[-] a_statistician@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

This move against TikTok predates the Hamas attacks and Israel's military action. It's insane that TikTok's ban is because teens are more likely to be pro-palestine.

[-] a_statistician@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago

All of my lab's data is available on public GitHub repos. My Chinese student doesn't have a leg up on anyone with an internet connection. It's insane to discriminate like that. I can sort of see issues with DoD funded work, but basic science?

A good chunk of the Midwest would be wiped out if the dams along the Missouri failed in sequence. There's a ridiculous amount of water there.

I've never used vpn even in the US. Private trackers and encryption have been enough for me. Also, it seems like my ISP doesn't care. Some basic caution is sufficient to avoid consequences.

And, in a rural, agrarian society, not educated or up to date on recent events enough to vote in an informed way. Paternalistic, sure, but not completely unreasonable given the era.

My dishes fucking sparkle, and that’s because I rinse them clean.

This is how I can tell you live in an area that doesn't have hard water. Water spots all over my dishes, even though I rinse them... sometimes because I rinse them.

Ah ok, I missed the joke, but then, both my husband and I have binary socks, and I have GitHub socks as well, so... I am the joke, I guess? :)

What's wrong with programming socks?

[-] a_statistician@programming.dev 41 points 1 year ago

Travis used to be brutal about this. Email headlines that were like "Still failing...", one piled up after another when you were trying to tweak the CI process.

NIST has abandoned them

Would that my IT department had gotten the memo. They think NIST is god-tier, even when our own CS department is like... yeah, no. And personally, having worked with NIST researchers in fields that aren't IT policy, I wonder how good their IT policy docs really are. The whole organization is bureaucracy getting in the way of good science and common sense.

Start with the sl command, and you can do it now 😁

I love the brush attachments for my power drill. Saves so much scrubbing.

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Cookbook: Polars for R (ddotta.github.io)

Pola.rs is a Python package to interface with a Rust library, but it's evidently coming to R as well.

As I understand it, Polars is an alternative to wrangling libraries like data.table and dplyr. This book compares the syntax of the 3 libraries.

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Introduce yourself! (programming.dev)

In the interests of making this community home for those of us who are reddit refugees, let's go ahead and introduce ourselves.

Some suggested things to comment on/include in your introduction:

  • Tidyverse, base, or data.table?
  • Are you primarily a user, a developer, or in between?
  • How long have you been using R?
  • What other languages do you use?
  • What do you use R for? Statistics? generative art? data wrangling?
  • Are you using R primarily for work, fun, hobbies, or something else?
  • Are you a hex sticker collector? Why or why not?
  • Where are you on the data engineering <----> pure statistics continuum?
  • What's your favorite obscure package?
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Here's the textbook I use for my classes in R and Python (used to be R and SAS, and I couldn't just drop SAS without adding something else, so now I teach students both). Hoping it's helpful to anyone who is trying to learn R.

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