"You keep trying little buddy, you'll get there one day"

Register today for your spot in the 2025 OceaniaR Hackathon in Canberra This event is a great opportunity to learn and participate in a range of projects around data analysis, statistics, data science and R programming. Register here: statsocaus.github.io/oceaniar-hac... #rstats #datascience

Looking forward to delivering a workshop for the WOMBAT 2025 meeting this year. Great for beginners or those wanting a refresher. Come along and meet some great people! Its such a welcoming and friendly group at WOMBAT each year - I can't recommend it enough if you are into analytics, data sci, R

WOMBAT 2026@wombat.numbat.space · 12mo ago

Predict stuff with data! Dean Marchiori will take you through linear regression fundamentals, and applications before moving on to GLM and best practices to communicate your results. Info and registration : wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto... #DataScience #Statistics #RStats #MachineLearning

"What did you do at work today?" "Not much" Looking for a top notch data scientist? I'm available.

Hello 👋 I will soon have capacity to take on an additional project or engagement. If you, or someone you know are ramping up their #datascience capability, get in touch. Easiest method is DM, email, stopping me in the street, flagging me down in moving traffic, or failing that, telephone.

If SQL, R, Python and ChatGPT were people. This is how old they would be. #datascience #rstats #python

In my latest blog I test the use of {ellmer} with 'seed' values to improve reproducibility in LLM responses for data analysis. Based on helpful suggestions from my below post. www.deanmarchiori.com/posts/2025-0... #rstats

Can you trust what AI is telling you? – Dean Marchiori

A plea for reproducible workflows for GenAI analysis

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Dean Marchiori@deanmarchiori.bsky.social · last yr.

Lazy cross post, please help. I have a bad feeling about this.

Lazy cross post, please help. I have a bad feeling about this.

When something expensive breaks at home and I fix it myself rather than call a trades person and my wife wants and explanation when she gets home from work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc9N...

Chris the 'fixer' Pyne

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AI is a bust: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02... Contrast this with an actual game changing technology like social media - people were fanging for accounts. Parents were asking their kids to help them get online. Nobody was forced onto social media, and charged an extra 40 bucks for privilege.

'Arrogance is astounding': Microsoft subscription price hike brings backlash

Microsoft has increased the price of its Microsoft 365 subscriptions, which it says has new AI features, but the price hike caused consumer outrage.

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Ever look at reviews online? Don't be fooled by average star rating - the number of reviews matters too! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ (2) 💡 The higher up you are on this chart, the higher your chance of a really bad stay. It turns out you really need 20+ reviews before you can rely on the star rating

I love the way academic papers in the mathematical sciences really ground you before confounding you. First line in the Introduction: "Many of us are familiar with fruits and vegetables"

A favourite restaurant of our family has a menu item which reads: "Chicken Parmigiana with chips and salad or vegetables" and the logical ambiguity is so good we talk about it every time we visit.

As a data and analytics person embedded in the business, I’m often involved in robust discussions with IT over access to software & data. It can be frustrating but @deanmarchiori.bsky.social has some great tips on dealing with this conundrum #dataBS #dataSky www.deanmarchiori.com/posts/2024-1...

Dean Marchiori - 5 tips for dealing with IT

Getting data science done with your IT team

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Good content. Watching this is how I imagine my kids feel when they ask me computer questions.

Why You Should Think About Switching To Linux.

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Just a reminder that LLMs don’t aim at the truth. Generate is the whole game. Hallucination is a feature, not a bug.

Chris Krycho@chriskrycho.com · 2y ago

I’ll go further: hallucination is just what LLMs *are*. It’s the whole thing! When they get things right and when they get things wrong, they’re doing the same thing. You can get lots of useful things out of them, but you have to understand that first if you’re going to be successful with them.

I fucking love airports. I love how weird the experience is. I love being outside of time. I love having champagne and pizza for breakfast at 6am. I love the smell of Jet A. I love being alone in a huge crowd of people all ignoring and observing each other

Whats the German word for the nostalgia I feel of 2007 electronic music & the naive lack of appreciation I had then, even though its prob just a longing for a more youthful time and could only have be born from the passage of time and I'm doomed to repeat this mistake with current new music?