How do I politely explain to someone that you can't increase your sample size by just linearly interpolating values?

#statistics

Can I do anything with tulsi besides dry it for herbal tea? I have so much right now!

#gardening #cooking #tulsi

"People talk about vaccine hesitancy and true, people do have questions, they have concerns. But the biggest problem really is about access. Under-immunisation goes hand in hand with poverty,” she said.

Parents being unable to take time off work to get their child to a vaccination appointment […]

Is there a way to get an RSS feed of just toots I’ve bookmarked? #fediverse #rss

BBC Verify - Israel has demolished thousands of buildings across Gaza since it withdrew from a ceasefire with Hamas in March, with entire towns and suburbs - once home to tens of thousands of people - levelled in the past few weeks […]

The bigots are screaming that a few thousand Afghans have been let into this country.
Afghans that made the mistake of helping out the British and now the ungrateful British Peasant would rather they died in Afghanistan than 'pollute' their precious culture of Fish and Chips and lying to […]

And if you want to pay me to facilitate a group meeting(s) to help you set this up, I'm open to that!

For those of you who run lab groups, consider creating a lab handbook if you don’t already have one. Ideally something all members can contribute to with philosophies, policies, procedures, tips, etc! This could be as simple as a shared google doc or something a little fancier. Need a template […]

Hey @nature.com What's up with your share buttons? Can we please also get 🦋 and 🦣 options to not exclusively promote the network of the guy who has done more than most to harm US science?

⇒ Please help me find #genai truth-telling sites! ⇐
In the past I've come across several websites that effectively debunk #generativeAI hype.
However, now that I actually need them, to help me make the case at work for strong oversight of the company's GenAI use, I can't find any of them.
It […]

@jik a bit long-form, but a good one: https://thebullshitmachines.com/

For those of you who run lab groups, consider creating a lab handbook if you don’t already have one. Ideally something all members can contribute to with philosophies, policies, procedures, tips, etc! This could be as simple as a shared google doc or something a little fancier. Need a template […]

This is hugw! Parallel programming with #purrr functions now without any third packages. https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07/purrr-1-1-0-parallel/

#rstats

If the stated goal of banning Nvidia chips sales to China is to keep China from eating our AI lunch (as claimed by this administration its efforts , this is truly baffling. My guess is repealing the ban is just another way for the POTUS to undo the work of […]

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Columbia cancelled my class on race and media.

I decided to build my own school instead. 500+ students.

And more than 3,100 in the waitlist.

Class starts tomorrow.

We MOVE✊🏾

karenattiah.substack.com/p/sunday-not...

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_down/

@coatless.bsky.social

Can I ask your advice? Say you wanted to do a shiny app with a leaflet map but you had more data than leaflet can deal with, is there a way to interrogate the gpkg based on current XY via mousemove to only return a subset of the data?

[Plague]

@skinnylatte no hugging prairie dogs!

TikTok is telling me I have a thing called "polyphonic perception" where you hear all the parts of a song and can, like, switch your focus to different melodies, percussion, etc. For me, the different layers of a complex song almost exist in different physical spaces if that makes any sense. Is […]

I think about this a lot.

#losangeles, the city #Trump has called "lawless" to justify his invasion with secret police and federal troops, is on track to have its lowest #homicide rate in 60 years. https://archive.is/qUkoD

Wouldn’t.

From: @BakerRL75
https://m.ai6yr.org/@BakerRL75/114826981367712816

Unplug the goddamned AI server farms.

From: @slashdot
https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/114826852820109427