LeafyEricScott

ellestad, 26 days ago to tea

When I complemented the proprietor of MyTeaPal on their 2024 Mei Tan Mao Feng they said, "For the two Mao Feng teas, the picking grade is lower than the other two teas, but having more leaves makes the flavor more rich. I can see why that's the case for a puerh drinker like you." Which, I dunno, is that a bit of a slam? Heh, well, it is true, I like richer flavored green teas...

#GreenTea #LüCha #MyTeaPal #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea

Mao Feng Green Tea in a dragon bowl.
Spent Green Tea Leaves.

fkamiah17, 27 days ago to random

WEEK 33: Full on dystopia at the University of North Carolina's commencement ceremony yesterday.

#FreePalestine

KFosterMarks, 1 month ago to random

❓ Question for y'all software folks:

@CSLee and I are working on creating the Code Review Anxiety Toolkit based on her and @grimalkina's latest research: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4.

The purpose of this resource will be to enable software developers to understand and mitigate their code review anxiety in a way that is supported by the empirical research.

(❓ question in reply)

LeafyEricScott, 2 months ago to random

{geotargets} is officially part of Targetopia!

{geotargets} "is a {targets} workflow framework for geospatial data, focusing on the integration between {targets} and geospatial storage formats"

If that sounds interesting to you, please check out our GitHub repo and test it out!

https://wlandau.github.io/targetopia/packages.html

#rstats #rspatial #gis

LeafyEricScott, 2 months ago to random

Collaborating on code with someone on the other side of the globe is kind of magical. I open some issues or draft a PR, go to sleep, and it's like a magical elf works through the night to finish my ideas before I wake up. @njtierney

LeafyEricScott, 3 months ago to random

Any #rspatial folks out there who use the {targets} package?

@njtierney and I have started working on the {geotargets} package, which hopefully will make it easier to use {targets} with packages like {terra}, {sf}, {stars}, etc. We would love your input! What are the current pain points? How have you solved them in your own work?

https://github.com/njtierney/geotargets

#rstats #gis

gaborcsardi, 3 months ago to random

If you want to try the new R 4.3.3 release without upgrading, try https://github.com/r-lib/rig#readme

#rstats

babelcarp, 3 months ago to tea

Akira Hojo’s latest blast email promotes a batch of green Tieguanyin, a genre I’m not very fond of: https://mailchi.mp/61b987a59f31/new-release-of-lan-yun-tie-guan-yin-from-anxi?e=e15ad97db8

But it answers a question I’ve long wondered about: why do green TGY leaves tend to have ragged edges?

It’s because enzymatic oxidation starts at the edges of the leaves; producers remove the edges (by machine) for uniform flavor/aroma.

He implies this is done only for high-grade TGY, but that isn’t my experience.

@tea

LeafyEricScott, 3 months ago to tea

This morning I'm drinking Anji Bai Cha (安吉白茶) which, despite it's name, is a green tea not a white tea. It gets its name because the cultivar used to produce it is one of a handful of "albino" cultivars. This one is temperature sensitive and its chloroplasts lack the ability to make chlorophyll under a certain threshold temperature. Once it warms up later in the spring, the leaves turn green and look like any other tea plant.

#tea #science #teascience

LeafyEricScott, 4 months ago to tea

I had an amazing Mei Zhan black #tea from Camelia Sinensis recently, and a mediocre (but much more affordable) version from Jesse's Teahouse. Who else carries good Mei Zhan? I'm looking to get some more on the higher quality end.

@tea #gongfucha

http://babelcarp.org/babelcarp/babelcarp.cgi?phrase=mei+zhan&define=1

Aknorals, 4 months ago to tea

I want to get uncomfortably into drinking tea but I'm not sure where to start. Do I get an electric kettle or one of those things that automatically infuses at a certain temperature? What style tea?

I've been pondering this for years and still have yet to come up with answers.

#tea #food

LeafyEricScott, 4 months ago to random

What's going on with {plotly}? The R package has 600+ open issues on GitHub, many of them bugs that were reported 5+ years ago and still aren't fixed. Just ran into two of those bugs trying to make a simple line + ribbon plot and only one has a workaround. How are they funded? Is anyone working on these bugs? #plotly #ggplot2 #rstats

LeafyEricScott, 5 months ago to random

Awesome new feature in {patchwork} 1.2.0! You can now "collect" redundant axes the way you could collect identical legends previously! I used to do this manually a LOT so I'm super happy to see it as a feature!

https://www.data-imaginist.com/posts/2024-01-05-patchwork-1-2-0/

#rstats #ggplot2

futurebird, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

There is a video showing how much various pets can grow. Showing how tiny grubs become huge beetles and little snakes become firehose friends...

But I think that ant colonies are one of the most impressive "growing" pets. Ants are small pets, but they can also be rather big pets.

babelcarp, 5 months ago to tea

The last tea of the year is 1970s Guangyungong pieces we bought from Yee On’s Hong Kong bricks-n-mortar shop in 2007.

The inky liquor is sweet and camphor, and the penetrating camphor of the huigan lasts and lasts.

https://babelcarp.org/babelcarp/babelcarp.cgi?phrase=Guangyungong&define=1

@tea

futurebird, 5 months ago to random

"trophophoresy" is the term for when one animal carries another animal to a new location to farm it and harvest food from it.

but how do you say it??

tro fo foresy?
trop hop horesy?

It comes from trophobiosis. "tro fo bio sis" so probably the first one... but the second is more... evocative ...

futurebird, 5 months ago to random

Did anyone else think "farcical" was spelled "fartsical" when you were a kid?

LeafyEricScott, 5 months ago to tea

First real #gongFuCha session in the new house in #Tucson! Drinking 2015 Bulang Beauty from Tea Urchin—our wedding tea. @tea #tea

HydrePrever, 6 months ago to statistics French

Mastodon, what is a good (freely available) dataset to give an example of principal component analysis?
Thanks for answering or sharing! #statistics #pca #rstats

eliocamp, 7 months ago to random

I've reviewed a paper for a big open access journal that charges almost USD 3000 in APC. The abstract had a typo in the first sentence which I didn't point out because I figured that such a big journal with such high article processing costs much surely hire a copy editor to proofread the final version. Apparently not. The typo is still there, right in the first sentence of the abstract.

Scientific publishing really is a big racket, isn't it?

#AcademicChatter

smach, 7 months ago to rstats

“Do you have a data set with many variables and want to find the most important ones?
“Do you want to reduce the complexity of your data and reveal the hidden patterns or structures?
“Do you want to visualize your data in a lower-dimensional space and identify clusters or outliers?
“If you answered yes to these questions, consider using principal component analysis (PCA) in R.”
PCA in R Explained:
https://www.data03.online/2023/09/principal-component-analysis-in-r-i-pca.html
By Zubair Goraya
#rstats @rstats