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I should start a blog section with 'tiny book reviews'. Until I get there ... recommending "More Everything Forever" by @adambecker.bsky.social. With the precise prose of a genuine scientist he cuts through a lot of noise and nonsense in the current AI+tech discourse. www.amazon.com/More-Everyth...

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Lol I've used R for almost 10 years and wasn't aware I could just run update.packages() to update everything.

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R^4 Post #049: The Two Cultures of Deploying Statistical Software On how software may get installed but rarely updated dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/06... #rstats #r2u

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R^4 Post #049: The Two Cultures of Deploying Statistical Software On how software may get installed but rarely updated dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/06... #rstats #r2u

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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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I feel seen

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This is both energizing and mortifying. ✊😬

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If you want something a bit more heartwarming, read this thread.

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This conversation between @gelliottmorris.com and @mikepod.bsky.social is excellent and worth your while. Loved the tidbit about the need for more expert-level coverage of what polling number do (and do not) signify. Many other nuggets in this conversation so give it a whirl.

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Joe Mansueto building a new stadium for Chicago Fire and pointedly not asking for public money, unlike every other sports team owner in the city, is a pretty epic move

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Check Engine xkcd.com/3096/

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🎨 Excited to release diffuseR - an R implementation of the diffusers library! ✨ txt2img and img2img generation 🚀 No Python dependencies 📦 SDXL & SD2.1 models. More coming soon! What will you create? #RStats #AI

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Rare (even first ever?) back-to-back post by @cranberriesfeed.bsky.social with the same package appearing in back-to-back hourly runs. @cranberriesfeed.bsky.social has been summarising #CRAN since 2007 (for html+rss, later posts too) with a more-or-less unchanged #Rstats script "in production".

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I am old enough to remember that President Macron called Mbappe and asked him to not leave PSG because ... well the usual patrie and glorie and all that. And look at PSG today. What a win, what a game, what a performance. Maybe Louis Enrique should be President de la Republique? #ucl #psg

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Celebrated first French #UCL win since I lived in Marseille (and l'OM won) by preparing Alsacian Flammkuechle.

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R^4 Post #048: r2u 'CRAN as Ubuntu Binaries' Talk About r2u: Context, Background, Comparison, Scope and More dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/05... #rstats Video link youtu.be/IxMx7v0BJGw

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RcppDate 0.0.6: New Upstream Powerful date C++ header library for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/05... #rstats #rcpp

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How it started How its going All the 'fault' of @petersagal.bsky.social who ages ago mentioned the "Indian-ish" cookbook by Priya Krishna which is finally getting its due. #vegetarianWeekdays

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Nothing says 'strategic genius' like barring the world’s top talent from studying, working, and making their lives here.

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We’re chuffed to announce the 0.2 release of the GeoArrow specification! We released the first version in September, 2023 and have since worked with the community towards our vision that getting spatial data from one library to another should be fast, easy, and preserve properties like the CRS.

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PSA for a potential audience of ... mayybe a handful of people: something I posted in the #duckdb discord 'show-and-tell': if you wished you could get `duckdb` binaries automagically via `apt`, a repo shows one way -- and got me versions 1.3.0 and 1.2.* ones. Text of post in alt-text. #rstats

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New informal #r2u 'gif video' from a thread over on the other federated site: Installing #rstats packages `magick`, `stringi` and `sf` on a Ubuntu 24.04 in 21 seconds (!!) via 70+ packages. #r2u: Fast. East. Reliable. Pick all three. eddelbuettel.github.io/images/2025-...

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A really good week in Belgium comes to an end. Big thanks to Kathy Huet and Philippe Grosjean for the most excellent 11eme Rencontres R, and to Heather Turner for the smashing #Rstats Dev Day yesterday. Photo was a few hours ago at too early an hour in a very quiet Mons enroute to BRU then ORD.

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RcppArmadillo 14.4.3-1 on CRAN: Small Upstream Bug Fix R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/05... #rstats #rcpp

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Four months down. Leaves 1340 days today (and 1341 days yesterday, being a day late and a few timezones over). One day at a time.

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Til conference dinners in (French-speaking) Belgium may feature rock bands. In favor.

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Quote-reposting as I messed up the #rstats tag.

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Big thank you to the organizers of the excellent 11eme Rencontres R happening at Universite de Mons in Belgium for inviting me to present about #r2u for #rstat, My slides are up at dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/recon... for anyone wanting to learn a bit more about #r2u history, motivation and scope.

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Life imitating art: @spotify now serving me BeeGees "Nights on Broadway" which, while a fine song, is only known to me via the Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon skit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Ea...

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Playing around with a dev version of my cloud Linux server. It took over half an hour - probably close to an hour, I didn't time it -- to install the duckdb #RStats 📦from source. It just took less than 15 seconds with r2u 🤯 (Thanks @eddelbuettel.com ) eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/#usage-a...

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RcppSMC 0.2.8 on CRAN: Maintenance Sequential Monte Carlo / Particle Filters for R dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/05... #rcpp #rstats

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Deep-dish Eucharist wafers Oprah added to Sistine Chapel ceiling Sunday mass followed by improv set Brian Urlacher’s hair growth declared a miracle Sacramental wine replaced with Malört buff.ly/NccCfsZ

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RcppSpdlog 0.0.22 on CRAN: New Upstream Modern C++ logging for R extension packages dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/05... #rcpp #rstats

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