2021#10 Readings
4 minutes read | 709 words by Ruben BerenguelI have spent a big deal of these weeks moving my notes from Bear to Obsidian. I may write the reasons at some point, stay 🐟.
Also, I will be speaking at Data Love 2021 (16th April) and Data+AI Summit 2021 (26th May) hence the rest of my time has been preparing slides and thinking through how I want to explain it so it makes sense. Obviously I have also procrastinated on slide creation (code will be available “soon”).
📯 UTF-8 Issues between AWS Redshift and Apache Spark when COPY PARQUET
A very nasty issue, luckily there is a solution.
📚 Human Hacking
An easy read, with some interesting points to make. It’s a pretty informative book, would recommend. I find the low ratings in Goodreads a bit baffling.
🔊 Art of Resilience
It’s entertaining enough as an audiobook. A bit too repetitive at times, but I guess that is inevitable when all you see every day is water.
Haskell on Raspberry PI 4
I’ll have to try on my 400, it should work. Hopefully.
Gigapixel AI Accidentally Added Ryan Gosling’s Face to This Photo
Skynet, The Matrix, this.
The Invention of a New Pasta Shape
I love the metrics that were used for this new design. Sauceability! Don’t you love this word?
Which color scale to use when visualizing data
The Datawrapper blog is a treasure in color information. This is the first post in a series. Also, if you want to plot something online, try Datawrapper, you’ll get something good-looking.
SQLite is not a toy database
I always reach for SQLite whenever I have a “small” SQL problem. Or to try some queries. Be sure to upgrade to the latest versions, window functions and native JSON were added relatively recently.
🍿 I prerecorded myself in video meetings for a week (and nobody knew)
The author acknowledges that this is not as effective as the title makes it sound.
The Revolution in Classic Tetris
The New Yorker’s paywall is getting slightly obnoxious. For Safari, open in a private window and enable reader mode quickly. I mean, if you like Tetris.
The forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name
The not-vulgar name is medlar. For Catalan readers, it is a cousin of the nespre.
🔊 Creative Selection
A view into Apple’s design process, from the lead programmer on iOS keyboards at the time (original iPhone, original iPad). I’d put the book at 4.5⭐️, entertaining stories, good explanations of work approaches. Since it’s a fast listen/read, not beating around the bushes it earns the additional half for 5 stars.
🔊 Changeable: How Collaborative Problem Solving Changes Lives at Home, at School, and at Work
I found the model super-interesting, then I found out that the author seems to be a high-level jerk
Unit testing Python code in Jupyter notebooks - wrighters.io
I like the idea of using doctest for this case… if forced to.
How does the brain interpret computer languages?
TL;DR code seems to be its own thing, and does not (fully) depend on the language or math areas of the brain.
Cows Are Being Fitted With VR Goggles to Increase Milk Production?
It’s helping me exercise, so maybe it works for cows as well?
Open sourcing Querybook, Pinterest’s collaborative big data hub
I suspect I shared the post where they introduced it, and I had registered to their “let me know when this is open source”. It is now!
Microsoft Coffee 1996 Prank
I’m out of words, to be fair.
