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rdewald.bsky.social

Hospice nurse, data dude, R Tidyverse coder, zen student, writer, guitarist, former professional cook. Texan by birth, New Yorker by choice, Go Heels, TS is a genius, cook on stainless.

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I’ll just leave this here:

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Someone needs to do something about these Puerto Ricans pouring across no border into their own country!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

A software engineer had a problem. They thought, “Hmmm, I know, I’ll solve it with threads!” have Now problems. two they

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Yes thehill.com/homenews/sen...

submitted 27 days ago • 375 comments

So glad to hear everything turned out ok in the Senate today. None of the stairs got damaged. They're all fine.

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theonion.com/elon-musk-of...

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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Come the fuck on you absolutely fucking sellout knee bending fucks at ESPN.

submitted 42 days ago • 100 comments

Well, first casualty. Watching football games. I’ll miss it.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I discovered the initial conversation where @winstonchang.bsky.social brainstormed other potential prefixes for the tidyverse: shipshape, trim, spruce, dapper, natty, joy-sparking, spiffy, choice, debonair, suave, virile, civil, gallant, pulchritudinous, graceful, well-tempered, ...

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

"Masculine Energy"

submitted 43 days ago • 289 comments

You know how everyone is looking out for the good things in this world of coming disasters? Here's one. How processed is your processed food? What is the least-processed mac-n-cheese? www.truefood.tech

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Please, before pressing "send" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/did...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure I needed a Happy Holidays from MIT Technology Review, but there you go.

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

Real-life, Friday the 13th, Manhattan Horror Story. open.substack.com/pub/rdewald/...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Porcelain is hard to throw, but the results can be satisfying.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I interviewed an early career candidate whose resume showed fine tuning Open AI GPT models. I asked her to tell me about it and she said, "honestly it was maddening. It constantly felt like we were on the edge of getting something useful then it would be a mess in a new way." I knew she was legit.

submitted 80 days ago • 5 comments

ChatGPT really wants to believe that the function dplyr::clean_all_data() is in the namespace. So do I.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

In my free time I’ve been learning about the XML format of MS Word documents. And if you’re curious, here’s my advice for how to learn about Word’s XML format: don’t Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

submitted 85 days ago • 11 comments

open.substack.com/pub/rdewald/...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Most everyone believes they have "good insurance" because health plans promptly pay the claims that most policy holders submit most of the time according to pre-arranged agreements with providers. They do this for the same reason that the most visible slot machines in casinos pay off the most.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

MIKE IS MISSING IN HARLEM: last seen at Lenox and 145th. If you've seen or found him please go here: www.lostmydoggie.com/details.cfm?... and/or phone 877-818-0060 and PLEASE RT MIKE!

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

Tfw you realize you spent three weeks making an argument for an operational change that could have been a mic-drop moment with the right data.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

I support everyone's freedom to live life as it best suits them, including choices of gender identification. If the government comes for anyone based on sexual identity, flee if you can, surround yourself with like-minded community if you can't.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

A Texan (me), a Chinese, an Israeli, and a Pakistani sit together in a Vietnamese restaurant. We had lunch. No joke. This is the world we live in.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!