one normal year is all we ask for
06.08.2025 23:56 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@danny.page.bsky.social
Sports, numbers, computers, pictures of blue skies. He/him. Home page: https://danny.page Twitter: Twitter.com/dannypage My own Mastodon instance: banter.danny.page/@danny
one normal year is all we ask for
06.08.2025 23:56 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0swoop
06.08.2025 21:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π₯° Thank you!
06.08.2025 19:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Some neat things I've done lately:
- Build event-driven data pipelines for sports teams to get game reports faster
- Implement Apache Iceberg to make 000's of parquet files in S3 easily accessible with DuckDB
- Deploy ML Models to millions of customers making credit card decisions
- And much more!
Wii Sports shouldered a massive burden, the entire platform probably stumbles out of the gate without it being packed in
06.08.2025 18:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hi Bluesky, I am currently on the lookout for my next role!
I have 5 years experience building ML systems in sports analytics & fintech, 10 years in Web & Backend SaaS development. If you know of any relevant roles or can share referrals, I'd appreciate it! π
www.linkedin.com/in/danielwpa...
a product manager who needs "number go up"
06.08.2025 17:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For the $5 Patrons over on @scanlinemedia.bsky.social - we relaunch an old show with renewed purpose. Welcome back to Refresh Rate, our video game chatter pod. We'd love it if you had a listen as we yap about the start of Switch 2 after two months since launch.
www.patreon.com/posts/refres...
and it's been harder to make webpages ever since
06.08.2025 13:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0his new name is βpopβd tartβ
06.08.2025 06:16 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the announcer should have as wellβ¦ it did what onto the floor???
06.08.2025 03:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Kirbsatz Haderach
06.08.2025 01:32 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0kirby is just happy, maybe he's immune to pain
06.08.2025 01:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0gotta get their own No Time To Die
05.08.2025 20:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"so" = "significant other"
05.08.2025 20:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Running has always been a constant in my life because the stopwatch & distance are fully objective measures. No subjectivity.
Meanwhile, software engineering feels like it *should* have objectivity in measuring results against expectations, but most times it's very subjective.
weird how it grew a zoomer haircut
05.08.2025 18:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0and now i'm looking at getting new track spikes. the ones I grabbed today were in my high school track bag and are old enough to have graduated high school themselves π
05.08.2025 17:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0went on my first track workout in way too long, and damn I missed it so much. there is absolutely nothing else like pushing your whole body through the finish line. ran a 1:05 400 meter for the final interval, had no idea I still had that in me.
05.08.2025 17:14 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1well there is a little death involved, so
05.08.2025 16:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0kirby reaching his hand into a blue box, held by waddle dee with a constellation hat
βFear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.β
05.08.2025 16:24 β π 29 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0The lengths that the F1 movie went to in order to make β59 year old driving a F1 carβ ..work.. was an astounding level of ego.
05.08.2025 15:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0if I could walk around on the roof of the White House, I absolutely would
05.08.2025 15:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the other place abandoned tweet, we can claim it
05.08.2025 12:01 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0turns out they have already made a perfect recreation of the average programmer at work
05.08.2025 03:00 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Never seen Mario and Baby Mario in the same place*, so they're the same person to me, just seperated by the years
*Mario Kart is a timeless place
The fake Venice in the Venetian, but instead for Golden Gai, would be a dream
05.08.2025 02:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My bereaved family: Can't believe he's gone. But now, with the power of technology, we can ask him what he thinks about current events
My distorted face glitching on a screen: ToyYotathon Is hERE
Maybe they'll see if the LLM gets sad when it loses?
04.08.2025 21:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0There are some folks that are doing exactly that to use Reinforcement Learning to train a general LLM on a specific use case.
openpipe.ai/blog/art-tra...
But that's not what Google is doing here, especially since they have to have a buffer of 3 (!!) illegal moves before forfeiting.