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What I love about this video is how all the composers’ styles and musical concepts are named and understood. It's also a great example of the musical art behind it all: each variation brings out the artistic thinking of the respective composers, providing insight into how deliberately they crafted their styles.

youtube.com/watch?v=WRfsibwR5x

This is the official Mastodon account of the useR! conference.

Overseen by @R_Foundation, useR! is the main meeting of the global R user and developer community.

It features both invited and user-contributed presentations, as well as tutorials, posters, and other sessions.

Follow us for the latest news on the upcoming conference and the wider conference series!

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This toot constitutes my bi-annual "Thank You!" 🙏 to @winston_chang for his sumo-style container which once again let me chase and pinpoint an ASAN/clang issue my own ASAN/gcc container did not tickle.

Also, CRAN is awesome in its rigour. #rstats

github.com/wch/r-debug

The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.

He never planned to improve transportation; he just wants to keep people trapped in cars.

newrepublic.com/article/174089

#tech #transport #elonmusk #transportation #hyperloop #trains

📅 Save the date!

We are pleased to announce that useR! 2024 will be a hybrid conference, taking place 8-11 July in Salzburg, Austria.

We will share the conference website and social media accounts in due course.

#RStats

Journal (in acceptance email): If you haven't heard from production in a month, please let us know.

ja (6 weeks later): No updates received, any news?

Publisher (a week later): Just hang tight.

[repeat again 2 weeks later.]

Publisher (>2 months after acceptance): Here are your proofs; if you don't return them in 48 hours, you risk the article not being published.

#facepalm

New data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor demonstrates a serious increase in the number of people with a disability since the #COVID19 pandemic. #longcovid is a price we'll keep paying as we invite repeated infections.

fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU

New preprint: Computational Reproducibility in Computational Social Science

with @schochastics Claudia Wagner and @arnim

arxiv.org/abs/2307.01918

Appl. Netw. Sci.: GRANDPA: GeneRAtive network sampling using degree and property augmentation applied to the analysis of partially confidential healthcare networks
appliednetsci.springeropen.com

RT benmschmidt: Read and explore this rich interactive of 20 *million* research articles from PubMed, a project we're releasing today with @\ritagonmar and @\hippopedoid. It's a *beautiful* embedding structure, a fascinating, complete corpus. Some highlights (thread) static.nomic.ai/pubmed.html

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