You vs the stats pedagogue she tells you not to worry about

You've heard about ATM machines and LCD displays, but have you heard of PCA components? I just did for the first time

matrices be like

I think this → stupid → arrow → pattern is the next emdash when it comes to identifying AI writing in the wild

Nano banana puts the Gemini logo in the corner of the photo and then magic eraser will happily take it right back off in Google photos 🤷‍♂️

Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language. For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50": blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s...

I'm embarrassed to say I've started putting *less* effort into docs I write at work, so that they're a little sloppy and are more obviously human in origin. So I guess you could say AI is saving me time??

Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3

Day 2 of vertical tabs in Chrome. A little weird, but I feel like I'll be happy if I stick with it. Like the first time you try sushi.

I can be as skeptical as the next guy about generative AI. But say what you want, when I wear my PM/PO hat, I absolutely crush documentation using LLM tools at work, especially when I can plug them into brainstorm and discovery meeting recordings

Never mind shadow IT. "Shadow product management" is the new data science hotness #dataBS

*sexiest job of the 21st century* I whisper to myself as I move roadmap tiles, reschedule three meeting conflicts, and update the requirements document to reflect new governance standards #dataBS

Didn't have spaghetti surveillance on my 2026 bingo card

An interesting implication of "AI in the workplace" is that, on cross-functional teams where work handoff is part of life, a disparity in willingness (or faculty) to use AI will create bottlenecks where an upstream contributor may not produce more output, but someone downstream increases throughput.

The Posit talk I almost submitted this year was titled "I'm so sorry, you're a designer now"

We just got access to Sonnet in the $DAYJOB Copilot app and wow... it just feels so much less clunky than GPT

It's happening. My colleague and our skip-level manager are exchanging AI-written emails back and forth.

I told Copilot not to bold any words in the answer, and as a weird side effect the output now sounds much more like a human and not an insecure MBA consulting bro

Two spaces after a period so you know it's not AI

Nobody panic, we are definitely NOT in a bubble

Me: just gonna search this one thing real quick Internet ads: got it, this is your entire life now

ok so my ex yc vp is vv go go on ai rn bc he is in an sv vc gc or we -- my em is in on it w/ ai as an os to do ui qa in ci -- so tl dr ig im tl of ai ui qa ?? rn ai ui qa v1 is cc in an hv vm on my pc on gh pr xd

If there are standing desks why aren't there supine desks

Laptop reviews be like "a major downside of the 16-inch model is it's bigger than the 14-inch model and you have to carry all that with you"

Hey #datascience people, new blog in which I aim to describe the complexities of being a Staff+ data science (and adjacent) roles. Let me know what I missed. brandonrohrer.org/ds_roles

Good morning #Chicago

Pleased to announce that the talk idea I had planned to submit, but didn't have time to, would not have fit any of the themes of the conf. Meanwhile the talks that *are* going to happen look 🔥

I know what you're thinking, when will she develop a universal user authentication platform and call it Multipass?

Milla Jovovich is done with acting and is now getting into AI development, because why not github.com/milla-jovovich

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

Hilary trying to sneak quietly back online, but I'm shouting in excitement!

Data people: have you ever worked in a product operating model? (E.g. x-functional team, coordinated by a PM, building outcome-oriented tech products - a la Marty Cagan.) What was your experience? What were some hangups and how did the product team overcome operational challenges? #dataBS

I wonder which instance of Outlook they used to email this to mission control

There are advantages and disadvantages of both ways of doing things, but the CRAN and #rstats approach has an emerging benefit of resistance to typosquatting/slopsquatting attacks. npm practically feels like a malware distribution service in comparison

This is a compromise I can get behind

Terrify a data scientist in 6 words. "Can you pull a quick number?" Emily instilling a healthy respect for skepticism in the next generation. Or she's hazing them. Maybe both.

We did a hackathon at work. There were three teams. My team called ourselves "Haxxorz". The other teams called themselves "Team 1" and "Team 2". #justDataThings #dataBS

Y'all are really going to make me take this to LinkedIn aren't you

Cleaning out the garage and I feel like I just found money stuffed in a mattress

As a data scientist I learned concepts like these in a rushed, messy sort of way, usually as a means to an end. So nice to have them all collected and laid out in clear and simple terms. #dataBS

Think of a great data leader you worked with (for any definition of "great"). What made that person effective? How does data leadership differ from other kinds of business leadership? #dataBS

If this were Downton Abbey, my wife and I could finally agree on a TV show to binge

Everyone on planet Earth: PUT AI IN YOUR THINGS AND MAKE SURE THE AI IS IN ALL YOUR THINGS TO MAKE YOUR THINGS AI Workday resume parser: doo doo doo, just going to take a little bit of this, and a little bit of that, and *ooooh* what's this over here? add that in for some spice

WHAT

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

Had a beer on the train ride home so let's get into it. What's something from your past that you think influences your professional penchants today? I think my many hours of extracurricular art class (trust me I'm not talented) informed how I'm now obsessed with design and data viz practices #dataBS

Look at this magic 👀 so clever

Amazon: we will use two-pizza teams to keep our products focused and nimble Every big company trying to be Amazon: any team is a two-pizza team, for sufficiently large pizza

I have 30 jokes about the central limit theorem. That's normal, right?