational change in the nature of software development, and I think I've finally decided where all of this turmoil is going to end up. It's good news, but not for everybody. seldo.com/posts/we-are-all-product-…
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We are all Product Engineers now | Seldo.com
Agents are eating the software development lifecycle from the bottom up — code generation already gone, review and ops following fast. What remains is figuring out what people actually want, which can't be automated or scaled. That job is called product engineering, it pays $240k, and nobody's training for it.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 14/09/2026
Kagi, while a paid service, is the antidote to bad web search. It also proves that god-awful web search is a deliberate choice that Google made
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 14/09/2026
AI is on its way to definitively solving the problem of “too much human communication”, which is a problem no one had
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 14/09/2026
I’ve gone from AI optimist to someone who is genuinely depressed by it all. The AI slop posters in every shop front are aggressively bland. People send me emails they haven’t even read. Customer support, barely human in the first place, is now 100% AI. I guess I can write good-ish code faster?
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 13/09/2026
“Great! Let me know how you go.”
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 13/09/2026
How long until it becomes socially acceptable to say “this looks like AI slop, I’m not reading it” ?
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 07/09/2026
Trying something new to reduce the chance of AI prose ever leaking into my own writing. My LLMs now speak like a HK-47 hunter-killer droid. It’s such a clipped, hostile, outlandish style that I’m never going to use it to talk to another human being. And sometimes it calls me “meatbag”
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 06/09/2026
I love CSV for the virtue that it is not an Excel file, which is the standard practice when encoding data
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 05/09/2026
All this talk of what it means to be a data scientist in 2026 is silly. A data scientist is someone who extracts data from XML files. That’s always been the definition and always will be.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 05/09/2026
Immediately stealing this phrase from Niklas Gruhn. “Meat proxy”: someone who relays content to/from AI, adding no value in the process gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...
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Niklas Gruhn - Don't be a meat proxy
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 01/09/2026
One thing they don’t tell you about home ownership is just how much you’ll appreciate exposed utilities. I want every single pipe and conduit above ground, visible, and repairable
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 31/08/2026
Vibe coding feels like I’ve been given a high-interest credit card with no limit. I get so much code written! And then I look at the actual code and I go “oh no… oh dear god no…” I saw it described once as “patch-on-patch-on-patch” and that’s exactly what it is
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 28/08/2026
A new Fehervari book! I’m not even reading the blurb, this is an instant pre-order for me
A picture of a Warhammer 40K novel “Cold Covenant” by Peter Fehervari. Soldiers holding guns stand atop a ridge overlooking a frozen wasteland.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 26/08/2026
This is my bird friend, Bobo
A spotted dove sitting on my hand
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 24/08/2026
Ugh I’m so sorry. The market must be brutal right now. I’m copping it from the other end. Candidates who think that I can’t tell that they’re reading AI answers.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 24/08/2026
Maybe we need to start dropping blog posts about how incredible we are as employees, to prepare for the era of AI hiring
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 24/08/2026
LLMs gobble up and regurgitate marketing material with absolutely no scepticism at all. Ran into two situations today where it claimed things to be true just because corporate press releases said so.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 24/08/2026
These are the models I was most proud of painting in 2025. Horses are bloody hard to paint and I think I actually managed to capture that musculature here. And I’m finally starting to get value gradients right. (Kurnoth’s Heralds, Warhammer Underworlds)
Three painted plastic miniatures. Centaurs with red armour on stony oval bases.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 17/08/2026
Using three hyphens instead of an em-dash to signal both that my writing is human and that I love markdown
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 17/08/2026
They’ve released a sequel to my favourite enemies-to-lovers romance book! (The Warhammer 40K novel The Infinite and the Divine)
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 15/08/2026
Collated some book reviews into a little blog post: mdneuzerling.com/post/some-bo...
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Some books what I done read recently - David Neuzerling
Some books what I done read recently and one book that doesn’t exist but I wish it did.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 14/08/2026
Platform Decay (Murderbot #8) by Martha Wells. Look. The first Murderbot novella is like, 140 pages. Just go read it. Find out why everyone identifies with a part-flesh part-metal killing machine who just wants to watch its soap operas and not feel feelings.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 14/08/2026
Radiant Star by Ann Leckie. When I read the Imperial Radch trilogy I immediately read it again. This series is that good. I loved every time a new gender was introduced. Like each neopronoun is a middle finger to the worst type of person.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 14/08/2026
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes. Art, perfume, and giant bugs dominate life in a city built into a giant tree atop a fetid river. Twisted and weird if you go for books like that, and I most certainly do. If your favourite character in Miéville books is the setting, this is for you.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 14/08/2026
Children of Time/Ruin/Memory/Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I love how every book is almost in a different genre. Time is about cute little alien bros, Ruin is horror, Memory is mindfuck, and Strife is… deicide? Yes on all of those.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 14/08/2026
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Cool aliens who are truly and incomprehensibly alien. Shortlisted for the Hugo and my personal pick.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 14/08/2026
The Tainted Cup/A Drop of Corruption/A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett. Incredible murder mysteries, cool biopunk worlds. Din makes terrible decisions but titan’s taint I love him. If you read nothing else, read these.
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 14/08/2026
Couple of books I’ve read recently that I’m obsessed with:
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 11/08/2026
This whole exercise has been a massive confidence boost, seeing the LLM struggle. ME: “Use a Tweedie distribution for the GAM” LLM: “Got it boss, one Poisson distribution coming right up”
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 10/08/2026
You are absolutely in that group
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 10/08/2026
“proper GAM” because I’ve done a million linear regressions before and, despite Claude staunchly disagreeing with me about this, I’m 99.9% sure a linear regression is a GAM
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 10/08/2026
Feels silly to say this given that my average follower is a genius-tier statistician, but I just defined my first proper GAM 🥹
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 29/07/2026
Programming tip: never type out a 10-character command when you could instead press the up arrow for 5 minutes until you find that command in your history
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 19/07/2026
Once again playing Elden Ring. I found out that, according to the community, the all-strength with big weapon build is called “unga bunga”, but if you split strength and intelligence it’s called “I unga therefore I bunga”
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 17/07/2026
Have you seen how powerful this thing is? I use it for some bespoke static analysis of hundreds of R files and it finishes before I’ve fully depressed the Enter key
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 17/07/2026
Increasingly convinced that the programming language I need to get better at isn’t R, Python, Julia or Rust. It’s awk
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
hardware prices 🤝 astrology keeping an eye on chinese ram
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 04/07/2026
Just want to say that I still remember your RStudioconf talk from 2020 and it was great!
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 03/07/2026
I just saw a job ad for Data Science at LEGO and I’m so happy to see that they use Databricks
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 26/06/2026
I forget where I heard this, but someone once said that there are two rules to a question: the first sentence must end with a question mark, and there is no second sentence
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 18/06/2026
The AFR complained about “the rough treatment One Nation gets from the media” in an opinion piece singing her praises 🫠
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 08/06/2026
What?!
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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 04/06/2026
I want to share with you the advice an Indonesian chef just gave me regarding grinding spice mixes: the pastier the tastier
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