This is pretty up there as one of the coolest things I've ever seen
October 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
This is pretty up there as one of the coolest things I've ever seen
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it's Alex Rubenstein Time www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0BX...
How to dominate the World Series and lose
YouTube video by Secret Base
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
it's Alex Rubenstein Time www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0BX...
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We're hiring a Data Scientist at @arsenalfc.bsky.social to push the state-of-the-art in applied women's football research! careers.arsenal.com/jobs/6550595...
Feel free to reach out with any questions 🙂
Feel free to reach out with any questions 🙂
October 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We're hiring a Data Scientist at @arsenalfc.bsky.social to push the state-of-the-art in applied women's football research! careers.arsenal.com/jobs/6550595...
Feel free to reach out with any questions 🙂
Feel free to reach out with any questions 🙂
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A month or two ago someone posted a link to their really amazing set of LLM system instructions for writing #rstats code with good tidy/NSE patterns. (They were also good for humans!) Does anyone recall who or where that was?
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A month or two ago someone posted a link to their really amazing set of LLM system instructions for writing #rstats code with good tidy/NSE patterns. (They were also good for humans!) Does anyone recall who or where that was?
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There’s a billboard in Nairobi advertising a luxury development with the tagline “luxury is waking up to lush green views”. And it really it goes to the heart of how neoliberal approaches to development screw over poor countries. They really are paving paradise to put up a parking lot.
September 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
There’s a billboard in Nairobi advertising a luxury development with the tagline “luxury is waking up to lush green views”. And it really it goes to the heart of how neoliberal approaches to development screw over poor countries. They really are paving paradise to put up a parking lot.
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Look, I just want all of the #rstats peeps out there to know - this is why the @rconsortium.bsky.social exists. We direct money to projects that directly support the R language and community. Apply and engage with others who are just as enthusiastic and committed to this language as you are.
🚀 The R Consortium Technical Grants Call for Proposals is open until Oct 1, 2025!
Past projects like cpp11armadillo show how these grants strengthen #rstats & #opensource for everyone.
Apply: r-consortium.org/all-projects...
Example: r-consortium.org/posts/r-love...
Past projects like cpp11armadillo show how these grants strengthen #rstats & #opensource for everyone.
Apply: r-consortium.org/all-projects...
Example: r-consortium.org/posts/r-love...
callforproposals – R Consortium
r-consortium.org
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Look, I just want all of the #rstats peeps out there to know - this is why the @rconsortium.bsky.social exists. We direct money to projects that directly support the R language and community. Apply and engage with others who are just as enthusiastic and committed to this language as you are.
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oh hi! I know what you're thinking, insurance sounds super boring. trust me it's not, and we have the panelists to prove it! ⤵️
Did you miss our latest insurance webinar? Don't sweat it! You can now watch on-demand.. posit.co/webinar/how-...
Posit Product Marketing was joined by leaders from Plymouth Rock Assurance, Milliman, and The Hartford to discuss hot data science topics in the insurance realm. Watch now!
Posit Product Marketing was joined by leaders from Plymouth Rock Assurance, Milliman, and The Hartford to discuss hot data science topics in the insurance realm. Watch now!
August 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
oh hi! I know what you're thinking, insurance sounds super boring. trust me it's not, and we have the panelists to prove it! ⤵️
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Looking for a product scientist to join us on the teamworks soccer group (my team)!
Happy to answer any questions 😁
ats.rippling.com/en-CA/teamwo...
Happy to answer any questions 😁
ats.rippling.com/en-CA/teamwo...
Product Scientist (Soccer-Intelligence) - EMEA | Teamworks Careers
Game Plan - How You'll Drive Impact: Partner directly with professional soccer clubs to support their platform usage, answer technical ques...
ats.rippling.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Looking for a product scientist to join us on the teamworks soccer group (my team)!
Happy to answer any questions 😁
ats.rippling.com/en-CA/teamwo...
Happy to answer any questions 😁
ats.rippling.com/en-CA/teamwo...
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{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc.
v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
July 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc.
v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
Best table making in #rstats. Hands down. Cannot recommend it enough
{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc.
v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
July 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Best table making in #rstats. Hands down. Cannot recommend it enough
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The final tally of yesterday’s protests in #Kenya. Nine killed, 400 injured and 61 arrests. All killed by the police because the president will not listen to the young people who put him in power.
June 26, 2025 at 5:17 AM
The final tally of yesterday’s protests in #Kenya. Nine killed, 400 injured and 61 arrests. All killed by the police because the president will not listen to the young people who put him in power.
Hey #rsats hivemind, does anyone have a custom function to format negative numbers/percentages to have brackets instead of negative signs for a table generated by {tinytable}?
April 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hey #rsats hivemind, does anyone have a custom function to format negative numbers/percentages to have brackets instead of negative signs for a table generated by {tinytable}?
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This is fun! A merge of my 2 interests: #Rstats and #gamedev🤌 On top of that it is a source of inspiration for learning the new #S7 classes.
I am really thinking about making making turn-based RPG in R using procedural generation, but incorporating #LLM never came to mi mind! Really cool!🙌
#OOP
I am really thinking about making making turn-based RPG in R using procedural generation, but incorporating #LLM never came to mi mind! Really cool!🙌
#OOP
While I haven't really been discussing my projects much lately, I have a few new repos since New Years and some new features coming to {maize}.
One is an 'agent' project. But instead of focusing on SQL, EDA, or ML agents, it's a turn-based game focused on adventure 🧙🏻♂️
github.com/frankiethull...
One is an 'agent' project. But instead of focusing on SQL, EDA, or ML agents, it's a turn-based game focused on adventure 🧙🏻♂️
github.com/frankiethull...
GitHub - frankiethull/crias: a turn-based camelid adventure game made with ollama, ellmer, & S7
a turn-based camelid adventure game made with ollama, ellmer, & S7 - frankiethull/crias
github.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Hi #rstats friends!
I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community.
1/n
I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community.
1/n
March 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Hi #rstats friends!
I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community.
1/n
I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community.
1/n
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Julia has joined Python and R as a native kernel in Google Colab for a complete JuPyteR experience! Now you can use Julia with a free T4 GPU and leverage packages like Reactant without complex setup.
Details: github.com/googlecolab/...
#JuliaLang #Colab #DataScience
Details: github.com/googlecolab/...
#JuliaLang #Colab #DataScience
March 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Julia has joined Python and R as a native kernel in Google Colab for a complete JuPyteR experience! Now you can use Julia with a free T4 GPU and leverage packages like Reactant without complex setup.
Details: github.com/googlecolab/...
#JuliaLang #Colab #DataScience
Details: github.com/googlecolab/...
#JuliaLang #Colab #DataScience
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It's the lack of any arrow between 9 and 17 for me Clive
Sociedad 1 : 1 Man Utd
▪ xG: 1.76 - 0.95
▪ xThreat: 1.4 - 1.24
▪ Possession: 55.7% - 44.3%
▪ Field Tilt: 59.6% - 40.4%
▪ Def Action Height: 55.4 - 44.1
▪ xG: 1.76 - 0.95
▪ xThreat: 1.4 - 1.24
▪ Possession: 55.7% - 44.3%
▪ Field Tilt: 59.6% - 40.4%
▪ Def Action Height: 55.4 - 44.1
March 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's the lack of any arrow between 9 and 17 for me Clive
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The 2nd wave of uv is here — developers of other systems building on top of uv to make new and effortless workflows that use Python virtual environments behind the scenes 🤩
We are delighted to announce Reticulate 1.41!
You can now simply declare your dependencies using `py_require()`, and Reticulate will handle the rest. This seamless experience is powered by uv, an extremely fast #Python package manager written in Rust.
Learn more: posit.co/blog/reticul...
#RStats
You can now simply declare your dependencies using `py_require()`, and Reticulate will handle the rest. This seamless experience is powered by uv, an extremely fast #Python package manager written in Rust.
Learn more: posit.co/blog/reticul...
#RStats
March 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The 2nd wave of uv is here — developers of other systems building on top of uv to make new and effortless workflows that use Python virtual environments behind the scenes 🤩
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So maybe more on pak/rig integration
March 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
So maybe more on pak/rig integration
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Use Nix, and all your worries will be forgotten: docs.ropensci.org/rix/
Reproducible Data Science Environments with Nix
Simplifies the creation of reproducible data science environments using the Nix package manager, as described in Dolstra (2006) <ISBN 90-393-4130-3>. The included `rix()` function generates a complete...
docs.ropensci.org
March 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Use Nix, and all your worries will be forgotten: docs.ropensci.org/rix/
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What I’ve found over time is: what is practical, is not necessarily what is desirable by the various stakeholders commanding “authority” over Africa’s digital development landscape, writ large.
The technological is political…
The technological is political…
DPIs in Africa: @nanjira.bsky.social et al. call for what has proven elusive to most #globaldev orgs: assume no tabula rasa, take into account political economy & tap into local talent carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
Digital Public Infrastructure: A Practical Approach for Africa
Digital public infrastructure (DPI) has the potential to support Africa’s digital transformation. However, for this to happen, there are crucial baselines that must be considered on the continent, inc...
carnegieendowment.org
March 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
What I’ve found over time is: what is practical, is not necessarily what is desirable by the various stakeholders commanding “authority” over Africa’s digital development landscape, writ large.
The technological is political…
The technological is political…
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On the urgent need to seriously start working on ending aid dependency: www.africanistperspective.com/p/african-co...
African countries must urgently start the process of ending aid dependency
On why African countries must seize this moment to start the journey towards self-sufficiency
www.africanistperspective.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
On the urgent need to seriously start working on ending aid dependency: www.africanistperspective.com/p/african-co...
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How could pak be more like uv?
March 3, 2025 at 4:35 AM
How could pak be more like uv?