today's leftovers
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Tedium ☛ Ruminating On Replies
The “reply guy,” the internet-native take on Florida Man, has started to cause problems in the fediverse, and it comes down to ideology.
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You say something, and then someone replies to the thing you said. You may either get a bit of joy from that reply, or you may find the reply frustrating or annoying in some way.
It doesn’t get more simple than that. And honestly, it feels like a lot of our problems of the moment are rooted in replies—who’s sending them, what they’re saying, whether you’re getting tuned out. Some might argue that the reason why internet culture feels so bad lately is because the reply guys got sick of being blocked and muted by the very people they want listening to their screeds.
That has led to some retreats to other platforms, but the problem is, a year into this grand reset of social media norms, it didn’t really solve the problem so much as help expose the fact that other shades of reply-driven drama are out there.
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Joey Hess ☛ Joey Hess: attribution armored code
Attribution of source code has been limited to comments, but a deeper embedding of attribution into code is possible. When an embedded attribution is removed or is incorrect, the code should no longer work. I've developed a way to do this in Haskell that is lightweight to add, but requires more work to remove than seems worthwhile for someone who is training an LLM on my code. And when it's not removed, it invites LLM hallucinations of broken code.
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Software Freedom Conservancy ☛ 2023 Fundraiser Kicks Off With Historic $161,729 Match Fund! [Ed: SFC asks for more money to attack the founders of Free software, with corporate entities doubling the funds. Donate today to fund Sandler's $250,000 per annum salary and $500/hour motions to gag Eben Moglen.]
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R
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Rlang ☛ qeML Example: Issues of Overfitting, Dimension Reduction Etc.
What about variable selection? Which predictor variables/features should we use? No matter what anyone tells you, this is an unsolved problem. But there are lots of useful methods. See the qeML vignettes on feature selection and overfitting for detailed background on the issues involved.
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Rlang ☛ Folks, C’mon, Use Parquet
In today’s data-driven landscape, the way we store and manage data can significantly impact both efficiency and decision-making processes. While CSV files have long been the go-to format for quick data dumps and simple storage, they come with inherent drawbacks that can hinder performance and data integrity.
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Rlang ☛ Logarithmic Regression in R: A Step-by-Step Guide with Prediction Intervals
Logarithmic regression is a statistical technique used to model the relationship between a dependent variable and an independent variable when the relationship is logarithmic.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Linux Gizmos ☛ ESP32-S3 based Rotary Switch with 2.1″ Touch Display
The MaTouch ESP32-S3 Rotary display module by Makerfabs is a versatile device designed for IoT applications due to its Wi-Fi/Bluetooth capabilities. Additionally, the board comes with a few I/O connectors for expansion and supports Arduino.
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