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Thanks @dslc.io for using #TidyTuesday to highlight the unprecedented and likely illegal termination of >1000 #NSF grants in April. The #rstats, #python, and #dataBS community can help us understand and visualize the story of what's happening.
It has been really interesting to see the impact that these hackathons have had for folks (including me!) in terms of a deeper understanding of the capabilities and limitations of these models.
How do you foster a nuanced understanding of AI/LLMs at your organization?
Posit's internal hackathons offer a compelling model: we get our team building with LLMs, leading to real understanding.
@andrewholz.bsky.social explores lessons learned from this approach: posit.co/blog/llm-hac...
We’re excited to announce that the session catalog for posit::conf(2025) has launched!
View 100+ talks, sort by day and type, and add favorites to your schedule: reg.rainfocus.com/flow/posit/p...
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"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]
If you are an SLC-area #rstats user, join the SLC RUG IRL for some ice cream, chat, and networking next Tuesday, April 22!🍦
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
New on my blog: OpenAI dropped a trio of models yesterday that they claim result from "focusing closely on real-world developer needs." I was curious whether this might mean stronger #rstats coding performance.
www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-04...
Introducing chores, a package that uses LLMs to help with repetitive, hard-to-automate coding tasks!
Manage prompts as markdown, select a chore, and let LLMs handle your tedious #RStats work.
@simonpcouch.com introduces chores and shows how it cuts roxygen2 boilerplate: posit.co/blog/introdu...
It’s spring break for my kids, and we are staying at a lake house in north TX near where I grew up (seeing my parents, etc). Yesterday, a DEAD BODY washed ashore from the lake on the property where we’re staying!!!
We’re all still kind of… shocked, I guess? Not exactly sure honestly
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
People are unwilling to believe this country could actually fall apart. They've been unwilling for the last 10 years. And it's that unwillingness that may well kill us in the end.
The way this current administration uses the phrase "gender ideology" makes me somewhat NUTS. I grew up in a borderline fundamentalist evangelical community in Texas; we had gender ideology galore!
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
We're delighted to announce Jonathan McPherson – software architect at Posit – as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)!
If you're curious about how thoughtful design principles can improve the data science tools you use, you won't want to miss this!
Join us Sep 16-18 in Atlanta. pos.it/conf
@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
Check out my new screencast, where I walk through how I use #Positron for #rstats package development work. I decided to release a new version of an R package to CRAN ✨live✨ this time around!
youtu.be/uL3NZQIMrpk
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
It was such a pleasure to join @tracykteal.bsky.social to chat about how I first started out in #OpenSource and what I feel like I’ve learned since then.
Yeah, this is a perennial truth -- landmark struggles over free speech typically involve people who are saying and doing things that are *unpopular*
That's, uh, why they need the protection of the First Amendment. It's sort of the whole point.
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
