Seeing these after laying down the first volume of Fabre’s Souvenirs entomologiques, devoted to the rearing behavior of predatory wasps, was a treat. Thanks for sharing Marshall!

I use it all the time, along with mean()

I will forever despise whoever named some closely related echinoid genera with a name starting with “Paleo” and others with a name starting with “Palaeo”

Actually, I got it wrong, it is -3. I was going with alternating between subtracting -2 - (i - 1)/2 and adding 1, where i is the iteration

Following the sequence would make state 5 = -4 median eyes

A student once asked me why wasn’t I using which.min(x) instead of which(x == min(x)) and I pretended it was for pedagogical purposes

Congratulations James! That’s outstanding

And this breakthrough required only.. how many months in Berlin??

Yeah, it is true that the result deviates from the expectations of ordering variables/observations. If the matrix format that sapply outputs isn’t convenient you can use lapply instead, or you can just transpose it

I think this is because you are not supposed to use sapply on matrices. If you do it probably gets coerced into a data.frame, whose elements are the columns.

Anyways, not long ago I discovered asplit() which is pretty handy when needing the flexibility to work across either margin

Sleep Token is horny metal?? 😆 @brenenwynd.bsky.social what are your thoughts on this?

Redefining music 25 years after your debut album is something that was probably done only once

She’s never worn fake eyelashes in her whole life

Great news!! Congrats 🥳