Tyler Vigen
@TylerVigen
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My defining qualities are curious and stubborn. Creator of spurious correlations:
Minneapolis, MN
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I just published a wildly over-researched article about a question that has been plaguing me for months: Why is this bridge here?
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He's making a database
He's sorting it twice
SELECT * from contacts WHERE behavior = 'nice'
SQL Clause is coming to town
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The larger the sample size the more trustworthy the data, because the Ns justify the means.
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I just watched a movie about databasing. I can't wait for the SQL.
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For everyone who noticed the Spurious Correlations site is down: my host upgraded its PHP version and deprecated the MySQL calls I wrote when I was 22.
...I am working on it.
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Using a VPN feels like using The Force.
"Pandora is not available in Mexico."
*waves hand* "I am in... New Jersey."
"Welcome to Pandora."
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I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, backwards compatibility is HARD.
On the other: I am literally just Ctrl+Fing my code to replace "mysql_connect" with "mysqli_connect."
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You ever screw up so badly that the error log recording how badly you screwed up is 100GB?
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"Lines of code" is a metric without a meaning, but it's still fun to visualize billions of them:
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SELECT * FROM reindeer ORDER BY nose_brightness DESC LIMIT 1
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When I don't know what category a new-to-me program falls in, I just Google that thing vs to see the autocompletes.
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I only trust downloading EXEs from sites where it looks like the webmaster hand-coded the HTML.
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Few things are as comforting as Googling a software issue and having your exact problem pop up on autocomplete.
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I now officially have enough routers, switches, and servers in my house to call it "internet" without connecting to anything else.
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Feeling down about the country? Politics will have no meaning in 7bn years when the sun absorbs the earth.
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After a police shooting when leaders say they will "Wait for all the facts to come out," surely that is code for "Wait to see the public's reaction."
It's a 2-min interaction with 10 seconds that are important, and it's all on camera. Take a stand about what is right and wrong.
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Opium production in Afghanistan correlates with this picture Steve Evans took of Mount Everest .
http://t.co/heEzMse6ni
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My new thesaurus is terrible. Not only that, but it's also terrible.
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I am working with weather data for a project. All of
@NOAA
's data is like, "One day's worth of readings is 50GB and it's in the same data format as it was in 1985 and you can only read it using this software we wrote in FORTRAN. Good luck!"
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I'm immune to the 2038 problem because I store all my dates as UNIX epoch seconds in text blobs.
Follow me for more future-proof tech tips!
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My mom sent me this photo of her keyboard. Until I get her a new one, what is the longest word she can type using only the letters that have not worn off?
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How in the world did "Intentionally commit bugs to an open source project" make it past an ethics review committee?
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You know who the WORST programmer is? Me from last time I worked on this project. What a hack.
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Passwordle is surely the best Wordle offshoot: it matches the SHA-256 hash against the hash of the correct password.
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The best thing since sliced bread is very possibly unsliced bread.
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Whenever I'm writing raw HTML it always starts with CSS, DIVs, and consistent styling.
Then it devolves into <center><b><u>Good enough</u></b></center>
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Charting pro tip: if your pie chart looks like this, you shouldn't be using a pie chart.
http://t.co/fVwwEgma1A
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The only difference between a programmer and a non-programmer is one says "I don't know where to start."
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There's a correlation between the wild boar population and the Polish election outcomes.
#Spurious
?
http://t.co/PiFuK9Juhy
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My wife and I have beefy gaming laptops, yet keep buying games with system requirements like this:
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No one on earth gives me as much dedicated time and undivided attention as my cats before I feed them.
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Banks that put character limits on passwords are insane. My Kindle books are more difficult to hack than my checking account.
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"Omg Stackoverflow is offline. How am I supposed to work?"
Story of my life.
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The purpose of deleting the error log was to free up space for more error logs.
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.
@peabodyenergy
apparently thinks coal consumption increases life expectancy. Riiiiight.
#spurious
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It was easier to build a DNS server that trashes *.microsoft.com requests on my LAN than to fix all the privacy settings in Win 10.
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It's OK to use gaffer tape to secure an internal hard drive when you don't have enough slots, right?
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The saying "all that glitters isn't gold" can only be inferred to mean "gold does not glitter." It says nothing about things that are not gold, except that they are not gold. Change my mind.
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I wonder if CAPTCHAs were invented not to tell computers and humans apart, but to trick programmers into solving computer vision problems.
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I thought the biggest leap we'd make in space this year was flying by Pluto. But it actually turned out to be landing on Earth.
#SpaceX
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Linking refugees to terrorism or violent crime would be spurious.
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What you get if you ping every IPV4 address on the internet (via
@achillean
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http://t.co/sa7LGnnWXB
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God created the earth at midnight on Jan 1, 1970. He then declared a 32-bit unsigned integer sufficient for the second of the epoch.
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In the beginning God created light. Then he was all like, "I bet we only need 68 years of this shit" and created the 32-bit integer.
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When you don't have a rubber duck but you do have a volleyball and an elusive software bug.
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Yo mamma so fat she participated in a research study and raised the n from 12 to 27.
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CORRELATION: Coincidence confidently mistaken for cause.
http://t.co/j5R8YwjP6J
Love it
@jimsterne
http://t.co/YmlZeNE5MU
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My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
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To those who think this means I fixed the error: no, this means I deleted the error log.
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The result of plotting millions of journal entries of ships from the 18th and 19th centuries.
http://t.co/zCT6NQnBrN
http://t.co/CLCRUUNRUM
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I don't remember the name of the dataset I'm looking for, so I am searching my hard drive for "data"... it's not very effective.
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Ooo Bitcoin skyrocketed this week! What should I do with all of my newfound eight dollars?
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I am learning a CAD program for a project rn - first time ever that I wish I paid more attention in highschool geometry
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Working on a long term personal project is like working with a less talented version of myself. I hate him and his lack of comments.
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Does a Columbus Day sale mean I can get lost on the way, claim I discovered your store, and steal all your stuff?
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
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"
#Statistics
are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination." -Vin Scully
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No one is ever going to read this code. The only reason I would put these SQL queries in upper case is BECAUSE I LIKE SCREAMING SOMETIMES.
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Correlation without causation equals…a book!
#SpuriousCorrelations
on sale now
http://t.co/o4eYrParbe
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Notepad++ is throwing an error when I use Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V.
It is hard for me to describe how terrible this is.
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You're stuck in 2nd person and you can't get out. Help you. Help you. Please. Help you.
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"Who would write shoddy code like this?" you ask.
It was me. Past Tyler wrote this.
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Social media users should take a cue from how programmers name variables:
#camelCaseHashtags
for readability.
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The marriage rate in Maine correlates with deaths caused by amputation of limbs.
http://t.co/6CQRHjo1HA
http://t.co/oF6zCtXJVS
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The feeling when you write over 100 lines of code and it works the first time (without debugging) must be what heaven is like.
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This "Frequently Bought Together" combination is one of the things I am most proud of.
http://t.co/QkRz8zomzU
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Can you guess which image is NC's actual cong. districts and which is our genetic gerrymandering algorithm?
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Fantastic visualization of gerrymandering
http://t.co/9Oleb3bjQS
from
@DataToViz
@slimloon
@yourdatastar
@BigDataAnalysis
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If we learn only one thing from GME, it should be: "Don't short-sell when the short interest already exceeds the float."
We should not have needed to learn that, but here we are.
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People need to stop using the "X for Y" analogy as if it's the Uber for Analogies.
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Big pharma marketing spending vs. R&D spending.
http://t.co/yeJapq0jFX
@dadaviz
http://t.co/l2HKilA0gY
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Does anyone else avoid using the in-browser search bar to ask Google stupid questions so you aren't haunted by the search text that stays?
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