Kevin Patrick O'Brien
@kobriendublin.bsky.social
Likes: Theatre, Art, History, Music, Berlin, New York, London, Politics, Forests, Dogs, Cats, Python, Rstats, Keyword Stuffing, Data Science, PyData, Julialang, Social Media Using this to draft out some long form articles
The consequence of the ability to produce copious quantities of text using AI tools (either AI generated or AI assisted) will force readers in take a stricter discerning view of what they engage with. There will be way more need for a visual complement. Time to get your art history books out!!
The Unconference Renaissance: Why Tech Communities Need Unconfs More Than Ever A Modern Blueprint for Open-Source Collaboration kobriendublin.substack.com/p/the-unconf... #rstats #pydata #datascience
The Unconference Renaissance: Why Tech Communities Need Unconfs More Than Ever
A Modern Blueprint for Open-Source Collaboration
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The Power of Whimsy: Why the R Community Should Claim International Talk Like a Pirate Day Capitalizing on September 19th: How a classic joke offers the global #rstats network a turn-key strategy for community growth and visual identity. kobriendublin.substack.com/p/the-power-...
The Power of Whimsy: Why the R Community Should Claim International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Capitalizing on September 19th: How a classic joke offers the global #rstats network a turn-key strategy for community growth and visual identity.
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My Uncle once told me that he worked on the OXO tower in the 70s. Vicariously proud of this. I got challenged on this by Londoners who told me it was boarded up in the 70s " I thought you worked on the OXO building...it was all boarded up till the 90s" " I know...It was me who boarded it up"
London SE1 community website@se1.news · 4d ago"Oxo Tower Restaurant has been acquired by the trio behind Fallow in St James’s... [it] has been the butt of consistently dire reviews in Harden’s throughout its 30-year history, and has topped our list of the capital’s 'most disappointing cooking' for the past 3 yrs" www.hardens.com/uk-london/13...
Back in 1988, Neighbours ( Australian Soap Opera) was huge - enough to bring this song to top5 in UK and Ireland. Yes that is Kylie youtu.be/ctrYqWyVxK0?...
Angry Anderson - Suddenly (Charlene and Scott Wedding) - AI Upscale
YouTube video by Samuel Creighton
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Irish Traffic Jam I am trying to recall the last time I didn't come across one on my trips to Loop head ( Cross, Loop Head, Co. Clare )
Trailer for the BBC Adaptation of "Mapp and Lucia". E.F. Benson is an absolute master of the whimsical, and is up there with Wodehouse and Jerome. Look out for the "Friends of Tilling" event that takes place in September in Rye www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI_i...
Mapp and Lucia talk terms - Mapp and Lucia: Episode 1 Preview - BBC One Christmas 2014
Subscribe and 🔔 to the BBC 👉 https://bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSub Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home Programme website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wthbv Mapp and Lucia…
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"Braque & Picasso: A Collaboration" Historical Documentary by Lucasfilm I watched this really for Braque, a pioneering artist who seems permanently in Picasso's shadow. #art #history #cubism www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UII...
Braque & Picasso: A Collaboration³ | Historical Documentary | Lucasfilm
Unlikely friends Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pushed each other to change art. Made by JAK Documentary for The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on DVD, 2007. Producer & Writer: Mark…
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I've burned a few bridges with Uni folk because of my refusal to go along with the view that having a PhD and a knowledge of SPSS and R that spans undergrad modules (but not much more) qualified one as a Data Science Expert
Jonathan Calder@lordbonkers.bsky.social · 3w agoLiberal England... Our universities aren't just managerialist: they're authoritarian "The atmosphere of fear and expected obedience reminds me of my time as a student in Poland, but the reason I use the word 'authoritarian' is more banal: leadership is immune to any actionable feedback from below."
Ryan Reynolds starred as 'Macro' in The Odyssey, a 1990s Canadian kids' series known for its surprisingly dark, gothic edge. What started as a fantasy quest quickly spiralled into a moody cult classic filled with eerie, dystopian themes....Loved it #TV #History www.youtube.com/watch?v=k611...
The Odyssey 1992 Learning Curve IQ Test, with Ryan Reynolds
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🎉 The Friends of Tilling Gathering returns on Saturday 5 September 2026 in Rye. Join fellow admirers of E.F. Benson’s Mapp & Lucia for a day celebrating Tilling, community, and literary delight. A warm welcome awaits all devotees of Benson’s world. www.friendsoftilling.com
The Friends of Tilling
Celebrating the world of Tilling and the life of E F Benson, in particular the Mapp and Lucia novels.
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#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jul 27, 1918 Jacques Bertin born in Maisons-Laffitte, France 🇫🇷 1967: Semiologie Graphique, 🥇1st comprehensive theory of graphical symbols and modes of graphics representation ➡️Inspiration for Grammar of Graphics, #rstats #ggplot
""Julia can run 10x to 1,000x faster than Python on some benchmarks, per Wired — no C++ rewrite needed for speed. It launched in 2012. Yet Python still dominates ML/data science hiring. Speed doesn't win, ecosystem does. Julia's stuck proving that wrong."" #julialang www.wired.com/story/python...
Python Is So Slow. Can Julia Solve the Two-Language Problem?
By some benchmarks, Julia code can run 10X to 1,000X faster than Python—but there’s a reason it’s not a very popular programming language.
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“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa
Interesting stuff Bluesky not really thriving for #rstats - but still doing well enough to try new strategies. An interesting analysis for me would be to pick a list of key R BSky accounts and track their followership - and post rate - over time
Sharon Machlis@smachlis.bsky.social · 3w agoWeekly number of Bluesky posts with the #RStats hashtag (case insensitive) Sept. 2024 - Jul 24, 2026, excluding the CRAN Package Updates bot. Weeks run Sat–Fri. This past week: 311 posts Coded with {bskyr} and {ggplot2} [Posted via cron job. Tx for ur patience if something went awry] #RStatsStats
This is a 1300 Litre water tank mostly used for rain water harvesting. After 50 days of continuous rain in spring, #Ireland currently has a hose pipe ban. Can we not get a grant scheme going to install these around farms in Ireland #climatechange
Event photography is a fairly serious matter for open source tech conferences —it’s the primary sales pitch for future sponsors and partners. Sponsors look for proof of ROI, high engagement, and community health. Every frame should signal that your event is thriving and worth backing. 1/n #rstats
Soho Waiter's Race 2026 - as part of the annual Soho Fete. Startingbat French House, up Dean Street (where I was stewarding the crowd), turn at Soho Square, and back down Frith Street. Zenith of Sporting Spectacle. #London youtube.com/shorts/ATMv6...
Coco’s Soho Waiters Race 2026
YouTube video by Coco The Time-Travelling Tart
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The German 1929 silent classic Pandora’s Box is showing at Wilton’s Music Hall in London on Thursday (30th July) . It offers a rare chance to see iconic silent cinema in an authentic historic venue. Further details / ticket bookings are available on WMH website. wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/pan...
Reposting this - because there is an 7/8 week run-way to prepare something N.B. It takes place on Sat 19th Sept this year. #rstats
Kevin Patrick O'Brien@kobriendublin.bsky.social · last yr.Time to bring back "International Talk Like A Pirate Day" as an #Rstats holiday. Ask the big shots at #user2025 to get on this
Looking back at the early days of the London #Rstats User Group! I started going to the meetups around 2009 or 2010, where the quarterly meetups were held downstairs in the basement function room of The Shooting Star on Middlesex Street (now The Astronomer Pub), near Liverpool Street Station. 1/n
My father was one of the OPW Conservation team for Trim Castle in the 1990s - winning a Europa Nostra award for the approaches they devised for the process.
Tuatha@tuatha.ie · last mo.Sunset at Trim Castle, County Meath. Built in the 12th century by the powerful Anglo-Norman lord Hugh De Lacy, Trim Castle is the largest and undoubtedly one of the most impressive Norman castles in Ireland. #Ireland #BoyneValley #SpéirGhorm #IrishHistory
Loving The Orphist Aesthetics of Sonia (and Robert) Delaunay. The bold vibrant palettes are to be commended also. Too much chromophobia these days. youtu.be/-ZW848ZNvrE?...
Sonia Delaunay | The Dazzling World of Abstract Modernism
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An AI experiment in mid-century visual animation aesthetics and Orphism geometries. Inspired by Hadley Wickham's recent blog post on coding agents.
Ferenc Puskás: The Galloping Major - Great little documentary about the great hungarian footballer youtu.be/IqMTuTdZ4-A?... #football #history #hungary
Ferenc Puskás: The Galloping Major
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A world still to be mapped 🌍 Today at UseR! 2026 in Warsaw, I gave a talk "A world still to be mapped: reflections on geocomputation in R". A look at the #rspatial history, current state, my challenges, and more. Slides: jakubnowosad.com/user2026/ #rstats #geocomputation #UseR2026
