Nathan Jeffery

I too would buy this

I just attended this workshop (remotely) and learned a lot about using marginal effects to make sense of regression output. Kudos to Vincent for making a powerful package with an easy to use interface 😊

Just finished Witch King and Queen Demon by @marthawells.com. I love Kai and Ziede as much as I love Murderbot! #booksky

If you could Thanos-snap and rid the world of LLMs, would you?

Quite amazing and brave. Hawaii’s top court has basically declared SCOTUS to be so compromised—so blinded by racism and loyalty to big money —it can be openly ignored by the state.

What to do if you find a baby bunny. Thanks @portmanteauface.bsky.social for the suggestion!

PlayStation: “What if we stop selling physical copies of games?" Me: "Then I probably won't buy another PlayStation console." I'm interested to see whether they stick with this terrible decision, or whether all the negative press gets them to rethink. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

Alright this is an annoyingly fun idea eyeball.rory.codes

My kid is a college senior and wrote this email to his prof today (Gen Z can’t catch a break from once in a lifetime things happening annually to them…)

MIT Technology Review asked me to review Stewart Brand's new book _Maintenance: Of Everything_, vol. 1. I went into it with a lot of questions, including about how he'd deal with labor, politics, and social structure. It's a lot worse than I expected. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/17/1...

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

vibes

This is so promising! My office makes reports and we've largely switched to HTML due to accessibility concerns. With tools like this, we might be able to give PDF reports to clients who prefer them. The pkg overview video in this blog post is really helpful.

Buried the lede yesterday: OpenAI’s Whisper speech-to-text model now runs natively in R via torch. Local inference, CRAN-bound (🤞) Blog + packages: cornball.ai/posts/speech... #rstats

The algogator is an ambush predator who lies still as a floating log, waiting to snatch your line of sight. So, we tip-toe the water’s edge, whispering of lynx in the bio, hinting at the real topics beneath the surface like the ripple of a fleeing frog sliding away from the banks’ soft-screen glow.

Harvard University has a 9-course EdX online data science program that teaches R, with topics like dataviz and building machine learning models. You can “audit” any of the courses for free in any order (despite the displayed price, that's for a certificate). #RStats www.edx.org/certific...

Speak at posit::conf(2026) and share your R & Python stories! Accepted speakers get: ✨ Travel & lodging help ✨ Free conference pass ✨ Professional coaching Apply by Feb 6 to join us Sept 14-16 in Houston, TX! Submit here: pos.it/conf-talk-2026 #positconf2026 #rstats #pydata

My guess is that somebody brought quicksand into the Bermuda Triangle and they canceled each other out. And that's why I don't hear much about those dangers anymore. Anyway, happy new year.

Happy UTC New Year!! 🎉 🥂

A silly little thing I did to wish everyone a little joy in this dark time. #rstats #gischat

Great and easy to understand post on using LLMs, i.e. in #positron #rstats

I need you to know that your contribution, your voice, your perspective, your way of explaining something, YOUR whatever, is valuable. Just because "it's been done before" doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. Nothing is new, everything's been done! But not by you. Yet. #databs #rststs #python

Please stop spamming #rstats with your bots Use a descriptive tag so we can can choose to follow, and not have to trawl through so much churn I can't see any option other than blocking the accounts, I'm interested in CRAN updates (and others) but gee, it should be about humans and actual ideas

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Serious shout out to these reps because organizing at least 51 out of 62 people to do something that risks fines and threats of arrest is not nothing, especially now. Red state reps go so hard. 💖

If you couldn't reach me in the last couple weeks, it's because I've been with @v0max.bsky.social in California in federal court... www.courthousenews.com/meta-violate...