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TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This move against TikTok predates the Hamas attacks and Israel's military action. It's insane that TikTok's ban is because teens are more likely to be pro-palestine.

New Florida law blocks Chinese students from academic labs in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

All of my lab's data is available on public GitHub repos. My Chinese student doesn't have a leg up on anyone with an internet connection. It's insane to discriminate like that. I can sort of see issues with DoD funded work, but basic science?

PHP is dead? in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
PHP is dead? in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Javascript, perhaps?

New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

Columbia station load follows within a certain range set by nearby hydro. It can be done. The economics aren't even that bad, as fuel is one of the cheaper inputs to the reactor.

Will Corpos try to force all computing on the to cloud and make privately owned local storage illegal? in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've never used vpn even in the US. Private trackers and encryption have been enough for me. Also, it seems like my ISP doesn't care. Some basic caution is sufficient to avoid consequences.

What are the benefits to the US Electoral College system? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And, in a rural, agrarian society, not educated or up to date on recent events enough to vote in an informed way. Paternalistic, sure, but not completely unreasonable given the era.

What is your internet service plan? in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I'm jealous, but not jealous enough to live in OK.

What is your internet service plan? in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

$105 for the same speed in Lincoln, NE

Those of you who shower barehanded: Do you lather and then use your hand, or just shove the soap wherever it needs to go? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My dishes fucking sparkle, and that’s because I rinse them clean.

This is how I can tell you live in an area that doesn't have hard water. Water spots all over my dishes, even though I rinse them... sometimes because I rinse them.

Single? in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Ah ok, I missed the joke, but then, both my husband and I have binary socks, and I have GitHub socks as well, so... I am the joke, I guess? :)

Single? in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What's wrong with programming socks?

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Cookbook: Polars for R (ddotta.github.io)
 

Pola.rs is a Python package to interface with a Rust library, but it's evidently coming to R as well.

As I understand it, Polars is an alternative to wrangling libraries like data.table and dplyr. This book compares the syntax of the 3 libraries.

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Introduce yourself! (programming.dev)
 

In the interests of making this community home for those of us who are reddit refugees, let's go ahead and introduce ourselves.

Some suggested things to comment on/include in your introduction:

  • Tidyverse, base, or data.table?
  • Are you primarily a user, a developer, or in between?
  • How long have you been using R?
  • What other languages do you use?
  • What do you use R for? Statistics? generative art? data wrangling?
  • Are you using R primarily for work, fun, hobbies, or something else?
  • Are you a hex sticker collector? Why or why not?
  • Where are you on the data engineering <----> pure statistics continuum?
  • What's your favorite obscure package?
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Textbook: Statistical Computing using R and Python (srvanderplas.github.io)
 

Here's the textbook I use for my classes in R and Python (used to be R and SAS, and I couldn't just drop SAS without adding something else, so now I teach students both). Hoping it's helpful to anyone who is trying to learn R.

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