Danielle Navarro

djnavarro.net

16 October 2026 09:20

this might be a controversial take but i don't think it's a good idea to create a simulated torture chamber for AI agents. even if the machines aren't capable of experiencing suffering, humans can absolutely be trained to enjoy torturing others. best not to go down that path. i would think

Jeroen Ooms

jeroenooms.bsky.social

15 October 2026 14:44

New version of #rstats curl bindings on CRAN. On Windows/Mac, the statically linked libcurl includes the latest CVE patches. So if you are worried about these things, better update. On other operating systems, libcurl is part of your distro and has to be patched by them. cran.dev/curl

Gabriel Flynn

gabrielflynn.bsky.social

15 October 2026 14:39

AI researchers warn technology 'months away' from being able to connect to wifi using eduroam

Ilya Kashnitsky

ikashnitsky.phd

14 October 2026 19:52

This is a feature, not a bug — ggplot2 colors are designed to work best for categorical variables and optimize perceptual equality. I don't like them too and use other palettes. But there is a logic in the way they are constructed

Carson Sievert (he/him)

cpsievert.bsky.social

14 October 2026 06:35

It was such a joy working with @samuelbharti.com this summer. Absolutely insane what he was able to accomplish during his internship at @posit.co. Please give him a follow and check out this work if you're at all interested in shiny, bioinformatics, and genomics. #rstats #pydata