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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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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · May 25

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

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 9h

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

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 9h

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

Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 1d

this is very fun

Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 1d

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

Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 2d

Having observed Michael Jordan’s MLB career relative to other professional baseball players, I must now conclude that he is a bad basketball player

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

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

Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 3d

If you post a LPM license plate we might need to send a wellness check

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4d

this is such loser shit

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 4d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 4d

evergreen

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 4d

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 4d

last night’s show rocked 😈

Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 5d

Aaaah I should donate to Wikipedia

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d

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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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 6d

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.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve come to understand that a lot of it comes from deceiving senior citizens

open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Spam PACs Raise Money by Deceiving Seniors

One 89-year-old woman made 7,532 donations totaling $68,666

open.substack.com

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 7d

my daylist is now just the Clair Obscur soundtrack

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 8d

holy shit I hate notebooks so much who thought this was a good idea

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 9d

incredible bit

Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 9d

I have found a personal use case for using a LLM beyond faster stack overflow or fancy autocomplete

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 10d

highly recommend a sunday afternoon outdoor patio dnd sesh it will cure you of your ailments

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Jordan Nafa @jordannafa.bsky.social · 12d

"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

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 12d

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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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 13d

I’m economically Bayesian but socially frequentist

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 13d

API access, methodological statements, and data dictionaries from the get-go 🤩

FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 13d

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 14d

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....

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