Robin Linacre

@RobinLinacre

Lead developer of Splink. Data scientist at Ministry of Justice. Trustee, GiveDirectly UK. Pledgee, givingwhatwecan.org. All views my own.

United Kingdom robinlinacre.com Joined January 2013

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Robin Linacre @RobinLinacre Jul 24, 2024

Pleased to announce the release of Splink version 4.0.0 today. It's now:

👩‍🔬 Easier to use
🚀 Faster
⚡ More scalable
🛠️ Easier to improve

For the uninitiated, Splink is a free library for record linkage and deduplication at scale

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Robin Linacre @RobinLinacre Sep 28

We're very pleased to release Splink 5, which is now more scalable, faster to train models and lighter to install

Robin Linacre @RobinLinacre Sep 25

In case you missed it. This has since been featured in the Data Elixir, Data Science Weekly and Quantum of Sollazzo newsletters

Robin Linacre @RobinLinacre Sep 1

New blog: Data Science in the Age of AI robinlinacre.com/data_science_a…

LLMs are the biggest shakeup to the profession I've ever experienced. The post uses examples to look at how the job has changed and how to use agents effectively.
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Robin Linacre @RobinLinacre Sep 14

Now has 2 player mode

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Robin Linacre @RobinLinacre Sep 13

Brain bombs, a two player mental arithmetic game

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