robscale 0.5.3 is now on CRAN: A major update since the last public release (0.2.1).

New: 11 robust estimators with confidence intervals, plus a variance-weighted ensemble combining seven scale statistics via bootstrap. Newton–Raphson replaces scoring iteration (2–4 steps vs 6–8), a fused AVX2 kernel does NR accumulation in one data pass, and all input validation runs in C++ with zero R-side allocation.

Speedups vs existing implementations:

Small samples (n ≤ 20):
• robScale/robLoc: 4–5× vs revss 3.1.0
• Qn: 6× vs robustbase
• MAD: 21–26× vs stats::mad
• IQR: 37× vs stats::IQR

Mid-to-large samples (n ≥ 1000):
• robScale: 2–4× vs revss
• Sn: 7–9× vs robustbase
• MAD: 5–8× vs stats::mad
• IQR: 5–7× vs stats::IQR
• GMD: 2–8× vs GiniDistance

https://cran.r-project.org/package=robscale
https://github.com/davdittrich/robscale

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Positron 2026.03.0 is out — and it’s getting seriously good for real data workflows.

✨ Reliable step-by-step execution in R (finally!)
📄 Built-in PDF viewer (no more context switching)
📓 Notebook editor evolving: interactive data grids, better cell control, Jupyter-like UX

This is moving beyond “just an IDE” → toward an integrated data + analysis environment.
https://positron.posit.co/release-notes.html
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Your Photos Are Probably Giving Away Your Location. Here’s How to Stop That

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Join me at The roots of AI: Natural Language Processing & N-gram models https://meetu.ps/e/PWj5g/RQcH8/i

👩🏼‍💻When: April 23, 2026 7pm CET

What we’ll do: guess the next word with an NGRAM model - while figuring out the big picture 🔨

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The roots of AI: Natural Language Processing & N-gram models, Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Artificial Intelligence often feels like a black box, but many of its core ideas come from simple and elegant statistical concepts. In this session, we will step back from

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🤖 Persistent memory changes how people interact with AI — here's what I'm observing

I run a small AI companion platform and wanted to share some interesting behavioral data from users who've been using persistent cross-session memory for 2-3 months now. Some patterns I didn't expe...

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