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Feb 8

Holon Village: 2022

From Radical Self-Reliance to Communal Effort — Last year, we birthed something beautiful. This year, it’s time to help our baby grow up. Holon Village, a Renegade Burning Man camp organized with the intent of getting more people to experience the magic of Burning Man, is going to be returning to the Playa twice this summer: once…

Burning Man

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Holon Village: 2022
Holon Village: 2022

Jul 21, 2021

Holon Village

Making co-created experiences at Burning Man accessible — We have a once-a-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build something amazing together. This labor day weekend, for the first time in decades, tens of thousands of people will gather at Black Rock Desert without a sanctioned Burning Man event occurring. There will be art cars but no Department of Mutant Vehicles (DMV)…

Burning Man

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Holon Village
Holon Village

Apr 15, 2021

Ski Cult

An ephemeral intentional community outside of Taos, NM — Seventeen people. Three months. A property in the middle of nowhere. And a vision of testing what organizing a co-living space would be like, without the need to commit to buying a property or even signing a lease. What started as a vague idea to rent a small cabin close…

Communal Living

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Ski Cult
Ski Cult

Feb 11, 2021

Your RDBMS won’t scale

Are you building a data-driven web application that needs to serve data to your users with low latencies? Are you using MySQL, Postgres, or another traditional RDBMS as the backend for that web application? If so, you’re inevitably going to run into scalability issues as your dataset expands and your…

Postgres

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Your SQL database won’t scale
Your SQL database won’t scale

Published in Towards Data Science

·Jul 11, 2020

More than just pretty graphs

The importance of great data visualization — All too often, outsiders think that the job of data analysts and scientists is just number-crunching. Those of us who have actually practiced the science and art of extracting insights from data know that the job is at least as creative as it is analytical. The role of the data…

Data Science

4 min read

More than just pretty graphs
More than just pretty graphs

Published in Nightingale

·May 29, 2020

Bad Data Visualization in the Time of COVID-19

These three data viz pitfalls, which have proliferated during the pandemic, are instructive for data designers and consumers alike — To paraphrase a popular idiom: there are lies, damn lies, and data visualizations. This saying holds especially true in times of high pressure, such as in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic. In these uncertain times, rational people turn to data to help inform their opinions and decisions. …

Data Science

11 min read

Bad Data Visualization in the Time of COVID-19
Bad Data Visualization in the Time of COVID-19

Apr 15, 2020

Orwell was a socialist

Stop using his books to attack socialist policies — I’ve gotten into more than my fair share of internet debates. I have strong opinions about everything from superior voting systems (instant-runoff voting) to the right level of "doneness" for steaks (medium rare but on the rarer side; this is a hill I will die on). …

Politics

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Orwell was a socialist
Orwell was a socialist

Dec 5, 2017

My #1 piece of travel advice

As somebody who has been lucky enough to get to travel abroad, I often find friends approaching me asking for general travel tips. I find most pieces of general travel advice to be too simplistic; they usually paint with broad brushstrokes and end up being irrelevant or even harmful. But…

Travel

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My #1 piece of travel advice
My #1 piece of travel advice

Feb 24, 2017

Py + SQL + R == ☺

Why the UCLA stats department needs to introduce a Python and SQL course to supplement our R classes — Update: We did it! I met with the Chair of the Statistics Department (Professor Mark Handcock) and he told me that (barring any unexpected hurdles) starting in Spring of 2018 the eminently qualified Miles Chen will likely be teaching a new course “Data Technologies” (STATS 131). This course will cover…

Data Science

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Py + SQL + R == ☺
Py + SQL + R == ☺

Aug 20, 2016

Seveneves: Modern, Classic SciFi

A review (with some spoilers) — I grew up reading the Big Three science fiction writers: Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein. As a young nerd, I loved that these science fiction writers emphasized the science part of science fiction, rather than the science fantasy we usually see today. Neal Stephenson harkens back to this truly scientific style…

Book Review

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Seveneves: Modern, Classic SciFi
Seveneves: Modern, Classic SciFi
Danny D. Leybzon

Danny D. Leybzon

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