Derek Sollberger

remade a network diagram in Typst (with the Fletcher package)

If anyone wants to see a demo/walkthrough of Typst, I will be running a casual seminar with the DSLC (Data Science Learning Community) this Saturday at 1 PM EDT!

Today's joy is finding some rvest code that I wrote over two years ago (and get to reuse!)

I updated the syllabus for my Machine Learning course, and I made it---diagrams included---with the Typst Universe!
Blog post (Typst code and design decisions): dsollbergerquarto.netlify.app/posts/typst_...

made a new logo for one of my courses
#hexsession #user2025

link: dsollbergerquarto.netlify.app/posts/rna_se...

finished taking an online course in bioinformatics techniques for RNA-Seq. To wrap up, I tried out the tools on a different data set, and then presented the results as a Quarto closeread story!
blog post (then scroll down): dsollbergerquarto.netlify.app/.../rna_seq_...

is happy to be at #useR2025. So far, I ran into 3 colleagues from various ventures, and learned

* how to underline text in Quarto markdown

* that a `countdown` can end with a sound effect

(in addition to a couple of great workshops about tidyomics and srvyr)

I was awed by many talks at #JSM2025, but I was stunned by the Jenga tower

This is my first time at #JSM2025. I will probably learn something Bayesian, but right now I have a uniform prior

Over in Week 2 of our online RNA-Seq course, we learned about normalizing read counts through VST (variance stabilizing transformation). To help me verify the concept for myself, I made a ridgeplot of 10 randomly selected genes in the lung cancer data.

Yeah, we quickly learn who didn't attend the accessibility seminar.

SAG-AFTRA approves 2025 Video Game Agreement, officially concluding its strike Members of US actors' union SAG-AFTRA have approved the 2025 Video Game Agreement, officially concluding the strike.

www.eurogamer.net/sag-aftra-ap...

found my university's list-serves, which were en vogue about 12 years ago. They are quite a time capsule.

map of the United states titled "United States of Science 2025" with the skype a scientist logo and 2000 tiny empty circles spread out across the USA. States with low population numbers have fewer than where there are more people.

It’s that time again! Time for our 7th annual United States of Science Challenge!

Each bubble on this map represents classrooms we matched w/scientists this year.

$10 donations fill bubbles!

The first region to fill in all of their bubbles wins!

Fill bubbles here! givebutter.com/USS2025

Lies of P devs get bonus, paid holiday and Switch 2 consoles for hitting sales milestone | VGC The game and its Overture DLC have sold 3 million copies combined…

"Lies of P devs get bonus, paid holiday and Switch 2 consoles for hitting sales milestone"

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/lies-of...

On a whim, I took some of the room icons from the video game Blue Prince and rearranged them to emulate the classic board game Clue

Outer Worlds 2 will have a "math crazed scientist"

This nerdy trilogy is complete!

wonderful math books by Jay Cummings

and I wish that I could teach these classes

Today I saw (in a blog post) a dev say that one of their projects was of little importance because it "only got 40 citations"

Book: Generative AI for Students by David Meechan

new toy

finally got Python to write LaTeX code of matrices for me

[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.] Ponytail: Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars. Cueball: And quartz, of course. Ponytail: Of course. [Caption below the panel] Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.

XKCD 2501

Link: xkcd.com/2501/

At first, I thought that the Jeopardy question was "What are random controlled trials?"

In Outlook (email client), I had been annoyed for quite a while that the program would occasionally disregard when I hit the space key.

To fix that, I turned off Text Predictions under Smart Suggestions in the Settings panel

My colleagues may like this

collage by InBrukes

I forgot to have my students create team names, and it is a machine learning course, so ...

While driving to work, I was listening to a podcast episode about The Offspring. While teaching about SVM classifiers, I literally muttered, "You gotta keep them separated"

I already thought that installing graphviz was annoying in R

... and then I tried it out in Python (grr)