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apwheele
1,887karma·374submissions·November 10, 2021
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Data scientist. Former academic in criminal justice field.
Personal blog at https://andrewpwheeler.com/
Consulting at https://crimede-coder.com/
Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts (book), https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2026/LLMsForMortals
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An AI written article writing about AI resumes and AI interviewers -- https://www.pangram.com/history/38790b9f-dda1-4ea9-9b6c-3858... .…
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That is a good point (spiderfy is good if you want to show multiple icons and click on each one specifically). If you do not like the cluster-marker, you could have an icon just list the total number …
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Checkout how leaflet does this, it is the "spiderfy" part of markercluster. So you click down into the number bubble, and at the lowest zoom explodes out into multiple point markers.
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The clustered markers in leaflet are jarring (I like them, but when I show maps I make my wife she finds the transitions nauseating). The default heatmaps for these maps are bad. Heatmaps should use f…
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Terry stops != traffic stop You are required to provide a license to operate a vehicle.
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I mean some of the orgs could be like that, but the one near me I looked up (Durham, not affiliated to be clear), is more like an entry level gig to work on various projects (so you work for non-profi…
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Spotcrime just allows you to sign up for email alerts to crime nearby an address of your choosing. I am generally of the mind even if it results in negative externalities, knowledge is good. So even i…
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I have my crazy notes on Quarto and word documents here, https://github.com/apwheele/Blog_Code/tree/master/Quarto/Rep... . Hopefully useful for others reading …
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I have a contact page on my business website. I get about 2 spam messages a day. So far I have not taken the effort to better filter them. It is a nice check to make sure the site is still working at …
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A recent paper believes work from home reducing entry level gigs fits the data better, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6787638 . I hate it, but the X thread is…
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You should add in Calvin Schmid's Handbook of Graphic Presentation into your list Doug -- https://archive.org/details/HandbookOfGraphicPresentation/pa... Unfortunately …
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So not familiar with the caselaw around work product, but if you use an API tool directly and not the different chat tools, the queries are not permanently cached for anyone to give up in the end. So …
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It actually does not -- and that is part of the issue. Consumers just see "oh gosh this looks very detailed" and superficially think someone must of spent quite a bit of time on this and it …
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So yes a/b broadly speaking is what I was saying (test cases and can show it is actually better). Even this repo just the "b" showcase, showing the outputs as is (with no clear document…
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There needs to be a new name for people creating these with no obvious validation. Skill spam?
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This data is just generally often available in the US, https://northcarolina.votermaps.org/?#16.76/35.78541/-78.779... (agree it is bad though!)…
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It is institutional in the sense that Flock and the individual PDs have not put steps in place (either post auditing or pre not allowing bad queries) that prevent the abuse. Post auditing is obviously…
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FYI the first link, I copy-pasted the first few paragraphs into pangram and it correctly identifies as AI written, https://www.pangram.com/history/790fc2b8-6348-47fa-ad3e-8bae... …