Andrei
@andrei-wonge.bsky.social
PhD student, Flâneur, Photographer and robust skeptisist. All about inequality, culture and territorio/space/place/networks. Tweeting in English, Español and Français
Find differences between R objects using the Waldo (US)/ Wally (UK)/ Charlie (France)/ Walter (Deutsch) package...
Find Differences Between R Objects
Compare complex R objects and reveal the key differences. Designed particularly for use in testing packages where being able to quickly isolate key differences makes understanding test failures much e...
waldo.r-lib.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Find differences between R objects using the Waldo (US)/ Wally (UK)/ Charlie (France)/ Walter (Deutsch) package...
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Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...
restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...
Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
Chile and tech giants promise economy-wide impact but permits show fewer onsite jobs after construction.
restofworld.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...
restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...
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PM joins Health Secretary in recognising return of racism ("that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago" - a slightly detached tone)
My column this week is about why government needs to go beyond calling out language/rhetoric about racism + act on it
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
My column this week is about why government needs to go beyond calling out language/rhetoric about racism + act on it
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
PM joins Health Secretary in recognising return of racism ("that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago" - a slightly detached tone)
My column this week is about why government needs to go beyond calling out language/rhetoric about racism + act on it
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
My column this week is about why government needs to go beyond calling out language/rhetoric about racism + act on it
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Take 22 minutes to watch this. Trust me. The end of USAID through the story of a baby named Jane Sunday. "We've found the formula and we delivered it. And then we took it away," says @agawande.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Take 22 minutes to watch this. Trust me. The end of USAID through the story of a baby named Jane Sunday. "We've found the formula and we delivered it. And then we took it away," says @agawande.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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"Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer a city where everyday residents have to work three jobs and are under constant threat of eviction. Anything short of an excruciating existence for the working class just doesn’t cut it for me."
If New York City Is No Longer Going to Be an Unaffordable Police State Run by Crooks, I’m Taking My Hard-Earned Sex-Pest Dollars Elsewhere
“New York millionaires are plotting their exit from the city after the election of Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who plans to increase the taxes of...
buff.ly
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer a city where everyday residents have to work three jobs and are under constant threat of eviction. Anything short of an excruciating existence for the working class just doesn’t cut it for me."
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Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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Finally, the preprint+Python package "neatnet" is out: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16198
https://github.com/uscuni/neatnet
If you are working with street/planar/spatial networks, this will solve *so* many problems! Many of my projects had this bottleneck - […]
[Original post on datasci.social]
https://github.com/uscuni/neatnet
If you are working with street/planar/spatial networks, this will solve *so* many problems! Many of my projects had this bottleneck - […]
[Original post on datasci.social]
April 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Finally, the preprint+Python package "neatnet" is out: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16198
https://github.com/uscuni/neatnet
If you are working with street/planar/spatial networks, this will solve *so* many problems! Many of my projects had this bottleneck - […]
[Original post on datasci.social]
https://github.com/uscuni/neatnet
If you are working with street/planar/spatial networks, this will solve *so* many problems! Many of my projects had this bottleneck - […]
[Original post on datasci.social]
duckDB and DBeaver are my favourite kind of animals...
November 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
duckDB and DBeaver are my favourite kind of animals...
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My new field guide to alternatives to standard LLMs:
Gated DeltaNet hybrids (Qwen3-Next, Kimi Linear), text diffusion, code world models, and small reasoning transformers.
🔗 magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/beyond-sta...
Gated DeltaNet hybrids (Qwen3-Next, Kimi Linear), text diffusion, code world models, and small reasoning transformers.
🔗 magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/beyond-sta...
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
My new field guide to alternatives to standard LLMs:
Gated DeltaNet hybrids (Qwen3-Next, Kimi Linear), text diffusion, code world models, and small reasoning transformers.
🔗 magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/beyond-sta...
Gated DeltaNet hybrids (Qwen3-Next, Kimi Linear), text diffusion, code world models, and small reasoning transformers.
🔗 magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/beyond-sta...
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The CRAN Spatial Task View just got a proper table of contents (thanks to Krzysztof Dyba) -- easier to navigate all those R spatial packages now. 🌍
> cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial
#RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource #gischat
> cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial
#RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource #gischat
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The CRAN Spatial Task View just got a proper table of contents (thanks to Krzysztof Dyba) -- easier to navigate all those R spatial packages now. 🌍
> cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial
#RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource #gischat
> cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial
#RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource #gischat
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WIRED recently published an AI special issue. I collected all the links in one place to save you the clicks through the little Tarot cards blog.stephenturner.us/p/wired-ai-o...
WIRED: AI of a Thousand Faces
WIRED published a special issue with 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age
blog.stephenturner.us
November 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
WIRED recently published an AI special issue. I collected all the links in one place to save you the clicks through the little Tarot cards blog.stephenturner.us/p/wired-ai-o...
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"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley
October 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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More from the scene
October 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
More from the scene
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A massive study on the effects of social class tested 35 hypotheses in 4 countries (N = 33,536)
Only 50% of findings replicated
Hypotheses based on differences between social class contexts in terms of constraints, uncertainty & status were supported:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Only 50% of findings replicated
Hypotheses based on differences between social class contexts in terms of constraints, uncertainty & status were supported:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A massive study on the effects of social class tested 35 hypotheses in 4 countries (N = 33,536)
Only 50% of findings replicated
Hypotheses based on differences between social class contexts in terms of constraints, uncertainty & status were supported:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Only 50% of findings replicated
Hypotheses based on differences between social class contexts in terms of constraints, uncertainty & status were supported:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Delighted to be running an event as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science this year.
Join us online 1-2pm on 5th November to explore the wonders of linked admin data - including a new video explainer!
All welcome. Sign-up to attend: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1827780313...
Please share widely.
Join us online 1-2pm on 5th November to explore the wonders of linked admin data - including a new video explainer!
All welcome. Sign-up to attend: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1827780313...
Please share widely.
October 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Delighted to be running an event as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science this year.
Join us online 1-2pm on 5th November to explore the wonders of linked admin data - including a new video explainer!
All welcome. Sign-up to attend: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1827780313...
Please share widely.
Join us online 1-2pm on 5th November to explore the wonders of linked admin data - including a new video explainer!
All welcome. Sign-up to attend: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1827780313...
Please share widely.
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Dutch Railways: social profit of €1.33 billion, financial loss of €141 million. It delivers 11x (!!!!) more value to society than it costs.
Via:
social inclusion
increase in property values near stations;
welfare of employees and consumers;
productive use of travel time.
www.eur.nl/en/news/rese...
Via:
social inclusion
increase in property values near stations;
welfare of employees and consumers;
productive use of travel time.
www.eur.nl/en/news/rese...
Research shows that NS generates social profit: 1.33 billion euros
This is according to a new study by Professor Dirk Schoenmaker (Rotterdam School of Managemen) and Wander Marijnissen of strategic consultancy firm ftrprf.
www.eur.nl
October 22, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Dutch Railways: social profit of €1.33 billion, financial loss of €141 million. It delivers 11x (!!!!) more value to society than it costs.
Via:
social inclusion
increase in property values near stations;
welfare of employees and consumers;
productive use of travel time.
www.eur.nl/en/news/rese...
Via:
social inclusion
increase in property values near stations;
welfare of employees and consumers;
productive use of travel time.
www.eur.nl/en/news/rese...
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The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
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We are organising a @royalstatsoc.bsky.social Social Statistics Section online event:
Handling survey mode effects
Wednesday 12 November 2025, 10.00AM - 12.10PM
Full info and booking: rss.org.uk/training-eve...
Handling survey mode effects
Wednesday 12 November 2025, 10.00AM - 12.10PM
Full info and booking: rss.org.uk/training-eve...
RSS Event: Handling survey mode effects
rss.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We are organising a @royalstatsoc.bsky.social Social Statistics Section online event:
Handling survey mode effects
Wednesday 12 November 2025, 10.00AM - 12.10PM
Full info and booking: rss.org.uk/training-eve...
Handling survey mode effects
Wednesday 12 November 2025, 10.00AM - 12.10PM
Full info and booking: rss.org.uk/training-eve...
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A goal of the #UKRI Urban Crisis project is to shift conversations on health inequalities & poverty to see it as a whole person / whole systems issue. So it was such a privilege for our team to co-organise a policy exchange with the Municipality of Athens. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e...
Experts from three major cities gather to tackle homelessness
Local governments from three major cities in Europe and Latin America gathered in Athens last week for a three-day policy exchange tackling one of the most pressing urban challenges of our time: homel...
www.manchester.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
A goal of the #UKRI Urban Crisis project is to shift conversations on health inequalities & poverty to see it as a whole person / whole systems issue. So it was such a privilege for our team to co-organise a policy exchange with the Municipality of Athens. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e...
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Matern Correlation: A Panoramic Primer () arXiv:2404.11427v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Matern correlation is of pivotal importance in spatial statistics and machine learning. This paper serves as a panoramic primer for this correlation with an emphasis on the exposition of its changin
Matern Correlation: A Panoramic Primer () arXiv:2404.11427v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Matern correlation is of pivotal importance in spatial statistics and machine learning. This paper serves as a panoramic primer for this correlation with an emphasis on the exposition of its changin
October 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Matern Correlation: A Panoramic Primer () arXiv:2404.11427v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Matern correlation is of pivotal importance in spatial statistics and machine learning. This paper serves as a panoramic primer for this correlation with an emphasis on the exposition of its changin
Matern Correlation: A Panoramic Primer () arXiv:2404.11427v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Matern correlation is of pivotal importance in spatial statistics and machine learning. This paper serves as a panoramic primer for this correlation with an emphasis on the exposition of its changin
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Nahum Dimitri Chandler analyzes correspondence between W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in "The Possible Form of an Interlocution." Read the intro for free now. #BlackStudies #SocialTheory buff.ly/Uh89Quh
September 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Nahum Dimitri Chandler analyzes correspondence between W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in "The Possible Form of an Interlocution." Read the intro for free now. #BlackStudies #SocialTheory buff.ly/Uh89Quh
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En train de regarder la première saison de Foundation (très bien) et: ils en font des caisses avec les maths et la psycho alors que, factuellement, le gars est SOCIOLOGUE. Mais sûrement que mathématicien, ça devait faire plus crédible.
October 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
En train de regarder la première saison de Foundation (très bien) et: ils en font des caisses avec les maths et la psycho alors que, factuellement, le gars est SOCIOLOGUE. Mais sûrement que mathématicien, ça devait faire plus crédible.
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Found a rich seam here: github.com/cloudnativeg...
Why GeoParquet Is A Poor Cloud Native Format · cloudnativegeo cloud-optimized-geospatial-formats-guide · Discussion #82
(Geo)Parquet is an extremely useful column oriented data format. When working with local, massive data sets having many millions of features, the performance of this format is second to none. Plent...
github.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Found a rich seam here: github.com/cloudnativeg...
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WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
September 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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link 📈🤖
Causal Inference for Circular Data (Wu) In causal inference, a fundamental task is to estimate the effect resulting from a specific treatment, which is often handled with inverse probability weighting. Despite an abundance of attention to the advancement of this task, most articles have f
Causal Inference for Circular Data (Wu) In causal inference, a fundamental task is to estimate the effect resulting from a specific treatment, which is often handled with inverse probability weighting. Despite an abundance of attention to the advancement of this task, most articles have f
October 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Causal Inference for Circular Data (Wu) In causal inference, a fundamental task is to estimate the effect resulting from a specific treatment, which is often handled with inverse probability weighting. Despite an abundance of attention to the advancement of this task, most articles have f
Causal Inference for Circular Data (Wu) In causal inference, a fundamental task is to estimate the effect resulting from a specific treatment, which is often handled with inverse probability weighting. Despite an abundance of attention to the advancement of this task, most articles have f