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Looking forward to next week www.authorsinoundle.co.uk/aio-event/pe...

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.

I don’t know how else to say it…

Just had a chat with dicky. I am the [sic] going to be Santa : )

Going to this highschool did not prepare me for today's orientation day.

This is wonderful

Louie Louie by the grade 6s at assembly, and I'm wearing a Zappa tshirt hahaha

this is my newest normal mistype #rstats

Error in `dplyr::filter()`:
! We detected a named input.
ℹ This usually means that you've used `=` instead of `==`.

It's 2025 and we're still figuring out how to store tiny essential metadata on arrays and tables

Well we did have wk a long time, but duckdb super cool too ☝️

R Interface to DuckDB Database with Spatial Extension Provides an interface between R and the DuckDB (see ) database with spatial extensions. It supports reading, writing, and performing some geometric operations.

No more sf::st_as_text() or st_geomfromtext() to move geospatial data between {sf} and duckdb spatial 😃 https://cidree.github.io/duckspatial/ #gisChat #Rstats #DuckDB

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HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?

It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:

www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...

Code: github.com/nrennie/tidy...

partitioning an 18x20 rectangle into smaller rectangles using seed points.

partitioning an 18x20 rectangle into smaller rectangles using seed points.

Experimenting with shikaku puzzle generation in #RStats

I'm looking for a simple way to randomly partition a rectangle into smaller rectangles which does *NOT* use binary partitioning.

Suggestions welcomed!

I'll share how I did this at some point - perhaps blog, R package, workshop, or some combination

It's clear to me though that the potential of SAM3 for geospatial is enormous

The new SAM3 model from Meta is blowing my mind

Shown here: detecting putting greens, pools, and cars in Scottsdale from simple text prompts via Mapbox imagery

R, Shiny, mapgl for the UI; Python backend via @giswqs.bsky.social's segment-geospatial package (thanks Qiusheng!)

just wrote this code

purpose = "cetacean"

it does funny things to my brain

David Bowie & Trent Reznor, `I'm Afraid of Americans` (1997)

It's right there! They blew it!

who says AI ain't smart:

"Yeah, Teams with multiple tenants is a nightmare! A few tricks:"

Today's favourite tshirt (worn by a teen)

Bookmarks are for quitters

so many cool packages to explore and learn, almost done with my deep dives on DBI, dbplyr, sql, and S7.

probably will focus on shiny next but really tempted by httr2 and plumber2 as well.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Dire Straits
Fugazi
Machine Gun Fellatio
Fishbone
Carcass

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Bowie
The Cramps
Einstürzende Neubauten
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Iggy Pop

The challenge with LLMs is getting them to focus properly on what they're good at

They publish the thesis and you're still in chapter 1, it's the overall orchestration that really matters

And, they aren't great at source control meshing with yours (tell me I'm wrong)

So now that the robot is good at code can we get it to actually use the language when we're typing

you just bumped my follows 😍

How the heck wasn’t I following you!?!? Sheesh.

Economic case for Hobart stadium just doesn't add up, experts say An expert planning panel has defended their scathing assessment of Hobart's proposed Macquarie Point stadium while speaking to the politicians who will ultimately decide the project's fate.

It's an absolute dud. "The stadium benefits a subsection of the community, but the whole community pays for it." Both Thomas and Harriss need to say no for it to fall through. I am not feeling confident. #politas

They'll spend that money and the ground itself still won't be developable in 10 years, they have no idea. Tasports wants a cruise ship wonderland, state govt wants a pipe dream they're entirely at odds

“Drinking a whole bottle of wine” meme and the tiers are DELICIOUS TURKEY THANK YOU YEAH THEYRE PRETTY GOOD AT CODING BUT YOU REALLY SHOULDN'T TRUST THEM FOR ANYTHING NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, THEY RE HAUNTED AND EVIL, OK SO THERE'S THIS REALM OF PURE THOUGHT CALLED AN EMBEDDING SPACE

Yeah, this is where I am these days too.