Ive rewatched Starship Troopers after having last seen it as a teen. It holds up pretty well and the CGI is quite impressive. I wonder if they remastered it something, I can't believe CGI was so good in 1997
Testing bluesky post from the {bskyr} package! Nothing to see here 😎
Millennial tombstone inscription:
Unsubscribed.
Despite the 1990’s advertisement assuring me I would not do this; I did, indeed, download a car.
Possibly major update needed for your @bigbookofr , bookdown.org announced is going to stop
Off the top of my head, not really. Most have their own domains
Thank you x2!
Thank you!
Ah interesting! Big Book of R was converted to a quarto doc about 2 years ago, luckily!
Hey #rstats folks, I've not seen any new open-source books being published in some time. Have I just missed them or are there very few?
I think part of LLM chatbots' appeal (especially in their native apps) is that you get information in a clean text format, with no other distractions
I had the chance to flex some old Excel skills and I must say I've still got it
thanks! I'm updating it
Few things give me greater joy than when I can fix an appliance. Bonus points if it's quick and easy
Gorgeous!
Maybe I'm late to the party but I've realised that when people say AI now they mean any kind of tech
This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on.
They've outlived dozens of ships.
Holy moley today's featured Wikimedia Commons picture of the day (vertical panorama of the Milky Way) is breathtaking commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:03...
There's been some discussion about many analytics tools counting pageviews without actual visitors. This happens when Chromium-based browsers, WordPress, etc., pre-render a page (for quicker loading) before an actual click has occurred.
The visitor may or may not click & visit the page, but...
🎉 Big news! After 5+ years of consulting work under the R for the Rest of Us name, I'm launching Clarity Data Studio.
The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.
All my resource management games were a precursor to my professional life 🤓
Wishlist showing classic 90s and 200s games like dungeon keeper, syndicate plus, theme hospital and more
I've just discovered Good Old Games (GOG). My wishlist...
I've been thinking lately that Excel is actually way ahead of its time, even today 😅. It gets abused because it's actually way too powerful
the excel spreadsheet would almost certainly be legible to humans across the recorded history of the species, from a sumarian scribe to whatever techno organic collective that emerges as our evolutionary successor
I loved this book, and wrote a short review of anyone's keen to find out a bit more about it oscarbaruffa.com/kill/
✨What if the printer could print reliably?✨
Being in the job market is very scary, but I am not one to give up.
I now work in the clean energy, sustainability, climate change and ESG space.
You can find a list of services I offer here: shelkariuki.netlify.app/services/
#rstats #quarto #sustainability #esg #energy
My book R for the Rest of Us: A Statistics-Free Introduction is available as part of the Humble Bundle. Pay what you want, get some great books, and support the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the same time!
www.humblebundle.com/books/coding...
A chic lady (in a French outfit) shows off her gallery: a plot, a hex sticker of a group she loves, and a how to guide with an homage to the penguin dataset. It says "Volunteer to be an R-Ladies curator" with the subtitle "Showcase what you love about R" as well as the link to it! All in dashing purple.
We're looking for more curators for the second half of 2025! Want to share your voice or know someone who should?
📝 Sign up to curate: airtable.com/appjkZZgtF0i...
📖 Learn what curating involves: guide.rladies.org/rocur/guide/
💌 Nominate someone you admire: airtable.com/appFIBzsk2Ax...
I'm late to the game but this robot vacuum/mop purchase is like introducing a dishwasher to home life
