Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@qoto.org

"Wait. Your business plan is to wait until the room smells interesting and then capture it in a candle?"

This weekend in boat fires:

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2022/06/fishing-vessel-catches-fire-off-coast-of-manzanita-beach-1-person-rescued.html

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/19/us/yacht-fire-new-hampshire/index.html

A group of people in a room staring at their phones. Every half hour or so a different one looks up and complains about how everyone else does nothing but look at their phones.

Title for a book recommendation blog:

A Danger to My Shelf and Others

"It's a trap!"

It's getting crepuscular.

#Violet's ears are a-quiver with antici ... pizza.

Honest question: Is there anyone here fluent in both #rstats and #python who prefers R?

I know Python well and am still learning R. It feels kludgy, extremely context-sensitive, and more like an accreted bag of tricks than a designed programming language.

Maybe this is just my fear of change / computer scientist bias or issues with the particular book I'm reading. A part of me feels that students minoring (and someday majoring) in #DataScience should know R because it's widely used, but another part worries that teaching them this inferior tool is doing them a disservice.

Is there an R champion in the house?

Judging by the cover challenge: what is this book about?

Most languages:

true is a boolean
2 is an integer
2.0 is a double
2L is a long integer

#Rstats:

TRUE is a logical
2 is a double
2.0 is a double
2L is an integer

For added fun, the last three are displayed the same way (2).

Wat.

#Violet is a non-stop parade of adorability today.

#Violet would FREAK OUT if she knew there was a big cat behind her.

#Violet

Butter for the butter god! Scones for the scone throne!