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Tuesday, 7th July 2020

sba-loans-covid-19-datasette (via) The treasury department released a bunch of data on the Covid-19 SBA Paycheck Protection Program Loan recipients today—I’ve loaded the most interesting data (the $150,000+ loans) into a Datasette instance.

# 2:42 am / data-journalism, projects, datasette, covid19

GitHub Actions: Manual triggers with workflow_dispatch (via) New GitHub Actions feature which fills a big gap in the offering: you can now create “workflow dispatch” events which provide a button for manually triggering an action—and you can specify extra UI form fields that can customize how that action runs. This turns Actions into an interactive automation engine for any code that can be wrapped in a Docker container.

# 4:33 am / docker, github-actions

When data is messy. I love this story: a neural network trained on images was asked what the most significant pixels in pictures of tench (a kind of fish) were: it returned pictures of fingers on a green background, because most of the tench photos it had seen were fisherfolk showing off their catch.

# 7:03 pm / machine-learning, ai

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