R-bloggers

This one is named, yes, you guessed it, after Markov chains. 🙂 The babbler is there to connotate the simplicity of useless R function. It’s simple calculation of probability of words chaining and drawing the multiple times appeared chained words…Read more ›

At Jumping Rivers, we combine engineering, automation, and analytics to streamline your data workflows and make them more efficient. We take care of the tasks you don’t have the time or capacity for, improve processes you might not even know coul...

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/development-environment-portable-reproducible.You upgrade your old Intel Macbook Pro for a new M4 MBP. You’re setting up a new cloud VM on AWS after migrating away from GCP. You get an acc...

 Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/codex-positron.Last month I wrote about agentic coding in Positron using Positron assistant, which uses the Claude API on the back end.Positron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and Claude-Pow...

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/positron-assistant-copilot-chat-agent I have a little hobby project I’m working on and I wanted to use the opportunity to fully make the switch to Positron from RStudio. I used Positro...

The French government is planning to hold a confidence vote on Prime Minister François Bayrou’s fiscal plan. If a coalition of opposition parties votes against the government, as is widely expected, Bayrou will have to submit his resignation to French President Emmanuel Macron. This could cause a fall ...

Canvas quizzes can be created with exams2canvas in R/exams and then imported and managed in Canvas using the R package vvcanvas. Overview This tutorial illustrates how to use R/exams in combination with vvcanvas for c...

      Davey Johnson, former baseball player and manager, recently passed away. He was notable in the math and data analysis world for being an early proponent of sabermetrics, the use of statistical analysis of baseball to...

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Ever wondered how DNA alignment actually works under the hood? 🧬 We coded the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm from scratch, working through scoring matrices by hand with simple examples like “CAT” vs “CT” before testing on real E. c...

I wrote a review last week of Struggle, reform, boom and bust: an economic history of Papua New Guinea since independence by Stephen Howes and others. The review was published in the Devpolicy Blog at The Australian National University’s Development Po...

Goldman Sachs stated that if the FED’s reputation suffers, and investors move only a small portion of their bond holdings into gold, the price of gold could rise to nearly $5,000 an ounce. But at least now, the ensemble model indicates that gold prices are in an overbought zone. Source ...