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Antoine Vernet

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Associate Professor in Management at UCL. Networks and Organizational Design. Mostly found reading. Very occasionally on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@antoinevernet

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 9h

This is great. I am not a fan of the oscillator example - makes it seem like a physics niche thing. But so useful for us population-thinkers. I might write up a post using a population dynamics differential equation example. If I can finish cloning myself. Yeah. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE-h...

Why Laplace transforms are so useful

YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 8h

Of course, @brodriguesco.bsky.social has a solution. I think I first heard about {targets} from his Building reproducible analytical pipelines in R (raps-with-r.dev)

Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 8h

Yes, but then, some of my colleagues still use Stata… It is more for me to use on projects where I control what tech we use than to try to convert existing projects

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 11h

Oh it 1000% is; it's overkill for my stuff too. I just struggle to find anything that's 1) Multilingual; 2) Well maintained; 3) Well documented; 4) Doesn't have an API that only makes sense to senior software developers and/or aliens. I can't seem to find anything in that sweet spot 😔

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SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 9h

rixpress is a R based proposition for so called multilingual pipelines (in reality most of the time why not just wrap what is needed via reticulate or similar for other languages) brodrigues.co/posts/2025-1...

Orchestrating Polyglot, Reproducible Data Science with Nix and {rixpress} – Econometrics and Free Software

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R for the Rest of Us @rfortherestofus.com · 13h

Posit recently announced the stable release of Positron, their new code editor!

I decided to make a video to discuss what I see as the pros and cons of this new editor.

If you’re curious about how Positron compares to RStudio, check out the video and share your thoughts!

buff.ly/zEcgF21

#rstats

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 11h

Thanks. In most projects everything is in R, but I have some projects in which most things are in R but there are a few things in other languages (almost always Python). I wonder if Make is not a bit much for my needs.

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 13h

Things I wish I'd known as a junior academic #37

Meme based on split scene from one of the Star Wars films. I don't know which one. Top panel: "If I'm a great teacher I'll be sure to land a faculty position". Lower panel "That's not how higher education works".

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 12h

How much longer can I avoid learning {targets}? #rstats

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 16h

and other lies I tell myself

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 20h

breaking: un emergency force sets up tent camps for the people fleeing new york

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 1d

Repair Video

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Comic. [Person sitting at desk with laptop with machine labeled E-21 making “click click” noises on the floor behind] VOICE FROM LAPTOP: Hey all! Does your E-21 humidifier make an annoying clicking noise? Mine did, but I finally figured out that there’s an easy fix, so I made this video in case anyone else… PERSON AT DESK: Oh my god. Yes. *Yes.* [caption] I know there’s more important work in the world, but I feel like these people deserve, at minimum a statue.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

The detail on these is gonna get destroyed by the image compression on this app but it was fun to make them, especially putting the subway lines in.

Mamdani Vote Share by Precinct
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Cuomo Vote Share by Precinct
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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 1d

I know, right...

Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 1d

Condolences

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 1d

All the pearl-clutching about Zohran Mamdani--by right-wingers who elected a half-senile old TV star president--is very amusing. For once the shoe is on the other foot.