tj mahr 🦃
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tj mahr 🦃
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readtextgrid now uses C++ (and ChatGPT helped)
Text parsing and thoughts about LLM-assisted R development
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new #rstats blogpost: readtextgrid now uses C++ (and ChatGPT helped) www.tjmahr.com/readtextgrid...
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So, you agree...you think people should be free to take hormones that make them feel better in their skin and improve their experience of life?
December 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
So, you agree...you think people should be free to take hormones that make them feel better in their skin and improve their experience of life?
Gotta drop everything for a Tom7 video youtu.be/4pG8_bWpmaE?...
Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025
YouTube video by suckerpinch
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December 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Gotta drop everything for a Tom7 video youtu.be/4pG8_bWpmaE?...
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Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
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December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
hearing this song in a tiktok meme of various meme cats on a Christmas Eve is cool open.spotify.com/track/2VfEcR...
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December 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
hearing this song in a tiktok meme of various meme cats on a Christmas Eve is cool open.spotify.com/track/2VfEcR...
the last minute of this song forever and ever open.spotify.com/track/3znapZ...
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others - 2011 Remaster
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December 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
the last minute of this song forever and ever open.spotify.com/track/3znapZ...
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Your annual reminder that if you get this cracker joke and are confused by it, it's apparently because "ffi" is a special character in some fonts and when the typeface is changed to one that doesn't have it, those letters disappear. It's supposed to be "coffin medicine".
December 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Your annual reminder that if you get this cracker joke and are confused by it, it's apparently because "ffi" is a special character in some fonts and when the typeface is changed to one that doesn't have it, those letters disappear. It's supposed to be "coffin medicine".
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"Of those infected, 145 were unvaccinated, three were partially vaccinated with one of the recommended two-dose measles-mumps-rubella vaccines, one was fully vaccinated and four had unknown vaccination status."
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Measles cases in South Carolina rise by nine to 153, state health department says
The South Carolina health department reported 153 measles cases related to the ongoing outbreak on Tuesday, nine additional cases since its last update on Friday.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"Of those infected, 145 were unvaccinated, three were partially vaccinated with one of the recommended two-dose measles-mumps-rubella vaccines, one was fully vaccinated and four had unknown vaccination status."
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two “just fries” happy meals please
December 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
two “just fries” happy meals please
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Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
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lol we didn’t say the Jake Paul fight was not an exhibition. We said it was not an “exihibition”.
December 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
lol we didn’t say the Jake Paul fight was not an exhibition. We said it was not an “exihibition”.
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I am looking for a psychometrician to consult on a short term project. Any recommendations for someone who has done a lot with IRT and test development?
December 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I am looking for a psychometrician to consult on a short term project. Any recommendations for someone who has done a lot with IRT and test development?
wrote a helper for commenting out code www.tjmahr.com/wisclabmisc/...
Skip a block of code without executing it — skip_block
skip_block() is a lightweight control-flow helper to deliberately
skip execution of a block of code while still documenting that the block
exists. It is intended as an alternative to commenting out co...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
wrote a helper for commenting out code www.tjmahr.com/wisclabmisc/...
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Vindicated youtu.be/ttJlMFsL2ro?...
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Vindicated youtu.be/ttJlMFsL2ro?...
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Sending my heart out to my trans friends and followers today. You are seen and you are loved.
December 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Sending my heart out to my trans friends and followers today. You are seen and you are loved.
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Welcome to DOES IT SCAN AS BEASTIE BOYS LYRICS, the hit show where we tell you if something scans as Beastie Boys lyrics. Today: a big YES YES Y'ALL to Away in a Manger! Take it away, Boys:
December 26, 2023 at 12:56 PM
Welcome to DOES IT SCAN AS BEASTIE BOYS LYRICS, the hit show where we tell you if something scans as Beastie Boys lyrics. Today: a big YES YES Y'ALL to Away in a Manger! Take it away, Boys:
our Christmas card says “six geese a laying / seven swans a swimming” and has the kids doing 6-7
December 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
our Christmas card says “six geese a laying / seven swans a swimming” and has the kids doing 6-7
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At this point the merchant of doubt strategy feels So outdated. The ew strategy is just to destroy the science that is inconvenient to polluters and racists.
December 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
At this point the merchant of doubt strategy feels So outdated. The ew strategy is just to destroy the science that is inconvenient to polluters and racists.
i am liking the autechre EPs more than the albums
December 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
i am liking the autechre EPs more than the albums