Grant McDermott

#rstats Any sparklyr / Kubernetes experts able to help me with this issue? github.com/sparklyr/spa... 🙏

To rephrase: there's a load of unrealised potential for GPU metrics, which is what Apoorva's post shows (esp. on the structural and Bayesian side). But if you want a faster lm / linear model, you're not going to beat .lm.fit.

Caveat emptor.

I know you aren't claiming otherwise, but ofc the big caveat is that you're benchmarking against torch CPU... not a standard, optimized max.lik. library. It's _very_ hard to get GPU improvements on closed form algos & that's before you a/c for the I/O to your graphics card.

Please enjoy this blog post based on my colleague Kyle Jensen's talk surveying different approaches to AI coding abilities

paulgp.com/ai-coding/20...

A houseplant casts a shadow of heart-shaped climbers in the background

Hearts on the vine?

Does setting one of the "dynamic" themes give you what you want? grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig...

Background/presentation, ICYMI. bsky.app/profile/gmcd...

Example of dodged pointrange (tiny)plot, with aligned ribbons layered on top.

Happy `tinyplot` v0.6.0 (codename "Thanksgiving") release day to all those that celebrate. Some new features, but mostly bug fixes and internal improvements.
grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW...

#rstats

This will be a decidedly unpopular Springbok view, but SA's level of scrum dominance can't be good for the game. I don't know how to "fix" it, but I don't think it's just a question of a better bench. It's starting from the off.

Faz must have been apoplectic in the halftime change room.

First 20 min and setpiece aside, we were pretty poor TBH. Obviously, that's a reflection of the sheer grit from your lads. But I'm struggling to remember the last time SA played with such a lack of ambition.

Extraordinary. Doris MoM by miles for me.

It's funny how this level of set piece dominance can ruin the game for both sides. I can't remember when SA last played with this lack of ambition.

What is the Irish word incredible courage combined with extreme stupidity.

First 20 min of this game almost as intense as @kjhealy.co's posit::conf keynote.

"Great news, I booked a weekend away."

<Zen master: we'll see>

"Bad news. We have to miss Springboks v France."

<ZM: we'll see>

"Good news. The Boks get a first half red card, so we miss that at least."

<ZM: we'll see>

"So, about the actual result..."

Zen master vibes as my farsighted wife booked family travel weeks ago, causing me to miss the second half. #FRAvRSA

A bloodied Damian McKenzie lining up a matching winning penalty against Scotland

Smile before the kick

The non rugby mind cannot comprehend these two images.

YouTube video by useR! Conference tinyplot: convenient and customizable base R plots - Grant McDermott

🎨 How to create elegant #dataviz with base #rstats and the #tinyplot pkg

📈 useR! 2025 presentation by Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOB-...

Huge JVDF fan tbh.

Minor 2024/25 form blip aside, and he looked back to his best over the weekend, just world class every game.

<insert bad joke about him finally going through the gate>

Beyond dispute IMO.

And it's funny to see people twist themselves into knots trying to argue otherwise--including far too many of my fellow 🇿🇦 countrymen--for precisely the reason that Squidge points out: we all instinctively *feel* that they are the greatest.

Thanks! I'm unreasonably pleased with it tbqh. Would dig to get your feedback.

Lots of additional material on the website. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

I gave this talk on an empty stomach and about three hours sleep. So I recommend watching it >1x playing speed...

(Also: please have pity on the tall people in your life, forced to stare directly into projector lights.)

YouTube video by useR! Conference tinyplot: convenient and customizable base R plots - Grant McDermott

Nice. Looks like my `tinyplot` talk from userR! 2025 is up on YouTube. youtu.be/MOB-QS-vMeY?...

#rstats

Hmmm, I wouldn't say the problem is the availability of binary-build channels. Alongside r2u (great albeit Ubuntu only), there's rspm and the Posit manylinux repo (both multi-distro). The problem is conda hijacking and/or overriding these channels, so that they don't work like normal :-/

Yeah, unfortunately the inconsistency is the killer here. I've also run into a (related?) problem of missing pre-compiled binaries on some Linux distros that we use at work. So you end up having to install + compile everything from source ☠️

RE: lack of love for conda-forge, see this thread by @jeroenooms.bsky.social fosstodon.org/@jeroenooms/...

It's a constant stream of untaxed negative externalities that I can only assume are part of some cunning grand plan for language hegemony.

Old ground, but I still cannot believe how poorly 🐍 plays with other languages. Okay, we're going to force you to do everything in a venv (b/c otherwise we break everything...) But that venv is going to auto instantiate and override any system level env vars or processes that you've set ☠️

Fair points. Still, if you feel like modifying / playing around... bsky.app/profile/gmcd...