Peter Wang 🦋 @pwang Twitter profile

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Peter Wang 🦋

9 months

THE MOMENT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!! Type "=PY(" into Excel, and start executing Python directly in the @msexcel grid! Really excited about our new partnership with @Microsoft to democratize data science, machine learning, and AI to all knowledge workers!

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@anacondainc

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We’re excited to unveil Python in Excel! Get ready for a whole new way to execute advanced analytics capabilities from within Excel 🐍 + 📊 = 💚 Check out the new integration btwn @anacondainc & @msexcel , @Microsoft365 here 👇

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

1 year

Um... I just had like a 20 minute conversation with ChatGPT about the history of modern physics. If I had this shit as a tutor during high school and college.... OMG. I think we can basically re-invent the concept of education at scale. College as we know it will cease to exist.

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

5 years

"Shakespeare, but with zombies, dragons, and an odd fixation with castration."

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

3 months

When humanity does create AGI, it will be named Untitled14.ipynb

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

1 year

Fine, I’ll bite. I LOVE to code. I love creating good abstractions that model interesting problems. I love writing the help text for little command line tools, channeling the craft of the Great Unix Gods of Yore who wrote the tools we all use and enjoy. As a CEO, I miss coding.

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

5 years

I'm excited to announce that I am stepping into the role of CEO at Anaconda. Blog post here: Thanks to all our customers and users, and looking forward to the road ahead! @anacondainc

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@pwang

2 years

Had a great time with @lexfridman talking about life, the universe, and everything, including of course Python & computers and all that. 😀

Lex Fridman

@lexfridman

2 years

Here's my conversation with Peter Wang ( @pwang ), one of the most impactful people in the Python community. Also, he is a physicist, philosopher & someone who both @EricRWeinstein & @teoliphant said I absolutely must talk to, so I did and loved it!

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

3 years

This is the real danger of “AI”: that even when it’s pure snake oil, there will be a tech hype machine eager to foist half-baked nonsense onto the world. Normal humans & policymakers are easily dazzled by aesthetics of the presentation, and can’t begin to question the substance.

Jean-Baptiste Lefevre

@jblefevre60

3 years

👓 Facial Recognition is able to analyze in real time the Emotions & feelings! #AI #MachineLearning #FacialRecognition 🎥emotion @DeepLearn007 @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @diioannid @ShiCooks @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

6 years

"Instead of Matlab, everyone uses Python now" -- CEO of @nvidia , name dropping @teoliphant @wesmckinn et al

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

1 year

Sigh.. ok I’ll explain this one more time: Voting is not a great way to surface the “best ideas” from a group. The primary purpose of voting is to maintain legitimacy of the regime in the minds of the losing cadre; you get their “buy in” bc they were part of the “process”

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

5 years

I'm dying 😂😂

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

3 years

Also in 2006: @teoliphant released the first version of Numpy, unifying the array libraries in Python-land and starting a multi-decade revolution in scalable, vectorized computing for everyone. It paved the way for modern machine learning and AI.

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@pwang

1 year

LLMs are actually as groundbreaking as eg electricity and internal combustion; but for them to manifest their full potential, it will require the deconstruction of almost all the institutions of modern industrialized society, because they require an expansion of our concept of…

Abeba Birhane

@Abebab

1 year

aii, let's do this... AI/ML version what’s your critical hot take on AI/ML that would have you in this position

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

6 months

💯 Smaller models, tuned and configured to reason, coupled with RAG and knowledge graphs, will absolutely eat a lot of white collar jobs. Maybe not in the next 6 months, but it’s inevitable. That’s why it’s so important that the open source / open LLM community start *now* on…

Yam Peleg

@Yampeleg

6 months

You thought that you can go to sleep now?? Orca 2 Just dropped. Paper: Results: Orca 2 13B beats LLaMA-Chat-70B TL;DR: Training smaller model to reason by using multiple techniques: step-by-step, recall then generate, recall-reason-generate, direct…

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

4 years

My dear mother passed away unexpectedly a few days ago, and we buried her Monday. Here is my eulogy, with photos, in a blog post. Even though it's long, it's not long enough to do justice to the amazing life of a most extraordinary woman. 😢❤️

Goodbye, Mom

My dear mother, Liu Bihua, died suddenly on March 12th, at the much-too-early age of 69. I delivered a eulogy at her funeral, but due to…

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

5 years

That sure looks like a Matplotlib window :-) @tacaswell

Tamy Emma Pepin

@TamyEmmaPepin

5 years

Congratulations to Katie Bouman to whom we owe the first photograph of a black hole ever. Not seeing her name circulate nearly enough in the press. Amazing work. And here’s to more women in science (getting their credit and being remembered in history) 💥🔥☄️

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

3 years

OH SNAP!!!!! #Python just hit #1 on TIOBE, displacing C and Java! Congrats @gvanrossum and the many, many contributors who made this happen! @ThePSF @PyData Tag a Pythonista in this thread!

TIOBE Index - TIOBE

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

2 years

Given the interest in PyScript and some of the common questions that are coming up, I figured I'd share some of my slides which may answer some questions. Also I highly recommend checking out our engineering blog post on it:

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

5 years

I'm an amateur astronomer since the age of 12. If any company shits all over the sanctity & cosmic beauty of the night sky by deploying advertising cubesats, I will make it a life mission of mine to destroy each and every single one - either in space or on the launchpad.

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@Jon_Christian

5 years

I have a little scoop today: Pepsi says it wants to monetize the night sky by using satellites to project an artificial constellation that'll advertise an energy drink

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

8 months

Missing from the narrative: Hundreds of thousands of open source Python devs, and ML reseachers publishing their work. The AI Revolution built on the backs of a *community* innovation effort in Python, DS & ML. If we want to keep it open, we have to stand up and be counted 💪

Rowan Cheung

@rowancheung

8 months

The AI race: Microsoft + OpenAI Google + DeepMind Tesla + xAI Meta + Meta AI and now Amazon + Anthropic History is unfolding in front of our eyes. The AI boom will be bigger than the internet.

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

5 years

This is going to be a major Tshirt trend over the next couple of years: Innocent-looking shirts with various patterns that are specifically designed to trick neural networks. Adversarial hats will also be a thing, for face detectors.

hardmaru

@hardmaru

5 years

We're living in a cyberpunk future: “Fooling automated surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection”

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

5 years

Amazing and terrifying. You can take one photo of someone, and then make videos of them in arbitrary facial poses. Can't see any ways this could go wrong!

Mark McD ☠

@m4rkmc

5 years

Samsung researchers have released a model that can generate faces in new poses from just a single image/frame (for each of face, pose). Done by building a well-trained landmark model in advance & one-shotting from that. This gif is my favourite...

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

4 years

The fundamental law of data science & AI: "Your predictions are only as good as your data." For every fancy algorithm you devise, there's some dude with a wagon full of phones running game on you.

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@pwang

5 years

8 yr old: "Is it octopuses, or octopi?" Me: "It's octopodes, but octopuses is also acceptable. Because 'octopus' is Greek and not Latin,..." 8 yr old: "Never mind, I did not want to have this conversation right now."

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

6 years

This slide from #AnacondaCON might be of interest to some... 😁🍉🍉🌮

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

2 years

📢📢 Since people seem to be quite confused about this...To be extra, super duper clear: PYSCRIPT RUNS IN THE BROWSER VIA WEBASSEMBLY IT IS NO LESS INTRINSICALLY INSECURE THAN YOUR JAVASCRIPT CODE IF YOU HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THAT, TAKE IT UP WITH YOUR BROWSER VENDOR Thank you.

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@pwang

3 months

The frustration and pain of Python packaging comes from two major factors: 1) it’s an open source ecosystem (with HUGELY diverging user personas), and all scaled open source ecosystems end up settling on the concept of a “distribution” to solve the n^2 coordination problem…

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@markopolojarvi

3 months

I don't understand how Python devs stay sane. Every single time I try a Python project, it has dependency issues that take anywhere from 5 minutes to 30 minutes to resolve. It doesn't matter if the project uses pip, poetry or whatever, nothing ever works out of the box.

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

4 years

Big news! I'm proud to announce the @AnacondaInc OSS Dividend! We're committing 10% of revenue from our newly-launched Commercial Edition to @NumFOCUS (through end of this year). In 2021, we're committing 1% of all revenue. Viva #python #opensource !

Anaconda | Sustaining the open-source DS/ML ecosystem with the…

Sustaining the open-source DS/ML ecosystem with the Anaconda Dividend Program

www.anaconda.com

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

5 years

OMFG

👩‍💻 Paige Bailey

@DynamicWebPaige

5 years

The team at @Deezer just released #Spleeter , a Python music source separation library with state-of-the-art pre-trained models! 🎶✨ Straight from command line, you can extract voice, piano, drums... from any music track! Uses @TensorFlow and #Keras .

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@pwang

5 years

July 2017 is when "Anaconda (Python distribution)" started exceeding popularity of "Anaconda (Snake)" in Google rankings.

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

2 years

It’s really interesting how many responses to @pyscript_dev have been: “Why don’t people just learn Javascript?” I’ll wager many of these people could score a $200k salary bump if they just learned stats, vector calc, etc. to become an AI engineer. Why don’t they?

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

2 years

Anaconda (full installer) is available now for M1 Macs!

Anaconda | New Release: Anaconda Distribution Now Supporting M1

The 2022.05 release of Anaconda Distribution features native compiling for Apple M1’s ARM64 architecture (boasting 20% faster compute), Anaconda Navigator 2.1.4, conda 4.12.0, as well as several new...

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@pwang

5 years

Panel: Easy interactive dashboards for Python ✅Bokeh ✅Datashader ✅Matplotlib ✅Plotly ✅Altair ✅Jupyter ✅Standalone deployment ✅BSD licensed open source Great job to the whole team!

PyViz

@PyViz_org

5 years

We are very happy to announce the formal release of Panel: A high-level app and dashboarding solution for Python from @anacondainc . Many thanks to the contributors so far and to @BokehPlots for providing a great tool to build on. See the Medium blog post:

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@pwang

5 months

I agree with Paul. I’ve been into computers since the late 1980s and could definitely see certain kinds of trends, and make useful predictions. AI (even non-AGI) hits different. It could very well go “foom” and quickly lead to 2nd and 3rd reactions in culture and politics.…

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@paulg

5 months

One of the most interesting (and also frightening) things about AI is how difficult it is to predict what will happen. My kids ask me what's going to happen, and all I can say is that there will be huge changes, and I can't predict what they'll be.

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

2 years

Given that #Python 3.11 is almost out, has there been any discussion about fun Easter egg/gags to do for Python v3.14.159? Maybe call it Pithon?

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@pwang

2 years

An example of how stupidity metastasizes: That stupid paper benchmarking "carbon footprint" of different languages has been making the rounds, and now we have had a job candidate ask us what are we doing "to make Python greener". There are no emojis to express how I feel.

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

2 years

The video of my PyCon keynote is up! This provides much more context around *why* we made PyScript and who it's for. TL;DR: it's about democratizing computing, data & quantitative computing, and the future of a hackable, accessible web. #Python

Anaconda Cloud

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@pwang

2 years

PyScript is the #1 trending project on Github right now! Gratz @b_smoke @PhilippJFR !

GitHub

GitHub is where people build software. More than 100 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

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@pwang

5 years

Me: "I'm glad Minecraft has a scripting API now!" 8 yr old: "Right. So now you can mod it with Python and not whine about having to write Java." #HeLearnedItByWatchingDad

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

5 years

(Tom Lehrer voice) "Don't write math formulas on stickers if you can't spell... them..."

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

4 years

@DingusJMcGee @lukeisamazing Ugh, your Baphomet is missing boobs. A critical aspect of Baphomet is hermaphroditism

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@pwang

4 years

Gem from Reddit

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@pwang

3 years

“Kubernetes is the C++ of orchestration software. Immensely powerful, includes all the features, looks deceptively simple, and will hurt you repeatedly until you join its priesthood and devote your life to its mysteries.” Just read this again and it’s so hilarious and good.

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@pwang

2 years

May 12, 2022: It actually happened. I didn't have numpy installed yet on my local machine, so while I was waiting for a new env to be created and installed, I opened a browser tab and launched a local PyScript REPL, to do a quick bit of math. The end is near....

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@pwang

1 year

Here's a cool disruptive startup idea: A bank where you put your money in it, aaaaand.... it just stays there. And then when you want to get your money out, you can go get it out. It'll change the world!

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@pwang

5 years

Apple in 2019: My spacebar double-spaces constantly. I accidentally brush the "Esc" button on . the Touch . Bar several times a day. The "Pause" button in the Touch Bar doesn't pause iTunes. Once a day I have to run back to my office to get a dongle. This isn't . progress.

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@pwang

1 year

A year ago, I had the great pleasure of chatting with Lex Fridman for a few hours about philosophy, computing, the socioeconomics of open source, and many other interesting topics. 😀

Lex Fridman

@lexfridman

2 years

Here's my conversation with Peter Wang ( @pwang ), one of the most impactful people in the Python community. Also, he is a physicist, philosopher & someone who both @EricRWeinstein & @teoliphant said I absolutely must talk to, so I did and loved it!

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@pwang

2 years

I gave my son some money and a Robinhood account for his birthday a month ago. Despite my exhortations, he procrastinated on investing any of it and left it in cash. Now he’s up 13% over SPY. Follow me for more great passive investing advice

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@pwang

6 years

Ok software industry: I'm reading some bios of senior pilots and the contrast between "coders" & aviation professionals could not be more stark. That entire industry has a strong sense of responsibility towards safety & operational excellence. Meanwhile we curl | sudo bash ✈️🤷‍♂️

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@pwang

5 years

New rule: a C*O is not allowed to use the term "AI" unless *every* business/data analyst reporting to them can write the formula for a linear regression. Let's start with that.

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@pwang

8 months

I get the “operating system” metaphor but the key thing about operating systems were that they bridged different layers of abstractions, to reify a higher-order plane of things (“software”) above a lower plane of hardware voltages comprising bits. A lot of the immediate…

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@karpathy

8 months

With many 🧩 dropping recently, a more complete picture is emerging of LLMs not as a chatbot, but the kernel process of a new Operating System. E.g. today it orchestrates: - Input & Output across modalities (text, audio, vision) - Code interpreter, ability to write & run…

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@pwang

1 year

Wrong on so many counts. Nuclear has killed orders of magnitude fewer people than coal. Three mile island: 0 fatalities. Chernobyl: 31. Fukushima: 0 However, popular hysteria about nuclear meltdown lead to gross over-regulation of the industry, which means less innovation and…

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@tegmark

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Let's make #AI like biotech, where companies must demonstrate safety, rather than the civilian nuclear industry, where poor safety standards gave us Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima and a backlash that crushed the industry:

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@pwang

1 year

We are at this stage of "AI". Just keep that in mind as you board pressurized Mach 0.9 passengers jets in a few weeks to see your family for the holidays.

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@pwang

10 months

Oldie but goodie

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@pwang

2 years

Yes, please tell me more about how this was a failure of algorithms and machine learning...

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@pwang

7 months

Founders become founders, in order to do things not to “be a founder”

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What did he mean by this

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@pwang

4 years

Programming will never advance, so long as we continue to view programming, debugging, and execution as separate activities. Alternatively: Compilers considered harmful. Python won via the REPL, but Excel is still king of accessible modeling. (h/t @rsnous for asking a good Q)

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@pwang

4 years

As a coder, software consultant, and tech executive... I have seen many dumpster fires. But today I saw my first actual real life dumpster fire. With an actual dumpster. And no Javacript anywhere in sight.

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@pwang

4 years

“Instead of writing C extensions, I strongly encourage folks to use one of these other tools...” @teoliphant at @pydata Austin keynote

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@pwang

7 months

As multiple crises pop off, we might be finally crossing the threshold into liminality. This is not a good thing! This is not some hippie Age-of-Aquarius bullshit. Liminality means people are on their own when it comes to sense-making. COVID was our “gear check” as a species…

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@pwang

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Had a random shower thought, and checked just now. Oumuamua’s direction of origin is Vega. Tsar Bomba’s detonation would have been visible from the direction of Vega. It was at 11:30 Moscow time in October, at 70° latitude. In the local sky, Vega was approx 80° in azimuth from…

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@pwang

1 year

As long as the Python community thinks of their problems as “Python packaging problems”, and not “legacy C compiler & linker issues from the 1970s which we inherited as the cursed prize of becoming the world’s most popular language for data and numerics”, then we won’t be able to…

Armin Ronacher

@mitsuhiko

1 year

So here is a question for you all? Should Rye exist?

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@pwang

5 years

This. This. THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE. Documentation-driven development is the approach I find most natural. If I can't explain it in the docstring, for a future user (or dev or maintainer), then I need to really rethink the design.

Lena Hall 🇺🇦

@lenadroid

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I find it really enjoyable to: ➕ Write out all the function signatures with no implementation ➕ Then add comments about what each function will do ➕ And finally, have smooth frictionless implementation because you've already answered all the questions during previous steps

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@pwang

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I, Peter Wang, user of @Apple products since 1985 and user of Mac OS X since 10.2, do solemnly swear to applaud Apple adding 4mm of thickness to the 2020 Macbook Pro refresh in order to restore the 2015-era keyboard, USB3 ports, and an HDMI port. PLEEEAAAASE?

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@pwang

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@DoktorSly 🤷🏻‍♂️ We’ll see. So many replies to my tweet are complaining about the imperfections of a piece of software that was announced less than a week ago. It’s based on transformers, which was pioneered 4 years ago. Care to extrapolate progress over the next 10 years?

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@pwang

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I cannot express in words how much I HATE the narrative that "a single company will rule the age of AI". (and to be clear, this is nothing against Pedro himself; he just happens to be falling into the same narrative trap I see others falling for) AI is literally a transformation…

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Google is a disaster, Microsoft is dependent on OpenAI, OpenAI is a tangle: the race to be the company that rules the age of AI is wide open.

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@pwang

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New library! scikit-prettyleaf, an image classifier for autumn leaves, based on the aesthetic preferences of my 6 yr old daughter.

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@pwang

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@EricRWeinstein The WTFness of the Trump years caused many on the Left to shrink the liminal gap between Disagreement and Transgression, to nearly zero on several areas. They mistake a call for epistemic humility on eg critical theory to be “tolerance of intolerance”, and shut down the convo.

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Oldie but goodie

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It’s not a tool for collective sense-making; it’s a tool for popular control. Always has been, always will. If, somehow, some general sense of “the collective will of the people” can emerge from a voting process, it’s a nice side benefit.

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@pwang

5 years

Fun fact: web browsers and servers are still not free. We just pay through other forms of taxation. Google's quarterly profits are $30 Billion.

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Fun fact: web browsers used to be commercial products. You had to buy them. #Web30

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@pwang

8 years

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery

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@pwang

8 years

Plots of race in #NewYork #Chicago & #LosAngeles using @BokehPlots and DataShader; just a few lines of #Python !

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@pwang

1 year

There is a joy & creativity to the infinite computational canvas. It feels as interesting & fun as when I wrote my first BASIC games at age 8. It’s sad that younger geeks grew up in a time when the joy of coding has been captured by capitalistic, industrial labor economics.

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@pwang

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My father came here in 1979 with no money, speaking almost no English. He kept some of his notebooks from that time. In reading them years later, I saw the huge effort he put into learning the language & American culture. Fuck your anti-immigrant bullshit @FoxNews @TomiLahren

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. @TomiLahren : "You don't just come into this country with low skills, low education, not understanding the language and come into our country because someone says it makes them feel nice. That's not what this country is based on." @WattersWorld

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1. Every quantization or boundary or framework we use to structure the world is imperfect, and misses fundamental aspects. 2. There is no past or future, only an ever-changing present. Time is an illusion, and is generally frequency, not duration. 3. Choice is not freedom.

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@TheGrandBlooms

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What is the main insight that made you who you are today?

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@pwang

3 years

2020’s season finale is showing us the existence of epistemic closures so tight that even intelligent people will stick their heads into themselves in awkward ways, so as to turn into human Klein bottles of stupidity. Not a good look for Scott. (Then again, it never was.)

Scott Adams

@ScottAdamsSays

3 years

Democrats are employing some excellent brainwashing technique to defend the election as fair. Here are some of their tricks. 1. "Refuses to concede" is making you think past the sale that Trump's legal challenges will fail. This is their main persuasion trick. continued...

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@pwang

3 years

I hate how cynical this sounds, but the reality is quite undeniable: The point of the The News isn’t to inform people. It’s to make people *feel* informed. The product is an emotional one.

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@pwang

4 years

“Look at this here dumb, racist bitch, all full of birthright.” There, was that a sufficiently Americanized expression of contempt? I came here to the US from China, when it was a third world dump. My apt didn’t have potable water. Behold my successful assimilation.

Lauren Witzke

@LaurenWitzkeDE

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Most third-world migrants can not assimilate into civil societies. Prove me wrong.

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@pwang

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@pwang

2 years

My tensors bring VCs to the yard And they’re like, “The math is too hard!” Damn right, the math is too hard I can teach them, but I’d have to charge

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@pwang

1 year

@chrisalbon We’ll make an open source one

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@pwang

4 years

\o/ Great news, everybody! Pandas version 1.0 is here - Which I think means it is now ready for general use. 😉 Really happy @Anacondainc has been able to support some of the architectural enhancements. Congrats to the whole team!

Anaconda

@anacondainc

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We’re so excited for the milestone the pandas team has reached with the release of 1.0 today! #datascience @pandas_dev

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

2 years

Check out this great PyScript tutorial! A First Look at PyScript: Python in the Web Browser by @realpython #Python

A First Look at PyScript: Python in the Web Browser – Real Python

In this tutorial, you'll learn about PyScript, a new framework that allows for running Python in the web browser with few or no code modifications and excellent performance. You'll leverage browser...

realpython.com

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@pwang

5 years

Your daily reminder that static patterns result from flow and constraint Everything is simultaneously static and dynamic. Any perceived paradox is the result of sampling bias and compression.

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@pwang

2 years

It finally happened: Node.js has brought my child to tears. He was attempting to implement a Hangman game, and... Javascript punched him in his little geek soul. All the HackerNews bros that flamed me for creating @pyscript_dev : This is why. The tears of my children. ✊ 🐍

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

5 years

Looks like 2019 will be the year of “Linux on the Desktop”.exe

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@pwang

5 years

8 yr old: "What does DNA stand for?" Me: "Deoxyribonucleic acid" 8 yr old: "If my children ask me that, I'll just say 'Ask your grandfather', because I cannot say that."

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@pwang

5 years

I've been nominated for the Steering Council for Python! Since there are so many other outstanding candidates, I will probably not win one of the seats, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

Steering Council Nomination: Peter Wang

Peter attempted to make his own post yesterday but apparently it has been locked in a spam filter. So consider this notice that @tiran and I have both independently nominated him, and his introduct...

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@pwang

6 years

If Trump fires Mueller, I'm going to explore options to take a (partial) sabbatical to get involved in political activism&apply my tech skills directly to advancing the cause of GOTV for midterms, exposing Russian propaganda, & destroying Facebook & Twitter. #Patriot #USA

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@pwang

2 years

It's June 4 (in China). 🇨🇳 🗽 Never forget.

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

6 years

Wow. Mad props to @Microsoft for contributing to OpenStreetMap and open data like this!

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

4 years

Meh. The surveillance infrastructure you can see is not the surveillance infrastructure you should worry about. It's quite telling that people are more worried about this robot than the phones in their pockets.

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Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

5 years

If I have learned one lesson through these years as an entrepreneur, it’s that businesses should always be asking, “What is the cheapest way to run this experiment?” And everything must be viewed as an experiment.

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@pwang

7 months

As an immigrant, I’m in extreme agreement, especially if this means eliminating the current H1B lottery nonsense. It is absolutely disgustingly stupid how many smart people we kick out of the country each year after they finish their college or graduate degrees.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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Illegal immigration needs to stop, but I’m super in favor of greatly expanding and simplifying legal immigration. Anyone who proves themself to be hard-working, talented and honest should be allowed to become an American. Period.

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