mark padgham
@mpadge.bsky.social
Software for a better world. All open source, all the time. Committed to transport with wheel counts of zero, two (preferred), or many (trains). urbananalyst.city, ropensci.org, github.com/mpadge
I've just released a new prototype tool - github.com/ropensci-rev... to "Connect AI with your coding communities". Would love feedback, or even more people willing to help test! Currently #rstats only, but will be extended to other languages soon.
GitHub - ropensci-review-tools/askfirst: Connect AI with your coding communities
Connect AI with your coding communities. Contribute to ropensci-review-tools/askfirst development by creating an account on GitHub.
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I've just dropped another new blog post https:// mpadge.eu/blog/machina-machista.html. Starts with the provocative sentence, "Your AI thinks you're a dude". I then try to actually show that, and muse about potential consequences.
mp | Machina machista
Your AI thinks you're a dude. And that's a problem for everybody who is not. Matching LLMs with decision-making scenarios shows escalatory recommendations are around 10× more likely when actors are id...
mpadge.eu
HOT RESEARCH NEWS! Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor... Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
I've just published a new blog post about trying to find some joy amidst all this chaos https:// mpadge.eu/blog/purposeful-joy.html - interested to hear what folk think
mpadge.eu
February news! 📨 #RStats 📜 Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility 🎉 New rOpenSci Champion(a|e)s Program cohort 🤝 @mpadge is now Software Review Lead (Former lead @noamross became director last year) 🎙️ “This is Tech Talks” episode with […]
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By request: Simulate random street walks 🚶♂️ in #rstats #shiny! Pick any city, set bounding box + walks to visualize paths via #OpenStreetMap 🗺️. (Note: paths may be problematic!) 💻 Code: github.com/coatless-shi...
@trainspiration.bsky.social I like your claim about no one living more than 1/2mile from a station. Let me know if you need tools to measure that. My urbananalyst.city platform measures distances to schools, and distances to transport are all in there, just not exposed at the moment.
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Urban Analyses for the world
urbananalyst.city
[blog] Give Thanks with the allcontributors Package 🙏 Discover the {allcontributors} package in this post by its maintainer @mpadge ✨ In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we encourage all developers of packages both within rOpenSci and beyond to acknowledge contributions wherever and whenever […]
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New @rOpenSci.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy blog post about my allcontributors package ropensci.org/blog/2024/11... - a great way to give thanks to all contributions to your open-source software projects.
Give Thanks with the allcontributors Package
The allcontributors package helps to given thanks to software contributions
ropensci.org
A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...
How people describe themselves is so endlessly fascinating. If that's all there is to this bluesky thing, then maybe that's enough. A fabulous example: "Vegetarian studying cows". Nice one @solivaz.bsky.social
What do y'all think of my first-cut attempt at "Good enough practices for language model packages"? It's intended to apply to open source software, and possibly to help guide adaptation of @rOpenSci's software review process. docs.ropensci.org/pkgmatch/art...
Good-enough practices for language model packages
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👍 for that. And now we archers get to say, Hey, it's what Steam is built in, and so should you
nikomo@nikomo.fi · 2y agoarch
