Doctor rerum naturalium

This from @petridishes.bsky.social is brilliant, and should be made into a documentary.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Update: They solved this by rearming.

did not know scott aaronson had written this insane unique romp through quantum stuff called "Quantum Computing since Democritus"

and the first name in the acknowledgements is my old classmate C. Granade!

wild. and claude code with bash commands knows how to do this? I'm going to try it today.

Interesting. So one could have two versions of one product in a repo, and deploy them to separate resources using this?

Okay what are worktrees and do I really need to know I guess i do don’t I

One of the great tragedies of AI and science is that the proliferation of garbage papers and journals is creating pressure to return to more closed systems based on interpersonal connections and established prestige hierarchies that had only recently been opened up somewhat to greater diversity.

Ditto in industry. We must change this

Can confirm

Promotional image for webRios showing the app icon and an iPhone displaying the R console. The console shows example R commands with syntax highlighting: basic arithmetic (1 + 1), a print statement saying 'Hello from iOS!', a warning message in orange reading 'Uh-oh, I'm in the Apple-verse?', an error message in red with the HAL 9000 quote 'I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.', and a plot command.

webRios is live. #rstats on your iPhone and iPad.

I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review.

apps.apple.com/us/app/webri...

Yep.

The first article published on Offprint. @tynanpurdy.com on ownership, portability, and why he's done with platforms.

Thanks for being first, Tynan. "People over protocols, protocols over platforms" is a better manifesto than anything we could have written.

Artemis II: Nasa's mega Moon rocket arrives at launch pad Final preparations now get underway for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years.

Despite US politics being a total clusterfuck, this is an incredible development. It will be the first time anyone under the age 54 will have been alive to see a Lunar mission. Part of the spacecraft was also built by the European Space Agency. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What sorcery is this. Need to investigate.

“There are things you can say that might get you assassinated but won’t get you arrested.”

Heard on a Radio War Nerd episode on Iraq and its elections.

#RadioWarNerd #RWN @radiowarnerd.bsky.social @markames.bsky.social

My mood room

No one I know is here, and except data science, none of the communities I usually follow (Cricket, India/tech, India/geopolitics, and my old friends) are here.

But twitter is so terrible and such an absolute cesspool, that I'll try and make this my primary microblogging platform anyway.

LOL

look at that sky

Gabor Szarnyas - DuckDB and duckplyr: An in-process database management system in your R script YouTube video by R in Pharma

This talk by @szarnyasg.org, which just dropped a few days ago, looks like a good starting point. youtu.be/Yn1ph3-1iAs?...

Also, Chapter 9 of our book (pinned to my profile) focuses on a full walkthrough of the R client, including some tidyverse

what is a great talk to get started on duckdb via R/tidyverse?

In other words, Merkel was right to keep NS going and investing in NS2 (and the current lot were wrong to let someone blow it up) but she and the current German bunch are wildly wrong to shut down nuclear instead of massively investing in more.

"Refusal to align foreign policy to German national interest" is where I differ from common wisdom:

1. Using cheap energy available to you is good actually

2. Protecting a supply of cheap energy that underpins your industrial base and prosperity is a core national interest

Germany's 3 mistakes:
1. National champions doing more of the same, not reinventing the industries they dominated
2. Refusal to renegotiate the social contract to compete for high skilled talent
3. Refusal to align foreign policy to German national interest

An R code snippet: library(qpdf) # Get list of files from project directory that start with 'INDOOR_' and end in '.pdf' pdf_files <- list.files(pattern = "^INDOOR_.*\\.pdf$", full.names = TRUE) # Combine files pdf_combine(input = pdf_files, output = "BC Indoor Sessions.pdf")

#Rstats thing I knew would be possible but have never actually tried before.

Combining multiple .pdf documents into one in Windows generally requires you to own a license for a special program, or to use a sketchy website.

Instead, it's trivial to use {qpdf} in R

The number of books to read is insane, how do people who love to read and learn ever produce anything?

Learning helps production but I can't help thinking a love for learning eats into energy and time better devoted to producing things.

Who called it Hans im Gluck instead of BurgerAmt?

I have said it before, I'll say it again, this is the best first paragraph of a biology book, ever.

from baddate import obnoxiousman

the US version of Yes Minister should obviously be set in the Department of Govt. Efficiency, which just seems like a McKinsey rebrand of the Dept. of Administrative Affairs from the original show.