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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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Just released a new book on using the foundation model APIs, https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2026/LLMsForMortals , Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide fo…
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In the live demo, I am confused about some of the ascii renderings. (Unless I am missing something, they appear incorrect/inconsistent with the SVG.), https://agents.craft.do/merm…
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I would clone my own and do things like create scripted tutorials/presentations and audio books. I do not personally prefer it, but a non-trivial number of individuals like video/audio prese…
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I generally do not agree with this advice (or you can do both, cold emailing folks should not prevent you from cold applying to other jobs). It really just hinges on what you think your probability …
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I only have pretty tame actions workflows and I have had a hard time replicating simple set ups with this. I can't imagine a company with more complicated setups. What I wish is github codespaces…
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Oh to be clear, these are books I own the copyright to (published through my own imprint).
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Off topic, but one thing I wish I could do is donate a single copy epub I have the rights to to all libraries. It should be technically possible (many of the places I have lived the local library us…
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The such low royalties make folks seriously consider self-publishing if you think you can get any sales. (And if you do not need a copy-editor.) So I have only around 150 sales of my book (see notes a…
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Yeah ditto. I don't know when it happened, but the Coursera courses I tried at first (around 2012 I think?) were very high quality -- I thought it was clearly a competitor to traditional brick an…
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Do folks have opinions on the quality of the recent books? Last one I picked up was not good (good chance it is partially AI slop). Read online (and not in the app), but the copy-editing did not do it…
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When you want to run stuff client side instead of your server is one question to determine. For R specifically, it is focused on stats/graphing. So if you wanted an app where someone could upload…
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I used quarto for my book as well and have a write up, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2024/07/02/some-notes-on-self-pub... One nice thing about Quarto, is that I could have…
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I don't know what NIST says, but for the tests that use Chi-square, you can look at the left tail. Basically tests that have very small Chi-square values are "too close" to the expected…
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For the more specific part that the PD states it does not physically save the data locally, I do work with cities Police departments and Flock will integrate with the local record management system. I…
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This is very obnoxious when transferring documents from Gemini to google docs (and not just math, tables/code sections are often not transferred correctly as well). I have a javascript hack from …
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For a demo of this (although not sure with duckdb wasm that it works with iceberg) https://andrewpwheeler.com/2025/06/29/using-duckdb-wasm-clou... …
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I do remember 1 example of an emoji in tech docs before all of this -- learning github actions (which based on my blog happened in 2021 for me, before ChatGPT release), at one point they had an apple…