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.
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.
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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
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.
https://newrepublic.com/article/174089/big-tech-watching-drive
#tech #transport #elonmusk #transportation #hyperloop #trains
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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.
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.
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.
New preprint: Computational Reproducibility in Computational Social Science
with @schochastics Claudia Wagner and @arnim
I didn't have a strong opinion until now. Please don't make Nelson Mandela into a dildo collector! 😂
@bookstodon @bookstadon @bookbubble @linguisticsmemes
@books
#Book #Books
#OxfordComma #AndThe #Dildo #Collector
#Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing
Appl. Netw. Sci.: GRANDPA: GeneRAtive network sampling using degree and property augmentation applied to the analysis of partially confidential healthcare networks
https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s41109-023-00548-5
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) https://static.nomic.ai/pubmed.html
Research Assistant Professor of #Epidemiology at the University of Utah. #sna #netsci #networkscience #stats #hpc #rstats https://ggvy.cl