Unifying scattered customer data in real-time @TiloresHQ. Dundonian aber Wahlberliner.
Berlin, Germany
Joined April 2007
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I found that one retired Texan made ~76k federal political donations in 18 months. Typical gift: $10.
546 on her busiest day.
The FEC has no donor ID, so she only shows up once 108,748 records are joined into one person.
...but did she go over the contribution limits? 🧵
She isn't unusual. Across 769,000 donors in CA, FL, NY and TX, the same first-pass check flags 0.4% of people with under 100 donations.
With 20,000+ donations: 6 of 7.
Limits are checked one committee at a time. Nobody checks the donor.
All record matching done using @TiloresHQ
Full analysis here: medium.com/@major-grooves/on…
This is annoyingly catchy.
I came to realize people liked the french #slopcore without having the lyrics 😅 sorry!
So here is a version with english subtitles!
Steven Renwick retweeted
It’s her little shoes with perfectly tied laces by a mother who loved her that gets me. Now they’re both gone.
A horrific Russian strike in the Kharkiv region. A “shahed” struck people directly – in a park near an ordinary café. Pure atrocity. Six people were killed, including children. A little girl was killed in a stroller – her name was Angelina, she was just over a year old, born in August 2025… Her mother’s name was Inna. She died in the hospital… Another girl who was killed was 11 years old. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Another 14 people were injured, including six more children.
I am grateful to everyone who supports Ukraine under these circumstances and helps us shoot down “shaheds,” shoot down missiles, and stop Russian assaults. These are horrific photos, but behind them are shattered lives and the truth about this war. Lives must be protected. Ukraine needs air defense. You can't think about making money with Russia as long as it continues its asinine war. We ask that sanctions on Russia stay in place as long as the killings continue. We ask America to be strong, and we ask it to apply the Lindsey Graham law. We ask Europe to continue its support. We ask that everything possible be done to bring peace and guarantee security. Ukraine wants peace. It is Russia that has insisted on continuing the killing all this time. The world has enough strength to stop the war. That strength must finally be used – against the murderers.
Steven Renwick retweeted
This is on you, MAGA.
This dead child is on you.
Oh, you’ll bluster and talk trash, but your Dear Leader Trump serves with the murderers in Moscow.
I’d tell you to feel shame, but your souls are so dead you’ll laugh it off.
A horrific Russian strike in the Kharkiv region. A “shahed” struck people directly – in a park near an ordinary café. Pure atrocity. Six people were killed, including children. A little girl was killed in a stroller – her name was Angelina, she was just over a year old, born in August 2025… Her mother’s name was Inna. She died in the hospital… Another girl who was killed was 11 years old. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Another 14 people were injured, including six more children.
I am grateful to everyone who supports Ukraine under these circumstances and helps us shoot down “shaheds,” shoot down missiles, and stop Russian assaults. These are horrific photos, but behind them are shattered lives and the truth about this war. Lives must be protected. Ukraine needs air defense. You can't think about making money with Russia as long as it continues its asinine war. We ask that sanctions on Russia stay in place as long as the killings continue. We ask America to be strong, and we ask it to apply the Lindsey Graham law. We ask Europe to continue its support. We ask that everything possible be done to bring peace and guarantee security. Ukraine wants peace. It is Russia that has insisted on continuing the killing all this time. The world has enough strength to stop the war. That strength must finally be used – against the murderers.
Steven Renwick retweeted
A horrific Russian strike in the Kharkiv region. A “shahed” struck people directly – in a park near an ordinary café. Pure atrocity. Six people were killed, including children. A little girl was killed in a stroller – her name was Angelina, she was just over a year old, born in August 2025… Her mother’s name was Inna. She died in the hospital… Another girl who was killed was 11 years old. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Another 14 people were injured, including six more children.
I am grateful to everyone who supports Ukraine under these circumstances and helps us shoot down “shaheds,” shoot down missiles, and stop Russian assaults. These are horrific photos, but behind them are shattered lives and the truth about this war. Lives must be protected. Ukraine needs air defense. You can't think about making money with Russia as long as it continues its asinine war. We ask that sanctions on Russia stay in place as long as the killings continue. We ask America to be strong, and we ask it to apply the Lindsey Graham law. We ask Europe to continue its support. We ask that everything possible be done to bring peace and guarantee security. Ukraine wants peace. It is Russia that has insisted on continuing the killing all this time. The world has enough strength to stop the war. That strength must finally be used – against the murderers.
Steven Renwick retweeted
"Do your own research," they said.
So I did
28 years, a medical degree, a PhD, and three postgraduate diplomas in infectious diseases later, I conclude that vaccines save millions of lives and do not cause autism.
This is similar to how we use AI (LLMs) in @TiloresHQ for entity resolution. Use the AI to configure the deterministic (or fuzzy) rules, which are confirmed by humans. Also works for fine-tuning.
You can also use AI for the subjective <1% of pair matches that miss rules. – at Berlin, Germany
How can you trust probabilistic AI in a high stakes domain like customs compliance?
At @flexport our answer is to use the LLMs to write code, which once signed off on by human experts runs deterministically every time.
I explain how we're using this approach in our new business rules engine for handling customs compliance automation.
Why does @Confluence take so long to export a page as pdf? Anything else take like a second - Confluence takes 40s, or sometimes (like right now) just never completes.
Want to find the bad guys in your customer systems using open source data? Join my on 5th November for a LinkedIn Live webinar with the founder of @open_sanctions
linkedin.com/events/75135169…
First restaurant bookings, and *then* curing cancer. Got to get the order correct...
Steven Renwick retweeted
Nick Candy and Holly Valance. Britain’s most expensive house. A £265m sale.
Usual consequence: £32m of stamp duty.
But five small flats were included in the sale. By an extraordinary happy accident, that cut the tax by £18.5m.
The curious sale of Nick Candy’s mansion
A 🧵:
Was "primitives" always a used term in software product development, or have LLMs just decided it should be used?
Steven Renwick retweeted
Hi @patrickc - Judith from @langdock here. We just crossed €50m ARR and flipped from a US Inc -> European SE.
We want Germany to make starting and running companies easier (first on the list: compulsory notarization).
At the same time, building a big company from here is absolutely possible and we intend to prove it. The SE is actually a good structure, but it's not an option for founders who are just starting out. That's why we are big supporters of @euinc.
We're bullish on Germany - and bullish we can do even better. Both can be true at the same time. Happy to chat more.
I'm curious to read other stories from people who've scaled new businesses in Europe. (And if your experience has been positive, that's also useful to hear.) Feel free to email me: [email protected].
Steven Renwick retweeted
Claire Kellerman, daughter of MASH actress Sally Kellerman sues Outer Hebrides island cafe for refusing her dog entry
Sky's @ConnorGillies visits the remote island where the community centre is facing bankruptcy after refusing entry
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Kellerman’s case is funded by Scottish legal aid. She first sued the wrong charity, costing it over £7,000 that legal-aid rules prevent recovering. The volunteer-run cafe now faces bankruptcy on the redirected claim. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…