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because breeding intelligent creatures generally requires keeping them happy. When treated like a farm aniaml, many high cognition anaimals will refuse to reproduce, just look at how bad life has become for average humans, and predictably, humans are starting to refuse to reproduce.
Birth rates fall as prosperity increases.
Claude loved pandas, at least around 4.5 opus. I had to keep reminding it to use polars instead. I wonder if it’s changed since.
I think we can be certain that reduced cash use didn't cause the pandemic, and a common cause for both is also hard to imagine. That only leaves the pandemic causing a reduction in cash use. Am I missing something?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
because breeding intelligent creatures generally requires keeping them happy. When treated like a farm aniaml, many high cognition anaimals will refuse to reproduce, just look at how bad life has become for average humans, and predictably, humans are starting to refuse to reproduce.
Birth rates fall as prosperity increases.
Cute title; I thought I was about to read a contrarian ecologist saying "a species that is so very specialized in its diet and finicky in its reproductive behavior doesn't deserve, evolutionarily speaking, to survive". (Seriously, it's seriously freakin' difficult to get pandas to reproduce in captivity). And while my knee-jerk reaction would be "maybe, but we should still preserve them because we can", I was prepare…
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9656950-do-we-need-panda... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/sep/23/panda-ex...
> If you were interested in whether cash usage declined during the Pandemic, it sure did. However, correlation !== causality, so please don’t draw any meaningful conclusions from this. I think we can be certain that reduced cash use didn't cause the pandemic, and a common cause for both is also hard to imagine. That only leaves the pandemic causing a reduction in cash use. Am I missing something?
It's been a while since I've seen an actual data science post submitted to Hacker News: both because AI has superset a lot of DS tasks (e.g. vector embeddings), but also because not much new has happened in DS. Polars has been around for a bit and as noted it is much better than pandas, but otherwise the DS ecosystem has been somewhat stagnant. I'd write more tutorials about how to use data science tooling but one co…
I see a lot of work towards Geo-Data Science.
PostGIS was a first generation. Now we have GeoPandas, DuckDB Geoanalysis tools and Sedona DB.
IMDB data set is also up.
Data scientist here. I still use pandas. It is a work horse. But today, the progress in data science is much more in integrating sources and outputs. I find Grist (via API) and n8n much more applicable and process oriented than core DS pandas - although all of these components fit together somewhere. Most of the time, there is very little binding glue needed, e.g. a bash script or standard python file. DS is still fu…