John BS @johnabs@qoto.org

@tiago Ah, I see your point now, thanks for the clarification! 😁

@drmichaellevin @kws Rotovaping will allow you to remove the methanol over relatively low heat, (I think 30-40 C is sufficient under a vacuum to remove the methanol IIRC, but you may need to check a methods paper for it).

Economics+dynamic programming is really hard 😭

@drmichaellevin

Have you tried sonicating the solute in the water to dissolve it, and testing the concentration? You may be able to detect it if you can prepare some standards and have access to an HPLC/GC/ or mass spec. Do you know what wavelength the thing absorbs at so you can make a calibration curve for an optical detector? Do you know the expected solubility of the compound in your salt solution?

Alternatively if your compound is stable enough, can you rotovap it? If so, that may help at least remove the methanol, but your solute may still precipitate out of the water, particularly due to the salt. In this case you can readily determine the concentration by knowing the molarity of your original solution, and the volumes of your mixture and the rotovap product; should take out nearly all the guesswork assuming it stays soluble.

@CrypticMirror @neotoy

To quote Wikipedia, it's apparently supposed to refer to "Eurpoeans perceived to be particularly stylish and affluent socialites. It is often used ironically or self-referentially, and is not meant to be the European equivalent of the typical American derogatory term 'white trash'."

So, to answer your question, it apparently is not targeting a race or ethnicity per se, but the upper class of European expats living in the US.

Hence, I would argue it is not a racist term, but more of a classist one referring specifically to European "elites", which I assume likely has arisen from both Euroscepticism and (likely) from perceived cultural/behavioral differences between Europe and America.

My 2 cents, take them for what you will, lol.

@tiago I don't exactly see the issue here. Pardon my ignorance, but the following questions come to mind:

Do other foreign officials regularly attend presidential inaugurations?

Does the president regularly attend the coronations of other countries' dignitaries?

If the answer to either of these is no, then I don't see an issue at all.

I understand if other countries, particularly those of close proximity have leaders meet, but I doubt that leaders/royalty of every country in the world are attending, and frankly it would be strange if they did IMO. It's good to have pleasant relations with other leaders, but surely those can be established outside of the pomp of these overblown ceremonies, right?

@leahdriel And all these telomeres sure do a number on the living! 😂

@doclomieu @freemo Aww shucks, thanks fellas 😁

For anyone interested, I owe a lot of the final look to sanding with 0000 steel wool after the initial shaping, being very careful to remove all the dust before applying the finish (cyanoacrylate for grip and protection, at least 12 coats), and then polishing up to 12,000 grit with water. It takes a while but I think it pays off.

I wish I could have gotten the chatoyance of the grain in the pictures, because it's honestly prettier in person when the light hits it just right!

I made this out of Kingwood and got a really nice grain match across the cap and the body!

@freemo I know you like fountain pens (or at least calligraphy), what do you think?

#fountainpens #woodworking

While R isn't my favorite language of the ones I regularly use, I know you #rstats people adore it, so here's a fun package you should try out:

https://github.com/dirkschumacher/transduceR

If you like functional style, but want efficiency too, try out transducers, they're an amazing little tool that I'm still picking up, but they give you pipelines that don't create intermediate arrays (and composable reductions, lazy evaluation in this case, etc). Thus, they still provide clean, familiar functional syntax but with a pretty sizable performance boost!

Here's a conceptual primer on them from Clojure as well:

https://clojure.org/reference/transducers

I hope this proves useful to some of you! 😁

@andrew No problem! Not sure if it was useful at all, but I tried 😂

@tiago My favorite latex "replacements" are org-mode/RMarkdown/Weave.jl

You can still use latex where needed, and it compiles through latex at the end, but you get a lot more (including code execution, selective export, inline figures, easier tables, etc) for a lot less of the annoying syntax, while maintaining the beautiful typesetting. If you haven't tried them, I heavily suggest giving them a shot!

If anyone is interested, I can post an example document as well 😄

@scholzmx @rstats The parallel package has stuff for working with clusters, very similar to Julia's pmap but for R (I think clusterapply and it's ilk will probably get you want you want in a functional style, and it has stuff to easily detect cores and such).

https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/parallel/versions/3.6.2

@avehtari Probably my thesis...😭 😂

@andrew Oh, and for funsies, here's the same set of sed regular expressions that will take the raw html starting at <div class="sourceCode" and do the same thing:

```
:%s/^.*\(@.*\)<\/span>\{<span class="ot">\(.*\)<\/span>,.*/\1{\2/g
:%s/.*\{\(.*\)\}.*/\{\1\}/g
```

But the bookmarklet was a lot faster to get working 100% 😂

@andrew

I see...I think there's some trouble here, unless you only care about this url based method working for your WIP papers only (rather than universally).

In this more limited case, you can use a bookmarklet. Now, I'm no expert at Javascript, but it seems that you can do the following based on the website you linked. Just save the following code as a bookmark, and you can automatically copy to your clipboard from anywhere on the page, and import to zotero from there.

It would be even easier if the zotero API had a way to save from bibtex instead of just doi, because in that case we can just wrap the bookmarklet in another function and call it a day.

Hope this provides something useful you can build on or use :)

```
javascript:navigator.clipboard.writeText(document.getElementsByClassName("sourceCode").cb1.innerText)
```

@andrew You mean like this?

https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1038/nrd842/transform/application/x-bibtex

Just put anything between "works/" and "/transform" and it will return bibtex information.

Or did you mean something else?

@trinsec Mazel Tov! 👶 😂

@leahdriel I personally prefer the "cawlection of corvids", but that's just because I like the puns 😂