Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

Few things bring home how much big tech caring about diversity was a zero interest rate phenomenon like Women Who Code shutting down due to lack of funding.

https://womenwhocode.com/blog/the-end-of-an-era-women-who-code-closing

Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

I have programmed a small #rstats script combining the web-based #API of our SolarEdge #photovoltaic system with the local API of our go-e #wallbox.

If the car charges, the script looks up the production of the PV system and increases/decreases the charging current for the car accordingly. This makes the most of the collected #solar power. What now runs on an old #Raspberry Pi would’ve easily cost us 500 EUR + installation costs – and I have full control over everything! 🤓🤩

Because they bring me such joy, I will share with you all the software testing videos I share with my Software Design and Development students.

Video 1/3: “We don’t need user testing! We already know our users”

I'm thrilled to announce a new preprint from our lab, with in depth analyses showing that Seurat and Scanpy give drastically different results for ostensibly the same data analysis tasks: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.04.588111v1 #rstats #python #scrna #bioinformatics

"It's difficult to judge the quality of someone's work," you tell me, "especially these days when so much is being published every day."

And you're right. Good work in many areas or research is difficult to pick out, obscured by a rising flood of self-promoting bullshit. /1

#statstab #64 Using tidybayes with the posterior package by @mjskay

Thoughts: Going #bayesian means a lot of wrangling the posteriors to get the info you want. A crucial skills I'm still learning, but invaluable.

#bayes #rstats #tidybayes #brms

https://mjskay.github.io/tidybayes/articles/tidy-posterior.html

Reminder: MIT Libraries have been out of contract with Elsevier for four years now.

Bravo MIT!

More like this please. Paying the ransom only encourages the robber-barons to crank-up the ransom price the next year. We need to break the cycle. Don't feed the monster.

Professors: you can use yt-dlp to download YouTube videos and add them to directly your presentations.

I've seen so many lectures get derailed by an embedded YouTube video breaking in PowerPoint. Or they minimize their presentation, open up a browser and navigate to YouTube (revealing embarrassing personal recommendations), then make a lecture hall full of people sit through an ad for some fly-by-night home security system or whatever.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

#education #teaching #academia

Dans "La vie de laboratoire", classique de #sociologie des #science de Bruno Latour, une note en bas de pagelnous rappelle que le web scraping et les techniques de #MachineLearning ont finalement assez peu évolués en 45 ans...

#shitpost

@nicolaromano Exactly! The specific language is less important than the ability to write dependable and understandable code. R wasn't developed as a general purpose programming language and it's not fair to judge it that way (Python on the other hand...). Even then, the R community adapted the language and practice to better support making standalone applications, to make documentation and testing easier, etc. There's at least movement in a good direction. Excel just keeps adding less and less useful features without addressing any of its core shortcomings. Excel doesn't improve, it just gets bigger and its UI keeps churning.