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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 23/09/2026

Louder for the people in the back: Jev can’t be calibrated www.alexmolas.com/2026/09/23/j... Friends don’t let friends lie about the accessibility of the DGD even in principle

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Jev can't be calibrated

Jev is a useful zero-shot classifier, but its probabilities can't be calibrated for your data. Calibration depends on your data distribution, which Jev never sees, so treat its outputs as scores and r...

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Gabor Csardi @gaborcsardi.org · 14/09/2026

New 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...

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rig – the R Installation Manager – rig

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 01/09/2026

`stanflow` v0.2.0 is out! `stanflow` is a metapackage a la `tidyverse` to provide a convenient way to install and manage #rstats Stan packages. The package is still in early stages; as such, if you want some features they can probably be added! Stan forum: discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stanflow-v...

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`stanflow` v0.2.0 is out

It’s been a while, but stanflow v0.2.0 has just been released by @Visruth. stanflow is a metapackage a la tidyverse to provide a convenient way to install and manage R Stan packages. (See Soft relea...

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 07/08/2026

Just released a pkgdown template #Rstats package driven by a single _brand.yml file. Has some scaffolding to make using it nice in pkgdown and with #Quarto. www.visruth.com/blog/2026080...

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Brand template repo

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I have been tinkering with how to quickly modify a Quarto theme, and I think I have a decently fast solution. Introducing the Quarto Theme Tweaker Run the `Open Theme Tweaker` command in an active qmd file. Modify the settings to your liking. Save the results. github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 24/06/2026

Just released bootstrapper 1.1.0, now with support for setting up touchstone and cleaner support for using air/jarl (especially in an existing project). bootstrapper is a #rstats package designed to quickstart new packages, following some practices I like. Read more: github.com/VisruthSK/bo...

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GitHub - VisruthSK/bootstrapper: Opinionated R package quickstart

Opinionated R package quickstart. Contribute to VisruthSK/bootstrapper development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Pierre-Simon Laplace @learnbayesstats.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

🚨 @rmcelreath.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social & @avehtari.bsky.social are coming on the show mid-June to discuss their new book, Bayesian Workflow! ONE listener gets to bring a real Bayesian problem onto the recording and have the three of them work through it live. Here's how to enter 🧵

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 28/04/2026

Wow the new codex usage limits really sting. Or maybe 5.5 is just token inefficient? Either way I'm hitting my 5hr limit consistently now, even only on medium. School pays though, so I guess I can't really complain.

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

New post on AI, self-preserving compassion, and how none of us are immune to it. open.substack.com/pub/jessicah...

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

More details about the Bayesian Workflow book and case studies now available on the book web site avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... (but you still need to wait a bit for the book)

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Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

By now it is obvious that AI has completely solved statistics and machine learning. So as the next step in the tidymodels journey we are moving into game development! Introducing our first game! emilhvitfeldt.github.io/tidymodels-d...

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 26/02/2026

v1 of `bootstrapper`, an opinionated #rstats package to help you start building modern R packages. Wraps a number of usethis funcs to simplify starting new packages. Adds some common GHA, dependabot, air + jarl (precommit hook and GHA), and a concise AGENTS.md which I'm rather liking.

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Opinionated R Package Quickstart

Bootstrap new R packages with strongly opinionated defaults. Creates the package scaffold, wires up tests, README and NEWS, configures GitHub Actions and Dependabot, adds Air/Jarl setup, and drop in a...

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 24/02/2026

Fantastic post by Colin Raffel, "We Are Over-Indexing on Paper Acceptance," drafted in May 2021 (!) but only posted now. The more things change.. Last sentence: "If you want to judge a researcher’s quality, the only meaningful way is to read their papers and judge for yourself."

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 19/02/2026

Repurposed a bit of an old post on aesthetics and hastily blended some other thoughts. tl;dr: I want science fiction artificial intelligences like Olivaw et al., and I want to reserve the term AI for that kind of intelligences, not for LLMs. www.visruth.com/writings/ai/

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What's an AI?

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 17/02/2026

Its big problem with openclaw is that its just a terrible product that does nothing of value and a big company buys it and ignores real tools that do real work

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 08/02/2026

Got the big Calvin and Hobbes collection and it is bananas that Watterson dropped one of the best strips of all time within a month of starting the comic

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 05/02/2026

First release of stanflow! v0.1.0 was a few days later than I'd like, but its up now. Stanflow is a metapackage a la tidyverse for a Stan Bayesian workflow--see the README for more details/features! Feedback/issues/PRs are always appreciated. #rstats #bayes

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R Package for a Mildly Opinionated Stan Bayesian Workflow - VisruthSK/stanflow

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

They found that much of LLM “reasoning” doesn’t come from RL training; it comes from how you sample the model. Paper: Scalable Power Sampling: Unlocking Efficient, Training-Free Reasoning for LLMs via Distribution Sharpening ( www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.21590 )

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 13/01/2026

Cleaning up the desktop on my laptop and found this #ggplot2 #rstats

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

All the material for my Bayesian Data Analysis course is available online, including the lectures, which we re-recorded this fall (some of them by @aloctavodia.bsky.social and Noa Kallioinen while I was on vacation). The video links are listed in the schedule at avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A...

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Bayesian Data Analysis course - Aalto 2025 – Bayesian Data Analysis course

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 06/12/2025

Huge thanks to @posit.co and hosts @mchow.com and @wesmckinney.com for having me on The Test Set!!! posit.co/thetestset/e... My favorite part was learning that I've been pronouncing "pandas" correctly all along. I've never felt more vindicated. And y'all are wrong about candy corn. 😜

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Episode 11 : Kelly Bodwin — Quarto hacks, AI in the classroom, and why R should stay weird - Posit

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 05/12/2025

Been really confused by social media for a while but I think I've figured it out: everyone except me has an explosive collar and it will detonate if they don't immediately contribute to the same discourse that everyone hates

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 28/11/2025

"By the way, to unlock the full functionality of all Apps, enable Gemini Apps Activity." Gemini complains from time to time about me not enabling apps activity in the webapp--I added an instruction or wtv Google calls it to forbid it for doing so, but it persists. It really ticks me off.

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 23/11/2025

Plugging my two favorite #python tools: uv and @marimo.io: www.visruth.com/blog/2025112... #rstats #julia too, because I always manage to mention R and Julia :)

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`uv` & `marimo`

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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

It’s easy to talk about ‘large AI data centers’ and still underestimate the scale. Our Frontier Data Centers database shows that some upcoming campuses will cover a substantial portion of Manhattan. Meta's Hyperion data center will be nearly four times the size of Central Park.

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/11/2025

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

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GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap

dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

USCOTS 2025 brought ~350 educators together at Iowa State to explore the idea of useful models in teaching statistics. Highlights included keynotes on modeling and LLMs and Beth Chance receiving the George Cobb Award. magazine.amstat.org/... #USCOTS #StatsEd #DataScience #TeachingStats #STEM

A woman accepts an award from a man standing behind a lectern reading Iowa State University.

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 22/10/2025

Spectacular thread about RNG which one should read. I'm firmly in alignment with Dr. Betancourt on this. I think the quoted post is especially important to recognize. If your results are very seed-sensitive, your method is at fault, not your seeding!

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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

All of this is to say that any method for choosing a seed is equally adequate provided that seed is reported and the resulting pseudo-random number generator output is used properly.

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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I’m seeing some misinformation about pseudo-random number generator best practices going around the internets. Let’s talk about why the pseudo-random number generator seed you use shouldn’t actually have any impact on your results and, consequently, you can choose whatever seed you damn well please.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 14/09/2025

to me, the main downside of vibe coding is that now there’s a quick phrase you can use to disown your work and avoid responsibility

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

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pin2saved for Bluesky

Migrate your Bluesky 📌 replies to saved posts.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 19/08/2025

the progress of OpenAI models the jump from GPT-1 to GPT-2 is mind blowing i hate to admit that i wasn’t paying attention to LLMs back then, must’ve been a wild ride to see that progress.openai.com

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OpenAI Progress

AI has been evolving at an incredible rate. This piece aims to highlight the progress made so far.

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 17/08/2025

I discovered yesterday that #NIN is doing TRON: Ares's soundtrack!? And they released a single? Gonna watch the movie just for OST; it's hitting all the same notes of Daft Punk's TRON: Legacy but distinctly NIN. 181*(3+(53/60))/60 ~ 12 hrs of _As Alive As You Need Me To Be_ since Aug 15 13:00...

last.fm webpage showing 181 scrobbles of the track: As Alive As You Need Me To Be

last.fm page showing just As Alive As You Need Me To Be repeated many times

last.fm page showing As Alive As You Need Me To Be repeated many times with a few other songs played from Aug 15 at 13:00

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xvw @xvw.lol · 13/08/2025

Here is a rather lengthy write-up (in English) explaining why I chose #OCaml as my main programming language for my personal and professional projects! xvw.lol/en/articles/... I hope you find this interesting, and I welcome any feedback!

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Why I chose OCaml as my primary language

A detailed explanation of why I chose OCaml as the ‘default’ programming language for every project.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 15/08/2025

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 10/08/2025

Made a Starter Pack to help us #user2025 attendees find each other and stay in touch! 👉 go.bsky.app/NjYV48L (hopefully I did this right... 🤓) Let me know by replying here if you attended UseR and would like to be added, I'll try to update regularly! 🥰

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 10/08/2025

{hexsession} by @liomys.mx is fun and useful! Produces css/html snippets that tile hex logos nicely, e.g. to showcase your #rstats package projects. 😎 github.com/luisDVA/hexs... #useR2025

Luis stands in front of a slide showing many hex logos tiled on a web page.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 10/08/2025

In the frenzy of exciting #useR2025 talks, I forgot to mention that I also gave my talk. 😆 "Adding models to {tidyclust}", slides here: kbodwin.github.io/Talks-and-Pr... PC: @healthandstats.bsky.social

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Visruth Srimath Kandali @visruth.com · 09/08/2025

A humble beginning of my sticker collection and the coolest pair of socks I own! I want to buy a binder to store them all--any hexagon shaped recommendations? #useR2025 #rstats

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 06/08/2025

I'm pretty stoked about what @visruth.com and I have been cooking up this year.... (Come see his talk at #UseR2025 to hear more... and of course, to get hex stickers while supplies last...)

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 25/07/2025

The younger generation does many things much better than us. But the fact that I have to now clarify that I want my latte hot, because the default is iced, is an injustice for which I shall never forgive The Youths. ☕

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Xe @xeiaso.net · 08/07/2025

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 28/06/2025

we've already sold 1000 copies of The Secret Rules of the Terminal since it came out on Tuesday!! so to celebrate I'm giving away 1000 copies to anyone who can't afford to buy one. You can use code BUYONEGIVEONE to get a free PDF copy if $12 USD is a lot for you. wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

The Secret Rules of the Terminal, by Julia Evans - The cover illustration depicts three people doing arcane terminal magic in a temple with a smoking censer in the background. Each of the three people has curly brown hair and light brown skin. They are all wearing dresses, billowing cloaks, and utility belts with keyboard symbols on them. The one on the left holds a palette of paints and a brush. The one on the right has a staff with a $ symbol on it and a starfish at the top. The one in the centre has a sword and is reading from a book whose cover says “>_” and “./”, which rests on a lectern with a smiling snake wrapped around it.

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I wrote a blog post to celebrate 10 years of loo package 🎉 (R package implementing fast Pareto smoothed importance sampling cross-validation and many other useful methods for cross-validation)

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