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Howdy. I'm Sebastian.

Data Science Weekly Newsletter (~68k subscribers): https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/ https://twitter.com/datascinews

My email is sgutierr@alum.mit.edu. Open invitation: if you're reading this, I'm happy to receive email about any deep learning / data science / software / startup / etc topic from you at any time.

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One Week of Bugs
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A short introduction to optimal transport and Wasserstein distance (2020)
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Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky
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Bioinformatics Courses for Beginners [video]
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Introduction to Julia for R Users
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Mon Aug 18, 2025 12:59pm PST
The Rage of Research
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Maintaining Momentum
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Thurs Aug 14, 2025 11:34pm PST
Data Science Weekly – Issue 612
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Thurs Aug 14, 2025 10:07pm PST
The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang
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Database Sharding
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Thurs Aug 14, 2025 10:04pm PST
AI Slop and the Destruction of Knowledge
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We are all genetic mutants
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Linear scan register allocation on SSA
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Thurs Aug 14, 2025 9:21pm PST
A personal health large language model for sleep and fitness coaching
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Thurs Aug 7, 2025 10:13pm PST
Data Science Weekly – Issue 611
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Thurs Aug 7, 2025 9:45pm PST
Learn Rust by Reasoning with Code Agents
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The worlds most convoluted spirograph [video]
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Thurs Aug 7, 2025 9:21pm PST
A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
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Thurs Aug 7, 2025 9:05pm PST
Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats)
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Rare events are hard to find
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Thurs Jul 31, 2025 10:35pm PST
Data Science Weekly – Issue 610
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Thurs Jul 31, 2025 9:37pm PST
Flexflex: Typeface responds to spatial requirements rather than imposing them
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Thurs Jul 31, 2025 8:37pm PST
How to Name Files
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Sync Primitives Are Functionally Complete
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Thurs Jul 31, 2025 9:25am PST
Public Perspectives on AI Governance: Survey of Adults in CA, Illinois, and NY
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Agentic Coding Things That Didn't Work
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Tues Jul 29, 2025 9:15am PST
Understanding ASTs
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Thurs Jul 24, 2025 10:43pm PST
Data Science Weekly – Issue 609
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Thurs Jul 24, 2025 10:30pm PST
Behind the Streams: Three Years of Live at Netflix. Part 1
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Thurs Jul 24, 2025 9:22pm PST
Revisiting Moneyball
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Data Science Weekly – Issue 607
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Fri Jul 11, 2025 2:13am PST
Even if it's fake it's real
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Fri Jul 4, 2025 8:19am PST
Vector Database from a Beginners POV
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Fri Jul 4, 2025 12:14am PST
How to Build a Third Place on Focusmate
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Fri Jul 4, 2025 12:09am PST
How I Outsource My Self-Control
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 11:16pm PST
Data Science Weekly – Issue 606
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Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries (2022)
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Marketing for maintainers: Promote your project to users and contributors (2022)
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 10:19pm PST
The Rise of "Context Engineering"
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 10:00pm PST
How to Surf the Web in 2025, and Why You Should
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 9:55pm PST
Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 9:28pm PST
Drug Discovery May Be in the Cold War Era
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 8:59pm PST
Optimize CPU performance with Instruments [video]
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 6:56pm PST
You can outsource the grunt work to an LLM, not expertise
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 6:53pm PST
I Shipped a macOS App Built by Claude Code
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 3:48pm PST
Reason's Overreach
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Wed Jul 2, 2025 10:17am PST
What's going on here, with this human?
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Mon Jun 30, 2025 8:35am PST
Understanding Keyword Search
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Thurs Jun 26, 2025 11:19pm PST
Data Science Weekly – Issue 605
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Thurs Jun 26, 2025 10:40pm PST
The Best of LessWrong
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Wed Jun 25, 2025 9:03am PST
Comprehensive Comparison of Algorithmic Trading Platforms
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Wed Jun 25, 2025 8:58am PST
Achievements and Lessons from the DARPA Blackjack Program
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Sun Jun 22, 2025 7:18pm PST
Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021)
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Data Science Weekly – Issue 604
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Estrogen: A Trip Report
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I built a game to simulate the life of a Chief Data Officer
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100 Blog posts, 6 years, 5M views
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Thurs Jun 19, 2025 6:56pm PST
A Guide to Developer Advocacy
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Guess the Correlation
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Thurs Jun 19, 2025 1:37pm PST
Can I Point You to the Dew Point?
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Writing Manually (In Times of AI-Generated Content)
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Expert Generalists
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Cursor BugBot vs. Entelligence
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Data Science Weekly – Issue 603
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Forecasting day-ahead electricity prices: Review of algorithms
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It must be worth it even if it doesn't work
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Thurs Jun 12, 2025 12:14pm PST
One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations
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Thurs Jun 12, 2025 8:03am PST
Async Compute All the Things
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Tues Jun 10, 2025 6:50pm PST
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics
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Tues Jun 10, 2025 6:45pm PST
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
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Tues Jun 10, 2025 9:06am PST
Old Maps Online – Browse historical places and search for old maps with timeline
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Tues Jun 10, 2025 9:01am PST
How to Invest in AI with MCPS and Data Analytics
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Mon Jun 9, 2025 10:57pm PST
Defending the Science of Learning
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Why is AI hard and Physics simple?
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Three Types of Math Acceleration
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Effectiveness Beats Accuracy
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Fri Jun 6, 2025 9:24am PST
Plans you're not supposed to talk about
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Fri Jun 6, 2025 8:43am PST
AI Agent Friday Finds Post, 2025-06-06
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Thurs Jun 5, 2025 12:04pm PST
Coordination Problems: Why Smart People Can't Fix Anything
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Data Science Weekly – Issue 602
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How the Heck Do QR Codes Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
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LLM Inference Economics from First Principles
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Wed Jun 4, 2025 11:45pm PST
Biology and genetics are real things
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Systematic Strategies and Quant Trading 2025
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Wed Jun 4, 2025 10:53am PST
Biotech founders and drug hunters who were unlikely to succeed, and yet they did
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Wed Jun 4, 2025 10:51am PST
Just how bad are we at treating age-related diseases?
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Hyperstition
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Wed Jun 4, 2025 9:36am PST
Building an AI Agent (To Modernise COBOL)
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Wed Jun 4, 2025 8:39am PST
AI Killed the AI Engineer
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Wed Jun 4, 2025 8:25am PST
Timeline of the Far Future
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Tues Jun 3, 2025 6:41pm PST
They are meeting grade-level expectations
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Tues Jun 3, 2025 9:58am PST
Forecasting: Principles and Practice, the Pythonic Way
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Sun Jun 1, 2025 8:44pm PST
Claude Code: An Agentic cleanroom analysis
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People Spend Too Much Time on Decisions with Equally Satisfying Outcomes
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Be the node you want to see in the network
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