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Ben Hamner
@benhamner
Sumble co-founder and CTO. Learning high-quality, structured data about the world. Formerly @kaggle
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Joined March 2009
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    Wordle xxx 1/6 ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Get Wordle right on your first guess using the daily โฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ tweet distribution
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    Letโ€™s make a deal: America will adopt the metric system, Europe will adopt 10,000,000.00-style number formatting
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    Programming: 10% writing code. 90% figuring out why it doesnโ€™t work Analyzing data and ML: 1% writing code. 9% figuring out why code doesnโ€™t work. 90% figuring out whatโ€™s wrong with the data
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    Replying to @brianwilt
    Both America and Europe are wrong here. ISO-8601 dates (YYYY-MM-DD) is a hill I will die on. Unambiguous and sortable as strings!
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    Between ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot I think I spoke more to AIs this week than humans
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    Easy parts of applying machine learning: .fit() .predict() Hard parts: .clean() .transform() .get_data() .frame_problem() .debug() .handle_nonstationarities() .handle_missing_inputs()
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    Replace "AI" with "matrix multiplication & gradient descent" in the calls for "government regulation of AI" to see just how absurd they are
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    Excited to launch Kaggle Learn - interactive tutorials on machine learning, deep learning, R, and data visualization
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    The blockchain movement is 100x worse than the NoSQL movement. Every time I see a new blockchain idea I ask โ€œwould a relational DB be unambiguously better in every regard here?โ€ (generating page views expected). 99% of the time the answerโ€™s yes
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    VS Code data structure visualization extension. This is neat github.com/hediet/vscode-โ€ฆ
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    pandas pro tip: use df.style.format(thousands=",") to make larger numbers legible (I'm confused why this isn't the default display)
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    How did a tiny research team at OpenAI outperform thousands of scientists at Microsoft Research? Turns out they used Google Meet instead of Microsoft Teams
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    Deep learning and AI get all the buzz/press. The untold story is all the hard valuable work to create high quality datasets that enable them
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    Itโ€™s embarrassing and infuriating that some #NIPS2017 authors couldnโ€™t get visas to present their work. USA should be leading through enlightened example, not disgusting racism. We lose when we canโ€™t attract the top AI minds, whatever they look like and wherever theyโ€™re born