we did use it when I was at Invenia for test data. And I did (mostly very shortly after starting) make some minor changes to it for Invenia, mostly just to make it support auth'd AWS3 via S3Paths.jl.(or anything else that overloads `download`).

I have for new job been using DataDeps.jl.it is nice to just pick up a package I wrote during grad school and have barely touched since,.and it still.1) works.2) is completely fit for purpose. It's like I want someone else's data on my computer and I don't want to think about it.

Fundamentals of Systems Biology (2015) by Markus Covert.Equation 6.16 is an implementation of sampling from a categorical variable. Its a medium smart one. But its not the smartest (alias tables are the smartest). I feel like the implementation should have been a sidebar.

I am finally learning how ODE solvers work. Turns out it is not gradient descent, nor is it interior point methods. There goes my two working models.

So Runge-Kutta methods are just midpoint methods with more sampling points? and slopes caculated from other samples to workout where next samples go?.And usually, adaptive time stepping?.

It does lose interpretability,.but it means your features (once othogonalized) run along the lines that decision trees (etc) can split on.

After many years I am back in classical ML land. I return to a question i had back then. Is it a standard technique to orthogonalize features before applying Decision Tree type methods?.(e.g. run PCA first).It makes excellent sense to me and seems to work. Does it have a name?.

i did it.

me trying to do things in python is very funny. Its like "How do i install mamba? why are all the instructions deprecated? Did i install mamba wrong? oh no i did".

wow, imp was removed too. and can't be installed via any package?.So tools are just broken?.

urggg breaking changes in python 3.12, distutils standard library was removed. This language is so unstable, people shouldn't use it. It has broken one of the tools i install through apt on ubuntu's package manager. Why ubuntu not bundle compatible versions?.

I was a good girl and generated new SSH key pairs for new laptop rather than copying from old. And I will starting next week void my old key pairs wherever i find them.

RT @cameron_pfiffer: Here's my @JuliaConOrg 2024 retrospective. The peeps are good.

I was actually much less masked than I am at home which I shouldn't have been.

I am so far testing negative for covid post juliacon. I know at least 4 people have tested positive since. I was N95 masked during flights/airport, and spent most of my time in the outside main track, plus in peak vaccine efficacy period. But still can get unlucky.

I think that repeatedly emphasizing that "developers don't like to document" is making it worse.

I love getting shoutouts in talks. It's great to see my open source work has an impact. I often wonder if I am actually helping anyone.

Right now I have a loop earplug in my left ear and my hearing aid in my right turned down to 30% and noise cancellation turned on. This is so useful. Everything is now an ok volume.

RT @oxinabox_frames: @mhsatman idk, I mean I have absolutely hacked incredibly deep compiler internals this way. Which I think counts as "r….

I don't expect men to think of this. But if they avoid making "funny" comments about women then they can stay out of this risk area.