We've released Python Polars 1.41. Some of the highlights: • Faster Parquet metadata decoding • Nested common subplan elimination • LazyFrame.gather() Blog post: pola.rs/posts/polars...

A little-known fact about Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. is that his herpetophobia stems from how badly his thesis defense went.

DATA SCIENTIST JOB ALERT 🚨 My friend is looking for a new data scientist to join her team. Details in link. Must be NY based. If you’re interested or have questions, send me a note! #careers #hiring #data jobs.ashbyhq.com/graphite/08f...

Before you run update.packages() — check what changed first. Diffify offers side-by-side diffs for R and Python packages. NEWS, dependencies, functions, arguments. Free, no sign-up. diffify.com #RStats #Python

The helium shortage is now unavoidable. Another wonderful follow-on to the Iran War, and if you think helium doesn’t matter much, think again:

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

IBM computer manual from 1979:

This is well worth a read. ky.fyi/posts/ai-bur...

dplyr::replace_when() and dplyr::recode_values() I am in you! The cognitive load and lines of code saved.... #rstats

This headline neatly captures so much about the modern world we live in today...🤦🤷

"AI amplifies whatever is already there. Good discipline becomes great output. No discipline becomes technical debt at machine speed. Anthropic chose a direction. Go faster. Have Claude check Claude. And when it breaks, go faster still." substack.com/home/post/p-...

Wow! It has finally happened...

Asimov wrote this 70+ years ago, yet this passage seems more relevant now than ever before. It's a rather succinct description of GenAI and LLM's.

REMINDER 🚨: TOMORROW, APRIL 1, HUMANS WILL RETURN TO THE MOON FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS We’re living in history! The entire mission is being streamed live by NASA, don’t miss it.

Happy Pi Day! In a certain sense, π is not a constant, but a variable. Using our usual Euclidean distance, it is 3.14159… but applying other L^p norms on ℝ², half the unit circle's perimeter will give other values. For instance, at p=1 (taxicab geometry), “π” = 2√2. At p ≈ 2.2, it's 3.20.

📝 Read the announcement: blog.probabl.ai/skore-is-live 🚀 Try Skore: skore.probabl.ai 👨💻 Explore the code: github.com/probabl-ai/s... 📖Read the docs: docs.skore.probabl.ai

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

We are responding to this call for evidence: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... Do you have concrete examples of the added value of #Rstats in the public or private sectors? Include the most important factors (risk, lock-in, security, innovation...) to assess the added value. Thanks!

I miss the days where you'd see blogposts with clever analyses on datasets, maths and data science tricks. That's why, as an experiment, we're starting a new moderated subreddit. People can share/promote their notebooks and you can use RSS to subscribe. Please join and share!

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck

📢 Announcement: We are sunsetting the bookdown.org public hosting service. If you have #RStats docs on bookdown.org, please migrate them to a new platform by January 31, 2026, to maintain control over your content. (We recommend Posit Connect Cloud!) Learn more: posit.co/blog/bookdown-org-sunset

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. 🗃️