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rconsortium.bsky.social
Fantastic! $650k awarded via the Research Software Maintenance Fund for “Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R”—mentoring new contributors, modernizing R’s dev infrastructure, and strengthening the R Foundation.

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R Consortium - Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R
The Software Sustainability Institute (UK) has awarded a grant of USD $650,000 under the Research Software Maintenance Fund, to the project Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R.
r-consortium.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
ulrichatz.bsky.social
@paulgp.com this is a useful (and nice!) overview, can the slides be remixed? paulgp.com/assets/prese...
paulgp.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
ulrichatz.bsky.social
I drew an "almost perfect circle" with this #Anthropic Artifact example. Nothing important, #AI just made me laugh.
Draw a perfect circle Draw a circle and see how close you can get to perfection Drawn is a square but it's called an "almost perfect" circle.
December 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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bookshop.org
Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?

We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
ulrichatz.bsky.social
So confident, so wrong. I'm actually not sure why ChatGPT gets this basic #RStats behavior wrong.
Predict the output here: x <- c("a cat", "concatenate", "cat!") grep("\\bcat\\b", x, value = TRUE) character(0) Reason: in base R’s default regex engine, \b is a backspace, not a word boundary. So "\\bcat\\b" doesn’t match anything in x.
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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bookshop.org
It’s good to see me, isn’t it? 💜✨

Yes, yes, the rumors are true — we are OFFICIALLY launching here on Bluesky!

In case you forgot, we’re a place to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores, not billionaires.

Thanks for being here 🙌🏽
June 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
ulrichatz.bsky.social
What is happening?

The newest and hottest 🫟 #emoji befuddles #AI.
Claude 🫟 description Copilot 🫟 description ChatGPT 🫟 description
May 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
ulrichatz.bsky.social
It is very funny that this is a clip from a famous movie.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH...
Hawley–Smoot Tariff - Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
YouTube video by International School History
m.youtube.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
ulrichatz.bsky.social
NYT with the deep insights here. #tariffs
How to Protect Your Retirement Savings Now as Markets Plunge If you’re within five years of retiring, either before or after, you’re at your most vulnerable financially. Here are steps to weather the volatility. Work a Little Longer If you’re still working, putting off your exit date for a while will give you more time to save and shorten the number of years those savings have to last. “Working longer is a really powerful way to improve your retirement finances and get a spending plan back on track,” Dr. Pfau said.
April 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM