Isaac Baumann

*taking a big sip of tea and checking the news* ah, well, nevertheless

I should probably do something about my WBD 401(k) shouldn’t I

Checking for equality within some tolerance

`%==%` <- function(x, y, tol = .Machine$double.eps^0.5) abs(x - y) < tol

(Story resolution: the reason was basically always because of licensing issues or old distribution agreements)

When I was at D+ people would occasionally email Bob Chapek to ask why old shows/movies weren’t on the platform. He (or his team) would actually read them and reach out to the scheduling department, who’d basically have to drop anything they were working on to find out why.

*I’ve

ugh

I’m definitely gotten a Yuengling at the Sbarro’s once. Not proud of it.

This is my flux capacitor

Bilbo holding the ring, asking why he shouldn’t eat lunch at 10:30 AM

View of Navy Pier in Chicago from William E. Dever Crib in Lake Michigan east of North Avenue. // Image captured at: 2026-02-16 00:00:01 UTC (about 7 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: glerl.noaa.gov/metdata/chi/ // Current Temp in Chicago: 49.01 F | 9.45 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: N at 5.279 mph | 8.49 kph // Humidity: 65%

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

A beige field descending into a treeline under a blue sky

A snowy trail in a wooded area. Some green grasses are peeking out from underneath the snow.

It’s finally warm enough for a decent hike - the Ice Age Trail outside of Cross Plains

Just wanted to say this is a fantastic linter and thanks a lot for making this. It’s been in my daily workflow for a while now.

If you squint, the mapping should look roughly like a lookup table between the numeric value and the Likert encoding. One of the novel features of recode_values() is that it has an alternate interface that allows you to make this lookup table more explicit. Using a tribble(), we can extract out the lookup table into its own standalone data frame. lookup <- tribble( ~from , ~to , 1 , "Strongly disagree" , 2 , "Disagree" , 3 , "Neutral" , 4 , "Agree" , 5 , "Strongly agree" , ) We can then utilize the alternative from and to arguments of recode_values() rather than supplying formulas to specify how the values should be recoded: likert |> mutate(category = recode_values(score, from = lookup$from, to = lookup$to)) #> # A tibble: 9 × 2 #> score category #> <dbl> <chr> #> 1 1 Strongly disagree #> 2 2 Disagree #> 3 3 Neutral #> 4 4 Agree #> 5 5 Strongly agree #> 6 2 Disagree #> 7 3 Neutral #> 8 1 Strongly disagree #> 9 4 Agree

Lookup tables!

Speed skates on a frozen surface

A frozen lake with people skating on it

Third winter in Madison and somehow this is my first time ever pond skating

The 3rd edition cover of Applied Econometric Time Series by Enders, which is a very 1950s style cover with halves of green circles on a beige background

This is genuinely one of the best textbook covers

Does this mean Babcock dairy store can finally stop calling the ice cream “Mnookie dough”

Wildly cold wind chills across Wisconsin. Feels more like northern Canada.

These colors mean cold!

This is the coldest Wisconet day, when it comes to widespread low wind chills.

-40s all the way to the Illinois border and a few wind chills in the -50s!

Current conditions at Chicago, Chicago Midway Airport: -7°F (-22°C) Wind chill: -30°F (-34°C)

Current conditions at Madison, Dane County Regional-Truax Field: -18°F (-28°C) Wind chill: -38°F (-39°C)

Going to be a long day

Sometimes when I’m suffering from a little bit of imposter syndrome I think about this guy and it makes me feel better

Making a pot of tea to prepare for my ritual reading of Letter from Birmingham Jail

(Reposting with better link)

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When I’m secretary of education there will be at least twice as many linear algebra courses in schools as there are calculus classes. Day one. Sixth graders will have a unit on the singular value decomposition or states don’t get block grants.

The nuclear block is truly one of the best features of this site

A two-sided staircase underneath a hole in a roof looking upward into a rotunda. The ceilings are ornately painted.

A large interior archway over three large doors leading to a senate chamber with a large glass tympanum over the doors, showing sky and clouds outside.

An interior pair of colonnades on either side of a stairway leading down to a large door. A stained glass roof window highlights the roof overheard.

The House of Representatives chamber viewed from the public gallery above the floor.

Missouri state capitol

But since the statewide cuts this fiscal year, public transit agencies, especially rural ones, have felt the impact. OATS Transit, a rural transportation agency that serves 87 counties in Missouri, lost $900,000 in state funding in 2025. Since agencies use state transportation funding to match federal funding, that translates to a total loss of $1.8 million.

If you’ve ever spent any time in rural Missouri chances are you’ve seen an OATS (Older Adults Transportation Service) bus. They’re pretty important for elderly mobility in a lot of communities.

Mike Kehoe’s career prior to entering state politics was primarily owning one of the biggest (if not the biggest?) Ford dealerships in mid-Missouri

Illinois Enacts Protections for Immigrant Students with “Safe Schools for All Act” - Mahomet Daily Illinois has become the first state to codify constitutional education protections for immigrant students. Governor J.B. Pritzker signed House Bill 3247, officially designated as Public Act 104-0288, ...

Illinois Enacts Protections for Immigrant Students with “Safe Schools for All Act” mahometdaily.com/illinois-ena...

Between this and Porco Rosso we really need to think more about how airlines commissioning inflight videos incidentally (or maybe not???) end up creating masterpieces

USS Aries (PHM-5) - Wikipedia

Apparently this is the USS Aries, one of a small handful of hydrofoils the US Navy sailed. I hope it’s being restored for the one naval objective Missouri should have completed a long time ago: invading Arkansas.

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A large Christmas tree decorated with passenger train line logos in the great hall at Union Station in Chicago

The St. Louis skyline looking west while about to cross the Mississippi River from the Illinois side

A weird-looking US Navy (?) boat near the bank of a river

Took Amtrak’s Lincoln Service/Missouri River Runner back to my hometown for new year’s and lost track of how many deer, turkey, cranes, and bald eagles I saw. Also some sort of weird navy-looking boat on the Gasconade???

Two picture frames on a white wall, one with a ggplot2 cheat sheet and the other with a dplyr cheat sheet

Cleaned the office yesterday and rediscovered some old tidyverse cheat sheets #rstats