Kevin Baer

This is gorgeous!

This weeks #tidytuesday: How have movies grown and fallen from Jan-Jun of 2024 to Jan-Jun of 2025? #rstats

code: github.com/kevbaer/tidy...

On point 🫡

Yeah &juliet is wonderful, very fun time.

Which show? Just saw Maybe Happy Ending this weekend!

Fighting the good fight.

I took a python class in the fall at my university which taught pandas. As a fervent R user, I hated it and started learning polars. At end of the course, I was talking with the professor about switching to Polars. Unfortunately, in 2025, I agree that you can’t teach just polars in an intro course.

Code: github.com/kevbaer/tidy...

A stacked bar graph with different sources of funding with gia taking up the largest bit. The graph peaks at 2007 with a value of around 145 million pounds before falling back to ~80 million pounds in the year 2023.

This week's #tidytuesday shows how different British Library Funding has changed over time. #rstats

I honestly have worked best just writing most notes in apple notes app, and i take class notes on physical paper (because I know I won't look at them years later). I am a huge fan of Zotero though for annotating and keeping important sources of info.

These changes rock.

TidyTuesday featuring Purple, Green, Brown, Pink, Blue "waffles" of different hexes. Most of the guesses are accurate but some seem a bit humorously incorrect.

Better late than never to analyze the biggest pink fan in the #tidytuesday dataset! Very colorful week which I appreciated. Used the fun waffle package. #rstats

code: github.com/kevbaer/tidy...

Semislav

code: github.com/kevbaer/tidy...

3 line plots representing gas prices, faceted on grade (regular, midgrade, premium) with title "Gas Prices Change ±10 Cents Week Over Week", and subtitle "Little Difference Between Grades". Caption: "By Kevin Baer - 7/1/2025"

First ever #tidytuesday somehow?? #rstats

Completely agree

This is looks wonderful, thanks for sharing!

I prefer inline when my final output includes code + outputs (e.g. most of my college assignments!)

If it’s just outputs, I’ll typically use .R files (e.g. a kaggle competition or viz buzz!)

Personally, I think inherent in “notebook” style is inline outputs. But I recognize others disagree.

Currently, (because of the lack of inline output in positron quarto... it's a whole thing), I've been running julia in .ipynb files to good success!

Although Julia is not a native language like Python or R in Positron, I have had plenty of success running (very mediocre) Julia code in Positron!

Here’s a haiku I wrote a few weeks ago (very quickly I might add)

Why I still write code:
Would you skip to your deathbed?
Living is doing

So #rstats people, I would not recommend having the same package installed in both your user library and system library.

Thanks for your attention to this matter.

(only took a couple hours to fix, nothing terrible)

Yeah I think that’s good. I will say it’s not a bad idea to remind students to make sure their usernames are respectful for class communication.

Just my opinion, but slack is more professional and I feel professors using discord can be too “hip”. That being said, if Discord is more of a chat board than the official class channel of communication (like using your website for posting announcements/assignments) then it’s all just vibes.

5. "'Jesus is my favorite hyper-entity' might make an amusing bumper sticker for Christian designer-philosophers."

If you've gotten this far, you'd likely enjoy the entire essay!
michaelnotebook.com/optimism/

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"...Safety is rather provided by a sufficiently strong safety loop. It's about how adaptable our civilization is."

4. "While just-in-time safety is scary, it's also been wildly successful through history."

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3. "No-one knows in detail how ASI will be made safe. Many people find this scary and unacceptable. It is scary, for anyone knowledgeable and sensible. But safety in our civilization usually isn't something we see how to supply in detail in advance..." (continued on next)

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1. "...the future is made by optimists: they're the people with the vision and drive to act."

2. "Can we imagine truly wonderful futures, insanely great futures, futures worth fighting for?"

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Just finished reading @michaelnielsen.bsky.social's essay "How to be a wise optimist about science and technology?"

I really enjoyed this, as I feel Michael and I share a lot of the same worries. I strongly encourage you to read the whole thing. Here are 5 lines that stood out to me:

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Very strong season from #avfc, a few let-downs in key moments but certainly over-achieved. Build around the core of Torres, Konsa, Kamara, Tielemans, Rogers and we'll be good. UTV!