I just learned that any word made of just these letters beighlosz can be spelt on a calculator. That includes Hobbes! 538804 upside-down looks like this: I’m surprised I never knew that. The longest, by far, appears to be hillbillies – 53177187714
We asked the ~500 students in my Tools in Data Science course in Jan 2024 to create data visualizations. They then evaluated each others’ work. Each person’s work was evaluated by 3 peers. The evaluation was on 3 criteria: Insight, Visual Clarity, and Accuracy (with clear details on how to evaluate.) I was curious to see if what we can learn about student personas from their evaluations. ...
This article on Using DuckDB for Embeddings and Vector Search by Sören Brunk shows a number of DuckDB features I wasn’t aware of. DuckDB can read directly from Huggingface datasets DuckDB can read just the parts of a .parquet file it needs, even over HTTP DuckDB lets you write custom functions in Python DuckDB now has a vector similarity search extension I’ve recently become a DuckDB fan and continue to be impressed.