Tim Chase

Macroexpand 2025 Clojure online conferences by Scicloj - October 17-18 & 24-25, 2025

Just a reminder - please register to Macroexpand-2025 (free): scicloj.github.io/macroexpand-...

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#Clojure #scicloj #data #AI

The amount of times i had people look at me funny when I get excited for a different error message.

"Why are you excited, it's still broken."

"Yes, but the problem changed meaning we're starting to narrow down what's actually wrong."

We can only perceive software systems through tools.

This makes tools essential for anything we do with software systems, and in particular for software engineering.

And we should pay attention to our tools' characteristics as they will influence how we are going to think.

"The vibe coding trend has cured my impostor syndrome because now I've seen what real impostors look like."

If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.

Screenshot of a terminal window with an ASCII art moon, waxing and mostly full.

I'm doing some vibe coding experiments. If your project is small and you have years of coding experience, it only takes a dozen or so rounds (and light edits) to make it work. Here's ascii_moon_phase: pypi.org/project/asci...

Vibe coding is definitely not something a beginner can do.

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨

The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!

And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search

Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets

R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Vim is the original escape room

Imagine that the cost of Legos dropped to almost nothing, millions of bricks for a penny, and suddenly people were claiming that non-experts would now build all of our houses, bridges, skyscrapers, and infrastructure out of Legos.

"AI will replace software engineers" people sound like this.

A photo of a bunch of Nike shoes.

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?

Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

Data analyis with Clojure - free workshop, May 10th - initial survey Following the maturing of the Noj toolkit for Clojure data science, we are planning a free online workshop for people who are curious to learn the Clojure language for data analysis. Please share this...

Ever been curious about how to make your data science workflow faster, more reliable, and less annoying? Check out Clojure's data science stack. There's a free workshop targeted at people new to Clojure coming up May 10, fill out this survey if you're interested: scicloj.github.io/blog/data-an...

Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.

“The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, in which a prosperous Black neighborhood in Oklahoma was destroyed and up to 300 people were killed, was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...

sifting through submitted applications for phds & postdocs for the accountability lab & it breaks my heart to see a huge proportion of applicants are steeped in EA, long-termism, & other scientifically hollow ideologies…most think “AI safety” is THE paradigm to correct much of the industry’s ills

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Been getting a lot of people asking about LA geography concerned that the images they see means the entire county is on fire. That's understandable.

But LA is a big place. So, to give an idea of scale it's time to cart this out again. It's a map of LA with other cities superimposed on it.

Almost everything in data is probably older than you think:

Relational Database (1973)
SQL (1974)
MOLAP (1970s)
Spreadsheet (1978)
MPP Database (1984)
ETL/ELT (1980s)
Data Warehouse Architecture (1988)
ROLAP (1990s)
Semantic Layer (1992)
Columnar Database (1995)

#databs

Careers See current openings for working at Coginiti.

New year, new job? Coginiti looking to add account managers and sales engineers with experience in the data and analytics space. Atlanta area preferred, but not a hard requirement for the right candidate. #databs

YouTube video by Glamorous Toolkit HGGW 23: Exploring the dependencies between C# projects

A nice guided walkthrough by @tudorgirba.com of using Glamorous Toolkit for problem exploration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssEo... #gtoolkit

being a network engineer

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

Anything in a software system can be seen in multiple ways. Actively choosing the perspective can accelerate how you answer questions about the system.

For example: how did a file evolve? Looking at commits tells you when/who changed it.

But: did the file grow? A new perspective answers better.

46 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.

WKRP's Les Nessman was on the scene that fateful day.

The lines are very blurry between software engineering, data engineering, data science, data analysis, business intelligence and new things like “MLops”, “AI/ML engineering”, “data governance engineering”.

It makes it hard to coherently communicate about working with data right now.

#dataBS

Who else thinks that buying banned books as presents is a great idea this year?

"You can't think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something."- Seymour Papert