Miles McBain

Absolutely!

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Also haven’t checked out the test set yet. Which ep are you channeling?

Yesssss yesssssssss

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Thinking about is lately in the context of LLMs, and their propensity to add unnecessary complexity with each iteration of the prompt.

I meant you #databs

Alright class, #rstats #dataabs, a question, and this will be on your exam:

Code quality, in particular readability, and the management of complexity is *much* more important in data analysis than software engineering in general. Why?

Other candidate Is possibly Microsoft Excel.

Came here to ask same. Fear the ANACONDA.

Me: oh maybe I’ll write my second blog post ever about AI!
<reads Dave’s blog>
Oh, no I just need to direct people to Dave’s good post.

Switch your fossil up to minimise the chances of getting the one with the goat behind it.

The human skin toned squiggly asterisk logo for Claude.

Hey Claude

Draw yourself a logo befitting The Suppository of All Wisdom.

This man spending just 0.5K a month on tokens and working only on his nights and weekends has shipped an application every 30 days.*

*Individual results may vary

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

The analogy is 💯

It’s all the pain of raising the small child with none of the reward. Lil Claude only learns as far as his context window allows. After that he resets to the mean opinion of all the text on the internet. 😱

Parenting with an extra Sisyphean twist.

a woman in a bathrobe is standing in front of a painting Alt: Fran Fine in a bathrobe is standing in front of a painting and opening her arms wide as the camera uncomfortably zooms in to her face

Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: The little gremlin in my brain would not stop screaming about AI until I referenced Fran Fine and linked to "Me and You and Everyone We Know." erincikanek.com/the-rumors-o...

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folks, please don't submit LLM-generated PRs to open source projects. It makes no sense.

If the maintainers want to use an LLM to fix an issue, they can use Claude or whatnot directly. They don't need you as intermediary, that's just silly.

If they don't want to use LLMs, they have reasons.

But at least with ggplot2 the ‘+’ operator establishes something unusual / magical is happening. Pipe interface strongly implies data flow to me.

Yeah. I’ve had some success with it and would use it again, but I deeply feel the cringe in your workflow() -> fit() example. You’re not executing functions on data, you’re building a specification to do that at some later time in an unspecified way. Similar to ggplot2 in that regard.

Feeling safe as a statistician because no AI can respond to a question like we can. Show me an AI that can gently rub its temples and say “it depends” before taking your ass on a journey of technical details.

Data.table’s weakness is being overly focused on a particular end user experience. The rough edges show up when you want to use it at as a platform to develop your own user experience.

Yo where’s the targets zealot phase?

That’s unexpected. In VSCode the terminal working directory is inferred from the active editor. I’ve never wished it was any other way.

Haven’t used positron but I do this in VSCode a bit. Quite nice if you have internal packages supporting projects.

I wrote up something about it ages ago milesmcbain.micro.blog/2022/10/18/a...

Are there any R users working for the Australian federal dept of health? I’d love to hear from you!

New gig, new people to meet :)