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JamesGleick, 11 days ago to random

A portrait of an IRS that has been made helpless to collect taxes owed by the very rich, no matter how blatantly and shamelessly they cheat. Super reporting here by the NY Times and @ProPublica.

(Case study starring a grifter who has never earned an honest dollar in his life.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/trump-taxes-audit-chicago.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE0.Qvx1.36AkJGklXwtz&smid=url-share

gutenberg_org, 19 days ago to books

American geneticist Nettie Stevens died #OTD in 1912.

In 1905, Stevens published a pivotal paper detailing her observations on the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor. She identified that male mealworms had a pair of unequal-sized chromosomes, while females had two X chromosomes. This discovery supported the theory that sex is determined by specific chromosomes, a significant advancement in the field of genetics.

Books by Nettie Stevens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35315

#books #biology #genetics

Book cover for "Studies in Spermatogenesis (Part 1 of 2)" by N. M. Stevens, featuring an abstract geometric design in red and blue on a navy background, with the Project Gutenberg logo at the bottom.

mikerspencer, 21 days ago to Pixelfed

I'm looking for a #pixelfed server for a (non-commercial) band. The account will be used for promotion and engagement. Recommendations welcome!

#LiveMusic #Jazz #Music

paocorrales, 24 days ago to random

Hello #rstats

I'm trying to run a subquery using dbplyr and failing in the process.

Something like:

db |>
filter(!variable %in% (
-a subquery here-
)) |>
distinct(variable) |>
collect()

I found an "old" question in SO and when I try running the solution I get the same error.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61745990/how-to-use-a-subquery-inside-dplyrfilter

What changed in dbplyr since 2020?

zeileis, 27 days ago to random

Very sad news: Our friend and colleague Fritz Leisch passed away this week.

Among his many #rstats contributions:

• Original R Core Team member
• Co-founder of CRAN
• Sweave author for reproducible documents

R Core Team announcement:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2024/000702.html

BOKU obituary (in German):

https://boku.ac.at/news/newsitem/78553

GM7077, 27 days ago to random

“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.” Howard Zinn 1971

publicvoit, 1 month ago to microsoft

#Microsoft is a national #security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/21/microsoft_national_security_risk/

If you're a Microsoft customer, act now.

TheConversationUS, 1 month ago to genealogy

Genealogical and genetic ancestors aren’t the same thing. A DNA match − or a lack of one − may not tell you what you imagine it does about your family tree.

Our story on Live Science:
https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/you-probably-didnt-inherit-any-dna-from-charlemagne-what-it-means-when-your-dna-matches-a-historic-persons

#DNA #genealogy

servelan, 1 month ago to random

Big money flows to US charities fueling vaccine misinformation

https://www.yahoo.com/news/big-money-flows-us-charities-012855095.html

sam, 1 month ago to Atlanta

The bike shop I work at, #REI, just got back to me to tell me that they are going ahead with their policy of installing cameras in the shop to monitor employees. They say these are not used to track productivity, but the CEO is a union busting ex-Amazon executive and he has given himself that power, so that's enough for me. My last day will be mid-May and I am now properly desperate to find a new job before I loose my house. Leads in the bike or software industry welcome in or around #Atlanta.

fsf, 1 month ago to random

The FSF has reopened! Pick up your LibrePlanet t-shirt, the new laser-cut wooden GNU sticker, our new "user rights" drawstring back, and more! https://shop.fsf.org

verge, 1 month ago to random

The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128177/google-one-vpn-service-shutdown-announcement-graveyard

Snoro, 1 month ago to connecticut

Study: Connecticut ranks 2nd in nation for fighting climate change
Braley Dodson
~1 minute

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — When it comes to helping avoid climate change, Connecticut is almost the best in the nation, according to a WalletHub study published on Thursday

https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/study-connecticut-ranks-2nd-in-nation-for-fighting-climate-change/

#Connecticut #USA #US #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

ElenLeFoll, 1 month ago to linguistics

Our new series "ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas" starts this coming Monday 16:00-17:30 CEST at the University of Cologne and online! 🍵 🍪

We begin with "Mind your p-values! The pitfalls of statistical significance testing", with Job Schepens, statistical consultant at the CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" at the University Cologne. #linguistics

Sign up to our mailing list to get links to the recommended readings and the Zoom links to participate online! https://ub.uni-koeln.de/en/courses-consultations/reproducibilitea-in-the-humaniteas #OpenScience

petersuber, 1 month ago to ai

I knew that #AI tools had an insatiable appetite for training text. But I didn't know this:

"At #Meta…managers, lawyers and engineers last year discussed buying the publishing house #SimonAndSchuster to procure long works [for AI training], according to recordings of internal meetings obtained by The Times. They also conferred on gathering copyrighted data from across the internet, even if that meant facing lawsuits."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html

gvwilson, 1 month ago to random

Genuinely curious if there's any trustworthy research comparing how cynical programmers are about management with equivalent cynicism in other white-collar professions.

deevybee, 1 month ago to random

brilliant video by Sabine Hossenfelder about her personal experiences in science - should be required viewing by all science funders
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LKiBlGDfRU8
#WomenInScience #autobiography #ScienceCareers #ScienceFunding

BayesForDays, 1 month ago to academia

I wrote a piece talking about #academia and #altac jobs and transitioning between the two for Nature Human Behavior https://rdcu.be/dDcJ0

jfmblinux, 2 months ago to google French

#Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@Mozilla) (@mozilla ) and/or #TorBrowser if you haven't done so already!

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adrianhon, 2 months ago to random

RIP to a real one. Practically everything he wrote was decades ahead of its time, not to mention superbly entertaining and deeply humanist. https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/

baldur, 2 months ago to random

I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates

It means that every post published was important to the writer

Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most

You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters

deevybee, 2 months ago to random

Another shout out for our new preprint,
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vzg3e
which we think is interesting for 3 reasons:
a) Acts as a tutorial to introduce DeclareDesign, an excellent #simulation package in R
b) Uses it to compare 2 competing analyses of a RCT run by EEF on GraphoGame
c) Argues for simulation as way forward in the 'multiple analysts' problem

#Rlanguage #RCT

deevybee, 2 months ago to random

New! preprint coauthored with Charles Hulme: "When alternative analyses of the same data come to different conclusions: A tutorial using DeclareDesign with a worked real-world example".
We use DeclareDesign to compare 2 analyses of a RCT of Graphogame intervention that came to different conclusions
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vzg3e
#intervention #analysis #simulation #literacy

lrvick, 2 months ago to random

It's official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device.

It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical.

Any tech journalists or lawyers interested interested in this?

I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.

plantarum, 2 months ago to google

How #Google is killing independent sites like ours - #HouseFresh
https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

#enshittification