Mastodawn

Thinking about using your LLM to interpret those plots you had it generate? Be careful! https://posit.co/blog/llm-plot-interpretation/

LLMs interpret plots well, until expectations interfere - Posit

Posit

Jim Rose Dec 4

ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ Dec 4

Day 4: .Rbuildignore and .gitignore Best Practices 📁

Control what gets included in your package build and git repository! 🎯

💡 Pro Tip: Use usethis::use_build_ignore() to add entries programmatically.
#rstats #BestPractices #Git #RPackageAdvent2025 🗃️

Jim Rose Nov 29

Ron Garcia Nov 29

In case you too ever wondered why networks of nodes and edges are called "graphs":

Jim Rose Oct 6

Piggleston Pecanpants Oct 6

Today I saw someone toot, in dismay, people are posting their everyday life to Mastodon when they could simply buy a diary for $1.99. I can't stop thinking about this.
What if this is all they have? What if they're isolated with or without people in their life? What if the only kind word they hear this week is, "That's cool"? I say, post your mundane. Post anything you want. While being silenced everywhere else, don't be silent here.

Jim Rose Sep 25

Chris Black Sep 24

Unpopular #RStats take: Lambdas are great and all, but naming your functions is part of what makes functional programming work.

Lately I’m seeing a lot of `vec |> map( \(x) { [dozens of lines here] })` and look, at that point it's just a weirdly spelled for-loop.

Jim Rose Sep 4, 2025

petersuber Sep 4, 2025

Congratulations to @WIRED for catching their AI-written article, retracting it, and publishing a candid 𝘮𝘦𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘱𝘢."
https://www.wired.com/story/how-wired-got-rolled-by-an-ai-freelancer/

Have any academic journals done that?

#AI #LLMs #ScholComm

How WIRED Got Rolled by an AI Freelancer

We retracted a story in May. Here’s what happened.

WIRED

Jim Rose Aug 18, 2025

In the 30s the USSR decided to turn its back on the field of genetics because the implications of genetic inheritance ran counter to party narratives. UK/US geneticists shortly thereafter discovered DNA, while their Russian counterparts were being sent to the gulags. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/mrna-vaccines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.Evec.R9zumrku_boT&smid=url-share