And was just thinking about it the other day. I had a bug aggregating sleep-data from an iPhone, which comes in the form of sleep-samples.
I was trying to fix it, both by prodding Claude Code to fix the problem, and looking at debug logs of the sleep-samples, but we weren't getting anywhere. I asked Claude Code to graph the samples, and BAM, saw it right away. (the problem was that HealthKit returns you sleep-samples from ALL devices, not just the priority one)
Maybe not exactly the same thing as Anscombe/Tufte were getting at, but I was reminded of it, and the value of visualising data.
Definitely seems to have exacerbated the anti-trust issue. Search was search, but now they can insert AI and short-circuit the route to other products.
Don't worry about impostor-syndrome (everyone has it).
It seemed like around the time I was graduating college, there was this kind of culture of hotshot programmers, which looking back was kind of toxic.
It was all this "he's good", "he's not good", and it kind made you afraid to admit you didn't know things (for me anyway).
And for a long time I went around with this imposter-syndrome, thinking I should know everything (and knowing that I didn't).
And now, with a bit more experience, I realise, not-knowing is the default. Things change so quickly, no-one can know everything. One person might be better in one area, a different person in another. There is no absolute ranking.
Better to admit this. We're all continual learners.
I meditate a good bit, an hour a day, and it doesn't stop thoughts arising, so I've had some time to think about this.
My guess is, it's just an evolutionarily useful thing, for your brain to keep pinging you about various things.
It doesn't mean of course that meditation is not useful. But you want to have control over these thoughts. Without a meditative practice, it's all too easy to allow your consciousness to be consumed by these impulses (which can lead you astray).
Some feedback: looks nice, but an instant turn-off for me is the requirement to sign up before I try it out. It meant I didn't try it out, and seems unnecessary.
Its a hobby project, to play around with American Football statistics.
I'm trying to do a few innovative things with it. e.g. I generate an excitement-rating per-game.
Here are the excitement ratings from yesterday's games:
Working on an NFL stats & visualisation project, the working title is American Football Insights.
It's a hobby project, I'm not planning to charge for. I did a bit of work on this a few years ago, and I found that analysing the stats, you can gain insights, which you can't really from just watching the games. It was prompted by the upcoming NFL season.
Things I'm thinking about...I had an idea for a centralised local DB where I collected all kinds of stats on my life, all in one place. They're already being collected on various platforms, I thought 'why not make them my own, and maybe there's something to gain by pulling them together?'.
And was just thinking about it the other day. I had a bug aggregating sleep-data from an iPhone, which comes in the form of sleep-samples.
I was trying to fix it, both by prodding Claude Code to fix the problem, and looking at debug logs of the sleep-samples, but we weren't getting anywhere. I asked Claude Code to graph the samples, and BAM, saw it right away. (the problem was that HealthKit returns you sleep-samples from ALL devices, not just the priority one)
Maybe not exactly the same thing as Anscombe/Tufte were getting at, but I was reminded of it, and the value of visualising data.