John BS @johnabs@social.cleverlibre.org

@trinsec I cannot tell you how bad I want a holiday right now. I'm technically on one...but I'm still working because deadlines 😩

You dutch with your windmills, tulips, academic publishing conglomerates, generous holidays, walk-able infrastructure...etc! If America weren't the best at everything, I'd be starting to think I'm getting a raw deal here 😂....😭

@sturgman @jmw150 I tried, but there are some funky curl issues with pulling the packages. I have a local installation on my home directory that works, and it's in my path, but installing certain packages from the registry just fails. :/

@jmw150 We have access to the Purdue servers, but getting Julia packages installed is a nightmare (weird curl issues) so I just decided to run it on my desktop instead.

So Windows decided to "update" when I was in the middle of a 20hr simulation....Whoever decided this can happen without your consent needs to be drawn and quartered.

I'm not a great artist, so someone else will have to draw them, but I can go to the bank and get 100$ in quarters.

Does anyone else get annoyed when people refer to atomically thick monolayers as "2-D". Clearly these materials have a non-zero thickness; who decided this was a good idea and why?!

@Sphinx I just like chatting with nice people about interesting topics, and I hope I can make a friend or two in the process. Oh, and I like posting my puppy, woodworking projects, and random jokes. So I guess b/c.

@freemo @peterdrake Unsolicited opinion time! 😂

I've used R for 6-7 years; in short, it's *not bad*. It has a lot of nice things: first class functions and lambdas, automatic vectorized syntax, DECADES worth of really good packages, excellent publishing software with LaTeX integration, etc. but in my opinion falls flat in a number of key areas:

1. Very slow in most cases. Can't be compiled and doesn't package easily, which makes transporting code to different people cumbersome.

2. Syntax is frustrating at times to deal with: there are different conventions across the myriad of opinionated packages, and none of them play nicely. Tidyverse is great, but dealing with dataframes, tibbles, matrices, tables, etc. are all really annoying. They're all basically tables, but you never really know what some function will return (unless you check), and they all look the same in the View/print output. Also the typeof() and class() functions return different values on the same input, so you often have to run both to diagnose the issue.

3. Sometimes it "tries to help" a little too much in terms of assuming how certain code you write should be interpreted. Certain code works on vectors works on matrices and lists of lists, but other functions will fail spectacularly. These failures often don't error out and break the program; thus begins the bug hunt.

4. Error messages suck. A lot. No line numbers, nothing, just some arbitrary message, sometimes that has no discernible meaning. RStudio tries to help here, but it just provides an okay-ish debugger.

5. IMO it's barely usable without a repl until you have a year or two under your belt, hence you're basically locked in to RStudio or a Jupyter Notebook. The former has autocomplete and a better help system, so I would start there.

6. No pipes by default, no map/reduce/repeat/etc. by default either. Look into the purrr package for these features though!

7. While technically multiparadigm, I personally don't think they did a good job integrating them all to work cohesively. Julia does this much better.

I think that covers my take. While R certainly isn't as terrible as @freemo is making it out to be (sorry not sorry 😉), my current favorite is Julia by far. If you have the option to use is instead of or to interop it with R, I really suggest it.

Either way, I hope you have fun with it! I'm interested to see what you think after you give it a shot, assuming you're willing to do a review, lol.

@academicalnerd Very nice choices for the pastries! Though for coffee I personally am not a fan of espresso (my wife really loves it makes one daily if she has time).

I like black, light roast, cold-brewed coffee to reduce the bitterness, but overall I prefer pomegranate oolong tea. It's my daily drink of choice: I buy it in bulk for cheap so I can have like ~1-1.5L per day...I may have small dependence, but at least I don't add any sugar or calories to it, right? ...maybe I should cut back a little...

@trinsec @barefootstache @unsweet

Every time I see your comments in my feed I know it's going to be good and it's led me to develop a bit of a theory about you:

I'm convinced you are either literally, or in someway metaphysically, some Fae creature (likely a brownie or a leprechaun) who acquired a computer and joined qoto for the sole purpose of tricking people into linguistic traps for giggles.

Either that or you happen to have children and the pun tumor that started growing in your left hemisphere after they were born has become terminal.

Either way, I respect the vibe and aspire to it 😂

@academicalnerd 100% agree! What pastry is your favorite? I'm partial to caramel apple coffee cake myself..I just can't have it too often 😅

@trinsec At first I didn't get it; I forgot about the "#Deaf" in your profile! 😂

Imagine (if you can, not sure if you've always been deaf) a quite peep/woof sound every time she wiggles! Or at the very least, imagine something that is disproportionately cute, because she is lol

My dog is finally settling in, and isn't unmanageable anymore!
Our lawn is finally mowed!
Our house is mostly clean!
My courses are almost finished!
Manuscripts are coming along and they look super promising!
I am finally about to take a 3 week vacation!!!
I JUST NEED THIS SEMESTER TO END ALREADY SO I CAN FINALLY CHILL

P.S.
Speaking of, here be the pooch. Look upon her dreaming visage and despair, for she is beautiful.

@peterdrake Weirdly enough, it renders for me but says [Math Processing Error] first, then it got really B I G, but still renders it correctly in s m o l font. Does anyone else see this funky behavior? 😂

@trinsec @barefootstache @Sphinx AAAH I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE (literally, I'll die at that temp)

@barefootstache @trinsec @Sphinx All I'm saying is that I prefer a higher resolution based on my own perception: e.g. when I set my thermostat to 70F, that's perfect to me and +- one degree isn't a huge deal, but going 70-75 or 70-65 is. Hence, I typically use a jump in ~5 degrees F as a noticeable change in perceived temperature to the point of discomfort in certain clothes, but even 1-2 degrees would be noticeable after a long while in a room. Hence, I don't have to worry about using fractional degrees to determine my exact temperature preference for anything, whole numbers work great.

While there is a linear transformation between the two, C is a lower resolution scale as compared to my perceptions, as one degree in C is roughly 2 in F, and is offset by 1/3rd of the scale of really cold and really hot. Hence, to dial in my preferred temperature, I need it to be 21.3333333 degrees C, and really hot is only 39C. Why am I stuck using only ~40% of the scale from 0-100?

To conclude, I love the metric system for basically everything else: I like cm and mm for woodworking over fractions of an inch. Better resolution and nice round numbers instead of 3/64ths and such. I prefer grams to lbs because factors of 10 are great, and you get higher resolution! But I think using C over F to do nonscientific work is sort of a moot point; we lose the nice rounds numbers the metric system is known for for our daily lives, and get whole number benefit for phase changes of water and that's basically it. Yes I am composed of ~70% water molecules, but that doesn't mean I care how fast they're jiggling relative to their phase transitions! LET ME HAVE MY ROUND NUMBERS AND HIGHER RESOLUTION, LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE THAT'S NORMALLY IN METRIC. I DESERVE THIS.😂

@trinsec @Sphinx Sphinx, I hope you feel better.

Trinsec, F is superior if you aren't a water molecule, change my mind.

150: dead
100: very hot, still alive
98-75: hot and warmish
70-40: sort of cold/sort of hot depending on other conditions
40-10 coat weather
10-0: very cold, still alive for a little while

Celsius:
100: dead
60: dead
40: deadly fever
36: body temp
20: good weather
10: jacket weather
0: coat weather

I want a temperature system designed around my perceptions, not the rovibrational states of water molecules. Both have their place, bur higher resolution decision making for human needs, F is better IMO.

And this is from an ex-chemist, I used C and Kelvin lots

@jmw150 My hairline is mostly in tact, but I have a massive bald spot growing on top of my head :/ Here's hoping it grows back. I'm not muscular enough nor is my beard currently long enough to pull off the bald look right now :bloboohcry:

Not sure but it appears as though I've got some stressed induced balding occurring...I just hope it goes back to normal after the stress goes down, or I may need to shave my head.😢

I didn't realize how bad it was until I saw a comparison between last month and this month that I just so happened to have from recordings of my dog. This semester has just been hell.

@trinsec @barefootstache Fair enough! I was just thinking "is this some European electrical engineering thing I'm too American to understand"?

@trinsec @barefootstache so...its just if they're in the same position as each other, right?