This was a tough but necessary decision - I posted my own notes on this here, from the perspective of a current PSF board member simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...

duckdb-mlpack 0.0.2: mlpack is now a duckdb community extension
Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10...

Wow, das nenne ich Patrioten. Es besteht der Verdacht, dass die AfD mit gezielten kleinen Anfragen für Moskau Details zur deutschen Verkehrsinfrastruktur, Wasserversorgung, digitalen Infrastruktur, Drohnenabwehr und Energieversorgung ausspäht.

Quarto friends! I need your help:

We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.

1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?

Quarto 1.8 is available! 🎉

New features include: ✨ Light & dark mode support for brand colors and logos 📦 Brand extensions for sharing across projects ♿ HTML accessibility checks with Axe-core 🔧 Access to execution context from code cells

Full details: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

“Nobody, even in the provinces, should ever be allowed to ask an intelligent question about pure mathematics across a dinner table. A question of this kind is quite as bad as inquiring suddenly about the state of a man’s soul …”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

1 month to go until my Workshop for Ukraine to raise money for medics saving lives in #Ukraine! You can sign up for $20 / € 20 and learn about querying documents in R with the {ragnar} #RStats 📦 - or donate for a student to attend. Tx for considering!! 11 Sept 12-2 EDT
www.machlis.com/workshop/

In case you weren't there, but are curious; the lecture notes are available here https://github.com/tomdjong/MGS-categorical-realizability/blob/main/MGS-categorical-realizability.pdf?raw=1

I submitted finalish drafts of Chapters 1-6 of "Visual Algebra" to the AMS, and have stable drafts of the other chapters. Is anyone interesting in reviewing it? Either formally or informally.

I'm sure the AMS offers something for such a service, like book credit.

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IBM just contributed Docling to Linux Foundation!

New duckplyr version 1.1.0. Some good bugfixes for materialisation issues and new as_tbl() among other things.

https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/duckplyr/news/news.html

#duckdb #duckplyr #rstats

I'm excited to join the editorial board of a new diamond open access journal in mathematical logic:

ZML: Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik
zml.international

The open letter of the editors of ZML can be found online on the webpage.

Wrestling with PDF files today… delighted to find #Docling ds4sd.github.io/docling/

It’s a solid CLI for parsing documents. It was annoying to install, but works well. I still have manual cleanup to do, but way easier than manual and higher quality than other AI options.

Antje Tillmann ist die einzige Unionsabgeordnete, die heute mit Nein gestimmt hat. Sie hat vor zehn Jahren die Vormundschaft für einen syrischen 15-Jährigen übernommen, der gerade seine Meisterausbildung zum Industriemechaniker beginnt, wie sie hier schreibt: www.tlz.de/politik/arti...

Verantwortungsumkehr:
Anträge, von denen Teile rechtlich kaum eine Chance haben, sollen "egal mit welcher Partei" durchgebracht werden. Dann sollen alle demokratischen Parteien zustimmen, da sonst die Rechtsextremen den Ausschlag geben.
Wir brauchen Bündnisse, nicht Erpressung.

For those wanting to send me confidential information through even more secure channels, my signal user ID is usha.22 (please repost to amplify.) 🙏🏽

@gmcd.bsky.social 💙 {duckreg} 🙏🏽

#Python users, don’t worry- a library is on the way! 😎