kalealex.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Computer Science and Data Science at UChicago. Research on visualization, HCI, statistics, data cognition. Moonlighting as a musician 🎺 https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~kalea/
👤 Joined on 29 October 2023
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@kalealex.bsky.socialin 2020 my lab quit Microsoft Word and began writing in R Markdown, an open-source document-publishing system that facilitates a clear, permanent link between statements in text (scientific prose) and the code producing analyses and visualizations supporting those statements (scientific analyses)
Show Postquick screencap of qmd->docx->qmd comment flow in quarto 2/quarto-hub
Show Posttaking music seriously made me notice one big meta-skill if you're going to make the move from appreciation to performance, you better figure out how to enjoy the struggle. That's not out of some vague stoic sense; it's just that the ratio of time spent struggling vs performing is like 20-50:1
Show PostLarge language models are not the sorts of entities that can be held responsible. This lede should read "Using AI agents, Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...."
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