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Finally created an official policy for AI/LLMs in class, both for writing and for coding (https://datavizf24.classes.andrewheiss.com/resource/ai-bs.html)
AI, LLMs, and BS – Data Visualization with R

Use R, ggplot2, and the principles of graphic design to create beautiful and truthful visualizations of data

Data Visualization with R

Very pleased with today’s achievement: a peening bench for my scythe. Time to clear my little ragwort meadow!

#scything #mowing

Pipeline release! nf-core/mag v3.0.0 - mag 3.0.0 - Magenta Magpie!

Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/mag/releases/tag/3.0.0

#annotation #assembly #binning #long-read-sequencing #metagenomes #metagenomics #nanopore #nanopore-sequencing #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics

Release mag 3.0.0 - Magenta Magpie · nf-core/mag

CautionThis release contains a potentially 'breaking change' for some users. The pipeline no longer directly accepts FASTQ files via --input. You must use a samplesheet and specify the FASTQs there...

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Two days until the robe dances to life. Hard to imagine that yarn became this, and that my own hands wove it. Check out: Yéil Koowú at lilyhope.com or KTOO for more info on the ceremony. The event will be live streamed. #fiberarts #weaving #handmade #alaskalife #MastoArt #artwork

TERFs will be all "we support diverse gender expression for women so long as you don't identify as another gender", and then when you look at them they're a clone army of middle-aged white women in frumpy clothes and haircuts who you know are shooting dirty looks in the supermarket at any girl who has dyed hair, piercings, or a skirt above the knee.

Gender policing is gender policing. The self appointed judges of who is "allowed" to be a woman also inevitably police what those women are allowed to look and act like.

The trans community spans all walks of life and all forms of gender expression, and celebrates diversity because we know how precious it is to be able to be an authentic version of yourself.

And I have yet to meet someone with a genuinely nonconforming style who is transphobic. They've had the same insults thrown at them as we get, they've been through the same battles to be allowed to express who they are inside.

Freedom to express yourself however you like and freedom to identify however you like are the same battle, and anyone who claims the two are in opposition is just sowing false discord to undermine both.

When I boil it down, I find my feelings about AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about blockchains.

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #newsletter #CitationNeeded

Friends, if Microsoft tries to squeeze you to buy a new computer to run version 11 when every new version of Windows gets worse and adds ads then please consider that more than 100 million people use Linux on their desktop computer, including people who make all sorts of projects with videos, illustrations, digital photographs, laser cuttings, animations, paper media, CAD, CAM, 3D printed stuff, circuit boards, etc.
Will it be exactly the same as Windows? No.
Can it be awesome? Yes.

i love prior-predictive simulation now!

made a guess at some priors and fit the model - got some weird behaviour that wasn't playing nicely. sat down and plotted them out, turns out they were saying something i definitely thought was unlikely...

— She should try actually talking and listening to trans kids.

Been a wee while but I’m back to #TabletWeaving! Upgraded my loom with some wider pegs (the tension peg in particular is much easier to handle now), and weaving up shoelaces in 20/2 mercerised cotton. Going carefully as I’m scared the tablets are going to snap a warp thread but so far so good!

#weaving