🚨Another black box algorithm is being pried open 🚨 Judges have ruled that the makers of a “probablistic genotyping” DNA analysis program used in more than 850 criminal cases must hand over their source code. Lauren Kirchner reports: themarkup.org/news/2021/03/0…

At a certain point if everything is urgent, then nothing is urgent yeah?

I've seen a preview of the #Bayesian #Workflow with Stan book from Andrew Gelman et al., Aki Vehtari - @[email protected], Dan, Yuling Yao, Lauren Kennedy, @paulbuerkner, @modrak_m, and co-authors, and it looks AMAZING! It will be out in print from CRC Press Data Science, Stats, and Math Books early 2022. Watch this space...

Abandon #excel

Rappel : votre vie perso est beaucoup plus importante que votre vie pro.

Conférence publique de l’Ecole des sciences criminelles Université de Lausanne Dr Neil Robinson, Responsable du Département Scientifique & Médical International Testing Agency ITA : Un nouveau partenaire dans l'écosystème de la lutte contre le dopage 16 décembre, Génopode C et en ligne bit.ly/31WTbc5

Latency xkcd.com/2565

Thanks, Excel, that was definitely what I wanted when I clicked "copy down" on the cell containing "With Covid-19" 🙃

Le clap de fin des mesures #covid vaut bien une #dataviz, longue comme la pandémie Cas quotidiens #COVID19 confirmés depuis le 24 février 2020 en #Suisse Le Temps #FreedomDay #infographics #print #CoronaInfoCH

Let the final purge begin ! PS : très beau geste de T. Stadler de porter un FFP2 et d'expliquer pourquoi rts.ch/play/tv/redire…

TIL RSQLite supports `extended_types = TRUE` inside DBI::dbConnect (automatic R date/datetime type cast) #rstats

The most pivotal realization in my life was that “being happy” is a terrible goal in life. It’s not a static state of being and will come and go ⬇️

The athletic characteristics of Olympic sports to assist anti‐doping strategies …iencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Using DALL·E to invent new Olympic sports. Here’s my favorite, equestrian surfing #dalle2

An extension to the Peter Principle, whereby once you're identified as competent, you're given more work, to the point that you become burnt out and unable to maintain competence.

I repeat: Easily produced science text that's wrong does not advance science, improve science productivity, or make science more accessible. I like research on LLMs but the blind belief in their goodness does a disservice to them and science. Here is an example from #ChatGPT 1/5

A lot of talk (by individuals and business entities) about making the sport of “mountain-ultra-trail-running” 🏃🏻🏔️more “Professional.” 🙌 I’m not sure what that means exactly (different things to different people) but I’d say the first (and most important step in my mind) step

Finally: #Microsoft Microsoft Office listened ... no more gene name to date conversions in #Excel. Go to File > Options > Data and deselect "Convert continuous letters and numbers to a date". theverge.com/2023/10/21/239…

If you feel guilty not working, that's the burnout talking. Keep going and you will destroy you brain. Put that laptop away and go touch grass.