Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@social.cleverlibre.org

In case anyone was wondering about quarto and pseudocode:
https://github.com/leovan/quarto-pseudocode

Working on some, ahem, *colourful* new printing options for {palettes} 🎨 #RStats

One of the worst things in modern academia is that having to write proposals again and again to get a projet funded ends up diverting oneself from wanting to do that very project. For me at least, the best things get done spontaneously, in the initial ingenuity and excitement of the moments I imagine or discuss them first, and having to make the same arguments time and time again is a recipe for discouragement and moving on to something different. #academicchatter

Douglas Allchin, Jonathan Osborne, and I have a new paper out about teaching science in this age of online misinformation.

The idea is simple: we tell people to trust the science, but we rarely teach students about the social processes that make it trustworthy.

https://carlbergstrom.com/publications/pdfs/2024JCST.pdf

We finally got it! The source of the cake dataset:

https://www.sumsar.net/blog/source-of-the-cake-dataset/

Thank you everyone who engaged @dlakelan @kbroman @bbolker @millerdl @defuneste @JeremyNeedle
@mario_angst_sci + some I forgot 😊

`sshx` lets you share your terminal with anyone by link, on a multiplayer infinite canvas. It has real-time collaboration, with remote cursors and chat.

It's also fast and end-to-end encrypted, with a lightweight server written in Rust (so you know it's cool).

#ssh #terminal #collaboration #rust #rustlang #cli #encryption

🔗 https://sshx.io/

Today I learned about generating parameterized reports with R/Quarto from @RLadiesGlobal 's awesome course: https://jadeyryan.quarto.pub/rladies-dc-quarto-params/ Great slides, tons of helpful examples and exercises 🚀 . Thanks a lot for making the course available! 😍 #TIL #RStats #rladies #quarto

I wrote an art thing. #rstats

https://blog.djnavarro.net/splatter/

In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges

How does a legacy test account grant access to read every Office 365 account?

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/in-major-gaffe-hacked-microsoft-test-account-was-assigned-admin-privileges/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The Fedora Pride team is hosting a @Minetest gaming event tomorrow, Jan 27 at 7pm UTC (2pm EST)!

Minetest is an open source game inspired by Minecraft. If you've never given it a shot and are looking for that 'first time playing Minecraft' experience again, come join us!

Learn more: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/lets-play-minetest/101980

#Fedora #Minetest #Minecraft #OpenSource

Born in 1896, biochemist Gerty Theresa Cori became the 1st woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (and the 3rd to win a Nobel Prize).

Cori faced gender discrimination & was marginalized for years. But she never gave up.

With her husband Carl, she discovered how glycogen is broken down & eventually stored as an energy source (aka the “Cori cycle”). They also identified the Cori ester. http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/women/cori.htm #HistoryRemix #science #history

'Hilariously, Sunak insists anyone failing to get behind all this just wants to take us “back to square one”. Square one? Oh man – who wouldn’t take square one in a heartbeat? We’re somewhere near square minus 39 here, receding backwards through the squares until the place of utter darkness beyond all squares'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/19/tories-squid-game-rwanda-policy

Hello, what is 'synthetic data'? Specifically, how can synthetic data be sufficient for creating models to run on real-world data? Would it not replicate the narrowness of the small real data they had to begin with?

Do I know anyone on here who explored what kind of niches synthetic data helps & where its use is being over-shot beyond the effective boundary?

Tagging to hope to reach to someone who worked on this #machinelearning

This paper starts out amazing and just keeps getting better

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06133

Hey, congratulations on that new #rstats package! Or, maybe well done on keeping that old package maintained! Either way, have you thought about letting your users try it out in the browser straight away? It's really easy with WebR and #QuartoPub!

https://jamesgoldie.dev/writing/your-new-r-package-webr/