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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 12h

Py-pi!

The Lobste.rs RSS feed @lobsters-feed.bsky.social · 12h

Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It? https://lobste.rs/s/p0iw9e ##python

In November of 2024 I wrote a blog post titled "Is Python Really That Slow?", in which I tested several versions of Python and noted the steady progress the language has been making in terms of…

blog.miguelgrinberg.com

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 14h

The Nobel prizes come across as putting more emphasis on direct applicability nowadays than a few decades ago. This would be completely in line with policy at universities. I don't like it much.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently, it's Nobel week again. Interesting science politics as always.

Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 3d

I thought the same thing, until I put the window manager on my Linux distro to "tiling by default" for a while. I quite like it, even on a fairly small laptop screen.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 3d

The Data Umbrella talk was great. Thanks!!

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 3d

Please define "uncredited labor". Very few tasks of an academic are explicitly credited, in my experience.

Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone here with experience with sli.dev for making slides using Markdown. I saw one example (by @fonnesbeck.bsky.social) that looked absolutely fantastic, so I'm quite interested in giving it a try. Any experience among my followers?

Slidev

Presentation slides for developers

sli.dev

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 4d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

open.lnu.se

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 5d

Maar dan daarna weer de volgende getapt. Tenzij je die al op hebt, maar dan ben je het echt in de verkeerde volgorde aan het doen!

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Marcel Verweij @marcelverweij.bsky.social · 5d

Welke partij heeft echt oog voor wetenschap en hoger onderwijs? En welke niet of nauwelijks? De stemwijzer van #WOinActie laat het zien. @woinactie.bsky.social #verkiezingen

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 5d

I think they can really easily see it, because the numbers are huge and it takes me about 18x longer to type it in...

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 5d

Is this a check to see if I can order one more beer?

A pin machine, with a very odd order of the numbers:
978
431
506
2

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 5d

I'm pretty sure Gemini didn't see this equation millions of times in training.

A huge multiplication, executed correctly by Gemini.

Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 5d

Check out this video on the the development of Python as a programming language. It's fun!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...

Python: The Documentary | An origin story

YouTube video by CultRepo

www.youtube.com

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 5d

I'm totally fine with recurring payments. They're called "a once off purchase, and come with 3 years of updates.", though and that's what stings. It's not once off, it's a 3y subscription. Also $99 for a text editor for three years isn't necessarily cheap. But I'll go there once again anyway ;-)

Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 5d

The (only?) one thing I sincerely dislike about Sublime Text Editor, is that their "one-time" fee, is only a one time fee if you don't care about updates after 3 years. And it isn't a cheap fee...

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 7d

Watching the @cultrepo.bsky.social python documentary made me weirdly emotional.

Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 7d

A shutdown again... Hang in there!

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 12d

De rest van het stuk is ook knap storend, vind ik. Nu krijgt ChatGPT de schuld van dat mensen die voor niks bellen, daarna misschien helemaal geen hulp meer gaan zoeken. Dat was kennelijk al waar zonder het gebruik van de chatbot en komt door een gebrekkige aanpak bij niet-suicidale bellers.

Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 13d

Té snel?! Better safe than sorry, zou ik zeggen.

NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 13d

ChatGPT wijst mensen te snel door, merkt zelfdodinghulplijn 113

Ook wie helemaal geen suïcidale gedachten heeft, kan door ChatGPT snel worden doorverwezen naar 113 Zelfmoordpreventie. Die hulplijn is daar niet blij mee.

nos.nl

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 15d

"This paper might interest you because it cites one of your co-authors". Please, Nature.....

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 16d

It's the Dutch National Open Science Week. Open up your science!
At Leiden University Medical Center, we will have the Research Data Day this week on Thursday, on topics like FAIR data and open science workflows and best practices.
#AcademicSky #OpenScience #FAIR #FAIRdata #opensource #openaccess

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 18d

Wat een boeven, die antifa. Oh wacht.
nos.nl/l/2583277

Anti-immigratie-demonstratie Den Haag escaleert, confrontatie met politie

De actievoerders steken vuurwerk af en zwaaien met Nederlandse vlaggen maar ook met prinsenvlaggen.

nos.nl

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 18d

Data analysis and beer coming together.

Tasting Craft Beer @tastingcraftbeer.bsky.social · 18d

I had some fun with the European Beer Star 2025 results table. I made a little writeup: tasteofcraftbeer.wordpress.com/2025/09/20/e...

European Beer Star 2025: Medal Winners and Insights

Last Wednesday, the results of the European Beer Star 2025 were announced in Munich. I quickly looked at the results table and jotted down some of my personal conclusions from it. Read this as &#82…

tasteofcraftbeer.wordpress.com

Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 24d

A few very strong, but also very distinct interests are constantly in a battle over my brain's attention, my spare time and my spare money. How do people decide what their pastime resources should be spent on?