watching Resident Evil Requiem and am reminded of codon translations

dove into the data about last year's terminated research grants (as recorded at Grant Witness). This is going to be the opening lecture for my data science course.

TIL for us Windows users, Windows key + Print Screen will take a screenshot AND save the screenshot as a file

“This stream gave me life”: Fans are praising underrated Twitch streamer ijustlovepuzzles after winning “hidden gem” award bit.ly/4rP7K9o

"The devil is in the details"

Late to the party, but I---a Windows user---finally got Python virtual environments to work!

remembering the time that I showed to a math class the music video for "Patterns" by Weird Al (to try to get the students out of the "memorize formulas" mindset) Those college sophomores really didn't like that, haha

updating some PyTorch code from 2020 to 2025

I just failed Walmart's "Are you human?" test

remade a network diagram in Typst (with the Fletcher package) If anyone wants to see a demo/walkthrough of Typst, I will be running a casual seminar with the DSLC (Data Science Learning Community) this Saturday at 1 PM EDT!

Today's joy is finding some rvest code that I wrote over two years ago (and get to reuse!)

I updated the syllabus for my Machine Learning course, and I made it---diagrams included---with the Typst Universe! Blog post (Typst code and design decisions): dsollbergerquarto.netlify.app/posts/typst_...

made a new logo for one of my courses #hexsession #user2025

finished taking an online course in bioinformatics techniques for RNA-Seq. To wrap up, I tried out the tools on a different data set, and then presented the results as a Quarto closeread story! blog post (then scroll down): dsollbergerquarto.netlify.app/.../rna_seq_...

is happy to be at #useR2025. So far, I ran into 3 colleagues from various ventures, and learned * how to underline text in Quarto markdown * that a `countdown` can end with a sound effect (in addition to a couple of great workshops about tidyomics and srvyr)

I was awed by many talks at #JSM2025, but I was stunned by the Jenga tower

This is my first time at #JSM2025. I will probably learn something Bayesian, but right now I have a uniform prior

Over in Week 2 of our online RNA-Seq course, we learned about normalizing read counts through VST (variance stabilizing transformation). To help me verify the concept for myself, I made a ridgeplot of 10 randomly selected genes in the lung cancer data.

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SAG-AFTRA approves 2025 Video Game Agreement, officially concluding its strike

Members of US actors' union SAG-AFTRA have approved the 2025 Video Game Agreement, officially concluding the strike.

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found my university's list-serves, which were en vogue about 12 years ago. They are quite a time capsule.

It’s that time again! Time for our 7th annual United States of Science Challenge! Each bubble on this map represents classrooms we matched w/scientists this year. $10 donations fill bubbles! The first region to fill in all of their bubbles wins! Fill bubbles here! givebutter.com/USS2025

"Lies of P devs get bonus, paid holiday and Switch 2 consoles for hitting sales milestone" www.videogameschronicle.com/news/lies-of...

Lies of P devs get bonus, paid holiday and Switch 2 consoles for hitting sales milestone | VGC

The game and its Overture DLC have sold 3 million copies combined…

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On a whim, I took some of the room icons from the video game Blue Prince and rearranged them to emulate the classic board game Clue

Outer Worlds 2 will have a "math crazed scientist"

This nerdy trilogy is complete! wonderful math books by Jay Cummings and I wish that I could teach these classes

Today I saw (in a blog post) a dev say that one of their projects was of little importance because it "only got 40 citations"

new toy

finally got Python to write LaTeX code of matrices for me

XKCD 2501 Link: xkcd.com/2501/

At first, I thought that the Jeopardy question was "What are random controlled trials?"