Randy Boyes

Randy Boyes

@randy.pub

Analytics at @presage.group | PhD Epidemiology | Wolfe Island Volunteer Firefighter | #julialang #python #rstats | publications at www.randy.pub | GitHub @rdboyes

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Randy Boyes
@randy.pub

My family had newer computers that I used before this but the first computer that was MINE was one of these Commodore XTs that I salvaged from my Dad's shelf of spare parts and busted computers

Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social

I feel like this makes me look older than I am. We were a very computer-forward extended family and I played on this regularly from about age 5.

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nice

Data Colada@datacolada.bsky.social

An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data. Post 1 of 2. datacolada.org/138

datacolada.org[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About ProcrastinationA new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…
Randy Boyes
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This joke goes nuts if you, like me, are the son of a evangelical pastor who became an epidemiologist

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci

New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...

the100.ciReviewer notes: Odds ratios are really oddWhen psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...
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Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Randy Boyes
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Bruce only likes to chew toys while holding them over the edge of the couch, and gets very upset when he drops them

Randy Boyes
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“Hey codex what are your ‘likes’”

WIRED@wired.com

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions. www.wired.com/story/openai...

wired.comOpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions.
Randy Boyes
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Cool study, and I’m convinced they’re generally correct. Very high lizardman quotient in this figure though - if you’re not getting 100% strong agreement that “betting (real money)” is a form of gambling, something is off, and the SVK sample “strong agree” for that item is <50%

Veli-Matti Karhulahti@mkarhulahti.bsky.social

behold, we found great variation in how people think! Many activities that we thought would be “gaming” weren't & vice versa, eg half of the participants interpreted ‘gambling’ to be ‘gaming’. Ergo: surveying ‘gaming’ without defining it creates data mess

Randy Boyes
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Average programming language enjoyer: there are two hard things, cache invalidation and naming things #julialang programmers:

Nathan Goldwag@goldwagnathan.bsky.social

mods are asleep post forbidden greek letters

Randy Boyes
@randy.pub

Two #adventofcode solutions for the price of one today, since I was too busy working yesterday. TypeScript feeling ok, but how is array.sum() not a thing!?

Randy Boyes
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TypeScript #adventofcode Day 2 complete! Rocky one, really missing some of the builtin functions from my "home languages", but we got there

Randy Boyes
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Doing #adventofcode in TypeScript this year since I need to learn it for work... missing #julialang but it's not too bad. Day 1:

Randy Boyes
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I assume the reviewers didn’t like the original title, “oh no: we have to throw out all survey data collected in the last 1,084 days”

Josh McCrain@joshmccrain.bsky.social

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Randy Boyes
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Easily GOTY so far, and it’s hard to imagine anything knocking it out of that spot

Skill Up@skillup.bsky.social

After 2 months of work, the Clair Obscur Expedition 33 video is here. I interviewed most of the game's senior leadership team asking one simple question: how did you do this? Their answers were inspiring and moving, and it's no surprise that COE33 is as remarkable as it is: youtu.be/mXLOLgC2V2Q?...

youtu.beThe impossible (true) stories behind the making of Clair Obscur Expedition 33YouTube video by Skill Up
Randy Boyes
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I miss being able to just buy a thing and have it, I hate paying for subscriptions

erika 🎃@yeeeerika.bsky.social

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

Randy Boyes
@randy.pub

No wonder they were having a blast

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

bloomberg.comWhy ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to MakeThe highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme
Randy Boyes
@randy.pub

Nutrition research continues to fill the library’s hexagonal galleries

Health Nerd@gidmk.bsky.social

Someone just sent me this study, and all I can say is that I don't understand why anyone would bother investigating this question. 1/n

Randy Boyes
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These values are required to do science - acting like this is a problem is like saying that CEOs valuing “professionalism” or “punctuality” more than the average person means they aren’t value-aligned with the average person

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social

There’s a big gap on *values* (not facts) between scientific experts and the mass public, which is driving a lot of the crisis of confidence in institutions and expertise. www.slowboring.com/p/the-crisis...

Randy Boyes
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The spectrum between “guy who occasionally plays an hour or two of video games with his kids” and “guy who still plays WoW 8 hours/night” is so vast here that it’s essentially two different ideas

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Randy Boyes
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Not dead, but: - no growth in the last 3 years - almost half of all users are students (summer user decline), and they’re not staying after grad - at least not in enough numbers to increase overall use Counterpoint: Positron use may be growing? I personally switched and don’t use RStudio anymore

Hadley Wickham@hadley.nz

Is #rstats dead? I don’t think so.

Randy Boyes
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Trying out some old Vizz Buzz challenges in TidierPlots - is there any way in #makie to easily add small images? The original version had flags as labels...

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Tidier.jl
@tidierjl.bsky.social

Tidier.jl brings modern data science workflows into #julialang. Batteries included. ✅ Logging data transformations ✅ Unnesting database tables with SQL ✅ Same syntax for dataframes and databases (supporting 12 flavors of SQL) ✅ Customizable grammar of graphics for plotting …and many more features.

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Tidier.jl
@tidierjl.bsky.social

Love the #rstats tidyverse and curious about Julia? We are aiming to bring TidierPlots to feature parity with ggplot2. We would love to get your help. We have some examples to get you started! Take a look: github.com/TidierOrg/Ti...

github.comAdd additional `geom`s · Issue #180 · TidierOrg/TidierPlots.jlDescribe how it works in R's ggplot2 Add geoms! This is a list of the currently non-implemented geoms that are available in ggplot2 in R. For the easier geoms, something similar to the RainCloud ex...

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Tidier.jl
@tidierjl.bsky.social

It’s like that scene in Inception when you spin the top thinking you’re in #RStats but you’re actually in #JuliaLang. We need to go deeper…