Daniel Borek

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🇵🇱 PL in Brussels | A PhD candidate trying to make sense of human 🧠 #electrophysiology #oscillations in #EEG and #MEG using #R and #Python | other interests: knowledge management, #metascience, #OpenScience, #PhilosophyOfScience, #DataViz | 🎥 #cinephile
AI is a strategic tool to improve scientific research

JRC research shapes the EU approach to strengthen AI in science in Europe.

The Joint Research Centre: EU Science Hub

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GitHub - mcanouil/quarto-wizard: Quarto Wizard is a Visual Studio Code extension that assists you in managing Quarto projects.

Quarto Wizard is a Visual Studio Code extension that assists you in managing Quarto projects. - mcanouil/quarto-wizard

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Web of Science can't handle innovation - Ross Mounce

So I read Jeffrey Brainard’s piece in Science magazine on Clarivate’s decision to punish eLife for innovating – by stripping eLife of a proprietary Journal Impact Factor™ number, that Clarivate itself awards (sidenote: to be clear, personally see no value in Journal Impact Factors as they are statistically illiterate, irreproducible, and easily gameable, amongst many […]

Ross Mounce
Very cool to see that BrainModes will be livestreaming for free on youtube (starting tomorrow) https://brainmodes-bilbao-2024.eu/
BrainModes 2024 - Bilbao

Steadily building #quartopub and #rstats into Obsidian, added custom coding toolbar, and one click note to pdf/html renderer. (the plugin lives here: github.com/MichelNivard..., editor tool bar in about a week). Its a hobby project on 1 hour each day instead of reading the news, so might be slow...
Bluesky is the Microsoft Word of social media, which I mean in the derogatory sense, as the fediverse is the LaTeX of social media, which I also mean in the derogatory sense

"In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."

Herbert Simon, polymath (economics, computer science, political science), 1971

#Shiny #RStats: Winston Chang unveiled Shiny Assistant this week!

In-browser GenAI for designing & implementing custom Shiny apps
Play around with it for free using Posit's API key (note: they can see your queries) at:

https://gallery.shinyapps.io/assistant/

Thoughts:

1. Outperforms no-code tools like Tableau for app/dashboard creation
2. Full codebase & system prompt available online - ready for immediate integration
3. Powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Anthropic), not ChatGPT!

Code:
https://github.com/posit-dev/shiny-assistant

New pre-release book on Applied Bayesian Regression by Paul Bürkner, the author of {brms} #rstats package:

https://paulbuerkner.com/software/brms-book/

Looking forward to the official 2025 release.

Paul Bürkner - The brms Book