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Nathaniel D Phillips

@yarrrbook

Psychology PhD., R pirate, and crazy uncle.

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Attention R pirates! My book YaRrr! The Pirate's Guide to R bookdown.org/ndphillips/YaR…, was written (almost) completely in old-school base-R -- with all its benefits and headaches. Should I write a new version that is full on #tidyverse? 100 comments = Yes 😃🏴‍☠️

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By mlr support, do you mean A) adding FFTrees as an integrated learner to the mlr package? Or B) providing code to show people how to create their own custom FFTrees learners? option B is easy but I'm not sure how easy A is. ideas? x.com/Physical_Prep/…

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Has anyone conducted an experiment to see if researchers actually get a physiological pleasure response from seeing "p < .05" and a pain response from p > .06? That would be a fun study -- and hopefully p < 0.05...

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goo.gl/LePU2T. Great but terrifying article in Rolling Stone about "The great college loan swindle". By contrast, the biggest financial worry of my European friends was that tuition would increase to ~$500 a semester.

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"Because mistakes in healthcare and criminal justice can be [...] deadly, it can be beneficial for companies to keep their models hidden. If the model is [...] hidden, the company [...] does not need to take responsibility for mistakes" Rudinn and Ustun goo.gl/KkCiwC

"Because mistakes in healthcare and criminal justice can be [...] deadly, it can be beneficial for companies to keep their models hidden. If the model is [...] hidden, the company [...] does not need to take responsibility for mistakes" Rudinn and Ustun goo.gl/KkCiwC
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Just published a fun little tutorial on my FFTrees R package for Data Camp that shows people how to use R to make simple, transparent decision rules from data, check it out here datacamp.com/community/tuto…!

Just published a fun little tutorial on my FFTrees R package for Data Camp that shows people how to use R to make simple, transparent decision rules from data, check it out here datacamp.com/community/tuto…!