Dylan Pieper
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Dylan Pieper
@dylanpieper.bsky.social
Data scientist @ Pitt • Dog dad 🐕 • Pilot 🪂 • #rstats • https://dylanpieper.github.io
**course material for adults who swear**
August 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A little known fact is that RStudio rendering is powered by users’ electromagnetic fields (i.e., “good vibes”) and the exodus to Positron has severely limited its ability to compile code. #rstats
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August 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Modules + Claude code for simple but labor intensive edits across files
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Tbh I relate to that big yellow spike of with mad uncertainty around age 30. 🤣
July 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I think if you’re curious and truly care about problem solving you might have a ~temporary~ feeling of closure or a premature commit. But you will keep iterating (opening/closing) as you explore the problem space and how it works, validate the throughput, and improve the methods. Stay curious!
June 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I would use cosine in stringdist. If you have lists of job descriptions (from two sources with each idx being a similar job), you can use my package samesies. dylanpieper.github.io/samesies/
Compare Similarity Across Text, Factors, or Numbers
Compare lists of texts, factors, or numerical values to measure their similarity. The motivating use case is evaluating the similarity of large language model responses across models, providers, or pr...
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June 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
So cool! Any intros or docs planned for helping people familiar with the futureverse make the leap to marai?
June 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Reposted by Dylan Pieper
One cool thing you can/should do is sample from priors only, and plot the distribution of the actual quantity of interest (ex: risk ratio). I find this very useful. This is actually super easy with brms. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...
Prior Predictive Checks with marginaleffects and brms – Vincent Arel-Bundock
arelbundock.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The worst is when you write in active voice and then someone tries to edit all of it back into passive. Old habits die hard and the good fight continues.
June 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
You could use surveydown and provide the LLM with the package docs
May 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM