SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is great, already bringing some conceptual clarity of something very generic. Let's see what one can do with libmizu in bioinformatics tasks like very high throughput pipelines under memory constrains 000
Reposted by SMTCharlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 03/10/2026TokyoR enjoyed the world premiere of mizu today, and Mizu-chan stole the show: lock-free shared-memory parallelism for R, plus a Python binding on the same C core. Repos are open but pre-release, and the API will change. Feedback welcome on GitHub. github.com/shikokuchuo/... #RStats #Tidyverse 2227
Reposted by SMTtroy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Update: corteza scored 100% on ARC-AGI-3's public set with GPT-6 Astra! And due to how they calculate their metrics, I'm happy to report that our 100% is the best 100%. I made a dashboard with details: cornball.ai/arc-agi-3/ #rstatscornball.aiARC-AGI-3 comparison 042
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The truism that LLMs are LITERALLY stochastic parrots continues to butt-hurt some people. Why bother? You're literally operationalizing it through resampling, branching, verification, and search a.k.a. “agents”. Just show the promised value. Cure cancer. Long live Chinchilla! 000
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#RStats heads-up CRAN Macos binaries are zstd compressed now (at least for some recently built ones, including knitr), this might break some CI setups github.com/r-lib/pkgdep...github.comSupport zstd-compressed package archives: CRAN's current macOS binaries fail with "unknown archive type" · Issue #485 · r-lib/pkgdependsRequest Please recognize zstd-compressed tarballs in detect_package_archive_type(). CRAN's macOS builder has started compressing .tgz binaries with zstd, and pkgdepends rejects those archives befor... 011
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It is a Chinese company so electricity would be way cheaper. Most interesting is the huge amount of sandboxes. Original post x.com/_LuoFuli/sta...x.comFuli Luo (@_LuoFuli) on XNearly half a year of silence. We spent it studying one problem: how far RL can scale. MiMo-V2.6 is in the middle of its RL run right now. Three things we scaled: compute (~2B tokens per step, 1568 prompts × 16 rollouts, fully async), environments and harnesses (multi-task agentic RL, mixed across… 010
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 16/09/2026for sure ]. i think even though this is for RL, cost display here is quite interesting mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/#overview !mimo.xiaomi.commimo-v2.6 RLTraining metrics of the mimo-v2.6-pro and mimo-v2.6-flash reinforcement-learning runs, live from the trainer's logs. 110
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 16/09/2026as it happens they can despite extensive instructions to the contrary. Here 70B models, arxiv.org/abs/2505.12546, now image > 5 T modelsarxiv.orgExtracting memorized pieces of (copyrighted) books from open-weight language modelsPlaintiffs and defendants in copyright lawsuits over generative AI often make sweeping, opposing claims about the extent to which large language models (LLMs) memorize protected expression from books ... 110
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Agents here mean basically codex harness runs (and till recently that harness is very bloated and CPU/memory hungry) 110
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 16/09/2026the paper looks like a rewrite of a lean formalization campaign. All of the recent proof "papers" look like they are reconstruction of lean proofs. Lot of scripts being run for sure and 10K agents will all consume lot of resources even without lean 110
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 16/09/2026arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511arxiv.orgLanguage Models are Injective and Hence InvertibleTransformer components such as non-linear activations and normalization are inherently non-injective, suggesting that different inputs could map to the same output and prevent exact recovery of the in... 110
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 16/09/2026you are forgetting the CPU and memory cost, 10K agents meaning millions of CPU hours compiling lean slop, lot of VMs 110
Reposted by SMTGabor Csardi @gaborcsardi.org · 14/09/2026New beta of #Rstats rig: LOTS of EXCITING stuff: - new: web site: rig.r-lib.org - new: user-mode R installation: rig.r-lib.org/admin-vs-use... - new: manage R packages (CRAN + git): rig.r-lib.org/pkg-guide.html - new: manage R projects and virtual environments: rig.r-lib.org/proj-guide.h...rig.r-lib.orgrig – the R Installation Manager – rig 34919
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 12/09/2026CanardAbsurd: Durable #RStats workflows with DuckDB state and Quack remote SQL (Slop) Sloppy attempt to solve some recurring issues around durability (and resumption) especially for (frontend or api) exposed (costly) workflow coordination. repo: github.com/RGenomicsETL... 010
Reposted by SMTHeng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Long reads carry multiple small vars and SVs and their phasing. LongcallD is the only caller that tightly integrates germline/mosaic small/structural vars/MEIs and their phasing in a single C program. One command line to get competitive small variant calls and better SVs. Led by Yan Gao. 04522
Reposted by SMTMiles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Big difference is obviously macros. But they worked damned hard to keep “the code is just data” philosophy that underpins macros. 011
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 07/09/2026the lisp point is very funny given the author www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downl... By the way, are people privy to the R-like rewrite he talks about in that talk ? 110
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 05/09/2026httpuv could support the required changes, but i guess this is not a priority at posit github.com/rstudio/http.... alternative would be to build a http framework on top of nanonext (or a rust crate including the rust binding to nng because why not)github.comSupport for SSE · Issue #404 · rstudio/httpuvAdding support for Server Sent events would be a nicety to have. I can imagine a websocket like API that only allows sending. I'm aware that SSE is pretty limited in HTTP/1.1 but people have reques... 110
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 05/09/2026nanonext http server is the way to go indeed since httpuv(hence plumber-2-) is not planning to get server sent events anytime soon. Of course there are other http frameworks in R and one could have some vibeslop one these days 220
Reposted by SMTVini @vinimdocarmo.com · 24/03/2025Well, it's now backed by S3 and I've made the code public for anyone interested: github.com/vinimdocarmo... 🦆 021
Reposted by SMTHenrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The Futureverse Resource Specification proposal: a syntax for resource declarations, monitoring & scheduling; fits <- map(xs, model_fit) |> resources(\(x) memory(4*object.size(x))) |> futurize() www.jottr.org/2026/08/11/r... #RStats #parallel #hpc 081
Reposted by SMTDuckDB @duckdb.org · 17/08/2026Quack, quack! A DuckDB v2.0 preview is here! 🦆 In this post, #DuckDB co-creators Mark Raasveldt + @hannes.muehleisen.org preview the headline features of DuckDB v2.0 (expected to land this autumn): • DuckDB as a server • Triggers • async I/O • + more Dive into the deets: duckdb.org/2026/08/17/d... 2559
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 17/08/2026C Dev move enough to break the weird java inspired naming conventions on some corners of base R :D 000
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 16/08/2026There is indeed overlap in the theses of composeq composeq.dev and the working hypothesis of the duckhts project github.com/RGenomicsETL... i.e adding custom kernels only when duckdb sql would underperform and get composition for freecomposeq.devCompoSeqComposable foundations for genomic data. 021
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 16/08/2026There are some design choices here, for example I stick to only the duckdb stable C API to make the extension easily maintained and portable across duckdb versions. Moreover can be used with any duckdb client not just the R package duckdb.org/community_ex... Therefore it would speak C Arrow Dataduckdb.orgduckhtsDuckDB Community Extensions DuckDB extension for reading HTS file formats via htslib 120
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I did not do a benchmark against these crates, only against tools I ported (e.g mosdepth). I knew about exon and it was an inspiration but the design is a pure C duckdb extensions on top of htslib, cgranges and other C libraries 110
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is great work, happy to see DuckDB usage in this space. Related self plug, i made a HTS file formats reader extension rgenomicsetl.r-universe.dev/Rduckhts that allow fast imports directly into duckb and avoid RSamtools and al. There are community readers for single cell formatsrgenomicsetl.r-universe.devRduckhts: 'DuckDB' High Throughput Sequencing File Formats Reader ExtensionBundles the 'duckhts' 'DuckDB' extension for reading High Throughput Sequencing file formats with 'DuckDB'. The 'DuckDB' C extension API <https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/clients/c/api> and its 'htslib'... 111
Reposted by SMTEddie Ruiz @ed2uiz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Can databases scale scientific analyses beyond RAM? I’m excited to share dbverse, a composable database framework built to do just that. Across benchmarks, dbverse delivers ~1000x speedups and scales #spatialomics analyses to millions of cells. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/🧵biorxiv.orgdbverse scales spatial omics analysis with embedded analytical databasesSpatial omics datasets are increasing in size and complexity, exceeding the memory of standard computers and thereby limiting data analysis. Here we present dbverse, a framework for larger-than memory... 242
Reposted by SMTtroy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026diffuseR is on CRAN! AI images and video, locally in #rstats install.packages("diffuseR") Go make something weird! 172
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It is an adaptation of this very light setup + some fixation i have about semantic SQL :D github.com/VictorTaelin...github.comGitHub - VictorTaelin/OptMem: Permanent memory for AI agents. A 426-token prompt, a script, plug and play.Permanent memory for AI agents. A 426-token prompt, a script, plug and play. - VictorTaelin/OptMem 010
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 11/08/2026i must say that Claude models generate less of this stuff compared to GPT models but it is significantly worse in both model families 000
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 11/08/2026the 1K thing is not a joke, i actually grep a repo that was basically a port of a previously handcoded one, half of the code is made of these "helpers" 210
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 11/08/2026my safety nudge is "use S7 properties and field validators" i even made a package for organizing this thing github.com/sounkou-bioi... :D but i get SuppressWarning(as.numeric(x)) - that one is reward hacking since i develop with warning as errors- .read_tsv_safe_file_1, .read_tsv_safe_file_2github.comGitHub - sounkou-bioinfo/s7contract: 'Go'-like interfaces and 'Rust'-like traits with 'S7''Go'-like interfaces and 'Rust'-like traits with 'S7' - sounkou-bioinfo/s7contract 120
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 11/08/2026i think i need to trim this now github.com/sounkou-bioi...github.comGitHub - sounkou-bioinfo/pi-skills: Consolidated Pi skills, extensions, prompts, and orchestration helpersConsolidated Pi skills, extensions, prompts, and orchestration helpers - sounkou-bioinfo/pi-skills 111
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 11/08/2026i use extensively the subrepo pattern (some .sync folder) and made some (project scoped) skills around some coding patterns, but hard to pull against the attractor bassin toward overly defensive code is baked in by RL. I should make new attempts to specialized the skills a bit more 010
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 11/08/2026No matter how much one tries, LLMs cannot stop generating disgusting #Rstats code (1K .something functions checking if string is empty or similar) and i think this is getting worse. No wonder people do not want to read code anymore or prefer using slop language they don't know to read 240
Reposted by SMTTim Dunn @timd.one · 22/07/2026CRISPR off-target search can find the right locus while hiding plausible alignments within it. I wrote about how Sassy v0.2.5 uses recursive backtracking to report every reasonable alignment—more than 9× as many in under 30 seconds. blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/why-crispr...blog.fulcrumgenomics.comWhy CRISPR Off-Target Search Should Report Multiple Alignments Per LocusHow Sassy enumerates every reasonable alignment without sacrificing runtime 054
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Even though i am a user of slopware, i thing the #Bioinformatics field needs a declaration like this leidendeclaration.aileidendeclaration.aiLeiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and MathematicsThis declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research. 000
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 28/07/2026#CRAN Release of version 1.5.1-0.1.3 of Rduckhts: #RStats Bindings to the #htslib based #DuckDB extension for HTS file formats This comes with a BigWig reader via libBigWig used with (WIP)DuckVEP: the fastest Ensembl VEP-compatible consequence predictor in the West written in #C #Bioinformatics 031
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 25/07/2026#RStats is this SSL issue on cran.r-project.org/submit.html restricted to me or others are facing the same issue ? 110
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 18/07/2026had something in Rtinycc too, all these warnings are in the upstream libraries i wrap. Rduckhts being flagged is odd to me since there is no linking to R involved, but i guess this is because the configure logs are scanned. 040
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 18/07/2026i don t have the list, just a cryptic mention here www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/disc... 030
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 18/07/2026#Rstats ah looks like CRAN fedora machine's tool chain got updated, and lot of C code nonsense in the vendored libraries my packages wrap are not allowed anymore. Good though that there are 25 other packages concerned :D I have on month to fix it or packages will be rightfully boot out 110
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 14/07/2026best way to send a LLM into a loop and burn all your tokens, in #RStats/C project, say go look at @coolbutuseless.bsky.social repos github.com/coolbutusele... for what we can usegithub.comcoolbutuseless - RepositoriesCool, but useless. coolbutuseless has 255 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. 020
SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 10/07/2026CRAN release of version 1.4.0-0.1.0 of Rduckhts, the #RStats It was also nice to confirm that are our port of Brent Pedersen 's great mostdepth algorithm is likely the fastest for that application space in the West. But riker shows us there is space for memory bounding ! 010
Reposted by SMTRagnar {Groot Koerkamp} @curiouscoding.nl · 09/07/2026My secret 4th ALGO paper is out! We show a tight space lower on non-minimal k-perfect hash functions, generalize PtrHash into a non-minimal k-PHF, and then use it to develop a hash set implementation that is up to 1.6x faster than other hash sets! With Stefan {Hermann, Walzer} and Peter Sanders 2168