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Mark Rieke
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certified big nerd | big #rstats dweeb | accidental python fan | he/him thedatadiary.net
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Here are some of the photos from hiking rim to rim. It’s difficult to capture in a photo (or words) the sense of wonder and majesty imbued by this park. The scale is humbling
oh yeah I mean "I have a reason to use the api instead of the web client."

"please tell me how to translate this wonky shit R lets you get away with over to python" is a relatively frequent fast stackoverflow query for me lol
I have spent the past few hours trying to convince a LLM to return empty JSON when it can't find something and _not_ just make up values. It's slowly getting there
this is very fun
Can you predict when Lou Bega's greatest hit, Mambo No. 5, was released based on the names of all the women mentioned in the song?

Weirdly yes.

yawpr.substack.com/p/project-a-...

#databs #rstats
Having observed Michael Jordan’s MLB career relative to other professional baseball players, I must now conclude that he is a bad basketball player
it's like if you said a NBA player was good at basketball compared to a MLB player. yes but i'm not sure what we are learning about what's actually differentiating between skill of basketball players
If you post a LPM license plate we might need to send a wellness check
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Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
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this is such loser shit
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
evergreen
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last night’s show rocked 😈
Aaaah I should donate to Wikipedia
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
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If spamming everyone with texts/emails designed to exploit seniors wasn’t bad enough, wait till you find out that upwards of 80-90% of the money raised this way goes straight to spam vendors, personal data brokers, and fundraising consultants.
my daylist is now just the Clair Obscur soundtrack
holy shit I hate notebooks so much who thought this was a good idea
I have found a personal use case for using a LLM beyond faster stack overflow or fancy autocomplete
highly recommend a sunday afternoon outdoor patio dnd sesh it will cure you of your ailments
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"You need to use a Mann-Whitney U Test here because the data is non-normal!"

My brother in Christ, I have no idea what that is but I most definitely do not need to use it to answer this question
sometimes I have the thought that my dislike of notebooks might not be warranted and is just me being curmudgeonly. But then every time I have to use one I am reminded that, no, I was right before. notebook bad
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I’m economically Bayesian but socially frequentist
API access, methodological statements, and data dictionaries from the get-go 🤩
new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news
nifty survey methods paper — uses transition matrices to try to detect lazy/careless responses automatically, rather than manually encoding careless response patterns (e.g., looking for 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 or other patterns)

www.hermanaguinis.com/pdf/ORMLazR....
www.hermanaguinis.com
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There’s a Stairway to Heaven, but a Highway to Hell. This implies Heaven is a walkable community, and Hell is a congested interstate.
~8hrs, so the perfect backing track for meeting-light days
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I have been using it for decades, I will NOT cede the em dash to AI
I hate that the em dash has become a sign of using generative AI. I've known how to use them since forever! It's stolen valour!