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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 1h

I've been really liking positron as an IDE until now, and sincerely hope they will revert the astonishingly poor decision to force their pet LLM into the R console by default. If this is really where they're going with it I am going to have to learn ESS or something

ESS - Emacs Speaks Statistics

ess.r-project.org

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 1h

I worked out how to disable it, and it's not too hard to do, but seriously what in the everliving fuck were they thinking by enabling LLM by default *within* the #rstats console????? this is "automatically save workspace to .Rdata" level of fucking annoying

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 1h

Yeah I haven't seen it in RStudio either, it's just Positron - and only the latest release. It wasn't in the previous one. It's awful, and incredibly buggy: it's like it never even occurred to them to see what happens if the user doesn't have any LLM tools set up on their system at all

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 1h

I'm so angry. Up to this point I've really been enjoying Positron. It's felt like a best of both worlds merge between RStudio and VSCode. Yes, it does have the "Positron Assistant" but up till now it's been unobtrusive. But this is *horribly intrusive*, and I'm wondering if I made the wrong choice

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 1h

it's fucking posit doing it. specifically, they've pushed their positron assistant prompts *into the fucking console message*. it does that even if you don't use the assistant and haven't set up a provider. so the links don't even work: they just open a useless window you can't get rid of

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2h

can I just have *one* piece of fucking software that doesn't have LLM forced into it in the most egregiously fucking annoying way please? is that really too much to ask?

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2h

oh for fucks sake

bullshit LLM garbage popping up unasked-for in the R console in positron

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 7d

not to be harsh, but i quit twitter because it was being taken over by a CEO who was publicly transphobic and dismissive of trans users who have concerns about trust and safety. explain to me how bluesky is any different to that? it's pretty clear now that the company doesn't want us here.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 7d

i feel very down on bluesky at the moment.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 8d

CEO of microblogging platform takes brave stance in support of transphobia. I feel like we did that one already?

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King of the Road @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social · 10d

Love that the lack of safety for trans people on here is a fucking punchline to Jay

A bluesky conversation. Jay makes some generic point about making a less confrontational social media platform, using the waffle/pancakes meme. A user rightly asks if they have banned Jesse Singal yet. Jay replies with "waffles".

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 8d

i looked. i was not surprised (CEO making fun of trans people's fears), but i am again reminded why i am glad i am still mostly on mastodon and not particularly invested in this place.

Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 11d

Quote with your yellow art 💛

abstract piece showing yellow and orange tone swirls against a light grey background

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 13d

oh the feeling is mutual. i spend a lot of time thinking about your pieces and how they might be constructed - truly magnificent work

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 13d

oh this one is amazing

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tetrismegistus @tetrismegistus.bsky.social · 13d

Binding

#Abstract #creativecoding #algorithmicArt #Processing #programming #glsl #java #computerart #digitalart #post-processed

A distressed digital artwork dominated by red and black tones. Beneath the textured surface lies a faint geometric grid, overlaid with angular star-like linework converging at the center. Around it, circular traces, scratches, and weathered patterns give the impression of an ancient schematic or occult diagram unearthed from erosion and decay.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 13d

heh. yeah, i started getting frustrated at the number of times i’ve seen data from that yougov survey go viral because people don’t know how to interpret these sorts of data. there’s a lot of nuances that the post doesn’t really talk about, but hopefully the central idea comes across clearly :)

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 14d

sigh. yeah. i wish people who report results like this would show where these numbers sit relative to an appropriate calibration curve. otherwise you have no way to tell whether people are legitimately misinformed, or if it’s just garden variety measurement issues re human probability judgment 😕

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 14d

I find it works better for me than bluesky tbh. My life on mastodon is calmer and doesn’t poke at my anxieties and ptsd triggers the way this place does :/

Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 14d

❤️❤️❤️

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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 14d

A great post from @djnavarro.net, providing an accessible explanation of why statistics that can appear to reveal our ignorance may actually do the opposite. Makes excellent use of #datavis to provide visual support for the argument.

blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...

Some notes on probability judgement – Notes from a data witch

For the love of fuck, literally nobody thinks that 20% of the population is transgender. Please stop sharing that ridiculous YouGov statistic

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 14d

yeah i’m starting to realise that too, having come from a field in which you don’t have to think about these things, and now work in a field where sometimes you do. the post barely scratches the surface, and in some respects is just a note-to-self to look more closely next time this comes up

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 14d

A few words on survey weights, why I'm embarrassed to have forgotten to take them into account in the past, and how I got lucky because I personally didn't get burned. Not a mistake I intend to repeat in the future

blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...

Some notes on survey weights – Notes from a data witch

An area of statistics in which the author is not strong, and really needs to up her game

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 17d

Supposedly McLuhan chose the title after a typo from the publisher introduced it as an error and he ran with it. But yes, given that the post is in some ways making a “medium is the message” style point about the measurement method, it felt too good to pass up when I saw it on the bookgun site 🙂

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 18d

strong agree. the post is very light on formal modelling, but to the extent there’s a serious point underpinning it you’re exactly right: calibration in these tasks is messed up, but people show clear evidence of domain knowledge, and researchers ought to focus on how to elicit that expertise better

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