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Self-inflicted wound

ok so this is how i want my culinary experiments to go from now on

IBM Granite-Docling: End-to-end document understanding IBM released Granite-Docling-258M, an ultra-compact, open-source vision-language model (VLM) for converting documents to machine-readable formats while fully preserving layout, tables, equations, code...

for those of us out there with a love-hate relationship with pdfs, this model is very small and very good! www.ibm.com/new/announce...

{gm} - Create music with R: flujoo.github.io/gm/

#RStats bookmark from old twitter

afaik you need rmd or qmd to do that since pdf needs a latex engine, that's what you get for it being an extremely proprietary format

finally, a worthy oponent for Xaringan

that's a really cool idea!

I mostly find this useful since we have a lot of mechanic workflows at my job, and some scripts that are ran once every couple of months need changes in their logic to work with new data, and AI is usually pretty useful and one-shots it. It's like checking the diff but with less steps!

genuinely curious as to what’s supposed to be used instead

my stylistic choice is to have all my comments be in lowercase, but it's more a feature than a bug, and helps me distinguish AI generated code from my own

MacOS Tahoe is so bad it made me switch back to Chrome

nobody told me I'd be setting up ad campaigns in order to get people to take part in my studies when I decided to become a political scientist, yet here I am

Scaling hermeneutics: a guide to qualitative coding with LLMs for reflexive content analysis - EPJ Data Science Qualitative coding, or content analysis, is more than just labeling text: it is a reflexive interpretive practice that shapes research questions, refines theoretical insights, and illuminates subtle s...

for any computational social scientists interested in qualitative research, here's a good read epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Opinion | I Was Supposed to Debate Charlie Kirk. Here’s What I Would Have Said.

these aren’t all my thoughts but at least some of them on the state of affairs

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

I recently heard someone say that in the era of AI, good taste has become more important than ever, and I couldn't agree more

not RStudio, but: positron.posit.co/assistant.html

you can also try out Gemini CLI which is free (up to 60 free queries per minute) and can run from the terminal within RStudio, with access to your project directory

ellmer is more oriented to projects where AI is a part of the pipeline

loved how you used the tower of babel for the hex icon, plus this is great! I will definitely check it out later

Bolsonaro Convicted of Attempting a Coup in Brazil, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted the former president of trying to cling to power after losing the 2022 election, including a plan to assassinate his opponent.

Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in a Brazil prison for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 election.

always find myself late night scheming

hello fediverse

I’m so glad to be attending even if it is from the other side of the globe!