January Weiner

I have been involved in TB research for many years, knew the scientists who were locally fighting with whatever means were at their disposal - look up Georgies Mode - and this makes me sad and incredibly angry.

I grew up in a communist country. Say what you will, at least your blacklist is transparent and you know about its existence ;-D But seriously, this is awful.

My take is that I write code for others. It should be as clear and understandable as possible, even at the cost of efficiency, elegance or cleverness. This is why I think mixing Python with R makes sense in packages (under the hood so to speak) but not in analysis scripts or pipelines.

Ein leerer Anteil und Aufschrift: Helaaf! Karnevalszeit! Hier die Bahn mit den Leuten, die das in Berlin interessiert.

Zależy gdzie w Niemczech.

One of the most interesting articles I read recently. It appears that careful examination of available data shows that peaceful protests are powerful, and if they manage to engage more than 3-4% of a population, they almost always succeed. Looking forward to read the book!

I don't even

I am convinced that the aquatic ape hypothesis was conceived by someone sitting in a hot tub on a cold winter day

Polecam tego allegrowicza

Nie stać mnie niestety na rysunek, ale powiem, że kopertę z własnoręczną adnotacją w której przyszedł kalendarz pod choinkę lojalnie zachowałem ;-)

How to implement this LinkedVector class using R6 in R? I have a project which involves a kind of a tree structure in the data, and to make navigation and modification of the data easier I came up with this "LinkedVector" class. Basically, the

Can anyone help me with this R6 problem? I have a clunky, but functional (clunctional) implementation of a vector-linked list hybrid, but I think I should try to implement it in R6. #rstats stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

A to się całkiem zgadzam. Wogle to mam wrażenie że ta tuba którą wyguglalem na szybko to nie było to samo nagranie które słyszałem w dwójce.

While on my way to work I just heard one of the most amazing pieces of music I have ever heard in my life. Paganini Variations by Lutosławski, played by Gloria Campaner and Leszek Możdżer. I am mesmerized. #music #classicalmusic #paganini #dwojka

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i2L...

Eurasian coot / łyska / Fulica atra

Eurasian coot / łyska – in Potsdam on Saturday. #birds #photography #potsdam

Care to elaborate?

Larus argentatus, mewa srebrzysta, European herring gull

I rather fancy this photograph (even though you can see the dirty smudges on my cameras sensor...). European herring gull. #birds #photography

Shame to say, I never learned that. To a certain extent, I sometimes think that it sunk my career

I'd say always put arguments to grep in quotes. Single by default, double if you grep for variables.

Precisely. Ggplot is for more advanced cases. I still use plot(x, y) when I need to quickly see the results.

Except that "couple of clicks" is anything but reproducible.

There were few famous scientists that I liked reading and talking to as much as Sydney Brenner. He never seemed arrogant, he was full of humor and irony, and never seemed to take himself too serious. This sets him quite apart from many with much lesser achievements.

Jak powstało życie na Ziemi Cztery miliardy lat temu, na pewnej martwej planecie, krążącej wokół niepozornej gwiazdy na obrzeżach Drogi Mlecznej, pojawiło się życie. Skąd się tam wzięło? Czy powstało spontanicznie? A może przyby...

Here is a book I wrote with markdown/Quarto (my chapters, that is): ccpress.pl/jak-powstalo...

I create my own BibTex files and nvim for editing. I use the completion mechanism of nvim to insert references, and simple text searching to find them. I used Zotero for a while but I found it not worth the effort.

Actually, I use it for all my writing. I wrote books (at least, my chapters in the books) in markdown and used quarto to format bibliography, footnotes etc. and produce Word. Advantages: (i) you can use github (ii) you can use your fav editor (iii) you can always switch to Word later if necessary.

Also, my camera is dirty (and will remain so)

Cranes over Charite, Berlin Mitte

Cranes over Charite, Berlin Mitte

cranes over the Charite in Berlin

Two weeks ago I was sitting on a bench enjoying my lunch when all of sudden I saw these cranes flying overhead. Right here, in the middle of Berlin, just next to the Hauptbahnhof. (Sorry about the quality of the photographs, I grabbed the camera without looking at the settings). #birds #berlin

Nie wiem co Ci mogę napisać, bo to by było jak w tym przysłowiu o pomocy udzielanej przez niewidomego osobie cierpiącą na niedowład kończyn czy jak to inaczej ująć, ale jeśli masz siły pisać, to pisz, pisz, przeczytamy.

Nie mogłeś jakiegoś kotka albo pieska wkleić, tylko musiałeś coś takiego

Uncle Willy from Münster. He passed away in 2021.

I was just looking at some old photographs and found this one from 2008. Meet Uncle Willy, a street musician from Münster, Germany. In the little university town of Münster he was well known, and we used to spend some time listening to him every now and then. #photography #münster

O, jesteś!

Stanisław Tym portrait photograph

Och, jak smutno.