Lars Yencken
Engineering leader and data scientist.
Melbourne, Tokyo, Stockholm, Oxford, Geneva.
Interactive projects
🌍 Explore the world's countries
Understand countries through data, comparing them to their peers across different dimensions of development.
💀 Estimate your age of death
Use public life tables to understand life expectancy distributions for people your age in your country.
🗣️ Learn to identify languages
Test your ability to distinguish between the world's languages in this audio quiz game. Played by over 3.2M people.
Posts
- 24 Jan 2025All software is either maintained or abandoned
- 8 Sept 2024Exploring the world's countries
- 16 Jul 2024Three ways to store hierarchical data in SQL
- 16 Mar 2024Life expectancy is a distribution
- 28 Feb 2024In praise of Nushell
- 19 Feb 2024The best code is pseudocode
- 12 Feb 2024Which countries have the best public schools?
- 7 Jan 2024The dream of abundant computing
- 1 Jan 2024The fresh start effect
- 6 Nov 2023Post-scarcity optimism in science fiction
- 10 Nov 2022Experimenting with LXC containers
- 5 Oct 2022Debugging like a scientist
- 3 Dec 2021Ten years of measurement
- 26 May 2020Learning to code with the imagiCharm
- 28 Jan 2018A Great Farewell
- 18 Apr 2017Reading: Grit by Angela Duckworth
- 28 Sept 2016Review: Krydda hydroponic unit
- 2 Oct 2015Python 3.5 and asyncio
- 14 Dec 2014The Habit Clock
- 30 Sept 2014Insects as food
- 8 Aug 2014Using attention well
- 17 Jul 2014Chance and acceptance
- 5 Jul 2014Working on long-running tasks
- 13 Apr 2014PyCon 2014 Recap
- 12 Mar 2014Data release: language confusion
- 25 Jan 2014Revisiting Linux on a MacBook Pro
- 5 Dec 2013Working one-handed
- 9 Nov 2013Marelle: logic programming for devops
- 8 Sept 2013A great language update
- 4 Sept 2013¡Qué día!
- 1 Sept 2013The Great Language Game
- 20 Jun 2013The professional learner
- 19 Mar 201377 days of measurement
- 8 Jul 2012Learning languages
- 19 Feb 2012On naming
- 5 Nov 2011Pathfinding like a pro