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Louis Aslett
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Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University, U.K.

#academicsky #rstats

Lurking here for now, may start to post in due course. Currently more active on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@louisaslett
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Erm, what's that you say Google? 🤔 #rstats
A Google search page result for the query "largest representable negative number R", which shows an AI Overview claiming that the largest negative number R can represent is -1022. Further down, it claims that the largest negative double precision floating point is also -1022.
March 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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New fun #rstats 📦

{maths.genealogy} is at genealogy.louisaslett.com

Plot maths PhD genealogical ancestry 🎓 and find shortest paths.

Uses data from the amazing mathgenealogy.org project via WebSocket server by github.com/davidalber

Feedback and bug 🐛 reports (github.com/louisaslett/...) welcome!
A snapshot showing a partial view of the genealogical tree by PhD supervisors of the package author. The output is produced by the {maths.genealogy} R package discussed in the toot. The view is clipped at the top as far back as the 17th century, with famous mathematicians such as Laplace, Lagrange, Poisson, Fourier, Dirichlet and Gauss, among others, all visible. A hex logo for the {maths.genealogy} R package, showing a chalk blackboard drawing of a tree with deep roots and many branches up, topped by a scholarly mortar board.
February 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM