Posts on Angela Ambroz

Hey, it’s October.

May you live in interesting times / Willkommen in der Zukunft # Dark is a three-season German-language Netflix show that was produced and released between 2017 and 2020.

Metadata # Author(s): Edward Snowden Number of pages: 339 Year published: 2019 Year read: 2019 Review # Wow.

Yesterday, the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics were announced: Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, and Michael Kremer.

Today, I was working through an old repo - trying to understand what the hell had happened during its history - when I thought, “I wish there was some way I could just watch the git commits, like a movie, like a ghostly async pair programming exercise.”

I’ve spent the past few days at #GHC19, aka the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando, FL.

Here’s a bunch of completely random stuff I learned these past few days, thanks to a devilishly borked up bork I fell into while trying to do what I thought was an easy task: Just set up CI with some super basic tests on a Rails app I’m writing.

Did you know that SQL queries can be recusive?

Recently, I realized I was doing the same thing three different ways.

First OMSCS course is complete!

Yay!

Metadata # Author(s): Dan Lyons Number of pages: 272 Year published: 2016 Year read: 2018 Review # Honestly, I enjoyed this at a 5-star level, but I’m trying to avoid hyperbole here.

There’s a wonderful, unique sequence in Kim Stanley Robinson’s hard sci-fi book, Green Mars, where one of the characters - the mad scientist Sax - attends a conference.

Metadata # Author(s): Franklin Foer Number of pages: 272 Year published: 2017 Year read: 2018 Review # DNF @ ~30%.

Metadata # Author(s): Patrick Henry Winston Number of pages: 527 Year published: 1984 Year read: 2018 Review # DNF at about halfway, and won’t review, since - meh - it was fine.

Hey.

Semester 1 of Georgia Tech’s Online Master’s in Computer Science.

I think linear algebra is much wonderful magic and lore, and I think it’s a lifelong commitment.

Metadata # Author(s): Jaron Lanier Number of pages: 146 Year published: 2018 Year read: 2018 Review # A brief, decent book about an obvious thing that many people can’t bring themselves to do: stop supporting social media.

I have a strong interest in labor: that is, the history, sociology, economics and psychology of labor.

I did it!

A small thing today: I just delighted myself with the the text editor plugin, Emmet (Atom, Sublime).

Today’s simple tutorial: getting your dotfiles in order!

“Studying the hat.

The GDPR represents a huge legal shift, which is arriving simultaneously with a technical shift (mass adoption of ad-blockers, which Doc Searls calls the biggest boycott in human history) and an emerging normative shift in the form of the #DeleteFacebook…

Remember when I said how great it was to make a IPython startup file?

Metadata # Author(s): Robin Sloan Number of pages: 259 Year published: 2017 Year read: 2018 Review # A funny-enough, strange, and well-observed book about Silicon Valley narcissism/tone-deaf transhumanism.

I just kicked some serious computer butt today.

I have a running mental list of little inefficiencies that annoy me throughout my workdays.

I was surprised recently to see that I’m basically on track to finish CS50 with the end of Harvard’s spring 2018 semester.

Metadata # Author(s): 2600 Magazine Number of pages: 238 Year published: 2018 Year read: 2018 Review # What’s super interesting about 2600 (which is a long-running magazine for l33t h4x0rs) is how much it looks and smells and sounds like a punk magazine.

Well, troops, I have good news, and I have good news.

I’ve been learning about hierarchical models in Bayesian statistics lately.

I really adore progress pics, which is a thing I discovered when I discovered (or, rather, figured out how to use) Reddit.

I led a tutorial for the DC PyLadies group titled, An introduction to the data science workflow in Python.

Well, Prof.

I started incorporating a few new tools into my programming lately, and it’s been rad.

Metadata # Author(s): Daniel Holden Number of pages: 212 Year published: 2014 Year read: 2018 Review # Aghh.

Yesterday at work, I gave an internal talk on the beta-binomial model, AKA my beloved Bayesian conjugate prior model.

Ah haaa, and now we enter the densest, most bare metal forest of CS50, I AM SO PLEASED.

I’m a big fan of using the internet to share meaningful life events like weddings and births and so on.

YAZZZZ.

Lately, I’ve been working on art.

Background: What is CS50, and why am I taking it # One big part of my journey to the center of data science has been a journey to the center of computer science.

One of my desired blog specs was automation.

Learning how to dive into a big, wide codebase is - I’m realizing - an important meta-skill.

When I career switched into tech, the two big management shocks were daily standup and git.

Somebody mentioned a “Jacobian” at work - which sounded exotic and mathy and attractive.

I made my first Twitter bot today.

Happy with: Right arm + hand Squishiness of the tentacles Shading Coloring (esp. the blushing) Movement quivers Unhappy with: Left arm + hand Skull crush not gory/body horror enough Mouth and nose are very lazy Weird body position in general Inspired a li…