Released {ducklake}: an R package for DuckLake data lakehouses 🦆 I like to think of DuckLake like git for data. The package supports: - Automatic versioning - Time travel - ACID transactions - Audit trails - tidyverse-like interface Feedback most welcome! tgerke.github.io/ducklake-r/ #rstats

ducklake: Interact with DuckLake from R

R package that complements duckdb and duckplyr packages to support the new DuckLake ecosystem.

tgerke.github.io

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

WIRED@wired.com · 7mo ago

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

Just occurred to me how funny it will be if/when the AI this administration loves gets good enough, it will identify vaccines as the best vehicle for population health and “discover” mRNA vaccine technologies

Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Enabled by NIH support, mRNA Covid-19 vaccines were 'Decades in the Making' & helped saved millions of lives. Why wouldn't NIH share the history of its long-term investment in mRNA vaccine research with the world? For now, access from abroad yields: 403 Forbidden www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-con...

god help me, we are going to the nutcracker with our two middle school boys [insert Beavis laugh]

Bostoo yook yarters

Mordy Oberstein@mordyoberstein.bsky.social · 8mo ago

For anyone worried AI will replace all of us. Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986” I dare you to find 10 things that are right.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Im thrilled to once again not be taking part in advent of code

AI is not coming for your job but it is coming for this scene, and I hate it

The most useful thing I ever learned on social media is the incredible culinary gains from microwaving things at 50% power

@greatsatan69.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The microwave makes a solid baked potato, as much as it hurts to admit it

it’s the year of our lord 2025 and auth is still near impossible

[[taps sign]]

travis gerke@travisgerke.bsky.social · 2y ago

Annual reminder: Spotify Wrapped is proof that sometimes count(x, sort=TRUE) is all the data science you need

"We're nearing AGI" but it's still hard to understand meeting availability across teams, audio visual devices consistently don't work in said meetings, a single web service bug brings down half the internet

The real magic of AI is that it caused everyone to forget the fundamental principles that govern how we probabilistically learn about the world. Small n / curse of dimensionality / no validation on well curated data? No problem. Visit my C seed startup at AI dot ai 💸 💸

Congratulations Dodgers, Cinderella team for the ages

Wake me up when gen AI can schedule a recurring meeting at a time convenient for both parties and proactively adjust future conflicts.

This is the back gate in my driveway which borders Camp Pendleton, I’ve circled the area where we see artillery drills. Does anyone have info about what time today USMC is shooting missiles over the 5 into this area? Want to make sure us and kids are away from home @mikelevin.org @governor.ca.gov

Governor Gavin Newsom@governor.ca.gov · 10mo ago

This is a profoundly absurd show of force that could put Californians directly in harm's way. Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.

TIL 36.4 is "significantly larger" than 121.7 thanks google AI please build a giant data center in my backyard for more of this

Our family spends around $75 per month on prescriptions. Did a quick plot to find out how much the 650% is going to save us and hell to the yes the pharmacy is about to *pay us* $412.50 per month

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo ago

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

This person sounds funny and cool but I am definitely worried about the “baby in placenta” part

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo ago

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

After exits from padres and boston I had no horse in the world series race but this turned me. Seattle all the way

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥 Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

I'm convinced god's table must be more chaotic than this

I think this about yankees and dodgers fans all the time

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The “fuck the law we’re putting Trump on a coin” thing is once again making me marvel at how many people apparently grew up without learning how to be grotesquely embarrassed

Obv not the most important thing right now, but I am continuously astounded that Google invests heavily to push incorrect AI slop to the top of search results. In this easily verifiable case, the season series is actually 3-3. Even their own counting of the 2-2 description is wrong!

These ACIP comments from the public are brutal 💀 Kulldork was so clearly unhappy to field them, citing that they are "required by law"

Periodically tuned into ACIP 🗑️ Repeated calls for placebo controlled RCTs. Just shouting the obvious (🤡 ACIP excepted) into the void: we identify life-saving therapies through active control RCTs all the time. Eg effective therapies for cancer exist, we cannot withhold them to study new treatments.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Presumably Dr. Robert Malone gets out of bed each day, maybe showers or gets in his car or drinks water or eats food or exercises or even flies in a plane. Does he demand a randomized clinical trial showing that there are zero possible adverse events to any of these actions?

no Apple News, I don't want to read about "Hooray! Stocks hit record highs because there are no jobs meaning interest rates may go down so that billionaires can borrow at lower costs"

Remember like a year ago when we devoted approx 0% of our effort wondering or talking about what dumb shit the president was doing

Facts. AI would have helped me with very little of the data infra work I’ve done over the past 10+ years because most is deployed within highly bespoke setups of large orgs with lots of tech debt

Alex Shevrin Venet@asv.bsky.social · last yr.

I hate the argument that AI is being used in lots of jobs so students have to learn how to use it in school. AI is not that hard to use. Lots of jobs also use job-specific convoluted enterprise software and we don't teach them how to use those in school.

If only there was a study of, I don't know, 2.5 million children spanning 25 years that found no such link

George Pearkes@peark.es · 12mo ago

WSJ reports RFK Jr has instructed HHS to link autism with Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiency.

This is what I've been saying since 2023 (image below) "prediction: use of "AI" [...] will come to be broadly associated with cheating, deception, lack of respect for other people, and low quality work that cannot be trusted in important settings"

Rafe Meager (they/them)@economeager.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A case study in how Cowen's uncritical use of GPT/o3 is causing him to spread misinformation on Marginal Revolution, from @pappubahry.com pappubahry.substack.com/p/misinforma...