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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Now this is news I can get behind: Valve boss Gabe Newell admits his Mongolian throat singing phase was "annoying," and he's apparently not very good at it, either: "I am entirely self taught and it shows" […]

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

You can vote on the new euro money design: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote... 💶💶💶

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Did you recently update your #rstats to 4.6? Is your matrix algebra slow? Not #BLAS ting? `sessionInfo()` shows which BLAS library R uses. Switching from reference BLAS to Apple Accelerate is easily a 50x speedup. Let me know if this worked for you. 🚀 Post […]

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

I thought the original design was best until I saw this one. *after all ... why not? meme*

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

The 📦 `wrds` dev version displays the official product names for a more human-readable version of the table names. The package now comes with a #rstats #pkgdown site: statzhero.github.io/wrds/news/index… All that's missing is a hex sticker? Send ideas.

wrds
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News

Changelog
Source: NEWS.md
wrds (development version)

describe_table() now shows human-readable column labels and table descriptions from WRDS metadata.
list_subscriptions() now returns a tibble with schema and product columns instead of a character vector. Product names are mapped from the wrds_products dataset.
list_tables() now returns a tibble with table and description columns instead of a character vector. Descriptions come from WRDS metadata.

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

oof what happened to ebay? If you pay $100 for something shipped from New York, the seller might only keep around a third, so $66, after sales tax, shipping, and fees. What a haircut, feels like #ebay is cooked

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

`wrds` 0.1.1 is out. It has better error messages for Duo 2FA issues, and a new `wrds_update_password()` function. Install from GitHub with `pak::pak("statzhero/wrds")`. Feedback welcome. #rstats github.com/statzhero/wrds

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Another day, another R coding skill: targets-r. Covers the amazing `targets` package by Will Landau @landau for reproducible analysis pipelines. You can install it in one line. 📦 #rstats #claudecode #codex github.com/statzhero/targets-r-skill

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

`tidy-r` SKILL.md got a spring clean! I slimmed down the reference, added `tidyselect` coverage, and fixed a few things. It's one line to install. 📦 #rstats #claudecode #codex github.com/statzhero/tidy-r-skill

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

New game: guess the prompt. "Let's delve into the intricate tapestry of nuanced insights, meticulously woven together to robustly underscore the multifaceted landscape of innovation — not merely showcasing transformative synergies, but also unlocking a rich, holistic ecosystem of […]

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

New blog post: The corruption of English. A very short rant, and my entry into the grumpy-old-man genre. uatz.org/blog/2026-04-06-corruption-of-english/

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Send me your best #rstats hex tile. (And also the philosophy around it.)

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

One more R coding skill for the pile: `tidy-r`. It includes all the cool new functions of dplyr 1.2! It also hooks into the `r-btw` MCP server for live docs, or falls back to R help when it's not available. You can install it in one line. 📦 #rstats #claudecode #codex […]

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

unlocked new mobile browser tab count

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

This is live on the official IRS website and hasn't been fixed in a year.

A table titled "Yearly average exchange rates for converting foreign currencies into U.S. dollars" showing one row for the Euro Zone. The Euro averaged 0.886 per U.S. dollar in 2025, 0.924 in 2024, and 0.924 in 2023. The 2024 value (0.924) is circled in red, highlighting a comma instead of a decimal point.

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Estonians were truly ahead of the #AI curve: "in Estonia [the *Kratt*, a golemesque creature] is used as a metaphor for AI and its complexities. For instance, algorithmic-liability law is also called the Kratt law." and "An interesting aspect of the kratt is that it was necessary for it to […]

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

New `\glitch{}` #latex command just dropped to freak out your coauthors. Tells exactly how the paper is going. gist.github.com/statzhero/ea4e485e7…

$Zalgo-style glitch text: \glitch{UNFINISHED}$

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 with a #Finance plugin. I tested it on capitalizing VW's R&D expenses. In one vague prompt I got a full spreadsheet with amortization schedules and ROIC calculations. The usual #AI pros and cons apply also for Claude Finance (as of today): it is […]

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

One of the greatest tools for scientific production relaunched: #Zotero 8. www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

It provides: - Secure credential management via your system keyring - Pre-built functions for Compustat and linking tables - Standard default research filters, and an argument to fill in missing SIC fields The design aims to follow the approach in Ian Gow and Tony Ding's "Empirical Research in […]

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

Oof I woke up today with Rammstein playing in my head. Says a lot about the state of the world.

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

@ploum In Italy there’s a national law against using LLMs in an exam.

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

Tired of littering your R code with `na.rm = TRUE`? 📦 I put together **tidyna**: it masks common R functions so they handle missing values by default, and warns you when they do. It also catches base R edge cases, like `sum(c(NA, NA), na.rm = TRUE)`returns `0`. Feedback welcome! […]

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2025

Satisfying pattern Wordle English #1467 5/6 www.wordle.global/en 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2025

What is happening? The newest and hottest 🫟 #emoji befuddles #AI.

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ulrich aꜩ @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2025

Big business opportunity @pikesley what do you think?

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