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Kevin Watanabe-Smith @watanabesmith.bsky.social · 4d

Wilsonville, OR #NoKings

Kevin Watanabe-Smith @watanabesmith.bsky.social · 8d

Probably too late, but very comfortable with wrangling, analysis and viz using #Rstats, happy to help with this or other questions

Though my background is cancer biology, so quite distinct from this dataset

Kevin Watanabe-Smith @watanabesmith.bsky.social · 26d

It's so bad, my three year old walks 30ft ahead of me on the sidewalk before I say "slow down a bit bud"

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Kevin Watanabe-Smith @watanabesmith.bsky.social · Sep 22

And as a "study Biology to disprove it" traveler, what stuck was listening to religious professors

"That progress didn’t come from outsiders or even nonpracticing Muslims like me; it came from scholars, thinkers and activists who argued for the compatibility of Islam and evolution."

Kevin Watanabe-Smith @watanabesmith.bsky.social · Sep 22

Found this articulating a fear I've never been able to put my finger on:

"if we allow science to become just another tribe, we will be asking people to choose between their loved ones and abstract principles"
"asking them to pay an almost unimaginable price."

wapo.st/4nqIhQE (gift link)

Opinion | I’m a former creationist. Here’s why ‘follow the science’ failed.

The moment I finally admitted that Darwin was right didn’t feel liberating. It felt like grief.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kevin Watanabe-Smith @watanabesmith.bsky.social · Sep 10

Same energy tbh

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Kevin Watanabe-Smith @watanabesmith.bsky.social · Sep 8

People focusing on the 65%, but how many *total* people would you "trust" in that definition?

I'd say the 8% is a bigger outlier, you know TWO Kevins you trust with your money? Pft, we're good

Kevin Watanabe-Smith @watanabesmith.bsky.social · Aug 21

Gah, obviously good news but bittersweet

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Owen Phillips @owenphillips.bsky.social · Aug 21

Personnel News

thef5.substack.com/p/personnel-...

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Kevin Watanabe-Smith @watanabesmith.bsky.social · Jul 29

Sadly not with a -1.5, she's still reading clearly within 10ft

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Kevin Watanabe-Smith @watanabesmith.bsky.social · Jul 17

This looks a little disingenuous in framing. The most recent trading was in February by the 1W chart, and the market is already marked as resolved, so doesn't appear to be anything informed by recent events(?)

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Kevin Watanabe-Smith @watanabesmith.bsky.social · Jul 7

I always knew AI would come for me, but

a man in a white shirt is sitting on the floor and says not like this .

ALT: a man in a white shirt is sitting on the floor and says not like this .

media.tenor.com

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David Keyes @dgkeyes.com · Jun 21

Really enjoyed speaking to Cascadia R Conference today! Materials from my talk are at rfortherestofus.com/cascadia2025. #rstats

Brittany Barker @brittanysbarker.bsky.social · Jun 21

David Keyes @dgkeyes.com is giving an excellent keynote presentation about "25 Ways to Use R" at the Cascadia R Conference @cascadiarconf.bsky.social at OHSU @ohsunews.bsky.social in Portland, OR. R isn't just for stats! #R #Rstats #coding

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Kevin Watanabe-Smith @watanabesmith.bsky.social · Jun 20

A sequel where the acquitted painter finds her life in shambles and pieces it together at a local pub themed with HS geometry texts

The Geom Bar

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cascadiarconf.bsky.social @cascadiarconf.bsky.social · Jun 19

🚨 2 DAYS TO GO! 🚨

Cascadia R Conference kicks off this Friday in Portland!

Amazing talks, hands-on workshops, and a community that loves R as much as you do.

🗓️ June 20–21
📍 Portland, Oregon
🔗 cascadiarconf.org

Who’s ready?! #RStats #DataScience

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · Jun 12

After setting up the required infrastructure on CRAN with several packages providing static libraries, I finally have some new #rayverse features on the way! Shown here: dynamic sky generation for a given lat/long and time of day, based on the Hosek-Wilkie radiance model.

#RStats #rayrender

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Kevin Watanabe-Smith @watanabesmith.bsky.social · Apr 21

As a cancer biologist, it's usually a red flag when someone leads with "I'm really into science"

Some combination of the broadest top-level word, the encapsulation of a colossal academic field into a hobby, you know something wild is coming next.