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@jameslamb.bsky.social

I ❤️ open source. Working on LightGBM and RAPIDS. Keep Chicago out your mouth. he/him. This is me: https://github.com/jameslamb

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I think I need to turn off notifications for your posts til after October.

13.02.2026 03:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🎶 How does the wall keep us free?
The wall keeps out the enemy
And we build the wall to keep us free
That's why we build the wall
We build the wall to keep us free 🎶

04.02.2026 03:06 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

If you look closely you'll see it... this is a Dave Roberts appreciation post 😁. Go Sox.

30.01.2026 23:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

I love this thread. I did a 26-hour Amtrak once and this is making me want to again.

27.01.2026 16:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

25.01.2026 20:24 — 👍 50350    🔁 14738    💬 888    📌 613

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

23.01.2026 03:06 — 👍 6467    🔁 1012    💬 48    📌 30

🚨 SPORT CLOSE 🚨

11.01.2026 04:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog “Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

“It is not simple. I do not know what that means.“

01.01.2026 16:43 — 👍 198    🔁 45    💬 12    📌 9

I did it this year, it's worth it! Had to piece it together from multiple streaming services, youtube (for the short films), and my local library. It hits different all watched in order over a few weeks lol

30.12.2025 00:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I cannot stress this enough - Chicago is not to be fucked with

19.12.2025 23:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
beer bottle, labelled "Pipeworks Brewing: Pastrami on Rye" with Manny's Deli logo

beer bottle, labelled "Pipeworks Brewing: Pastrami on Rye" with Manny's Deli logo

ingredients of beer from first picture... rye ale with coriander seed and mustard seed

ingredients of beer from first picture... rye ale with coriander seed and mustard seed

outrageous pickup at Trader Joe's in the Chicago burbs today

19.12.2025 05:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
R CRAN package migration. · Issue #11430 · dmlc/xgboost We will try to submit the new CRAN release before the end of November. Following the 3.0.0 release (now 3.1), we published the latest R package on the R universe. We would love to bring the latest ...

Thanks for the `@`. Yes @tanho.ca ask for help at github.com/dmlc/xgboost... if you need it! I think the maintainers will be happy to help.

09.12.2025 01:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

don't take it from me, look at all these replies to @marisakabas.bsky.social !

bsky.app/profile/mari...

03.12.2025 02:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

so good 😅

01.12.2025 15:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
How to Test a Python Distribution — pydistcheck documentation

Try it out on packages you use / contribute to, it might show you some surprising things:

```
pip download -d ./pkgs pandas scikit-learn torch
pipx run pydistcheck --inspect ./pkgs/*
```

Read about how it fits with other tools that might run in your CI: pydistcheck.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ho...

01.12.2025 03:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Terminal output from 'pydistcheck', showing that scikit-learn 1.7.2 macOS wheels are 8.2 MB compressed and that that they contain 956 files.

Terminal output from 'pydistcheck', showing that scikit-learn 1.7.2 macOS wheels are 8.2 MB compressed and that that they contain 956 files.

'pydistcheck' (github.com/jameslamb/py...) is a CLI for finding portability issues in packages (wheels, sdists, and conda packages). Stuff like "file is too big" and "compiled objects have debug symbols". v0.11.0 now available 😁

(example in thread)

01.12.2025 03:01 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It's a lovely mid-sized, Midwestern city. Nice mix of big-city stuff (e.g. all the major U.S. sports, Mall of America) and smaller-city features (e.g. affordable good food/drinks, walkable downtown, cared-for outdoor spaces incl. parks and trails).

I'm looking forward to seeing more of it 😊

29.11.2025 08:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

came here for this

27.11.2025 19:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I, a person who's been to Minneapolis exactly once, am excited. Save the date!

26.11.2025 05:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

could set up a bot to post this randomly every 2-5 minutes after kickoff and it'd prolly always be right. He was ridiculous today.

16.11.2025 23:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

more of this plz

06.11.2025 02:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Go birds, but gotta respect how hard Kiké is Marcus-Smart-ing tonight

02.11.2025 03:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you PSF! This took courage, at a time when it's badly needed.

27.10.2025 16:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

27.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

it is 2-2 in the 6th, why tf does Marlins Man have his visor rally cap'd lol

25.10.2025 02:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Went to NBC to "just get eyes on" NBA opening night. An hour has passed and I'm still here 😅

22.10.2025 02:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

06.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 75    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 5

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

08.10.2025 14:56 — 👍 2425    🔁 467    💬 29    📌 19

This group this year just felt different, in a good, 2004ish way. ugh 😢

03.10.2025 03:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sox season ended like an hour ago and ESPN already sent me a "here are their key free agents" notification.

YES I CLICKED IT, but still bruh cmon!

Anyway go Sox, great season 🥲

03.10.2025 03:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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