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What can you say, really? Just an endless series of disgraceful lows.

What can you say, really? Just an endless series of disgraceful lows.

Fighting that feeling of existential dread by working on open source hobby projects.

Fighting that feeling of existential dread by working on open source hobby projects.

(Kudos to @gws and co.!)

(Kudos to @gws and co.!)

I'm not in the teaching game anymore, but Quarto Live looks like a fantastic innovation in this space. Write your lecture notes per...

I'm not in the teaching game anymore, but Quarto Live looks like a fantastic innovation in this space. Write your lecture notes per normal... but with embedded R/Py code that runs fully in-browser. Students can follow along on their iPads etc. No local install required. https://r-wasm.github.io/quarto-live/

“We estimate the supply-side value of widely-used [Open Source Software] is $4.15 billion, but that the demand-side value is much larger...

“We estimate the supply-side value of widely-used [Open Source Software] is $4.15 billion, but that the demand-side value is much larger at $8.8 trillion. We find that firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist.”
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=65230

(That 3.5x figure feels like an underestimate tbh. Still cool effort to quantify the welfare effect of OSS.)

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I just donated to @Mastodon! Consider donating too, every little bit helps! https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

Mindful of long-term hand health, I bought a fancy Glove80 split keyboard https://www.moergo.com/One day in and... it honestly feels like...

Mindful of long-term hand health, I bought a fancy Glove80 split keyboard https://www.moergo.com/

One day in and... it honestly feels like I've had a stroke. Punishing any bad typing habits that I've picked along the way. Just brutal.

CC @zeileis @bbolker (hope you don't mind the tag)

CC @zeileis @bbolker (hope you don't mind the tag)

Does anyone here have experience/recommendations for running a hurdle model on panel data (of quite high dimensionality)? Outcome variable...

Does anyone here have experience/recommendations for running a hurdle model on panel data (of quite high dimensionality)? Outcome variable is a ratio bound at [0, 1] with lots of zeros. Canned routines appreciated!

A few months ago, I gave a workshop on “(Pretty) big data wrangling with DuckDB and Polars”.Slides, notebooks etc. are all available...

A few months ago, I gave a workshop on “(Pretty) big data wrangling with DuckDB and Polars”.

Slides, notebooks etc. are all available here: https://grantmcdermott.com/duckdb-polars/

#rstats #pydata

P.S. The #rstats R.nvim plugin is truly excellent. Everything else feels sluggish in comparison....

P.S. The #rstats R.nvim plugin is truly excellent. Everything else feels sluggish in comparison. https://github.com/R-nvim/R.nvim/tree/main

P.P.S. Here's my full config if anyone wants to clone and try it themselves. https://github.com/grantmcdermott/dotfiles/tree/main/.config/nvim

After a decade+ of vim, I finally made the switch to #neovim earlier this year. (Strong endorse btw if you are thinking of making the jump...

After a decade+ of vim, I finally made the switch to #neovim earlier this year. (Strong endorse btw if you are thinking of making the jump too...)

There are some great starterpacks and batteries-included configs out there (astrovim, etc.) But this is probably the single best guide that I've seen for configuring your setup from scratch: https://www.josean.com/posts/how-to-setup-neovim-2024

duckreg: Very fast out of core regressions with @duckdb 👀https://github.com/apoorvalal/duckreg(Click for the performance, stay for...

duckreg: Very fast out of core regressions with @duckdb 👀
https://github.com/apoorvalal/duckreg

(Click for the performance, stay for @Apoorva__Lal's repo description.)

There's also been a bunch of internal improvements (credit to @vincentab), which should make 📦 maintenance easier going forward, as...

There's also been a bunch of internal improvements (credit to @vincentab), which should make 📦 maintenance easier going forward, as well as enable some cool features down the road.

Upcoming goal features include support for custom user functions and themes...

We managed to sneak in a new `tinyplot` release before the CRAN team heads out for its annual break. The main user-facing change is support...

We managed to sneak in a new `tinyplot` release before the CRAN team heads out for its annual break. The main user-facing change is support for additional plot types and elements (histograms, boxplots, polypaths, etc.) https://grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEWS.html

#rstats

Feeling like 2024 might finally be the year of the Linux desktop.

Feeling like 2024 might finally be the year of the Linux desktop.

Anyone else getting bitten by disabled S3 support in the latest R-arrow release? https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43030 #rstats

Anyone else getting bitten by disabled S3 support in the latest R-arrow release? https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43030 #rstats

I'm very happy to say that `tinyplot` is now available on CRAN. 🎉 As a reminder, `tinyplot` is a super lightweight extension of the...

I'm very happy to say that `tinyplot` is now available on CRAN. 🎉

As a reminder, `tinyplot` is a super lightweight extension of the base #rstats graphics system that makes it easy to draw sophisticated plots with minimal overhead. See our website for more examples and a detailed intro tutorial. https://grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

I didn't think it was possible, given bad Python's versioning/dependency ergonomics are already... but the newly implemented PEP668...

I didn't think it was possible, given bad Python's versioning/dependency ergonomics are already... but the newly implemented PEP668 is going to make things even worse IMO. Especially for newcomers.

This GH comment adroitly captures my thoughts: https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/3404#discussioncomment-8738672

In a little over two weeks, I'll be giving a streamed workshop on @duckdb, Polars and friends....

In a little over two weeks, I'll be giving a streamed workshop on @duckdb, Polars and friends. https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.xc2x33lbfxln

I've given several internal versions of this workshop at Amazon and I daresay it's been very well received. The power of these new data wrangling libraries is honestly staggering. We use them all the time at work. You should too.

20 bucks gets you in the door. All proceeds to Ukraine aid orgs. #rstats #pydata