Blas M. Benito

There are some good hills to die on. This is one of them.

My attempt to stop drinking coffee lasted 36 hours and a threat of divorce, and I'm not even married #grumpyAF

git config --global branch.sort -committerdate

Sorts git branch by the last commit. Game changer.

I have mine linked to my job's email (industry), and it sucks to know that I might lose it if I'm made redundant or leave.

Observation:
I met several truly exceptional people along my professional path. There is a personality trait that they necessarily have and demonstrate — they are very generous in sharing credit and recognizing one's input, always lifting people around them to new highs, motivating to grow & dare 🌱

I bet black kitty got catslapped.

Which paleoclimate dataset do you use for your research? New research by @elinerentier.bsky.social published in Frontiers of Biogeography reveals that your choice matters —a lot— especially in mountains!

doi.org/10.21425/fob...

Screen capture saying: "Nobody gives a flying fuck about you. Not in the existential, "nobody loves me" sense. That would be melodramatic (and not true). What I mean is this: everyone else is too busy being the main character in their own lives to devote more than a passing thought to yours. And that's liberating."

Found this quote in the post "Nobody Actually Cares" published at luminousmen.com (which is, by the way, an amazing data engineering blog!)

orbital is such a cool idea — convert your tidymodels or (now) scikit learn model predictions to SQL so you can run them in the database

Do we think enough about parents who care for sick or disabled children – and how not to make things harder? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett Mina Holland’s book about parenting her seriously unwell daughter sheds light on the complicated psychology at play, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Do we think enough about parents who care for sick or disabled children – and how not to make things harder? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Reviewer notes: So you’re interested in “lagged effects.” In some fields, researchers who end up with time series of two variables of interest (X and Y) like to analyze (reciprocal) lagged effects between them. Does X affect Y at a later point in time, and d...

New blog post! Let's say you've measured two variables repeatedly and want to investigate how one affects the other over time. Here are some recommendations for how to do that well.

www.the100.ci/2025/06/25/r...

When you hate #ggplot

Function map for the 'grateful' package: https://pakillo.github.io/grateful/

What's your favourite approach to map relationships among functions in a #rstats package?

I really like github.com/kcf-jackson/..., e.g. here is the function map for {grateful} package

Functional Programming Tools A complete and consistent functional programming toolkit for R.

Bleeding edge update for the #tidyverse purrr package with even more seamless #rstats parallel maps.

Introducing our shiniest new adverb: `in_parallel()`. Just wrap your function to take advantage of blazing fast parallel processing via mirai.

pak::pak("tidyverse/purrr")

purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/

Spatial prediction meets machine learning with mlr3 💡🌍
This blog post by Marvin Ludwig also includes tips on autocorrelation, extrapolation & more.

🔗 geocompx.org/post/2025/sm...

#mlr3 #rstats #gischat #rspatial

Gabby Williams becoming an outstanding 3pt volume shooter wasn't in my bingo card this year. I love her play style, and it's just getting better!

On the other hand, Rhyne Howard is chucking the hell out of the ball and isn't even sorry about it.

Texting and driving is nothing when you used to try and navigate 12 printed pages of MapQuest and change a CD at the same time.

Such a baller, almost killed USA all by herself in the Olympics final!

This is an awesome way to expose a bunch of tables in the open.

Lightweight, fast (range requests), and ergonomic!

Movie poster of the movie "Dumb and Dumber", with the actors Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.

This is what ChatGPT and I look like failing to outsmart sleep deprivation:

[The WNBA season has arrived! And to celebrate the occasion, here is an enormous starter pack featuring tons of WNBA fans and W-based accounts who you can/should follow - that way you can keep up with the league without having to be on an app run by a guy who's obsessed with "white genocide".]

INNER JOIN is to "true love" what JOIN is to "swipe right or whatever"

Like you, I think declaring all args in function calls is the best possible practice!

Mapping cloudiness ☁️ based on Sentinel 2020-2024. Interesting seasonal patterns 🤩

#rstats #dataviz

One bird. 399 pieces of plastic. 55 g.
This is not our record.

Last night I watched the movie "Civil War", by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Devs, 28 Days Later, Warfare).

It is much better than the Rotten Tomatoes audience score suggests. A solid must-watch if you’re into grounded and timely what-ifs.

It really stays with you for a while after watching!

a woman sitting in a lotus position with her eyes closed and the words be with me written below her Alt: Rey Skywalker sitting in a lotus position with her eyes closed, rocks flying around, and the words "be with me" written below her

Not just a regular soul-sucking Monday, but also my first day at work after 15 days off.

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A possible workflow of the spatial machine learning task.

A screenshot of a part of the blog post

🔍 Interested in spatial machine learning with R?🌍
We compare caret, tidymodels, and mlr3 for spatial tasks — and show how their workflows differ.

Read it here: geocompx.org/post/2025/sm...

#MachineLearning #SpatialAnalysis #RStats #rspatial