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I don't have influence re: @Patreon/@PatreonSupport but instead I'll tell you:
@jasonbaumgartne does amazing work for the data science ecosystem! pushshift.io hosts crawls + services for Reddit, Hacker News, and Twitter. He and his work are invaluable for open data!
As a data scientist or NLP researcher or anything that vaguely works with large scale data, tell me you don't look at this tweet and then immediately start salivating ^_^
The underlying issue has also been resolved so this is now simply an appreciation thread 🤗
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I wasn't going to do @Twitter's "Tweet the meaning behind your Twitter handle" - but then I remembered many people have introduced me with the wrong first name when they can't use @Smerity (including some _very_ high profile introductions 😅), so:
If you're someone lucky enough to have introduced me incorrectly, I promise I don't mind, it's just hilarious ^_^ You're always welcome to use Smerity or to introduce me as Smerity - and if it's a really important intro maybe just copy+paste ;)
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Digitization is vital to preservation as bits are our best insurance against time and entropy. Bits are resilient to chronic underfunding as storage gets cheaper. Bits can never replace the original but can allow universal access for sharing our culture and preserving it.
Underfunding may be the tragedy here but there are many tragedies no amount of funding can prevent over a long enough timeframe. Digitization may only offer a ghost - but it's a ghost that will never age and can and will get captured in the fabric of our infinite digital museum.
When something of value is truly lost any recollection is better than none. Even with lossy methods of digital preservation we are still offered faint possibilities of improved quality as technology improves.
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McCain served his country with honour and I hope his legacy lives on. Until this last week I hadn't heard this story - it's a story worth reading. He had empathy and understanding, formed from his own beliefs and experiences, which we could all benefit to learn from.
It's interesting that his tag of maverick may well have been him just remaining consistent as the political landscape changed around him.
As if a perfect follow up to his bipartisan and maverick status:
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