I’m in Hobart and it’s cold but it’s not terrible. People keep saying it’s terrible and you shouldn’t come here, but honestly, it seems quite nice. If somewhat cold.
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maxing the pixels to glow R, Python, GDAL, virtual Zarr, coordinate systems, southern ocean research I sit and reflect about all that I've learned and all that I've seen hypertidy.org
The United Nations has officially declared Gaza a genocide zone, noting that Israel is deliberately targeting children and infants. #cdnpoli It took a full three years to reach this conclusion.
The always on point @janecaro.bsky.social on Pauline Hanson’s abhorrent comments on domestic violence ‘Pauline is ignorant and she is callous. A woman that aspires to lead the country it is beneath contempt’
just incredible to watch the US president take Iran's side when my state's water systems are under cyberattack
I can say from observation, a whole lot of actual Jewish folks are incredibly pissed about Zionists, many of them actually Christians, claiming Israel & genocide are supposed to represent them when they want nothing to do with it & it has zero to do with how they think of themselves as Jewish.
The methodical destruction of Gaza and its people – a genocide in little over 1000 days – has taken the crime of genocide to an extreme unprecedented in history. This was preventable if the will to prevent were there. That is, if the genocide enraged the world enough to stop it.
A demonstration on how normals can influence the look of a rendered model 1. Face normals only 2. Vertex normals calculated as the area-weighted mean of the face normals 3. Vertex normals calculateed via finite differencing on the signed-distance field #RStats
This is the largest electric ferry, actually the largest electric vessel of any sort, in the world -- built in Australia and being readied for delivery to South America. Australia has no operating electric ferries of any size.
go follow @news.abc.net.au@abc-news.bsky.social · 5d agoSlow-motion big ship lift operation thrills spectators in Hobart: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/tasmania-incat-ferry-ship-lift-operation-black-marlin-hobart/106981888
Every time I watch this, I feel like I need to find a spot for it in my top 5 movies of all time. #NowWatching The Frighteners (1996) #horrorsky
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
It’s Friday and I am glued to this couch for the night. Entertain me and don’t be a dick. 🩷 ngl.link/alldolledup441
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Skys John Sparks, speaking from Jerusalem: ".. the ceasefire in Gaza, the 1st phase was implemented last Oct, its brought about a semblance of peace in Gaza" Moments later: Dr James Smith, speaking from Gaza: "I must challenge your correspondent, there is no ceasefire in Gaza"
Today I shipped a patch version of mirai 2.7.2 with as many changes as a full version! Lower dispatch overhead for `mirai_map()` and `everywhere()` and clearer errors + many edge case fixes. These automatically translate into wins if you use parallel purrr! mirai.r-lib.org #Rstats #Tidyverse
Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R
Evaluates R expressions asynchronously and in parallel, locally or distributed across networks. An official parallel cluster type for R. Built on nanonext and NNG, its non-polling, event-driven archit...
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{mori} provides a key strategy for minimising memory usage for local async and parallel operations. (and yes, the package now has its own hex logo!)
We're continuing our work on {mori} the package for shared memory in #Rstats. Debuted in April, we just released 0.2.2. A patch release for technical correctness, it's a prerequisite for future work we have planned. We hope you'll try it out as we build out more features! shikokuchuo.net/mori
Shared Memory for R Objects
Share R objects across processes on the same machine via a single copy in POSIX shared memory (Linux, macOS) or a Win32 file mapping (Windows). Every process reads from the same physical pages through...
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@mark-carney.bsky.social “When Israel flattens entire villages, the rest of the world and the UN have two clear obligations: cutting off arms supplies to that army and imposing sanctions on Israel.” Mohamad Safa
For the enlightenment of the 💩🤡s going after Fauci:
{tidync} 0.5.0 now on CRAN @ropensci.org cran.r-project.org/web/packages... This adds long-wanted multi-source open with tidync() - opt-in for parallelized read via {mirai} and a huge cleanup along with {ncmeta} /1
tidync: Tidy Approach to 'NetCDF' Data Exploration and Extraction
Tidy tools for 'NetCDF' data sources. Explore the contents of a 'NetCDF' source (file or URL) presented as variables organized by grid with a database-like interface. The hyper_filter() interactive fu...
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#RStats Isosurface experiments - before and after normal calculation. Since my input is a signed distance field (SDF) I am using the tetrahedral finite differencing technique to calculate the normal at each vertex. See: iquilezles.org/articles/nor...
Check out the blog post Wasim and Cindy Tong wrote announcing the GA launch: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07... Give it a try and let us know how you get on!
Positron's Jupyter Notebook Editor Is Now Generally Available
The Positron Jupyter Notebook editor is now generally available, bringing a first-class notebook experience with built-in environment management, interactive data exploration, streamlined version cont...
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The Positron Notebook Editor is out of beta and ready for all your notebook workflows! I am super proud of the work the team did to build this notebook experience from scratch. Something we decided was necessary to have a fantastic notebook experience for data science.