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by puntofisso 4mo ago
I've taken a Eurovision dataset from Kaggle and analysed it to create this "scrollytelling" article. It uses mostly Scrollama and D3, and includes interactive charts at the end. Methodology and code are included in the articl
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15 things I learnt launching AI projects in Government (4-part blog post)(puntofisso.net)
1 points by puntofisso 4mo ago|1 comments
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by puntofisso 4mo ago
In 2020, I joined the NHS AI Lab as its Deputy Director, a £250M UK Government-backed initiative to develop and deploy safe, ethical AI across the UK healthcare system, and one of the first AI incubators ever set up in a public sector conte
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by puntofisso 7mo ago
I have a never ending list of "small tools" for personal use and decided to try Claude Code to see which ones I have clear ideas about, as I find that there's a good correlation between speed and quality of development with c
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by puntofisso 7mo ago
Thanks, that's a good shout! Two thoughts: 1) I'm not 100% sure what to do when the ratio can't be complied with because the original photo has a certain shape, but I'm definitely thinking about it; in general, how to ge
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Show HN: FaceCrop – Align and crop portrait photos with face detection(facecrop.puntofisso.net)
1 points by puntofisso 7mo ago|3 comments
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by puntofisso 10mo ago
Pretty much all this. Remarkably, the website has a "Pricing" page with... no pricing information whatsoever.
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Show HN: Better Word Counter(better-word-counter.net)
1 points by puntofisso 1y ago|0 comments
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by puntofisso 2y ago
Not quite directly through my website, but indirectly via my newsletter, that points to my website. It happened on two occasions, the most interesting of which was on a commission to do a piece of research on data uses in a sector that wa
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by puntofisso 3y ago
I have a couple of things that I have mentioned at recent job interviews and helped me get the job, but in a sideways manner. Still make me smile because I essentially did them to learn something and they kinda acquired a life of their own.
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by puntofisso 3y ago
I wish there was a model out there that asked me "what do you mean by 'join'" but I guess we're somewhat far from there :)
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by puntofisso 3y ago
It's hard to really understand what it must be to live through such a tragedy, so I'm not sure how relevant my suggestions will be. But I would do three things (some of which I see mentioned in several post below): 1. download as
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by puntofisso 4y ago
I reported about my own similar experience a few years back ( https://puntofisso.medium.com/paypal-closed-my-account-with-... ). What's really stuck with me is that it seems that anti-fraud legislation in many countries
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by puntofisso 4y ago
What scares me is that there's very little in terms of user rights, and where entire businesses depend on it, things might get very bad very quickly. It's not just Stripe by the way: I had my own issue with PayPal (luckily, not ve
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by puntofisso 4y ago
I had a very similar experience with TripAdvisor and a hotel in Vietnam, which claimed my review was false. The really crazy part of this was that my review was positive, 4/5 stars. But they wanted 5 stars and "befriended" me
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by puntofisso 4y ago
Indeed. The perception it gives is that it's fudging things up. I'm really interested in this because it will impact somehow the credibility it gets / the confidence it inspires in end users.
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ChatGPT fails with complex constraints but it pretends it complies with them(twitter.com)
3 points by puntofisso 4y ago|3 comments
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by puntofisso 4y ago
I tried this set of prompts trying to get ChatGPT generate a diet plan with close-to-impossible constraints. Its behaviour is interesting: it generates a response that ignores some of the constraints. When corrected, it admits the mistake
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by puntofisso 4y ago
Interestingly, this is exactly how I found about Buttondown, which I've been using for years to send my own newsletter. It also helped that it was priced way more sensibly than many alternatives, in a way that grows linearly with the
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by puntofisso 4y ago
What I find interesting is that such p2p comms applications return with a certain recurrence. I think one of the first was Nokia Sensor (2005?), and there was one that was famous during the Arab Spring/Hong Kong protests.
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by puntofisso 4y ago
Just vaguely related, but it seems that various forms of hiring fraud are now appearing, i.e. https://connortumbleson.com/2022/09/19/someone-is-pretending... In the remote world, it's going to be difficu
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by puntofisso 4y ago
I don't share/forward jobs without a salary range, and usually refuse to engage with them. I do ask, and if they're fuzzy, I understand it's not a good match. That said, and beyond my personal preference of a relatively
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by puntofisso 4y ago
This is very interesting (disclaimer: I work for the NHS, although this isn't within the remit of my role). Many useful comments in the thread, so I'll add just one thing. In NHS England there are national programmes for screening
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by puntofisso 4y ago
https://www.puntofisso.net It's fundamentally a pointer to my other social presence and a list of "cool projects" (mostly side gigs) that I've done over the years.
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by puntofisso 5y ago
I can't draw at all. Skills stopped evolving at age 6 :P Is it really something you can learn, or do you think there is some pre-requisite innate "gift"? I can't get my head around it.
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by puntofisso 5y ago
My biggest mistake... is not a technical mistake. It's a mistake about the career in its entirety :) The story is that I spent all my university years (and a couple of years after that, working in the IT industry) thinking that what I
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by puntofisso 6y ago
In 2011, inspired by Colm McMullan's Stats Zone (a football analytics app), I started working at a mobile app for rugby fans. It was my first time on mobile since the J2ME era, and I learned Android and iOS coding from scratch. The ide
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Some Thoughts on Better Interviewing(medium.com)
2 points by puntofisso 6y ago|1 comments
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by puntofisso 6y ago
I've been on both sides of the interview fence and I have some (provocative) thoughts I'd like some discussion about
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by puntofisso 7y ago
I hope this doesn't sound overly self-promotional, but I have a newsletter with around 1500 subscribers (and a few Patreon supporters) which I started a few years back to address a very personal issue of bookmarking/curation: I re

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