Soon everyone will realize that what they've wanted all along is #RStats

Everyone's talking about Sakana's AI scientist. But no-one's answering the big question: is its output good? I spent hours reading its generated papers and research logs. Read on to find out x.com/SakanaAILabs/s…

So apparently the act of sending loved ones little videos and cute pictures and funny things throughout the day is called “Pebbling” because there’s a species of penguin that likes to leave pebbles in their partners’ nests to show they care, and this is my happy thing for today

Parent tip: you can upload a photo of your kids printed paper school calendar to ChatGPT and ask it to generate an .ics calendar file that you can directly import

Just out - the first in our special 3-part series on navigating the world of academic publishing. Our guest is University of Melbourne mathematician Prof Peter Taylor, who is the editor of two journals. Our host is Sevvandi K.. To listen, search for The Random Sample where you get your podcasts!

If someone in Australia cuts down a tree on public land to improve the view from their house, the local government will install a sign to block that view again

Love this figure from Google's "pipes for SQL" paper. Matching syntactic and semantic order is a great heuristic for a well-designed API.

The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning: "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…

i am not a passenger princess i am a passenger court jester. i must keep the driver awake, assist in navigation and tightly manage the music playlist. my hat jingles so that i may maintain my permanent front seat privileges and avoid execution.

Seems like more people should be talking about how a libertarian charter city startup funded by Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, and Peter Thiel is trying to bankrupt Honduras. Próspera is suing Honduras to the tune of $11B (GDP is $32B) and is expected to win, per the NYT 🧵

The 2nd episode of our 3-part series on "navigating the world of academic publishing" is now out! Our guest is the founding editor-in-chief of Harvard Data Science Review, Prof Xiao-Li Meng - as we explore the challenges of publishing interdisciplinary research. Our host is Cynthia Huang @[email protected]. Scan QR 👇

How do you pick which journal to publish in if you're doing interdisciplinary research? Our special 3-part series into the world of academic publishing continues. Our guest is Prof Xiao-Li Meng, founding editor-in-chief of Harvard Data Science Review Harvard Data Science Review. 🎧QR code to listen

I *never* want to download a text file containing a single bibtex entry. Just let me copy it.

Since we are doing “are PhD students miserable” discourse again, a reminder that you can avoid this by: - picking a supportive supervisor - not entering uncertain funding situations - only joining if it’s a subject you’re obsessed with Don’t take a bad job, don’t join a bad PhD

Looking forward the workshops and presentations at Small Data SF: Think Small, Build Big next week -- excited to learn about how my "big data" problems could be a thing of the past!

R users learning about data wrangling in Python #rstats

Turns out I'm definitely a "middle of the class" mathematics student. This thread describes all the reasons my brain often shuts off in econometrics classes/seminars -- I can't remember what symbols mean, or what the game plan is and suddenly we're at an obvious result?