remade a network diagram in Typst (with the Fletcher package) If anyone wants to see a demo/walkthrough of Typst, I will be running a casual seminar with the DSLC (Data Science Learning Community) this Saturday at 1 PM EDT!

Today's joy is finding some rvest code that I wrote over two years ago (and get to reuse!)

I updated the syllabus for my Machine Learning course, and I made it---diagrams included---with the Typst Universe! Blog post (Typst code and design decisions): dsollbergerquarto.netlify.app/posts/typst_...

made a new logo for one of my courses #hexsession #user2025

finished taking an online course in bioinformatics techniques for RNA-Seq. To wrap up, I tried out the tools on a different data set, and then presented the results as a Quarto closeread story! blog post (then scroll down): dsollbergerquarto.netlify.app/.../rna_seq_...

is happy to be at #useR2025. So far, I ran into 3 colleagues from various ventures, and learned * how to underline text in Quarto markdown * that a `countdown` can end with a sound effect (in addition to a couple of great workshops about tidyomics and srvyr)

I was awed by many talks at #JSM2025, but I was stunned by the Jenga tower

This is my first time at #JSM2025. I will probably learn something Bayesian, but right now I have a uniform prior

Over in Week 2 of our online RNA-Seq course, we learned about normalizing read counts through VST (variance stabilizing transformation). To help me verify the concept for myself, I made a ridgeplot of 10 randomly selected genes in the lung cancer data.

found my university's list-serves, which were en vogue about 12 years ago. They are quite a time capsule.

It’s that time again! Time for our 7th annual United States of Science Challenge! Each bubble on this map represents classrooms we matched w/scientists this year. $10 donations fill bubbles! The first region to fill in all of their bubbles wins! Fill bubbles here! givebutter.com/USS2025

"Lies of P devs get bonus, paid holiday and Switch 2 consoles for hitting sales milestone" www.videogameschronicle.com/news/lies-of...

On a whim, I took some of the room icons from the video game Blue Prince and rearranged them to emulate the classic board game Clue

Outer Worlds 2 will have a "math crazed scientist"

This nerdy trilogy is complete! wonderful math books by Jay Cummings and I wish that I could teach these classes

Today I saw (in a blog post) a dev say that one of their projects was of little importance because it "only got 40 citations"

new toy

finally got Python to write LaTeX code of matrices for me

XKCD 2501 Link: xkcd.com/2501/

At first, I thought that the Jeopardy question was "What are random controlled trials?"

In Outlook (email client), I had been annoyed for quite a while that the program would occasionally disregard when I hit the space key. To fix that, I turned off Text Predictions under Smart Suggestions in the Settings panel

My colleagues may like this

collage by InBrukes

I forgot to have my students create team names, and it is a machine learning course, so ...

While driving to work, I was listening to a podcast episode about The Offspring. While teaching about SVM classifiers, I literally muttered, "You gotta keep them separated"

I already thought that installing graphviz was annoying in R ... and then I tried it out in Python (grr)

You might think that I am not getting much done, but I will have you know that I just assembled enough memes and comics for the next two weeks of lectures.

A second letter, from the American Statistical Association, about risks to the BEA, BLS, & Census in particular. docs.google.com/document/d/1... Individual sign on: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Orgs: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

TIL if I accidentally leave a .ipynb file among my Quarto blog posts, the rendering will treat the Python notebook as its own blog post haha

listening to streamers reminiscing about video game magazines and arcades youtu.be/5e39jP7OKu0?...

Dianna (physicsgirl on YouTube) just posted a video where she stands up under her own power. She went from star science communicator to bedbound long COVID patient. First time standing on her own in two years. youtube.com/shorts/2ntx9...

"In schools, they are already teaching how to tell the difference between AI and real images" --- CohhCarnage

Instead of doomscrolling, you could play Minesweeper, dungeon edition. danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

TIL synteny block size is exponentially distributed #biostats

PUBG unveils chatty co-op buddy powered by generative AI that's designed to play and talk like a human teammate www.eurogamer.net/pubg-unveils...

Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore’s Law

watching a video game streamer, and their daughter plays on the Switch. Therefore, that child knows the letters "A", "B", "X", and "Y"

(overheard) "That is neither necessary nor sufficient"

Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

Phil Schmid’s tutorial on fine tuning ModernBERT for classification (hope this is easy with prodigy/spacy) www.philschmid.de/fine-tune-mo...

Your younger kids might like number visuals: nyccami.org/number-visua...

finished reading Mastering Shiny and had a good semester with a bookclub over at the Data Science Learning Community. Now, whether or not Shiny is one of my new year's resolutions is TBD, haha

Anyone on #IDSky or #EpiSky know of a good rundown re: differences in coverage between WastewaterSCAN and CDC wastewater surveillance? Obviously, I see WS's About page (data.wastewaterscan.org/about). Just wondering if anyone knows of good comparisons.

Imagine working at a university that is trying to double its enrollment over the next couple of decades

If you’re in California I highly recommend the app Watch Duty for info on fires. You can set it up to get alerts on fires that pop up near you, including evacuation warnings.

Living vicariously through video game streamers, and realizing that the streamer's kid can now walk and talk

"Data science courses met an admissions requirement at 38 percent of colleges in 2021 and 46 percent of colleges in 2024" --- The Limits of Calculus: Revisiting the Role of Math Education in College Admissions justequations.org/resource/the...