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Ambassador Frank Hull

@frankiethull.bsky.social
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ambassador for prior labs 🗣️ enjoyer of the tibble ⌨️ ai/ml in production 🤖 github.com/frankiethull

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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 9h
I'm working on a new paper called Ludicrous Intelligence
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 13h
a new pareto push for tabular foundation models & commercial friendly license huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/...
huggingface.co
NVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular Prediction
A Blog post by NVIDIA on Hugging Face
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i discovered strudel.cc over the weekend 🤯😍
strudel.cc
Strudel REPL
Strudel is a music live coding environment for the browser, porting the TidalCycles pattern language to JavaScript.
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
introducing fiorino, the bifronte release. one of the smallest tabular foundation models i know about. trained on synth + real data diet. built mostly by muse spark 1.3 on opencode, REDHAT by nemotron 3.5 lightning on hermes agent, & gemini + chatgpt as advisors huggingface.co/Nanite-Labs/...
huggingface.co
Nanite-Labs/nanites-fiorino-tabular · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think I have cracked one of the final things that kept people in keynote over quarto revealjs slides. Introducing ✨️ quarto-revealjs-magic-move ✨️ emilhvitfeldt.com/post/quarto-... #quarto #slidecrafting
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ohh thank you so much for custom providers within Posit Assistant 🤖 able to run it with my own custom router wrapped with plumber and its working 🥳
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
alrighty i have data connections & ggsql setup, now how do i preview Canvas? 👀
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
looking forward to testing this out!! positron.posit.co/data-connect...
positron.posit.co
Data Connections – Positron
Connect to databases and data warehouses in Positron. Browse schemas, generate connection code, and preview tables in the Data Explorer.
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 15/09/2026
Wow, we had some BAD technical difficulties at our #positconf26 talk today 😩 but I put up the demo videos here for folks to check out! 👀 juliasilge.github.io/posit-conf-2...
juliasilge.github.io
SQL as a first-class language in your data science IDE
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Karandeep(Singh) @kdpsingh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Maybe everyone can just set their learning rates a bit lower to pace the frontier.
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i like R but i also like AI
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
finetuning regression architecture & adding more advanced priors. . . it takes 2 hours for every experimentation, inching closer, but I'm running out of weekend
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Old Lady: 'It's Been 84 Years' Meme
Alt: Old Lady: 'It's Been 84 Years' Meme
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🐐🌾
theon, the goat, browsing in the yard
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
when she looks through my phone and its a paper trail of trying to improve a weird nano tabular foundation model for regression
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Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yep. It’ll write out a DAG, autoplot() it, …
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
is there an event for data science standup? & I'm not talking about scrum, I'm talking about comedy.
data science standup comedy sales pitch meme
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#positconf2026 was so much fun! i got to meet so many people IRL & everyone was so cool. 🥲
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my favorite talk i attended at posit::conf 💙🧡
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"they don't know I'm waiting for my Tabular Foundation Model to finish pre-training"
they dont know meme, except realistic and actually my face
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this was a big week for TFMs! Prior Labs released TabPFN 3.5, the new leader on TabArena 🥇 There's also some additional movement, Xiaomi released TabLDM, Nums AI released Causilo yesterday, & LiMiX-2 dropped today.
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🤣😭
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
👀 posit-dev.github.io/commons/
posit-dev.github.io
commons
commons helps data scientists build trustworthy data agents.
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Nur Shahir, PhD (Hire me!) @gigiomics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
*chants* fight fight fight
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
qq, will there be separate lounge areas for data frame folks vs tibble people? asking for a friend
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
DON'T FORGET TO ASK ME ABOUT MY STICKERS
hotdog suit jonah hill holding my stickers
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
feeding my neighbors
chickens
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Me at posit conf next week
R, Python, SQL, quarto, & AI fluid blowup image
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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 11/09/2026
I AM SO EXCITED FOR POSIT CONF
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm not sure when this was released but "Open in Integrated Browser" is such a nice feature to have in Positron IDE.
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
my secret sauce for 2026: riding a mountain bike once a week while listening to angine de poitrine
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this should be fun!
screenshot of pos.it/dslab titled "building a modeling assistant in ellmer powered by a local llm with frank hull" ,

speakers include Libby Heeren, Isabella Velásquez, Frank Hull with images of speakers
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Josiah @josiah.rs · 26/08/2026
How are we feeling about the DuckDB acquisition? #rstats #databs
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I guess we doin CLIs now
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
not weird or wacky, but spot on! using it for search, recipes, gardening, travel, without dealing with tons of ads. we made homemade ketchup yesterday from our garden. finding comparable coffee roasters, vibe-farming with goats, tree/weed identification, crop rotation ideas, & scheduled news
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
i am working on a data science lab using {contoso}, {ellmer}, and {tabpfn} so happy to have this synthetic dataset!
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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @usrbinr.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I've officially submitted my {contoso} package to CRAN! Soon I will soon find out how much blood, sweat and tears is required to pass Its a great dataset if you are curious about business - options available from 10k to 100M rows with @duckdb.org #rstats #databs usrbinr.github.io/contoso/
usrbinr.github.io
contoso
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'll be at posit::conf(2026)! if you see me, ask for a sticker! I have Prior Labs stickers for all the tabular foundation model geeks 🤘🏻
prior labs stickers
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
i kind of remember testing this out from Positron IDE, also kind of don't remember because it was so easy to publish frankiethull-tabicl-studio.share.connect.posit.cloud
frankiethull-tabicl-studio.share.connect.posit.cloud
TabICL Studio
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Tomasz Kalinowski @t-kalinowski.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I'm happy to share `ir`, a new command-line tool for running portable R scripts and Quarto documents. It's inspired by my two favorite parts of `uv`: self-describing scripts and tools you can run without installing first. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...
opensource.posit.co
ir 0.1.0: self-describing R scripts and Quarto documents
`ir` is a new command-line tool for running portable R scripts and rendering Quarto documents whose package requirements, and optional R selection, live inside the file itself.
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
after months of thought & given how the space has expanded i think it should be called {wtf} Wrappers for Tabular Foundation models
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
save the date!
2026-07-16, Max Kuhn, DSH
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 RELEASE UPDATE As part of the 250-year anniversary of US Independence - GoatBoost will no longer have a public repo release. Instead, GoatBoost will be rolled out case-by-case, customer-by-customer, on a government-approved rollout plan.
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
EBMs are really slick. whatever happened in 2020 to divert attention from this must've been bonkers interpret.ml/docs/ebm.html
interpret.ml
Explainable Boosting Machine — InterpretML documentation
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
btw, this is a real benchmark from my newest ML engine called GoatBoost
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
something new in daisugi, support for XGBoost, LightGBM, & CatBoost but not in the way you know them frankiethull.github.io/daisugi/arti...
frankiethull.github.io
gaiden
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Nori, TabSwift, TACO, & PredictLM
screenshot of recent repo updates
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Working on a few new Tabular Foundation Model bindings for R
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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Explainable Boosting Machine is all you need
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