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• Post #4367664

  So Nauru is changing its name to Naoero. Quite a coincidence that I learned about its existence just a few weeks ago when I read about #Australia's Interment camp in that country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_Regional_Processing_Centre https://www.amnesty.org.au/nauru-detention-centre-must-be-urgently-evacuated-in-light-of-un-ruling/

• Post #4263017

  Experimenting with supersampling with splines to smooth contours when the resolution is kinda coarse. My logic is that contour methods assume linear interpolation, but that's just one assumption. Why not assume a smoother function? So, I first interpolate to a finer grid using splines and then use regular contours. This is the result. First image is default contours, second image is with the interpolation step. #RStats

• Post #2446886

  In the #AI era, this is what passes as a "sophisticated algorithm" https://github.com/albertogerli/Agentic_Paper

• Post #2203542

  Almost every single time I try to use #python for data analysis I rediscover Clause Wilke's post. Especially the part about separating logic from logistics. In today's instance: I want to get the full path of all the files/folders in a folder, in #RStats that's just `list.files(path, full.names = TRUE)`. Simple and clear. In python you need some variation on files = [os.path.join(path, f) for f in os.listdir(path')] Which sucks. https://blog.genesmindsmachine...

• Post #2110491

  #RStats

• Post #1845653

  Github is such a bloated POS. It got stuck following a link on a wiki. It was faster to reload the repo in another tab and click the link in the readme.

• Post #1845652

  Why did they named it "Young Sheldon" instead of "The Small Bang Theory"?

• Post #1845651

  Journal is asking for a persistent identifier (DOI or ISBN) for #RStast itself. `citation()` doesn't return a DOI and I can't find that there is. Any tips for that? #AcademicChatter EDIT: answer in the first reply, thanks!

• Post #1845650

  The journal typesetter modified every instance of "days" (as in "the forecast reaches its maximum error in about 30 days") to "d" (as in "the forecast reaches its maximum error in about 30 d"). I imagine the argument is that "days" is a unit of measurement and units of measurement are always abbreviated (like "km" vs "kilometers"), but this strikes me as making the text...

• Post #1845649

  I've just found this 22 year-old bash script to add history to the cd command. And it works perfectly! 🤯 https://linuxgazette.net/109/marinov.html #Linux

• Post #1323165

  What's the latest on the impact of #leather vs. no leather? I'm a #vegetarian and I tend to avoid leather shoes because I want to minimise animal deaths and suffering. But non-leather clothes still have an environmental impact and are much less durable, and a lot of leather is a byproduct of the meat industry. So I've always wondered if in a life-cycle analysis, using leather was overall better. #LazyWeb

• Post #1183520

  Google calendar's timezone selector has always been bad. Now they changed it to have search, which is good, but it only understands cities, so you can't select UTC. How can they fuck this up so royally?

• Post #1169339

  Is someone else having issues with #Positron using remote SSH? My #RStats sessions take FOR EVER to startup and the console has enormous latency and sometimes it just completely locks up and I need to close the whole session, sometimes even restart Positron completely. Meanwhile, using R from the terminal via SSH works perfectly well. And VSCode using the normal R terminal also is working well.

• Post #1098604

  Preparing our haul to bring back to Australia.

• Post #1098602

  A few hours back in #Australia. I already miss bidets.

• Post #1050469

  RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116369551683567626 I was just thinking about this stuff a few day ago. Process knowledge is also important at the national scale. A country can't just buy a bunch of books and get skills. It need to invest in people; people who learn to do stuff by doing it. Process knowledge is also fragile. Since you can't write it down, you need a continuum of people teaching other people and it's too easy to break the chain and lose immense amounts...

• Post #956500

  I kept seeing these SKILLS.md things to enhance #LLM s. I always thought that having a standard programmatic way of "teaching skills" to llms sounded smart. Today I actually looked into one of them and... it's just documentation? Just natural language description on how to do stuff? So now machines get better documentation than humans do? I hate this timeline. #AI

• Post #841669

  Hola programadores hispanohablantes. Cuando usan el sustantivo "issue" para referirse a la forma que tiene GitHub para listar problemas o pedidos de nuevas características, ¿usan el género femenino o masculino? Se agradece difusión para llegar a más gente! #rstats #python #datadon @rstats @ropensci 😉

• Post #747193

  I developed an #RStats package to get data from a remote service. Functions allow caching results, so that they will just return the saved files if the request is the same. I tend to be conservative and set the cache option to FALSE by default, but now I'm wondering if it would be more user friendly (and friendlier to the remote API) to set the default to TRUE. What say the R community?

• Post #335360

  Statistically significat #CatsOfMastodon