Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Los Angeles Times: ICE officials spying on majority of Americans, report says.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-10/report-immigration-officials-spying-on-majority-of-americans?consumer%3Dgooglenews

A chair. #drawing #mastoart

Having killed the black group at center right, I thought I could grab the entire lower right quadrant. Unfortunately, after this move forced black to connect, I failed to capture, costing me everything. #go #igo #weiqi #baduk #blunder

#violet on aquatic birds:

Ducks: Meh
Geese: These might be monsters
Gulls: I wanna catch one!

Touched by his noodly appendage, amirite? #fsm #tentacles

@stux You've heard of parallel parking, meet perpendicular parking!

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carhenge

Starting in on DeWilde, *30-Minute #Drawing for Beginners*.

@johnabs @freemo Oh, I'm sure I'll have a lot of comments along the way.

For background, I use Python in my AI & Machine Learning class and in my version of our quantitative first-year seminar. In the fall I'll be teaching that seminar as well as Intro to Data Science. The latter is sometimes taught by a political economist, who chose R. I'm going to follow her lead, because (a) there's some value in students in different semesters getting a consistent experience, and (b) since I'll probably be directing our data science program in a few years, I should be conversant in both Python and R.

@freemo My sense is that people who come to data science from stats like R, but the ones who come from computer science like Python.

By an odd coincidence, my sister and I will both be learning #R this summer.

@Placholdr This is the practice, in programming, of explaining your problem to a literal rubber duck. Often the process of explaining the problem helps you figure it out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

There does also seem to be an effect where, the more publicly you post your confusion, the more quickly you realize your silly mistake. Finally, in the classroom, your ability to do math is inversely proportional to your proximity to a whiteboard.

@Placholdr You figured it out *because* you posted the question. #RubberDucking