Couple weeks ago circumstances led me to miss playing the day's Wordle, ending a 200+ day correct streak. I was pretty bummed and chastised myself for my failure. Next day I opened Worldle, saw my streak reset and was like "What's the point? I'll never make it that far again." I had an epiphany...

The webRios iOS app by @coatless.bsky.social is great for little #RStats experiments on my phone or tablet without having to boot my computer. Like testing little functions and syntax, or while reading up on Advanced R (1st and 2nd ed.) or any other R books!

cool R trick for those unaware: the {labelled} package can be used to set variable labels which are automatically used by some other packages, including {ggplot2} and {gtsummary}

So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?

Great work from the FT's John Burn-Murdoch www.ft.com/content/b474...

I am always amazed by the amount of useful tools that R can provide. Truly a multipurpose programming language! #RStats

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

I think about this post at least once a week

“correlation is not cognition” — Guest & Martin (2023). doi.org/10.1007/s421... @olivia.science @andreaeyleen.bsky.social

Parents Of Nasal Learners Demand Odor-Based Curriculum — theonion.com/parents-of-n...

The fact that he is using theater of war terminology to describe an American city is especially horrifying

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

This is only going to exacerbate existing issues and inequalities. This isn’t the government investing in children’s future, it’s an investment in tech companies.

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“Hysteria” comes from the Greek word for uterus, and Hippocrates coined it to diagnose what he saw as uniquely feminine forms of “madness,” from pain and anxiety to fainting and seizures, to emotional outbursts, along with all manner of other erratic or "unfeminine" activities. 2/

Does the field of philosophy have a code of professional ethics? If not, I think y'all need to get on that, stat. A short 🧵>> www.businessinsider.com/anthropics-p...

> “This could become a school where ChatGPT writes the papers, ChatGPT grades the papers, rich kids buy an experience, and nobody gets an education,” says Ariel Becherer, a PhD student www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Feels like society’s really broken down in the US in a way that’s deeply traumatic. But also there are college students knocking on doors asking for shovels (they’re not well-prepared) and helping trapped motorists by shoveling and pushing out cars. Up to 24 of them now, wandering streets together

Sorry, Jensen, can't make us stop. Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 will continue on with the #RidiculeAsPraxis cc @alexhanna.bsky.social

The genius who let ChatGPT handle two years of work for him has an active twitter account (of course), but for some reason he has yet to tweet about this, to my great disappointment.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS arstechnica.com/security/202...

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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

So @hootsuite.com is still a garbage company. Glad I don’t use them. “Vancouver social media company Hootsuite looking to work with ICE to “build trust” - The Globe and Mail

Yay I wrote that!

Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom release a joint statement:

It's so hard--I think they are trying to adapt, as we all are. I just don't think that automating the classroom solves the problem of students automating their thinking.

That was deeply satisfying. @seahawksofficial.com

Congratulations to @districtofoakbay.bsky.social for pulling the pin on the toxic, misogynistic, porn sewer that is ‘X’. Their final post refers people to their Bluesky account or their in-house engagement forum, Connect Oak Bay. Well done.

Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:

#edusky #highered Hi Folks, If you have taught an undergraduate or graduate level course in British Columbia in the last 12 months and would be willing to complete a 10 min survey on Technology-Integrated Assessment, send me a DM and I'll share a link. #PhDsky #GradSchool

Very important!

I find it depressing that so many people seem determined to outsource their basic brain functions. Like WHY ARE YOU EVEN ALIVE IF THAT'S HOW LITTLE YOU THINK ABOUT EXISTENCE

lol

100%

Let’s “put aside our habitual self-deprecation and stand up for the country we love—and reject the idea of a sovereign Alberta whose founding principles seem to be miserliness, xenophobia and transphobia… I will not allow hatemongers and traitors and bitter quitters to speak for me” #abpoli #ableg

The CBC has just posted a transcript of my recent As it Happens interview about X and Grok. I’m posting a couple of screen shots here - since they are a bit too long for alt text, I’ll post the link to the full transcript below. #cdnpoli #X #Grok #yeg #CSAM

One of the few positives about the last decade or so is people are starting to get hip to the fact that the Luddites were right all along.

@mark-carney.bsky.social @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social when is the Canadian government going to leave and ban X, the app that is knowingly generating child sexual abuse material and profiting off of it?

Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy

this is part of why i wrote my "defining AI" post a while back; to try to drag people away from relying on criteria like the tech stack, or rows of data, or CPU time - all of which heavily implying the centrality of computer science credentials & expertise in organizing & activist movements

Have you ever quickly thrown a survey together and then ended up with data that was unusable? It's because creating a quality instrument takes time. Taking your survey through these phases of pilot testing ahead of time, will result in better data. datamgmtinedresearch.com/collect#pilo...

Opinion: After being falsely branded an AI plagiarist, how can I accuse students, asks David Mingay #academicsky #edusky #AI https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/after-being-falsely-branded-ai-plagiarist-how-can-i-accuse-students

I needed to sit down and touch base with my old friends love and positivity today, so I spent some time writing more compliments. Some are better than others, your mileage may vary, but all of them are true. You can have one 😁

People will die because of this www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...