It's funny they there are a few countries that don't have a name. Like "United Arab Emirates", or "United Kingdom", or "United State of America".

#RStats joyful coding - Surface Nets are a really neat algorithm for isosurface extraction. 1. Create a field 2. Find where the isosurface hits the edges of squares on the grid (black) 3. Within each square the centre (pink) is defined as the average of all […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@levelbot/116842235698409209 Evergreen post

@jonny Have you seen this? I spied this repo by one of the users registered in your company town. (Strangely, it doesn't list AgentPipe). It seems the arms race is on? https://github.com/johnanleitner1-Coder/agent-trap-db

Faltan 2 días para los #memesdejulio.

I forgot my keys and got locked out of my house, so I decided it was about time I learned how to get in without them.

Every time I hear someone say "I saw this ad on the internet the other day..." I feel an intense desire to tell them to use an adblocker.

It was exactly thirty years ago today, on June 23 1996, that the Australian Rail Maps website first went live. Ever since first encountering the London tube map as a youngster, I’ve wondered why can’t we have maps like that here in Australia. So I made some myself. (1 of 6)

DON'T SHARE THIS, IT'S AI FABRICATED It's fake - the media outlet almost certainly used generative AI to write this and it pulled from a "parody" acct (www.instagram.com/p/DZu8trmR89Y/) The more you share this, the more you help the pro-AI bros say this is all fake www.youtube.com/live/ho_Zmwg...

Gente, lo de Jeff Bezos diciendo que hay quitar agua de las personas para dársela a la IA es un BULO. Viene de una web india que cita una conferencia de Bezos en París pero en el vídeo que enlazan no nombra en ningún momento el agua

Good news, everyone, google has come up with a new chat system.

Hey, #RStats nerds and other nerds too. I'm trying to come up with a functional from for this curve. Something parametric that I can then think about symbolically and , not just a statistical fit. I can't find anything simple enough that fits the core […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Pro tip if you're building a cli in #python using typer. Add `os.environ["TYPER_USE_RICH"] = "0"` . To improve startup time significantly. In my case it went from 0.4s to 0.1s. https://typer.tiangolo.com/tutorial/commands/help/#rich-markdown-and-markup

Today I was a thinking about this application I built in #python and realised that I wrote it like #rstats code. All functions, no objects.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@groxx/116711385714918724 This is a neat illustration of how our eyes+brain use green for sharpness information and the rest is just the suggestion of colour, especially blue. First, original image. Second, heavy gaussian blur […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Is this a thing? Are people mining crypto on 5 year old phones?

Can you search for particular words in particular hashtags in #mastodon? #lazyweb

What's up with English using such a similar sounding suffix for numbers between 13 and 19 and multiples of ten?

This question has been running around my head for a few days, so now it's your problem. Why doesn't the rocket equation apply to cars and airplanes? Or it does? Both need to carry more fuel to go further, and that makes them heavier, so they need extra fuel to carry the extra weight. My ideas: 1 […]

It took me a while to understand this #xkcd comic until I realised that Randall lives in he northern hemisphere where this actually makes sense. https://xkcd.com/3253/

Given that Facebook flat out refuses to delete my account (the deletion function on the website consistently errors out and emailing their DPO didn't help as the auto response just fwd me to the website), maybe I can talk their chatbot into deleting it for me? Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to […]

It's faster to clone a github repo than to browse it online.

Writing your CV in #latex like a complete maniac.

TIL: ``` if not path.exists(path): return None with open(path) as f: f.readline() ``` can fail if the path is deleted between the first and the second block. #python.

RE: https://hails.org/@hailey/116657391001259044 all the criticism has been said, all the takes been had. the only metaphor i have been finding consistently useful for understanding what is happening with people and "AI" is addiction, and specifically gambling addiction.

I am never not amazed by Nina's voice. https://youtu.be/HqD1dEQRJLk

Hey, #rstats folks, what's your take on the box package to organise the code inside a project? I've been using it a bit for a while: I put functions in an R folder similar to a package and then load them with box::use() instead of source(). https://klmr.me/box/

Reviewing the materias for reproducibility.rocks and this sentence caught me by surprise. Clearly past me didn't have a good relationship with LaTex. TBF, neither does present me xD

Heads up for those using Remote SSH with positron/vscode: the .positron-server folder can get real big real fast. Today I notices that the folder was more than 300.000 files big, so I nuked it from orbit. I believe the issue is that positron doesn't remove old versions, and the server itself is […]

I had a problem with an #rstats package and found a closed old issue reporting a similar error. It had a bunch of messages by a claude agent very confidently describing the error and the solution. The PR that it linked to didn't solve the problem and included a bunch of unrelated CI changes. The […]

What are good tools for creating TUI in #python? I've came accross textual, which seems to be what everyone raves about, but I kinda don't like the look and it's too complex; with themes and command pallete, and whatnot. It feels too "slick" and I'd like something that looks and feels more text […]

New #python rant. I was using os.system() to run system commands, but this time I wanted to save the output of the command. The answer* is to use either a completely different function or a completely different package. No single learning in python seems to be transferable. I need to learn some […]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Theorem_Poem/116630406964679641 Visas are human right abuses.

Every time I find a hard problem, the answer is GAMs. I need to do some serious training on GAMs, because they are fricking magical. #rstats

Am I crazy or the preview option in positron doesn't respect the execute-dir option of a #quartopub project? #rstats

New version of RStudio will add these lines to your ignore files. Automatically. Each time you open the project. Even when you don't have any of those tools installed. I think the time to jump ship is approaching. This shit is going way to far.

Nice. I added a git hook to remove all the metadata and output crud from jupyter noteboks before stashing. That keeps commits clean and (mostly) readable, but now it takes AGES to get a diff.

I think I need to write a blogpost v̶e̶n̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ documenting all my plotting woes with python. It's morally repulsive in every conceivable way.

I am shocked! Shocked to find that price-gouging is going on in here. --- Coles’ ‘Down Down’ discounts misled customers on industrial scale, court finds https://www.theage.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/watch-live-coles-learns-its-fate-in-fake-down-down-discounts-case-20260514-p5zwoi.html

python is doing my head in. What the fuck is going on here. ``` ↳ which cdo /apps/cdo/2.4.3/bin/cdo ↳ python -c 'import os; os.system("which cdo")' /opt/conda/analysis3-26.04/bin/cdo ```

Awkward certainly lives up to its name by being very awkward to spell.

From @sjamieit.bsky.social: The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eliocamp/116560174152329157 Ah, I've just realised that this doesn't even work. Adding more new artists to your catalogue would increase inequality, because you would have more artists with few listens. So, if you listen to one artist 1000 times and to two other […]

Buddhist don't like Object Oriented Programming because they know thay the self doesn't exist.

Yearly gini coefficients of my music taste. Inequality in this context is good; it means more artists. It seems my listening habits have been a bit narrower since 2024, although this year is still not done, so there's time. #rstats #lastfm

It's been two days. I still can get jupyter lab to find my virtual environment. I still can't believe that we are teaching students to use this POS.

Today we had a nice chat with @mpadge that reminded me of this post I wrote years ago about the benefits of taking dependencies. Essentially: taking a dependency is an invitation to collaborate and form a community. He made me realise that developers using LLMs to re-implement functionality […]

This pitiful thing is jupyter's "save as" dialogue. You need to write the route directly. No UI to navigate, no autocomplete paths. "home" doesn't even truly exist; I assume is some lousy shortcut for $HOME or something. It's utterly unusable. The fact that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

In the #ai era, this is what passes as a "sophisticated algorithm"

I've sadly given up on email clients for #linux. Thunderbird is reliable and usable but can't handle drafts (it saves a new draft each time), Mailspring looks nice and has good features, but it's not reliable to actually send, sync or find mails. Geary / elementary mail looks gorgeous but it's […]