travis gerke

When “translate all of R into Rust” works I’ll become a true believer

that’s diabolical and awesome

And to put a downer exclamation point on this: what happens when everyone is feeding existing knowledge as nuanced context and there are no Hadley/Jenny actually writing R Packages anymore? It's mid-shit all the way down from here

hell yes. And a recent epiphany for me is you can feed it a shitload of context, let's say the entire R packages book, and you get way better outputs

To be clear: should we bomb the economy and environment in a single AI stroke for fast SO and autocomplete? No.

I hate to admit this but I have found fast SO and autocomplete are very helpful use cases

oh this is awesome, thanks!

Wait what is that baseball one under data edu 👀🧐

Wake me up when gen AI can schedule a recurring meeting at a time convenient for both parties and proactively adjust future conflicts.

This is the back gate in my driveway which borders Camp Pendleton, I’ve circled the area where we see artillery drills. Does anyone have info about what time today USMC is shooting missiles over the 5 into this area? Want to make sure us and kids are away from home @mikelevin.org @governor.ca.gov

rstudio::conf 2019 was peak twitter rstats IMO. Every person I met was like a celebrity and/or old friend to me, and their twitter handle was more familiar than their actual name. I learned so much from them, both technically and about what good stewards of a community look like

💯 and also 🤮

Screenshot of enshittified google's AI overview telling me Blake Snell's 2025 average annual salary of $36.4 million is significantly larger than the entire Milwaukee Brewers' active roster payroll of $121.7 million

TIL 36.4 is "significantly larger" than 121.7 thanks google AI please build a giant data center in my backyard for more of this

No cap 🔥

Right now eating nothing but bacon before blood work on Monday, gonna get misdiagnosed with every condition under the sun and laugh all the way from the pharmacy to the bank

Our family spends around $75 per month on prescriptions. Did a quick plot to find out how much the 650% is going to save us and hell to the yes the pharmacy is about to *pay us* $412.50 per month

Yay! Also if you’re looking for other low code options to get the principles down (because the R/python implementations can get gnarly for an undergrad course pretty quick), cstructure.io @erickscott.bsky.social could be helpful to you

Agree, they are useful when used in focused contexts and driven by experts or at least experienced people in those contexts. I’m not sure I’d try to vibe code a whole manuscript as OP did, but I’ve definitely seen awful human generated code in manuscripts too 🤷‍♂️

This person sounds funny and cool but I am definitely worried about the “baby in placenta” part

After exits from padres and boston I had no horse in the world series race but this turned me. Seattle all the way

screenshot of a section of a causal inference paper which talks about counterfactual data as "data that only God could see" with Table 1: God's table showing some simple relationships between variables A and Y

I'm convinced god's table must be more chaotic than this

I just said almost exactly this today 🤣 “dodgers fans are the yankees of the west coast”

I think this about yankees and dodgers fans all the time

a concert photo of Jeff Rosenstock and band performing, backed by a large pride flag with 666 surrounded by weed logos in the top left

hell yes, went last night in SD and you won't be disappointed!

TIL, cool!!

If I'm understanding correctly, I think you're looking for

data |>
add_count(x, sort = TRUE)

Could bring a whole new meaning to Dashboard Confessional (we could probably get Chris to play the social event, I used to run in those circles)

And your posit talk where you channeled the same! I reference that all the time

💯! I learned the bootstrap way too late in grad school (because program was focused on deeply theoretical shit) and I still want to smash my desk thinking about all the time spent deriving/proving complex variance calculations. “Wait, I could have been kicking ass at real problems 2 yrs ago?!!”

Your wife is empirically correct.