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hadley.nz
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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cbsnews.com
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
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October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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drjoehanson.bsky.social
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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nrennie.bsky.social
Looking for an overview of different #RStats packages for visualising spatial data? 📊 Here's a previous blog post of mine: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/r-packa...

This blog post is almost three years old now, but all of the code still works!

#DataViz #RSpatial #30DayMapChallenge
R packages for visualising spatial data – Nicola Rennie
Throughout the #30DayChartChallenge I made most of my maps with R. This blog post details the R packages I find myself using most often when visualising spatial data.
nrennie.rbind.io
October 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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markgsheppard.com
🚨 NEW INTERACTIVE RECESSION TOOL 🚨
The #SahmRule is the best tools we have to indicate a recession. I extend the logic laid out by
@claudia-sahm.bsky.social, building off work by
@pmichaillat.bsky.social and Saez, to create an interactive tool. #EconSky

markgsheppard.github.io/SahmRule/int...
February 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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nber.org
Studying the use of a misspecified overdifferenced model to forecast the level of a stationary scalar time series, from Kenneth D. West and Kurt G. Lunsford https://www.nber.org/papers/w34112
August 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss.

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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'

Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'

In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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rstats.blaze.email
Introduction to Julia for R users

https://sgsong.blogspot.com/2025/10/introduction-to-julia-for-r-users.html

#rstats #databs
Introduction to Julia for R users
Summary: Introductory guide for R users to Julia, covering Julia basics and transitioning tools and workflows
sgsong.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"
Why Wikipedia editors have deleted entries from the “List of unusual deaths”: “hippos are extremely dangerous and very aggressive and there is nothing unusual about hippos killing people” “the man was working on the toilet, making his death inherently less strange than if he had been using it” “no longer an unusual or unique occurrence” regarding impalement by beach umbrella “being hit by multiple motorcycles in a race is not an unusual death” “fatalities involving objects or animals being launched into oncoming traffic are considered commonplace” regarding a Canadian couple’s fatal collision with a “flying bear”
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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paulgp.com
Appendix A7 most striking graph for me:
October 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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jonmarkhicks.bsky.social
I think about this a lot.
October 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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ritterteufeltod.bsky.social
If Marx came back to life he would say this by like Day 9.
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18d
I want "Don't fuck with me. I'll spend another 3 hours in Excel." on a shirt
October 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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boeresearch.bsky.social
🔹 MTP 5: Monetary policymaking under uncertainty
🖋️ Alex Haberis, Richard Harrison, Kate Reinold and Matt Waldron
📖 Read here: www.bankofengland.co.uk/macro-techni... (3/4)
Monetary policymaking under uncertainty
Part of the Macro Technical Paper series designed to document models, analysis and conceptual frameworks for monetary policy preparation – they are written by Bank staff to encourage feedback and fost...
www.bankofengland.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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lizmckeown.bsky.social
We’ve published the latest data and insights from our Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) today. I’ve written a blog taking a look at the latest data & providing an update on the steps we are taking to improve these important statistics. Welcome any feedback. blog.ons.gov.uk/2025/10/23/h...
How the ONS is improving its annual earnings survey
Today the ONS has published the latest data and insights from its Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which provides a huge amount of detail about the wages of employees in the UK. Liz McKeown
blog.ons.gov.uk
October 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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lartist.bsky.social
From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)
cartoon: in the style of Egyptian heiroglyhics the lyrics to the Time Warp have been phonetically translated and help illustrate characters from RHPS Caption; Rocky Horus Picture Scroll
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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matthighton.bsky.social
What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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sarahoconnorft.ft.com
Bring back small phones! This is my iphone 13 mini. It is a perfectly-sized phone. But it's going to die - in a few years, Apple will stop supporting it w/updates. Yet there are now NO new smartphones to buy on the market that fit the human hand. www.ft.com/content/6332...
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
Just discovered the {gm} package, which lets you programmatically create sheet music (and audio!) with #rstats (with MuseScore as the backend) flujoo.github.io/gm/index.html
library(dplyr) library(gm) golden <- tribble( ~pitches, ~duration, ~lyric, "E4", "q", "I’m", "G4", "q", "done", "C5", "q", "hid-", "B4", "q", "-ing", "D4", "q", "now", "G4", "q", "I’m", "E5", "q", "shin-", "D5", "q", "-ing", "G4", "q", "like", "B4", "q", "I’m", "A5", "q", "born", "F#5", "q/3*(q/8)", "to", "G5", "q/3", "be._", "G5", "h", "" ) music <- Music() + Key(1) + Tempo(125) + Meter(2, 4) + Line(pitches = golden$pitches, durations = golden$duration) + Tie(13) + Lyric(golden$lyric[1], 1) + Lyric(golden$lyric[2], 2) + Lyric(golden$lyric[3], 3) + Lyric(golden$lyric[4], 4) + Lyric(golden$lyric[5], 5) + Lyric(golden$lyric[6], 6) + Lyric(golden$lyric[7], 7) + Lyric(golden$lyric[8], 8) + Lyric(golden$lyric[9], 9) + Lyric(golden$lyric[10], 10) + Lyric(golden$lyric[11], 11) + Lyric(golden$lyric[12], 12) + Lyric(golden$lyric[13], 13) show(music) The first part of the bridge from "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters
October 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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snackoracko.bsky.social
Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!
October 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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udarnik.bsky.social
Ayup. No excuses for being this dumb. This study exists and is public:

www.sciencealert.com/openai-has-a...
OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucinations, But You Really Won't Like It
OpenAI's latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up – known in the world of artificial intelligence as "hallucination".
www.sciencealert.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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jacktindale.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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benrs.uk
good morning
the dundee courier headline major blow jobs for dundee
October 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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jsunbury.bsky.social
Jim Richardson - National No-Smiling Day, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland (2020)
October 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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davembmd.bsky.social
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM