Articles by skadamat
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Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023) (nightingaledvs.com)

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What to Buy That Improves Quality of Life (developing.dev)

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Tender: Inbox for Your Personal Finance (tender.run)

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Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system (noahpinion.blog)

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What Neuroscience Teaches Us About Reducing Phone Use (calnewport.com)

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What if Abraham Lincoln had a Smartphone? (calnewport.com)

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Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG (paddedinputs.substack.com)

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Elasticsearch Was Never a Database (paradedb.com)

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Dynamic Bird Migration Map (audubon.org)

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Compare the New iPhone Models (apple.com)

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Anthropic endorses California's AI safety bill, SB 53 (techcrunch.com)

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HS Student Builds AI Pipeline to Discover 1.5M Lost Space Objects (dailygalaxy.com)

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Ryan Holiday: There's No Such Thing as 'Quality' Time (ryanholiday.net)

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Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety (aclu.org)

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Fivetran Acquires Dbt Competitor Tobiko Data (fivetran.com)

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What every AI engineer needs to know about GPUs [video] (youtube.com)

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Dynamicland as a Computational Public Space [video] (youtube.com)

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Shillelagh: Query APIs Using SQL (github.com/betodealmeida)

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Dashboards Are Dead (count.co)

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Visual Tour of the Global Covid-19 Vaccine Efforts (2020) (preset.io)

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The John McPhee Method (jsomers.net)

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CRDT: Text Buffer (madebyevan.com)

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What Is Synthetic Fraud? (sentilink.com)

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AI is the new user interface for biology (manifold.ai)

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ClickHouse: Does OLAP Need an ORM? (clickhouse.com)

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What if you could search every visible word on NYC streets? (pudding.cool)

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Campfire by Basecamp (once.com)

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Paths to Basecamp (basecamp.com)

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Stop Freezing Your Data to Death (thenewstack.io)

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Build Dashboards Using Claude Code and Dlt (dlthub.com)

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[dupe] Meta violated privacy laws by collecting menstrual health data (techcrunch.com)

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Boom, Virgin, and the Pre-Order Playbook for Hard Tech Companies (substack.com)

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What's Going on with SSA's "Death Master File"? (sentilink.com)

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Taxicab Geometry by Steven Strogatz (nytimes.com)

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You Don't Need a Vector Database (xethub.com)

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OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face (twitter.com/main_horse)

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OpenAI Open Source Model Leaked on HF (reddit.com)

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Google Indexing Shared ChatGPT Conversations (dataconomy.com)

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A record-breaking baby has been born from an embryo that's over 30 years old (technologyreview.com)

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Tesla signs $16.5B deal with Samsung to make AI chips (techcrunch.com)

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Scaling Netflix's threat detection pipelines without streaming (dataexpert.io)

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DHH: Building competence is better than therapy (world.hey.com)

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Hydrolix Handles Late-Arriving Data (hydrolix.io)

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I Got into Deep Learning (vikas.sh)

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Orbital: Convert scikit-learn Pipelines into SQL Queries (posit.co)

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What Every Data Scientist Needs to Know About GPUs [video] (youtube.com)

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Models as Tools: My Perspective on the Matter [video] (youtube.com)

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How the One Big Beautiful Bill Impacts High Earning FAANG Employees (faangfire.com)

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What I Learned Processing All of Statistics Canada's Tables (diegoripley.ca)

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The Tech Layoff Tracker (trueup.io)

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Kevin Kelly: 25 Bits of Excellent Advice for Living a Life Full of Adventure (outsideonline.com)

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Why Are Homes in Western States So Expensive? (construction-physics.com)

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Neuralink Open Sources Data Catalog for Multimodal Data (github.com/neuralinkcorp)

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Book Review: Apple in China (nytimes.com)

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Apple Turbocharged China's Development (npr.org)

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Trump admin halts broadband internet expansion in Louisiana (lailluminator.com)

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An engineer's guide to vibe design (with prompts) (posthog.com)

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Airlines Sell Data to Department of Homeland Security (404media.co)

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CNN Implementation in C (github.com/axelmontlahuc)

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GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government (404media.co)

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How We Do "Sales" (posthog.com)

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The Health Effects of Being a YC Founder: A 3-Year Data Analysis (substack.com)

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PostHog Raises $70M Series D (posthog.com)

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Burgers, Bartending and Benchwork: My Journey to Graduate School (brain.harvard.edu)

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Too Wide or Not Too Wide – That Is the ClickHouse Question (altinity.com)

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DeskHog by PostHog (posthog.com)

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Things we've learned about hiring at PostHog (posthog.com)

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Anonymizing GPS Data While Preserving Useful Context (datacebo.com)

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DuckDB's Friendly SQL Dialect (duckdb.org)

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AI Meets API Docs: The Why Behind /Llms.txt (readme.com)

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The Illusion of Causality in Charts (filwd.substack.com)

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How to Do Developer Marketing That Doesn't Suck (calyx.substack.com)

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The provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king (robertreich.substack.com)

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We Have Ruined Childhood (nytimes.com)

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Plotting JavaScript's Math.random() [video] (youtube.com)

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Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology (colah.github.io)

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HEY is finally for sale on the iPhone (world.hey.com)

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Levels Investor Updates (levels.com)

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Computational Public Space [video] (youtube.com)

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Yahtzeeql – Yahtzee solver that's mostly SQL (github.com/charliemeyer)

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Hallucinations are not the same as errors (seths.blog)

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My Miserable Week in the 'Happiest Country on Earth' (nytimes.com)

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Minimum Viable Muscle: The Least You Must Do to Not Fall Apart (iterintellectus.substack.com)

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Statistics for Hackers (2016) [video] (youtube.com)

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Local-First: Let's Cut Through the Noise (prospective.co)

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Stop Forking Around – The Hidden Dangers of "Fork Drift" in Open Source Adoption (preset.io)

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We Built the Internal Data Warehouse at ClickHouse (clickhouse.com)

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The Trap of Tying Your Identity to Your Job Title (elenaverna.com)

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Why Apache ECharts Is the Future of Apache Superset (preset.io)

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An AI-based analysis of zoning reforms in US cities (nature.com)

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Benchmarking Star Schema vs. One Big Table (fivetran.com)

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Wells Fargo's AI Assistant Crossed 245M Interactions with No Human Handoffs (venturebeat.com)

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SQL CTEs Are Passthroughs (getdbt.com)

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Tariffs only "work" if they make prices higher (slowboring.com)

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Ragcol: RAG-Based Automatic Video Colorization [pdf] (johnbreslin.com)

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Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life (craigmod.com)

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Why Genetic Medicine Never Arrived (davidepstein.substack.com)

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Apple does AI as Microsoft did mobile (world.hey.com)

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Anthropic Uses Brave Search (simonwillison.net)

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The Importance of Muscle (nautil.us)