alastair rushworth
@alastairrushworth.com
⚙️🛠️ hacking with ML, data & stats. blogs and rss feeds at blognerd.app, tech newsletters at blaze.email. cycling history stuff at cyclearchive.com, code at github.com/alastairrushworth
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alastair rushworth
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· Sep 27
A total overhaul to blognerd.app .... I'm quite happy with the results, and already finding it useful.
✨ surf blogs that are similar to other blogs
↔ find posts similar to other posts
🔎 search (of course)
⬇️ export RSS feeds as OPML, CSV
Have a go and let me know what you think!
✨ surf blogs that are similar to other blogs
↔ find posts similar to other posts
🔎 search (of course)
⬇️ export RSS feeds as OPML, CSV
Have a go and let me know what you think!
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✨ The R Data Scientist, 04-11-2025
R ecosystem updates, ggplot2 visuals, map-making techniques, Shiny testing and more!
rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-...
📩 subscribe at rstats.blaze.email
R ecosystem updates, ggplot2 visuals, map-making techniques, Shiny testing and more!
rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-...
📩 subscribe at rstats.blaze.email
The R Data Scientist 04-11-2025
R ecosystem updates, ggplot2 visuals, map-making techniques, Shiny testing and more!
rstats.blaze.email
November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
✨ The R Data Scientist, 04-11-2025
R ecosystem updates, ggplot2 visuals, map-making techniques, Shiny testing and more!
rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-...
📩 subscribe at rstats.blaze.email
R ecosystem updates, ggplot2 visuals, map-making techniques, Shiny testing and more!
rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-...
📩 subscribe at rstats.blaze.email
Maybe contrarian opinion about effects of AI:
as AI content becomes the norm on social sites, the ability to think and write in an authentic human voice will become much more valuable and sought after, not less.
as AI content becomes the norm on social sites, the ability to think and write in an authentic human voice will become much more valuable and sought after, not less.
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Maybe contrarian opinion about effects of AI:
as AI content becomes the norm on social sites, the ability to think and write in an authentic human voice will become much more valuable and sought after, not less.
as AI content becomes the norm on social sites, the ability to think and write in an authentic human voice will become much more valuable and sought after, not less.
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@cassidoo.co writes:
"I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet lately, like as a concept. I don’t know where everyone went...
When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet"
In response I made powrss.com to rediscover the personal web.
"I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet lately, like as a concept. I don’t know where everyone went...
When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet"
In response I made powrss.com to rediscover the personal web.
October 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
@cassidoo.co writes:
"I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet lately, like as a concept. I don’t know where everyone went...
When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet"
In response I made powrss.com to rediscover the personal web.
"I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet lately, like as a concept. I don’t know where everyone went...
When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet"
In response I made powrss.com to rediscover the personal web.
Reposted by alastair rushworth
Weekly Recap (Oct 31, 2025) 🎃: What's new with AI in science, Quarto, biodiversity, changed grant titles, new papers & preprints, Nextflow plugin registry, Via Scientific, #Rstats updates from R Data Scientist, rOpenSci, Posit, R Weekly, and R Works doi.org/10.59350/np5...
Weekly Recap (Oct 31, 2025)
AI in science, Quarto, biodiversity, changed grant titles, new papers & preprints, Nextflow plugin registry, Via Scientific, R updates from R Data Scientist, rOpenSci, Posit, R Weekly, and R Works 🎃
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Weekly Recap (Oct 31, 2025) 🎃: What's new with AI in science, Quarto, biodiversity, changed grant titles, new papers & preprints, Nextflow plugin registry, Via Scientific, #Rstats updates from R Data Scientist, rOpenSci, Posit, R Weekly, and R Works doi.org/10.59350/np5...
Vibe coders everywhere having a snowday
🔴 Elevated errors for requests to Claude 4 Sonnet
> We are currently investigating this issue.
#Anthropic #Claude
> We are currently investigating this issue.
#Anthropic #Claude
Elevated errors for requests to Claude 4 Sonnet
We are currently investigating this issue.
status.anthropic.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Vibe coders everywhere having a snowday
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Interactive: explore England’s new deprivation map ft.trib.al/NVmE4Gg
Interactive: explore England’s new deprivation map
Data analysis reveals ‘cheek by jowl’ inequalities in first study of country’s disadvantaged areas since pandemic
ft.trib.al
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Interactive: explore England’s new deprivation map ft.trib.al/NVmE4Gg
Quite thought provoking read. I won't touch atlas for the reasons listed. But as much as it pains me to say, I think a lot of people don't care about make direct contact with websites, and this idea (not necessarily openAIs implementation) is going to be popular.
www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/...
www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/...
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Quite thought provoking read. I won't touch atlas for the reasons listed. But as much as it pains me to say, I think a lot of people don't care about make direct contact with websites, and this idea (not necessarily openAIs implementation) is going to be popular.
www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/...
www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/...
0 < ROI < 1 still means you get less back than you put in to build it.
This slide does not make me want to read the report.
This slide does not make me want to read the report.
New data on the corporate ROI from generative AI from a large-scale tracking survey by my colleagues at Wharton.
They found that 75% already have a positive return on investment from AI, less than 5% negative. Also 46% of businesses leaders use AI daily. knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/special-repo...
They found that 75% already have a positive return on investment from AI, less than 5% negative. Also 46% of businesses leaders use AI daily. knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/special-repo...
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
0 < ROI < 1 still means you get less back than you put in to build it.
This slide does not make me want to read the report.
This slide does not make me want to read the report.
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This week's edition of The R Data Scientist just published, subscribe to future issues at rstats.blaze.email! #rstats #databs
rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-...
rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-...
The R Data Scientist 28-10-2025
R-community news, data skills training, innovative software development, map visualizations and more!
rstats.blaze.email
October 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
This week's edition of The R Data Scientist just published, subscribe to future issues at rstats.blaze.email! #rstats #databs
rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-...
rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-...
Liking this so far. Wondering if authors would like to be tagged when a post of one of their articles go up? Wouldn't be super tricky to add.
October 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Liking this so far. Wondering if authors would like to be tagged when a post of one of their articles go up? Wouldn't be super tricky to add.
I'm something of connoisseur myself
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rcg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rcg...
Laphroaig x Willem Dafoe - The Taste
YouTube video by Laphroaig Whisky
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I'm something of connoisseur myself
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rcg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rcg...
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
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What's new in data science, AI, #Rstats, biosecurity, etc. this week: Polyglot data science pipeline with rixpress, EuroBioC2025/BCN, Python packaging for R devs, Python in 2025, R/Pharma, DARPA, ASHG, the R Data Scientist, Quarto, universities and AI blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-rec...
October 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
What's new in data science, AI, #Rstats, biosecurity, etc. this week: Polyglot data science pipeline with rixpress, EuroBioC2025/BCN, Python packaging for R devs, Python in 2025, R/Pharma, DARPA, ASHG, the R Data Scientist, Quarto, universities and AI blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-rec...
blaze.email site update - just a cute little static site now 😎
October 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
blaze.email site update - just a cute little static site now 😎
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The R Data Scientist dropped from blaze. This week newsletters were all moved to buttondown, I hope you like the new look and features that come with it! #rstats
rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-...
rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-...
The R Data Scientist
Move to buttondown, community, stats, packages
rstats.blaze.email
October 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The R Data Scientist dropped from blaze. This week newsletters were all moved to buttondown, I hope you like the new look and features that come with it! #rstats
rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-...
rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-...
Love plotnine
Announcing Plotnine 0.15.0: The Python package for Grammar of Graphics gets a massive upgrade!
A new feature is Native Plot Composition: combine multiple independent plots into one figure, no more layout managers for multi-panel #Python graphs!
Read the post: posit.co/blog/plotnin...
A new feature is Native Plot Composition: combine multiple independent plots into one figure, no more layout managers for multi-panel #Python graphs!
Read the post: posit.co/blog/plotnin...
October 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Love plotnine
Ok it's not going to be substack. It was, then it was pointed out to me that substack has a bit of a moderation problem.
blaze.email is moving completely over to @buttondown.com (first emails tomorrow) which honestly is better in just about every way.
blaze.email is moving completely over to @buttondown.com (first emails tomorrow) which honestly is better in just about every way.
October 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Ok it's not going to be substack. It was, then it was pointed out to me that substack has a bit of a moderation problem.
blaze.email is moving completely over to @buttondown.com (first emails tomorrow) which honestly is better in just about every way.
blaze.email is moving completely over to @buttondown.com (first emails tomorrow) which honestly is better in just about every way.
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Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
🚨 feed for mathematicians is up too now bsky.app/profile/math... (basically just a filtered list of math-related posts from a wide range of blogs)
bsky.app
October 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🚨 feed for mathematicians is up too now bsky.app/profile/math... (basically just a filtered list of math-related posts from a wide range of blogs)
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Scrolling through computer desks on the 2001 Argos catalog. Surprisingly narcotic experience if you’re an elder millennial
August 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Scrolling through computer desks on the 2001 Argos catalog. Surprisingly narcotic experience if you’re an elder millennial
@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social loved your latest pod. might be interesting to you for your research process, but I made a small search engine mostly for searching small blogs. it skews a bit towards technology but has a lot of other things in there.
blognerd.app?qry=sycamore...
blognerd.app?qry=sycamore...
BlogNerd - Search RSS Feeds & Blog Posts
Discover and search through thousands of RSS feeds and blog posts. Find quality content from blogs, academic sources, and news sites.
blognerd.app
October 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social loved your latest pod. might be interesting to you for your research process, but I made a small search engine mostly for searching small blogs. it skews a bit towards technology but has a lot of other things in there.
blognerd.app?qry=sycamore...
blognerd.app?qry=sycamore...
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splitting out blaze's bsky accounts into topic specific profiles. here's the first, which is for #rstats (of course 😀) - it'll post a weekly notifications for the email digests, but now also individual blogs posts (a bit like rbloggers).
bsky.app/profile/rsta...
bsky.app/profile/rsta...
bsky.app
October 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
splitting out blaze's bsky accounts into topic specific profiles. here's the first, which is for #rstats (of course 😀) - it'll post a weekly notifications for the email digests, but now also individual blogs posts (a bit like rbloggers).
bsky.app/profile/rsta...
bsky.app/profile/rsta...
October 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It can't be called 'deportation' when the individual was born in, and is a citizen of that country. If you search for past examples of when countries expel their own citizens - that has a different name.
(Subtweet of a UK-related post which I don't want to give air to)
(Subtweet of a UK-related post which I don't want to give air to)
October 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
It can't be called 'deportation' when the individual was born in, and is a citizen of that country. If you search for past examples of when countries expel their own citizens - that has a different name.
(Subtweet of a UK-related post which I don't want to give air to)
(Subtweet of a UK-related post which I don't want to give air to)