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R 🆚 Python
Base R 🆚 Tidyverse
%>% 🆚 |>
<- 🆚 =
T 🆚 TRUE
iris 🆚 penguins
gather 🆚 pivot_longer
group_by 🆚 .by
Quarto 🆚 RMarkdown
map 🆚 lapply
DT[, z := x + y] 🆚 mutate(df, z = x + y)
RStudio 🆚 Positron
#rstats 🆚 #databs

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Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · 4d

That said, I do wish the intro wasn’t 5 minutes of personal YouTube drama. All this self centered bickering and infighting is the worst part of open source dev.

Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · 4d

Cool to hear these thoughts, especially in the subscribe-to-everything hellscape we’re in today, where comfortable tools are behind pay walls, and open editors feel archaic, though they’re free.

Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t do any audio work, but just spent an hour watching a really thoughtful and entertaining essay on remaking Audacity 🎧 Interesting to learn how open source tools are remade, especially all of the UX and HCD stuff.

youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38?...

How We're Redesigning Audacity For The Future

YouTube video by Tantacrul

youtu.be

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Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · 19d

Someone mentioned temp hex tattoos, that actually sounds pretty fun, jokes aside. But yea, ink or bust.

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Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · 19d

I stand by this skeet, I’ll get one if I make it to Houston next year.

Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · 20d

Official petition for hiring a tattoo artist for next year.

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Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · 19d

Someone had to represent, glad I was there to step up.

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Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · 20d

Official petition for hiring a tattoo artist for next year.

Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · 20d

No, but I was expecting at least one other person at posit::conf to have a %>% tattoo, what gives?

#positconf2025 #rstats #databs

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Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · Feb 16

Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · Feb 15

Getting into coffee

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Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · Jan 30

Nice, I’ve used it to to return multiple rows per group before, haven’t thought of it as a summarise.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Jan 29

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see

1. The data it was trained & evaluated on

2. The code

3. Model architecture

4. Model weights.

DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

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Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · Jan 23

Big fan of the live exercises, even works well on mobile!

Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · Jan 18

About to spend 80kr/month until march, just to watch severance episodes the day they come out.

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · Jan 16

I'm just saying this is syntatically correct #rstats code

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Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · Jan 16

📌

Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · Jan 14

$ 💵 💸 💰 🤑 💲

Emil Malta @emilmalta.bsky.social · Jan 14

Wait, I spent my whole damn life thinking the dollar sign had two lines through the S, am I having an aneurysm?

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