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new #rstats blogpost: readtextgrid now uses C++ (and ChatGPT helped) www.tjmahr.com/readtextgrid...

orange line is `stat_smooth(..., method = "lm", formula = y ~ 1, se = FALSE)`. isn't that nice?

i have a deadline but feel like i am backed into a corner and can't concentrate, which is the opposite of my normal response of going beast mode under pressure

🎃HALLOWEEN CAROLS🎃 seasonal favorites from across the musical spectrum, frequently updated. Set the tone for any spooky scary gathering! APPLE music.apple.com/us/playlist/... SPOTIFY open.spotify.com/playlist/1Py... YOUTUBE www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Sn...

Starting a new thread: 20 of my fave UK post-punk tracks We start with the sine qua non—& certainly one of the finest debut tracks in music history, Scritti Politti’s “Skank Bloc Bologna” Released in 1978 on St Pancras Records Neo-Marxist outlaw squatters’ dub! 1/20 youtu.be/8NX2L0uwn_M?...

my nine year old was lying prone on her chair and she said she was doing mission impossible and I just gotta wonder where she learned that reference. that’s 30 years old

Lula winning is (almost) every Brazilian fighter’s 9/11.

This is completely fucking unhinged behavior from whatever product manager that pushed this. On the spot fireable offense if we lived in a reasonable world

i am going to reward myself with the dumb clever function name here. (152 iterations per second -> 2727 iterations per second)

unweighted ❎ weightless ✅

I voted

New CRAN Policy revision just dropped (per my cronjob posting only to @CRANPolicyWatch@fosstodon.org) and now I want to of course know which #Rstats package at CRAN was the offender 🤯

In which I discuss what is still an under-appreciated issue with (linear) mixed models if you want to only condition on the past. It's not inconsistency, but it's not *not* inconsistency notstatschat.rbind.io/2026/10/26/l...

it's just nice open.spotify.com/track/7lZIMb...

This stuff is just so sad. You can’t even say 3 things that make your own daughter special. And then you brag about this in the press to other shriveled, failing people. bsky.app/profile/davi...

there really is no such thing as a proof-of-concept level exploit with agents, is there?

"can't shut down a locked device" is my new affirmation

false. the purpose of peer review imho is to make sure authors include a sufficient number of citations of related work by Mahr and colleagues.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 📅 Today is FECHNER DAY! #psychophysics Oct 22, 1850 Gustav Fechner: Fechner's Law (that psychological Sensation ~ log Intensity) comes to Fechner in a dream [Stigler:1986,p.243] A core idea behind accuracy of visual encoding of data: length > angle > area > color

I truly dislike the term "Questionable Research Practices," most of all because it implies the existence of "Unquestionable Research Practices," which itself would be highly questionable if you think about it.

The replies seem to believe that the number one priority in fighting a fire at the library of Alexandria should have been minimizing water usage

wait Harry Potter is a book?

Israel’s Foreign Ministry attacking Brad Lander - a self-described liberal Zionist - by name, simply for doing protective presence, should be the final sign that the Israeli government would gladly sacrifice every last Jew in Diaspora to dominate more Palestinians with impunity.

ahem that is not how we splice formulas in this house

for those only dimly aware of cybersecurity people screaming, "a security certificate which underpins the entire internet used '4' for a private key that is supposed to be 116 digits long" and "a popular web language lets anyone run code on your server" are two different issues from the same day

Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” 🦆 This is the biggest #DuckDB feature release ever, and it's shipping a polished version of the Quack protocol for DuckDB-as-a-server, async I/O, a first-class VARIANT type, agent mode, triggers, an extensible SQL parser and more – read on for details.

like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.

ok this inspired me. I am now making #Rbee. Rbee will use only R package and function names. I'll repost here once it is ready to play. #RStats

"(1) the moral panic used to justify preregistration to begin with is largely manufactured and not evidentiary, (2) there is more evidence that stereotype threat is real than there is that preregistration passes its own manipulation check,...."

Not to be a broken record here, but he's doing this because the the sexual abuse of children is a policy goal of the Republican Party. They do it themselves, their elected officials use their powers of office to ensure it continues, their primary electorate punishes dissidents on the issue.