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looking at the data | product engineering @nomic_ai | fmr. @michigandaily web editor

NYC
Joined February 2012
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Over the last few weeks, I've collected and analyzed 15 million Wordle tweets – here are some of the findings: observablehq.com/@rlesser/wo… 1/4
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Robert Lesser retweeted
I'm excited to announce the @nomic_ai has closed it's industry strategic round with participation from @Aurecon and @ArcadisGlobal . At Nomic, our models and agents work alongside skilled designers and engineers to deliver high quality physical assets like data centers, bridges and critical infrastructure. Read more: nomic.ai/news/announcing-nom…
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Robert Lesser retweeted
Today, we're launching AEC-Bench — the first open, multimodal agent benchmark for construction. 196 tasks across real construction documents. Full agent harness. Automated evaluation. Apache 2.0. We benchmarked Claude Code, Codex, and our own agent. Here's what we found 🧵
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We need another MamdaniAlert about the ice blocks falling 30 stories this morning
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The needle is cool but I like this view better, captures both the changing forecast and the forecast certainty
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Replying to @MattZeitlin
95% created by a indeterminate being in Tyson's Corner, VA
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this website's value might actually depreciate faster than AI models
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made the needle for snow accumulation robertlesser.com/snow-needle…
Need an nyt needle for accumulation
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Replying to @rsnous
You can feel the biome change when you leave the MTA side of a joint station
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Replying to @tophtucker
Data entry via apple shortcuts on widget page to launder outside data as inside data
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Replying to @rsnous
In highD it’ll hit a corner every time
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Robert Lesser retweeted
Introducing Atlas Analyst: The Data Agent for Data Analytics Ask questions, get answers with references to your data, and immediately take action based on those insights.
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Vector Search Any Hugging Face Dataset 🤗 Introducing the @huggingface Datasets Connector in Nomic Atlas huggingface.co/blog/MaxNomic…
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This demo (like half the demos on the internet right now) brought to you by @tldraw
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Start leaving graffiti in the latent space
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Ever wondered what the entire @Steam library of 100k games looks like mapped out? In this Atlas data map, you can explore neighborhoods of the landscape of video games and uncover hidden gems with descriptions that are semantically similar to your favorite titles!
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Replying to @korpkorpart
The Glorious One!
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We're growing the "Look At Your Data" to "Tell Stories About Your Data" pipeline - give it a look!
What do 3.2 million @X posts from Congress show about how US legislators talk? What are they posting about going into the 2024 US presidential election? Learn what we found in 3.2M posts from Congress using Nomic Atlas:
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Robert Lesser retweeted
🗺️Atlas Spotlight: Humans of Wikipedia, a dataset of biographies from around the world! Atlas can combine geographic and semantic data analysis. If we select a country in the geographic view, in the semantic view we can see clusters of their footballers, olympians, and artists!
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playing around with IntersectionObserver, it gets so much easier to reason about when it jumps out at you. you should use it!
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Replying to @korpkorpart
Hit you with that Frank Stare
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