Founder of the slow analytics movement; hand-crafted, artisinal analytics reporting made from scratch and lots of finger-counting.
Brooklyn, USA
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Adrian Palacios retweeted
As a non-American living in America, during a pandemic, I'm both awed and horrified by this country's reverence for work.
Adrian Palacios retweeted
"Part of the new process will include a review and outline of the kinds of research the company believes it should be conducting."
Interesting how they fire me after I ask what the parameters of the research I can do at Google are.
What they're announcing is more censorship.
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Adrian Palacios retweeted
Ted Cruz tweeting a glowing tribute to Rush Limbaugh from a resort in Cancun (where he flew tonight while his constituents are literally freezing to death) is peak @GOP.
I have a few guesses 🤔
Who was giving insurgents real time information on the location of lawmakers?
washingtonpost.com/local/leg…
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Adrian Palacios retweeted
I've stopped using datetime.strftime() and just use f-strings. #Python
Did you know that you can do this?
Instead of
>>> somedate.strformat("%Y-%m-%d")
do
>>> F"{somedate:%Y-%m-%d}"
Yann LeCun does not realize he works at a propaganda outlet 🤔
Indeed @RichardDawkins, propaganda outlets, not social media, are the source of harmful disinformation.
For the US & UK, the common cause is Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
Many other countries use social media just as much but have not reached similar levels of polarization.
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Adrian Palacios retweeted
Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook misinformation.
NEW: Sheryl Sandberg went out of her way to blame other platforms & deflect attention from FB for organizing the rally. But there’s ample proof of FB’s role, from coordinating bus trips to fliers calling for insurrection. And #stopthesteal is everywhere. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Adrian Palacios retweeted
The more I think about what happened the more frustrated I get that entire social science disciplines like political science and history have been trying to warn us about this since 2015, but few in media or the DC political establishment took them seriously.
No one predicted this moment?
Extract from Norris & Inglehart "Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian Populism" (CUP 2019). amazon.com/Cultural-Backlash…
Adrian Palacios retweeted
Here’s the scary moment when protesters initially got into the building from the first floor and made their way outside Senate chamber.
James Blake is what I imagine would happen if Benedict Cumberbatch took up music open.spotify.com/track/4KXwF…
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in python, how many of your scripts are like:
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or can you handle:
import #######
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Adrian Palacios retweeted
📣 We need your help. This is the post we hoped to never write, but today marks a huge turning point in The Strand's history. Our revenue has dropped nearly 70% compared to last year, and the loans and cash reserves that have kept us afloat these past months are depleted.
of course my weekend plans for learning Elasticsearch come a crashing halt because of trying to install java 🤬
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literally had to google how to accept oracle license agreement in terminal askubuntu.com/questions/7823…
Adrian Palacios retweeted
And one more thing: I was honored to coordinate the Ebola response — 2 Americans died. We left behind a playbook, and a global team to spot outbreaks. You ignored the first and dismantled the latter: and now 200,000 are dead.
Thanks for mentioning me @vp, so here are the facts: 14,000 died from H1N1; we are headed to 400,000 dead in less than a year from COVID. Happy to compare records any time!