Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

These 5 words make women want you

Hail and well met, traveler

Yes. I sympathise a lot with these frustrations.

Also it’s that I’m reviewing work that is consistently substandard in many ways, and because it’s a machine I have no time for it.

If it were a human I would possibly get the satisfaction of helping someone grow in skills and confidence.

My biggest gripe with agentic work is that I've become a reviewer. Know what work task I like least? The task I find most boring? It's reading & reviewing. And now that's the whole game. That's left me bored & disinterested, & maybe even ready to move on from some areas in general. #rstats #databs

Which we pronounce “Blue-ski”. Trust me I am Australian. 🇦🇺

uniofqueensland.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... University of Queensland and Qld Department of transport and main roads survey of your use, experience and opinions of e-mobility and active transport in Queensland. 5 to 10 minutes

Screenshot of the announcement by Simon Urbanek regarding Tomáš Kalibera’s untimely passing. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tomáš Kalibera on 1 April, a valuable member of the R core team for close to 10 years and a good friend, after a short but aggressive illness. Tomáš brought in fresh perspective and knowledge, enabling him to improve many aspects of R, including performance and reliability. He created many tools aimed at aiding package authors to make their packages more reliable, and was instrumental in modernizing the Windows build of R. He was an active member of CRAN and the R community, providing help to package authors, and he was the most prolific writer on the R core blog. He will be remembered for his profound contributions to R by millions of users. He is survived by his wife and 1 year old son. A full obituary will be posted in due time. Respectfully, Simon Urbanek

RIP Tomáš Kalibera. #rstats lost a huge contributor today. Condolences to his young family.

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I like how when he hit the fork that led to the tidyeval side quest from which there was no return he said “fuck it I’ll just use formulas”.

The examples are just ridic.

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Hardest going soft launch ever.

Guy I’m sponsoring very quietly releases #rstats package I’ve been wanting for the last couple of years.

pkg.yihui.org/gglite/doc/g...

Guess he shut up and took my money. 🤣🤣🤣

I give up on making our streets better Consider this my formal breakup with advocacy

i think it’s time to stop advocating & start doing something else

i wrote about it here ↓

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Comic. [Sign above four people. A person sits at a desk working on a laptop. A person with ponytail is talking to person with white hat. A person with short hair walks away.] SIGN: It has been [-0.00000000000000044] days since our last floating point error

Day Counter

xkcd.com/3228/

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

How do we go with the tar_assign sugar?

Very interesting stuff!

Ring the bells. E-bike riders cross the Story Bridge to the gates of the Queensland Parliament to protest Premier David Crisafulli's war on e-bikers. #qldpol

Mate can’t believe you’d do {targets} like that.

For {targets} minor changes to your workflow are needed, but you pay the cost of change once, and reap the benefits forever. There is no enduring overhead. Quite the opposite actually. {targets} makes you faster!

I am in complete agreement with your statement.

Andrea from EveryBody e-Bikes spoke on ABC Brisbane Radio about how new e-mobility laws will unfairly impact people who have disabilities, medical conditions, or who are simply aging and wanting to keep cycling with a small amount of assistance while pedalling. www.facebook.com/share/v/1KaB...

Dealership was VERY busy. Didn't go into BYD just down the road, but that looked like festival was taking place. Interesting times!

I asked the salesperson if she was worried what would happen once all the cars were sold. She laughed and said she'd go back to selling houses. Classic.

We bought an EV yesterday. We'd been looking at options for months, but realised we had to pull the trigger now or potentially wait a while, and pay more.

The first dealership we went to was sold out, so we got our second choice model. It was the last left one Brisbane!

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Yeah I thought this might blow up. My daily commute is via the Enoggerra Creek ‘bikeway’ technically a shared path I think? Easily 50 % of traffic I encounter are ebikes.

Terrible idea.

oil prices are about to make polyester a noble fiber

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You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything?

That’s how the internet was.

Shopping for groceries, 2026 Oil Crisis

…And actually most weekends since 2023. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️

Inequality is making people bitter and angry. Anger is attracted to hard liners who talk tough. Greens are perceived as ‘bleeding hearts’ and ‘too soft’ to dish out the retribution they crave.

Kermit the frog screaming with excitement

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

kermit the frog is dancing on a stage in front of a red curtain and saying yeah . Alt: kermit the frog is dancing on a stage in front of a red curtain and saying yeah .

OK BOOMER WAY TO POST A STILL FROM AN ANIMATED GIF