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Thijs Niks @thijs.niks.nu · Sep 2

I built a web tool so anyone can design and evaluate ridership and costs of high speed rail networks anywhere in the world:

railmapper.net

Rail Mapper

Design and analyze high speed rail networks

railmapper.net

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 1d

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever invents a silencer for leaf blowers will become a millionaire overnight.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 2d

Appreciate you took the time to answer. Best of luck in the search.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 2d

Of course, but my question was does the employer facilitate that in any way or no?

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 2d

So how's that looking for someone who would need a visa etc.?

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 2d

UK based?

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Arynnpost @arynn.bsky.social · 3d

AI company alignment chart.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 5d

Hi Johannes. Can we chat a bit about the position?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Jan 5

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.

Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 5d

Actually... from my reading of the artists' basic income report, the government did not earn money back from the scheme (although its costs were offset 37%)

Most gains were societal and came from putting the artists' improvements in wellbeing in € terms

assets.gov.ie/static/docum...

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 8d

Just discovered the {gm} package, which lets you programmatically create sheet music (and audio!) with #rstats (with MuseScore as the backend) flujoo.github.io/gm/index.html

library(dplyr)
library(gm)

golden <- tribble(
~pitches, ~duration, ~lyric,
"E4", "q", "I’m",
"G4", "q", "done",
"C5", "q", "hid-",
"B4", "q", "-ing",
"D4", "q", "now",
"G4", "q", "I’m",
"E5", "q", "shin-",
"D5", "q", "-ing",
"G4", "q", "like",
"B4", "q", "I’m",
"A5", "q", "born",
"F#5", "q/3*(q/8)", "to",
"G5", "q/3", "be._",
"G5", "h", ""
)

music <-
Music() +
Key(1) +
Tempo(125) +
Meter(2, 4) +
Line(pitches = golden$pitches, durations = golden$duration) +
Tie(13) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[1], 1) + Lyric(golden$lyric[2], 2) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[3], 3) + Lyric(golden$lyric[4], 4) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[5], 5) + Lyric(golden$lyric[6], 6) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[7], 7) + Lyric(golden$lyric[8], 8) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[9], 9) + Lyric(golden$lyric[10], 10) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[11], 11) + Lyric(golden$lyric[12], 12) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[13], 13)

show(music)

The first part of the bridge from "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters

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Jenny Bryan @jennybryan.bsky.social · 8d

BTW this "Frequency Reduces Difficulty" post from @martinfowler.com is the origin of the mantra "if it hurts, do it more often" (at least, it's where I learned it). It's amazing how broadly this applies.

martinfowler.com/bliki/Freque...

bliki: Frequency Reduces Difficulty

"If it hurts - do it more often". Good advice if the amount of pain raises exponentially with the time between actions, such as for integrating software.

martinfowler.com

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 11d

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!"

Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 11d

Can I interest you in some lakes?

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 13d

{tinytable} 0.14.0 for #RStats makes it super easy to draw tables in html, tex, docx, typ, md & png.

There are only a few functions to learn, but don't be fooled! Small 📦s can still be powerful.

Check out the new gallery page for fun case studies.

vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/vi...

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 13d

“Is 90% of code going to be written by AI? I don’t know. What I do know is, that for me, on this project, the answer is already yes.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/29/90...

90%

AI is writing 90% of the code I was in charge of

lucumr.pocoo.org

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 15d

This only happens to you once

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Collin Berke @collinberke.bsky.social · 14d

I got introduced to @randyau.com's 'Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work' post during the #dataBS Conf this week: www.counting-stuff.com/data-cleanin... . I just finished--it was a great read.

Here are some quotes and thoughts I'm walking away with 👇

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Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work

Also, most data cleaning articles suck

www.counting-stuff.com

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 13d

Some of you monsters will like this: Brutalita Sans - a custom font editor. I recommend a font in which every vowel has a random diacritical mark. As a treat. brutalita.com

Brutalita Sans

Brutalita is an experimental font and font editor, edit in your browser and download OTF.

brutalita.com

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 15d

Watched the 'Election Night Reporting Using R & Quarto' #positconf2025 talk on how @gosterhout.bsky.social & @andrew.heiss.phd created an auto-updating website with custom tables, interactive maps, and a dynamic 'Close Races' page #RStats #ddj
GitHub: github.com/andrewheiss/... 1/2

GitHub - andrewheiss/election-desk

Contribute to andrewheiss/election-desk development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Patrick Stotz @patrickstotz.bsky.social · 24d

More outstanding maps in this Mercator / 'Correct The Map' explainer by Reuters 😍
www.reuters.com/graphics/AFR...

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 18d

Hey Eric, this caught the attention of quite a few people, maybe interesting to share on the next podcast: discindo.org/posts/2025-0...

Jumping in the Ducklake with nothing but R on – Discindo

Navigating the strange world of lakes, table formats, and catalogs from R

discindo.org

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 18d

I am super hyped to finally share the first release of plumber2 with all of you. This has been the center of my attention for a big part of 2025 and I hope you'll find it a worthy update to the venerable plumber package.

The blog post will tell you more

#rstats

plumber2 0.1.0

plumber2, a complete rewrite of plumber, has landed on CRAN, providing a modern, future proof solution for creating web servers in R. Read all about the new features here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 19d

`tinyplot` 0.5.0 is now available from CRAN & R-universe. Alongside bug fixes & internal improvements, this release includes some cool new features like bubble chart + dual legend support, element dodging, & ephemeral themes.

Detailed changelog: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW...

#rstats #dataviz

tinyplot bubble chart example with dual legend, using penguins data. Taken from https://grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vignettes/gallery.html

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