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Angelo D’Ambrosio

@adambrosiomd.bsky.social

MD, Public Health Specialist, ARHAI Expert at @ecdc-eu.bsky.social . #Computational #Epidemiology #InfectiousDiseases #DataScience. #Science addicted! #OneWorld 🌍 Tw/Github: Bakaburg1

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Tyler Morgan-Wall@tylermw.com · 5mo ago

This is really big (if it works!)—a big limitation for the use of R in simulation up to this point has been memory bloat. I’ve had to turn off parallel processing/reduce the number of workers many times in my {targets} workflows due to OOM errors. Hopefully this will solve that problem #RStats

Charlie Gao@shikokuchuo.net · 5mo ago

Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 9mo ago

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

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Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9mo ago

Hong Kong's last pro-democracy party, the Democratic Party, has dissolved after 31 years. Founded before the 1997 handover, it opposed Beijing's growing control. The party’s closure marks the end of significant opposition in Hong Kong, as China’s electoral changes have silenced dissent.

Iris Meredith@iris-meredith.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It is Monday, and I've made some edits to the first chapter of 'R the Software Engineering Way': I'm now using pak rather than Packrat, I'm using a versioned base R image and a few other improvements have been made. One hopes that people find this useful! #rstats

R the Software Engineering Way: Introduction and Chapter Zero | deadSimpleTech

It is worth noting from the very beginning that a software engineer's work doesn't start with writing code, but with setting up the development environment and the tools that they need to write code e...

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Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”

Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023

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Posit@posit.co · 10mo ago

Introducing bluffbench, a new tool to evaluate how well LLMs actually see data plots. When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction. bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...

When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see - Posit

Data science agents need to accurately read plots even when the content contradicts their expectations. Our testing shows today's LLMs still struggle here.

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CRAN Package Updates Bot@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New CRAN package contentanalysis with initial version 0.2.0 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=contentanalysis

CRAN: Package contentanalysis

Provides comprehensive tools for extracting and analyzing scientific content from PDF documents, including citation extraction, reference matching, text analysis, and bibliometric indicators. Supports multi-column PDF layouts, 'CrossRef' API &lt;<a href="https://www.crossref.org/documentation/retrieve-metadata/rest-api/" target="_top">https://www.crossref.org/documentation/retrieve-metadata/rest-api/</a>&gt; integration, and advanced citation parsing.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

According to @jeremymberg.bsky.social the number of new Alzheimer’s research projects receiving funding this yr is down 49% Fewer projects will be funded as awards will be given in lump sum upfront. This has been shown to lower success rates & stifle innovation. 🧪 beingpatient.com/alzheimers-r...

NIH Alzheimer’s Research Funding Is Back — for 49% Fewer Projects

Though the NIH director is calling for $187 million more in funding for Alzheimer’s, the NIH is funding fewer new projects.

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Aki Vehtari@avehtari.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We have a PR for `loo` package github.com/stan-dev/loo..., adding new columns to `loo_compare()` output. Check out how the new output looks in a variant of that case study users.aalto.fi/~ave/casestu... Please, check out the case study and possibly try also that PR, and provide feedback! 3/3

add diff diagnostics by avehtari · Pull Request #300 · stan-dev/loo

The corresponding issue #299 This PR is not ready for merge, but needs some thought

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