We are looking for #rstats community feedback on 3 new dplyr functions! We're aiming to expand the `filter()` family: - `filter()` to keep rows - `filter_out()` to drop rows - `when_any()` and `when_all()` as modifiers Read more and leave feedback here: github.com/tidyverse/ti...

A number of people have told me this piece has been useful for them, maybe it will be for you, too — a simple description of the consensus view on AI amongst actual tech practitioners, presented as a tool for those who need to push back on the distorted narratives that tycoons are feeding media.

This is the article - about a possible connection between black holes and dark energy. There now seems to be evidence for this from both DESI and earlier observations I was involved with 🧪🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-d...

🧫 AI discovers new narrow-spectrum antibiotic Researchers used deep learning to identify enterololin, a compound that targets harmful Enterobacteriaceae while sparing healthy gut microbes. A step toward safer antibiotics. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #AI #Antibiotics 🧪

🎨 Theming got a huge overhaul with the latest #ggplot2 release. In honour of that @teunbrand.bsky.social has written a comprehensive deep-dive into styling your plots, covering both old and new functionality. Grab a coffee and dive in! #rstats

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉 This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system. Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

so glad we're spending trillions on this technology!

I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...

So excited to finally release our first robot today: Reachy Mini A dream come true: cute and low priced, hackable yet easy to use, powered by open-source and the infinite community. Read more and order now at huggingface.co/blog/reachy-...

We are thrilled to announce gt-extras, a collection of helper functions for creating beautiful tables with the great-tables package in #Python! Add plots, icons, color gradients, and more to your tables. Learn more here: posit-dev.github.io/gt-extras/ar...

1 WEEK until "The Test Set" launches! 🎉 Get ready, data science junkies, anomaly hunters, & confidence interval rebels. Hosts: Michael Chow, Hadley Wickham, Wes McKinney. First episode drops July 2nd! Subscribe: pos.it/thetestset #TheTestSet #DataScience #Podcast

One of the biggest frustrations I have is the lack of transparency around AI's energy use and environmental impacts. I know the numbers are out there... but somehow we're not seeing them 🫠 Thank you @wired.com for covering this topic in such depth and detail ! www.wired.com/story/ai-car...

Lolz. Amusing listening to Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) crowing about his/ their masterful stroke of genius in renaming machine learning to AI...😂 Maybe in the very narrowest of contexts

Say hello to kuzco, an LLM-powered computer vision assistant package in #RStats! @frankiethull.bsky.social's kuzco leverages Ollama to bring computer vision capabilities into your R workflow. Learn about classification, image recognition, and sentiment analysis in kuzco: posit.co/blog/kuzco-c...

Finally got my copy of The AI Con, and am looking forward to jumping in! :)

'Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears' www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thrilled to share that my book Cultural Data Science – An Introduction to R is finally out! A journey through digital methods, visual culture & data analysis—made for everyone exploring the intersection of humanities and code. #DigitalHumanities #RStats link.springer.com/book/9783031...

🚀 The Skrub learning materials website is now live at: skrub-data.org/skrub-materi... Here you'll find introductory talks and tutorials about Skrub, along with notebooks and blog posts showcasing the features of the library. Bookmark it to not miss any update 👀

If you're based in the US, be careful to not accidentally say that a qudit system is non-binary.

My conversation with star AI researcher @fchollet.bsky.social and Zapier’s Mike Knoop * ARC AGI 2 and why it breaks base LLMs * test-time adaptation * the search for fluid machine intelligence

We are thrilled to announce chatlas, a Python package that simplifies working with large language models (LLM) in Python! Chat, tool call, stream API calls, RAG, and more, with developer details like typing support and rich console output. Read the post: posit.co/blog/announc... #Python #AI

My next tutorial on pretraining an LLM from scratch is now out. It starts with a step-by-step walkthrough of understanding, calculating, and optimizing the loss. After training, we update the text generation function with temperature scaling and top-k sampling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zar2...

Et tu, The Guardian???

From logical gates to grandmother cells, neuroscientists have employed many metaphors to explain single neuron function. Dmitri Chklovskii makes the case that neurons are actually trying to control how their outputs affect the rest of the brain. By Paul Middlebrooks bit.ly/4hPYk7w #neuroskyence

It is Abraham Lincoln's birthday, so here are bunch of Civil War era bank notes and shinplasters featuring honest Abe. Lincoln Bank, Clinton, NY, $3, April 8, 1862. Bank of Pottstown, PA, $2, 186-. W. P. Carpenter, Utica, NY, $.25, Oct. 6, 1862. C. Dautremont, Angelica, NY, $.50, Nov. 1, 1862. 🗃️

Neutrinos are everywhere (there are hundreds per cubic centimeter in the Universe left over from the big bang); the ones produced copiously by nuclear fusion in the Sun typically have energies of ~1 million electron volts. They just detected a neutrino that is almost a trillion times as energetic! 🧪

“African Tech Workers Rising is organising for better wages, mental health protections and professional standards in Kenya and beyond. We are doing this because AI is not magic. Behind every algorithm are thousands of hidden workers labelling, training & moderating data under precarious conditions.”

If you have used #ggplot2 in the last couple of years you owe a great deal to @teunbrand.bsky.social who is behind most of the new features and fixes. Read about his journey to become a part of the ggplot2 core team here:

new week, new packages and tools in the LLM + #rstats space {gander} joins the family and has a very cool logo luisdva.github.io/rstats/LLMsR/

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION 2025: In the interest of preserving the planet, specifically water conservation, I am now selflessly resolved & fully committed to peeing in the shower. #ProudToDoMyPart

turns out having 100+ chapters in a book makes the TOC quite long 😅 I have now added a "collapse all/expand all" button to www.feaz-book.com to help with that issue

This is where the data to build #AI comes from | @melissahei.bsky.social @splendidsteph.bsky.social “We are using these models all over the world, and there’s a massive discrepancy between the world we’re seeing and what’s invisible to these models." @sarahooker.bsky.social www.technologyreview...

📊 #rstats #dataviz NEWS: The ASA Statistical Graphics & Computing section just announced the winner of the 2025 John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award: Adam Bartonicek, for the R 📦 Plotscaper, bartonicek.github.io/plotscaper Defines a new algebra for doing interactive graphics with linking, ...

🏆 We are proud to announce that the Frugal AI Challenge is one of the 35 projects supported by the State via #France2030 and AI Action Summit! 🏆 If you have experience in training and deploying AI models for solving text, vision or audio tasks, join our challenge: frugalaichallenge.org

We just announced posit::conf(2025) is open for registration, and it'll never be more affordable than today, with Super Early Bird and Academic discounts. Join us Sept 16-18 in Atlanta, GA, & reg before Feb 28 to lock in the lowest possible price. Learn more & register at posit.co/blog/positco...

For anyone interested in fine-tuning or aligning LLMs, I’m running this free and open course called smol course. It’s not a big deal, it’s just smol. 🧵>>

We are excited to announce posit::conf(2025)! Join fellow data enthusiasts & developers for an unforgettable three days of learning, connection, and inspiration. Learn more and register at posit.co/blog/positco... #datascience #rstats #pydata #quarto #tidyverse #posit

OpenAI announced a new RL finetuning API. You can do this on open models w the repo we used to train Tulu 3. Expanding reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards to more domains and with better answer extraction and to more domains in our near roadmap. https://buff.ly/3V4JEIJ

Robot Holmes is back 🕵️ Last year I gave the talk "Robot Holmes and the Vision-Language Murder Mysteries", an intro to VLM models and tasks, at @pydatalondon.bsky.social and @europython.bsky.social. Now I started to actually turn it into a story here: johko.github.io/robot-holmes...

Most liked and most downloaded open-source AI models from 2022 to 2024 Interactive viz: aiworld.eu/embed/model/... Discussion: huggingface.co/spaces/huggi...

✨ posit::glimpse() is back! ✨ Get a glimpse of our tools in our newsletter. This edition features Positron news, packages for AI & LLMs, the brand.yml launch, #Quarto workshop recordings, and more. We’re positive you’ll find something valuable! #RStats #Python Read here: posit.co/blog/posit-g...