Matt Sandy

Matt Sandy

@mattsandy.bsky.social

Riding #bikes in #Minneapolis and using #rstats for #data. Some projects over at matt.sandy.ms

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Say what you want about RFK Jr., but thanks to him my Kalshi position for measles infections in 2026 is right on track. Measles to the moon, I guess.

One of the most interesting artifacts of #command-line based #Ai providers, is there is an incentive to produce a local script to process #data, as generating the code to fulfill a request likely is less impactful on their servers than processing the actual files to be processed.

Between #WASM, #DuckDB, #WebLLM, and some amazing progress on SQL specific LLMs, this could be an interesting era of lots of questions answered, and some answered correctly. Context truly is king.

Taking a look at daily high temps in #Minneapolis. Using #rstats for this #datavis. Now to get the high, low, and factor in historical ice thickness at Lake the Isles to predict when the ice is safe to skate.

Taking a look at the precinct level data using #rstats and #rayrender for #Minnesota. Elevation is determined by abs((Harris - Trump) / st_area) in each precinct and then rasterized, greyscale within boundaries is where the vote count was equal.

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