Florent Bédécarrats

Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...

Copy of DAG in figure 2 panel C

Thanks for sharing this! I am confused about the meaning of the different shades of grey in the figures. Why do we have 2 different shades and two different instances of the dark grey in figure 2. panel C please @pwgtennant.bsky.social ?

Screenshot of first page of slidecrafting-book.com website

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up

There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily

slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog “Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭

anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

"A Pair of Printer’s Cases", drawn by Rudolph Ruzicka. showing a typesetting case with capital laters in the upper case — literally

Just in case you were wondering why capital letters are also called "UPPERcase" :)

Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨

This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto #slidecrafting

🗞️ La détermination des chercheurs et chercheuses face à l'inaction (et aux reculs) écologique(s)

Merci @afeitz.bsky.social d'avoir recueilli nos propos pour @lesechosfr.bsky.social.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

You can watch Hadley's keynote at this link: www.youtube.com/live/ctc2kx3...

#useR2025

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Is there any game-theoretic framework showing some short or long-term benefit to EU in the Von der Leyen-Trump deal?

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Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

climada-python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tu...

In Emaciated Children, Gaza’s Hunger Is Laid Bare

“The starvation of Gaza can be measured in the jutting ribs of a 6-year-old girl.”

📝 Vivian Yee
📷 Saher Alghorra
@nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/w...

Children so malnourished they’re losing their sight: Inside Israel’s Gaza blockade The blockade has led to famine-like conditions for the two million people living on the Strip, and at least 9,000 children have been admitted for treatment of acute malnutrition since the start of the...

“Extreme-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has warned that with this new plan, “within a few months ... Gaza will be totally destroyed”.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Also, if you or your institution have a WebDAV server (eg. a nextcloud somewhere) you can use it instead of zotero server to sync. So you do not depend on zotero 250mo free sync limitation.

Zotero nicely integrates within quarto editors on Rstudio and positron. In View mode: insert/citation, and you can directly browse your zotero library and click to add to your notebook.

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing

"Never again" means not this, ever: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

WFP runs out of food stocks in Gaza as border crossings remain closed | World Food Programme GAZA, Palestine – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza.

"The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza.
Today, WFP delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meals kitchens in the Gaza Strip. These kitchens are expected to fully run out of food in the coming days."

www.wfp.org/news/wfp-run...

Geodata links to gadm.org
Other great source is www.geoboundaries.org

"The soldiers reloaded their magazines and kept shooting even after it was clear that no return fire was coming from the other side – and despite the cries of the aid workers who tried to identify themselves."

From Haaretz.

archive.ph/4vam4

do you know who & what could definitely help end diseases?

THE NIH

THE CDC

NSF

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHERS

UNIVERSITIES SUPPORTING THAT RESEARCH

chatGPT can’t ID how many r’s are in “strawberry” but we’re supposed to believe AI will save us instead of the orgs & ppl that got defunded?

fuck off

Posts | Noah Greifer Statistical Consultant and Programmer

livefreeordichotomize.com by @lucystats.bsky.social

matthewbjane.github.io/blog.html by @matthewbjane.bsky.social

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/ by the king @andrew.heiss.phd

ngreifer.github.io/blog/ by yours truly (can't resist a self-promotion 😉)

Stats blogs are the best!

The plan to prove that the most incompetent White men are preferable to the most highly qualified Black men has been a smashing success.

Between the tariff lunacy tanking the economy, the chain-sawing of the federal govt, & Signal-gate (parts 1 & 2), the supremacy is not looking very supreme.