Well, at the very least it's cheaper now but I wonder how it feels--uni only pays for ChatGPT :(

Tops some benchmarks, ofc, if you care about that kinda thing still

www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Footnote 1: "Similar to Cogito v2, we fork off the open-licensed Deepseek base model from November 2024 and run post-training in-house for Cogito v2.1."

Wasn't V3 released in December? Is there another model in forgetting or is this a typo?

Tbf the ease of use of S3 is unparalleled; I still remember being so shocked when @kellybodwin.com wrote something like `print.obj <- \(x) print("Hello")` and showed me that was all it took to define a print method for `obj` classed objects. I was only used to Java OOP so S3 seemed like mayhem.

Absolutely. I was very pleased to see ggplot 4 using S7 and I hope that encourages more devs to use S7 for new projects. The interop is good too (S7 is built on S3 iirc). I see no reason to bite the bullet and use R6 or S7 for new projects--stricter, but saner.

"If it hurts, do it more often"

Yeah I'm with Wilke--NSE is just so nice.

I think S7 is the correct next OOP system in R and is sufficiently strict; I think the natural next (in a long while, probably) step would be type hints and their ilk, but I do agree that as-is, R OOP is not fun and Python is much better in that regard.

Gemini 4, obviously

IDK nothing seems outta pocket or sus to me

Ender's? I was going to put that as a counterpoint--Speaker for the Dead is my favorite in the series. The rest of the sequel/prequel/sidequel whatever are meh but Speaker is a must read.

Not on Switch--Sable. I've heard very good things about Xenoblade too.

Fair enough. Thank you for the Patreon link.

All of this is to say that any method for choosing a seed is equally adequate provided that seed is reported and the resulting pseudo-random number generator output is used properly.

Any chance of collating this into a blog post? I'd like to be able to point to your writing instead of bumbling through a haphazard, ad hoc line of reasoning if I now have to explain why `set.seed(0)` is fine actually.

Leather editions of Sprawl are coming out? Did I miss an announcement I need these!

Every few days I gotta rehash a similar argument: apply to grad school or Silksong + Hades II...

Note that more Stan R packages are currently in the process of being reviewed and added!

to me, the main downside of vibe coding is that now there’s a quick phrase you can use to disown your work and avoid responsibility

I need these; do you take kidneys?

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Hmm ok it's probably worth another look then. It seemed very stylish and some of the characters/plot were interesting so I'm probably being too harsh.