ISSUE 411  ·   November 1, 2022

Interviews

Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator. He's the former director of AI at Tesla, a founding member of OpenAI, and an educator at Stanford. This is a fun and accessible interview about Tesla, arXiv, book recommendations, advice for beginners, IDE recommendations, and much more. Scroll down for timestamps.
Lex Fridman Podcast

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Tutorials, Projects & Opinions

Bayesian Structural Timeseries - Forecasting

Bayesian structural timeseries assumes that the past is a guide to the future. This tutorial shows how to fit and predict auto-regressive models in pymc and then how to adjust them to capture details of trend and seasonality for when they complicate the picture.
Nathaniel Forde

Using a data dictionary as a roadmap to quality data

A data dictionary is important documentation that's often used to help interpret data at the end of a project. But it can be even more useful if it's created before any data is actually collected. This post explores things to consider, how you should prepare, how to build a data dictionary, and how to use it. Includes examples and links to resources.
Crystal Lewis

When should you upgrade to Python 3.11?

Python 3.11 is a major new release with lots to like. It's significally faster, has more useful error messages, has grouped exceptions, and there are improvements to the standard libraries. Time to upgrade? Maybe not. Here's what to watch out for in this new release.
Python⇒Speed | Itamar Turner-Trauring

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Code & Tools

Explainpaper

Upload any paper to Explainpaper and get instant explanations! If you need a more in-depth answer, you can ask follow up questions too. This could be a game changer for keeping up with the constant stream of new papers. Requires free registration.
Jade and Aman Jha

Shinylive Extension

The new Shinylive extension enables you to embed interactive Shiny for Python applets into Quarto documents. It runs Python in the browser, so you don't need a special server.
quarto

Career

New Opportunities

The Data Elixir Job Board currently has 47+ listings for remote positions, including roles for data scientists, data analysts, researchers, data architects, machine learning engineers, and more. The roles cover a variety of job levels, from mid-level to Director.
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Data Visualization

Dashboard Design Patterns

Great new resource for simplifying dashboard design. There are 23 patterns here that are organized into hierarchical groups and clearly presented with examples. This project won an Honorable Mention for Best Paper at the recent VIS2022 conference.
Benjamin Bach

Common Plots 

This new chapter in the Coding for Economists book explores common plots and how to create them using popular Python data visualization libraries, including matplotlib, plotnine, seaborn, altair, and plotly.
GitHub | Arthur Turrell

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