Doctor rerum naturalium
prasannabhogale.bsky.social
Doctor rerum naturalium
@prasannabhogale.bsky.social
Neither a physicist nor a cricketer.

Ex Data @CrstlTech, ML/Data @ShareNowTech, Physics @UniCologne, @Perimeter, @UWaterloo, @univofstandrews, @surathkal_nitk.

https://theclarkeorbit.github.io/
Pinned
Had fun reading @robjhyndman.bsky.social and Xiaoqian Wang's paper on multi-step conformal time series prediction, and wrote up a blogpost with code just to familiarize myself.

theclarkeorbit.github.io/basics-of-co...

#rstats
#timeseries
#conformalPrediction
#machineLearning
LOL
Might as well make my predictions now, based on 0 data, purely vibes and feels.

1. Kamala will win easily
2. The wars will continue
3. Many nations that are presently pro US will not remain so
4. Collectively, the West will weaken vis a vis the world, but the US will strenghten
August 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
look at that sky
A pair of Red-rumped Parrots warming themselves after emerging from their hollow. St George, Qld
#birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #parrots #WildOz #OzBirds
August 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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This talk by @szarnyasg.org, which just dropped a few days ago, looks like a good starting point. youtu.be/Yn1ph3-1iAs?...

Also, Chapter 9 of our book (pinned to my profile) focuses on a full walkthrough of the R client, including some tidyverse
Gabor Szarnyas - DuckDB and duckplyr: An in-process database management system in your R script
YouTube video by R in Pharma
youtu.be
November 30, 2024 at 2:39 PM
what is a great talk to get started on duckdb via R/tidyverse?
Hey folks who use #DuckDB for data analysis and ad hoc data wrangling, what are your favourite DuckDB features/patterns?

I'm doing a talk introducing DuckDB to folks who do data analysis for research, and want to highlight some compelling workflows. #databs
November 30, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Germany's 3 mistakes:
1. National champions doing more of the same, not reinventing the industries they dominated
2. Refusal to renegotiate the social contract to compete for high skilled talent
3. Refusal to align foreign policy to German national interest
November 29, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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#Rstats thing I knew would be possible but have never actually tried before.

Combining multiple .pdf documents into one in Windows generally requires you to own a license for a special program, or to use a sketchy website.

Instead, it's trivial to use {qpdf} in R
November 29, 2024 at 10:32 AM
The number of books to read is insane, how do people who love to read and learn ever produce anything?

Learning helps production but I can't help thinking a love for learning eats into energy and time better devoted to producing things.
November 29, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Who called it Hans im Gluck instead of BurgerAmt?
November 23, 2024 at 9:27 AM
I have said it before, I'll say it again, this is the best first paragraph of a biology book, ever.
November 21, 2024 at 8:08 PM
from baddate import obnoxiousman
What's the status quo for mocking dates in python?
November 14, 2024 at 5:26 PM
the US version of Yes Minister should obviously be set in the Department of Govt. Efficiency, which just seems like a McKinsey rebrand of the Dept. of Administrative Affairs from the original show.
November 13, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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Data lakehouse in a box!

Hits a lot of my favorites!

✅ S3
✅ Iceberg
✅ DuckDB
✅ Postgres

github.com/BemiHQ/BemiDB
GitHub - BemiHQ/BemiDB: Postgres read replica optimized for analytics
Postgres read replica optimized for analytics. Contribute to BemiHQ/BemiDB development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 7, 2024 at 7:07 PM
hahaa
This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book*

uh oh

*Frantically starts flipping though pages*

uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
November 7, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Eventful, unexpected.
November 6, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Writing my first "agent" in R.

now headed to code execution, we shall see what we shall see.
November 5, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Autumn in the northern plains is so beautiful.
November 5, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Might as well make my predictions now, based on 0 data, purely vibes and feels.

1. Kamala will win easily
2. The wars will continue
3. Many nations that are presently pro US will not remain so
4. Collectively, the West will weaken vis a vis the world, but the US will strenghten
November 4, 2024 at 3:32 PM
We live in a strange world.
November 4, 2024 at 10:15 AM
This book by Christoph Molnar (Supervised ML for Science) looks really interesting. (free to read online)

ml-science-book.com
Supervised Machine Learning for Science
ml-science-book.com
November 4, 2024 at 10:13 AM
going to test drive @zed.dev for my projects in the coming week.
FYI @zed.dev blesses us all with $10 free LLM usage monthly
November 3, 2024 at 8:02 AM
could someone summarise the story of the squirrel named peanut and how it relates to the election?

thanks
November 2, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Calling all data storytellers — the first #Closeread Prize is here!

posit.co/blog/closere...

Andrew and I have teamed up with the kind folks at @posit.co who have some amazing prizes on offer, whether you're using #rstats, #python, #julia or #ojs or no coding at all!
Closeread Prize Announcement - Scrollytelling with Quarto - Posit
Ever wanted to create impactful scrollytelling stories like the ones you see in online news?    Scrollytelling stories let you explain complicated concepts to readers as they scroll down the page. You...
posit.co
November 1, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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Btw, speaking of Mitch, he wrote one of my favorite posts on how to motivate yourself to build things: get yourself to a demo.

mitchellh.com/writing/buil...
My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects
mitchellh.com
November 2, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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Some thoughts on #conformalprediction for #timeseries with Xiaoqian Wang robjhyndman.com/publications...
Online conformal inference for multi-step time series forecasting – Rob J Hyndman
robjhyndman.com
October 18, 2024 at 5:37 AM