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Ian Stokes-Rees @ijstokes

Associate Director @BCG developing world-leading analytics solutions with #Python #PyData and the #OpenDataScience software stack

Joined December 2007
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Ian Stokes-Rees@ijstokes
20 Jun 2022
If we do establish a Religion of Mathematics in the 21st century I have to believe that the IRL version of #HariSeldon will be @stephen_wolfram -- his treatise "The Physicalization of Metamathematics" may be the foundational sacred text writings.stephenwolfram.com/… #ruliad #madgenius
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ASCII art to create diagrams. It's in the vein of xfig or graphviz or dot or tikz: google.github.io/typograms/
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Amazing hour long @frontlinepbs interview with Yale history professor @timothysnyder_ talking about the #UkraineRussiaWar on its first anniversary youtu.be/um-SEQDQidM
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I'm excited about the creation of the new BCG.X organization that merges DV/Platinion/Gamma into a 3000 person global org of tech professionals. We're hiring! Join us. #datascience #ai #cloud #consulting linkedin.com/posts/activity-…

We’re Building Tomorrow | Ian Stokes-Rees

I'm attending a BCG end-of-year meeting where we're looking at our projects, successes, and performance from the last year. Besides the amazing year we've had commercially we're taking the courageous...

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2 Dec 2022
I’m sorry, I simply cannot be cynical about a technology that can accomplish this.
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AWS and Blockchain - a story by ⁦@timbray⁩ tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/…

AWS and Blockchain

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Long read, but a good summary of #PKI and the technical processes which make it work: smallstep.com/blog/everythin…

Everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask

Certificates and public key infrastructure (PKI) are hard. No shit, right? I know a lot of smart people who''ve avoided this particular rabbit hole. Eventually, I was forced to learn this stuff...

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#Python #m1 #applesilicom #datascience #anaconda anaconda.com/blog/apple-sili…

A Python Data Scientist’s Guide to the Apple Silicon Transition | Anaconda

Even if you are not a Mac user, you have likely heard Apple is switching from Intel CPUs to their own custom CPUs, which they refer to collectively as “Apple Silicon.” The last time Apple changed its...

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Basically : privacy no longer exists from any sufficiently well funded agents. #Pegasus #NSO #nomoreprivacy nytimes.com/2022/01/28/magaz…

The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon (Published 2022)

A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO’s Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.

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Just discovered @WorkshopTactics from PIP Decks. Simple idea: combining different "hands" from the 54 cards in the deck you can organize different workshops depending on your product team needs. Great resource! Will try it with my current product team! pipdecks.com/pages/workshop-…

Workshop exercises for Agile teams

A curated list of the best agile workshop exercises, activities and techniques. For group facilitation activities, such as physical and remote meetings, training sessions, team building activities,...

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I've paid a lot of money for food in nice hotels. And the #TheNomadHotelLV at @parkmgm is a NICE hotel. But the quality usually tracks the price. Today, for $84, I was given 4 pastries, 2 cardboard carafes (coffee and hot water) & plastic plates and cutlery. #NotImpressed
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This is a great interactive story regarding the effects of bias on community segregation and the need for intentional/active anti-bias to increase diversity. ncase.me/polygons/
I had heard of this before but not gotten into the details. I think the format is brilliant: no slides, dossier distributed at the start of the meeting, everyone gets reading & thinking time, then discussion starts. #TheAmazonWay #NoMorePowerPoint medium.com/10x-curiosity/ama…

Amazon’s flipped meetings….

No powerpoint slides at a meeting? SAY WHAAAAAT?

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Taylor Dolezal
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4 Oct 2021
An enlightening apparition from a colleague 🎃
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Awesome OSS dev profiles from @GitHub in their #ReadME project. I love the one about Aaron Turner (@torch2424) & his backstory hacking #Android ROMs so he could get decent performance out of cheap phones. Reminds me of putting Linux on 386s in the 90s github.com/readme/stories/aa…

Aaron Turner

From rationing megabyte data to working at Fastly, Aaron @torch2424 Turner carved out his path by coding—and is now making technology more available to those with limited access. See how his journe...

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This was the state of the art in state-sponsored cyber espionage a decade ago. Just imagine what it looks like today. wired.com/story/the-full-sto…
Great blog post describing the shortest path to have #conda based data science environments in @Docker containers: pythonspeed.com/articles/act… #python #datascience #containers

Activating a Conda environment in your Dockerfile

Learn how to activate a Conda environment in your Dockerfile.

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Interesting article by ⁦@noam⁩ Bardin, founder and former CEO of ⁦@waze⁩, on the innovation stifling environment of @Google paygo.media/p/25171
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