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It's not a big data set that lends itself primarily to analysis, it's more like content. For example, a list of all US Presidents with a lot of metadata or text content fields abou…

Let's say I put a lot of effort into creating an authoritative data set on a notable topic in a format like CSV, JSON, whatever. And I want to share it and have it housed somewhere…

In the GPT-2 era I created CouldReads, a big data set of generated book titles/synopses trained on thousands of e-books. It was a fun project in the naivete of 2020 but it's less a…

I'm in a long career break to work on my own stuff because my financial situation allows it, but I've found one job I'd like to apply for. My LinkedIn profile is extremely neglecte…

A while back I wrote up a way to turn the big Wikipedia XML dump into a database. Not a generic table with articles but thousands of tables, one for each article "type". I'm not su…

That looks like a crowdsourced project for turning arbitrary sites into RSS which is very cool, but I don't see a way to get a large RSS data set out of it. And with about 5000 sou…

Recently I was searching for a very large collection of RSS feeds and didn't have luck finding an existing one. I decided to see if they could be sourced reliably at any volume fro…

RSS reader through Bluesky custom feeds: https://github.com/tfederman/stroma-news Bluesky API library spun off from the other project: https://github.com/tfederman/pysky Haven't re…

Just for fun I wanted to do a simple server-side version of this where the submissions would be truly hidden on my account, so it would take effect on mobile too. And avoid client …

If anyone's interested in an approach to processing the data set quickly, I got something working and wrote it up when I was curious about turning the content into structured data …

That's maybe true, and also a good reason I wouldn't work for a large company again.

My company just doesn't have product or project managers and it's wonderful. Fewer meetings, no intermediaries, more agility. It could only work in practice, it could never work in…

I feel like I spend a troubling amount of time as a software developer dealing with and/or avoiding solutions that are much more complicated than the problems they're trying to sol…

When I take notes because I need to retain something, the writing part is more valuable than reviewing it later. And writing on paper is important, typing isn't effective for that …

At this point I already get my stuff from Amazon fast enough, and I don't even have a prime account. I'd rather see Amazon improve working conditions for its employees (if what tha…

When someone gets entertainment value from playing the lottery, is it really about the chance of winning multiplied by the amount of happiness the money would bring? Or does it hav…

When the expected value is so definitively against you I guess it's implied that you're playing for variance. Maybe you also feel that you're playing for the entertainment value, w…

When I saw the title my first instinct was, okay, what's the metaphor between a beehive and a development team or a startup? You could find some parallels, but I agree this article…

Maybe it's hard to find Facebook essential (as opposed to convenient) if you lived during a time when you had to actually know your friends' phone numbers and enter them manually. …

There's a good selection and it's weighted towards earlier seasons which is good but unfortunately no Manos or Santa Claus Conquers the Martians yet.

I'd like to see a social news site that costs something like $25-50 to join. Enough to keep out kids, spammers, and trolls, but not enough to keep out serious adults.

I wonder if the PepsiCo Healthy Living program directed people to consume fewer PepsiCo products. It seems awkward for them to either address or ignore.

I don't know what's worse, the sense of entitlement to good grades or whatever thinking is behind the feeling your life is ruined if you can't work at Goldman Sachs.

Cogo Labs - Cambridge, MA (Kendall Square) Cogo Labs is an incubator/accelerator behind fast-growing analytics-driven startups. We're growing fast ourselves and hiring for many pos…

To be fair, most of CNN's budget goes to advancing holography science, not astrophysics or investigating/analyzing news.