smach

grimalkina, 4 hours ago to random

I'm sorry WHAT and none of you told me?????

Position ENTIRELY reversed on Python. Literally going to learn it now. Call me pythonista Cat. I am so serious. WHAT.

https://masto.machlis.com/@smach/112462436451472935

smach, 5 hours ago to random

What happens when you mandate masks at a conference now that most people no longer wear them but medically vulnerable people are still at risk because #CovidIsNotOver? In the case of #PyConUS, the conference sells out.

Why a masking policy? “Many of us and our fellow community members can’t attend without health and safety guidelines in place. We want PyCon US to be an event that everyone feels safe attending,” organizers explained.

Well done @pycon https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/112445571644276379

smach, 2 days ago to rstats

How Major League Teams Use R to Analyze Baseball Data - video presentation by Keith Woolner, principal data scientist for the Cleveland Guardians, at the Cleveland R User Group
https://youtu.be/1SR9C4td3TI?si=Ic7osZnMgb8vQd44

#RStats #SportsAnalytics @rstats

smach, 2 days ago to llm

New free course on #LLM agents from DeepLearning AI and crewAI:

“With crewAI, an open source library for building multi-agent systems, you'll get hands-on experience building agent crews for processes like:

💻 Tailoring resumes and interview prep for job applications
💻 Researching, writing, and editing technical articles
💻 Conducting customer outreach campaigns
💻 Financial analysis
💻 Planning events”

Taught by crewAI founder João (Joe) Moura

https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/multi-ai-agent-systems-with-crewai/
#GenAI #AI

FantasticalEconomics, 5 days ago to Economics

We really need to rethink our capitalistic obsession of running things like a business. Cutting costs to increase profits obviously doesn't make sense in areas of education, healthcare, public utilities, and prisons, to name just a few.

Hell, Boeing is making a strong case that it doesn't even make sense for businesses to be run like a business, much less these public goods...

#economics

mekkaokereke, 7 days ago to random

If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

smach, 8 days ago to LLMs

“The general problem of mixing data with commands is at the root of many of our computer security vulnerabilities.” Great explainer by security researcher Bruce Schneier on why large language models may not be a great choice for tasks like processing your emails.
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/llms-data-control-path-insecurity/

#GenAI #LLMs #InfoSec

smach, 11 days ago to ai

“AI Use Cases for R Enthusiasts” - Upcoming Workshop for Ukraine this Thursday, May 9, noon ET/6 pm CET/9 am PT with Dr. Albert Rapp ( @rappa753 but not too active here). Donate 20 euro/20 USD for this live 2-hour session - or if you can’t make it, access to recordings & materials.
Rapp says you'll leave with “fresh ideas and practical strategies for using AI.”
https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine
#rstats #AI #GenAI @rstats

smach, 13 days ago to python

Ari Lamstein says his "Visualizing the Impact of Covid-19 on US Counties" blog post may be of interest if you want to "learn how to build data apps in Python, as the entire project is released under a permissive license (MIT), and is publicly available on GitHub."
Post: https://arilamstein.com/blog/2024/05/04/visualizing-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-us-counties/
Streamlit app: https://census-explorer.streamlit.app/
GitHub repo: https://github.com/arilamstein/censusdis-streamlit/tree/main

#Python #Streamlit #Covid19 #dataviz #ddj #USCensus @python

smach, 13 days ago to LLMs

The TinyChart-3B LLM answers questions about data visualizations. It can also generate underlying data from a dataviz and Python code to re-create a similar chart.

Demo on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mPLUG/TinyChart-3B

Code: https://github.com/X-PLUG/mPLUG-DocOwl/tree/main/TinyChart

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16635 8 authors from the Alibaba Group and Renmin University of China

#GenAI #LLMs

smach, 15 days ago to rstats

{tidycensus} #rstats 📦 creator Kyle Walker: "Want all 8.13 million US Census blocks available for your #GIS project? It's a one-liner in #rstats thanks to the tigris and purrr packages:

us_blocks <- purrr::map_dfr(c(https://t.co/RfFgUSx1a6, "DC"), ~tigris::blocks(state = .x, year = 2023))

Downloading will take time; set options(tigris_use_cache = TRUE) beforehand to build a local cache of block shapefiles that you can access without having to download."

#rspatial @rstats

smach, 18 days ago to rstats

The {summarytools} #rstats 📦 aims to:
“Provide a coherent set of easy-to-use descriptive functions [like] those in commercial statistical software suites such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata
“Offer flexibility in terms of output format & content
“Integrate well with commonly used software & tools for reporting”
Results can be displayed in console or rendered/saved as HTML, plain text, or R Markdown. By Dominic Comtois
https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/dcomtois/summarytools/blob/master/doc/introduction.html
#EDA @rstats

Posit, 23 days ago to python

Introducing Shiny for Python templates! 🐍

We're thrilled to offer opinionated boilerplate Shiny Templates code that allows you to hit the ground running, whether you need a quick, simple app or a quick, complicated one.

• Read more on the Shiny blog: https://shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/introducing-shiny-templates/
• Watch Carson Sievert quickly get an app running locally with Shiny Templates on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQJiMRStYE8

#Python #Shiny

smach, 24 days ago to rstats

File import/export in R is simple and elegant with the {rio} #rstats 📦. It uses just 2 main functions for dozens of file types: import() and export(). Whether .zip, .xlsx, Google sheets, json, .rds, .csv or more, rio handles file-extension checks and selecting the right functions.
http://gesistsa.github.io/rio/
There's also a convert() function.
One of my favorite R packages!
By Thomas J. Leeper, Chung-hong Chan, David Schoch & Jason Becker
@rstats

smach, 25 days ago to rstats

The {styler} #rstats 📦 “formats your code according to the tidyverse style guide (or your custom style guide) so you can direct your attention to the content of your code. It helps to keep the coding style consistent across projects and facilitate collaboration.” By Lorenz Walther & Kirill Müller

https://styler.r-lib.org/

@rstats

smach, 29 days ago to LLMs

“But this doesn’t save any time!” 3 useful questions when trying #LLMs:

• Is there another way to get results I want? Don't give up right away.
• Does AI make this task less or more annoying? Sometimes supervising drudge work feels better even if it's not faster; other times you'd still rather do it yourself.
• Are results likely to improve as LLMs get better? If so, add a calendar reminder to try again in a few months. Or, keep a list of things you want to re-try post GPT-5 class models.
  #GenAI

smach, 29 days ago to rstats

“Another base R gem: toString()” - @josi
#rstats
@rstats

smach, 1 month ago to ai

“Star Trek's Holodeck is no longer just science fiction. Using AI, engineers have created a tool that can generate 3D environments, prompted by everyday language.” This was designed to train robots, not entertain us humans. But Star Trek fans can easily envision other uses.
#GenAI #AI

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240411130301.htm

smach, 1 month ago to random

From {tidycensus} creator Kyle Walker: “My webinar Analyzing 2020 Decennial US Census Data in #rstats is now on YouTube!
In the 3-hour webinar, you'll learn about:

📈 Available datasets in the 2020 US Census, and how to access and use them in R;
📈 How to explore decennial US Census data with tidyverse tools;
📈 Using interactive maps to explore US Census data;
📈 Advanced topics like working with detailed DHC-A data and analyzing change over time“ 1/2

https://youtu.be/JQRS5wYtPlY?si=ex4SHu7Xm3BmxdTM
#RSpatial

smach, 1 month ago to random

I'm not sure why Claude's Haiku LLM started responding in Spanish to questions in English in a RAG application I'm building when all of the context was in English. Odd.