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Epistemic Virtues for Science in the Age of Automation
This is Jessica. Back in the 1980s, novelist Italo Calvino developed a series of six lectures describing literary virtues he felt should be enduring regardless of how the world changed: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, mulitiplicity, and consistency. These were published … Continue reading …
How to report a N=12 study?
Survey Statistics: irrelevant alternatives ?
Marathon Man II: how to pace a marathon
It’s often the way. I posted recently about how to pace a marathon and very quickly received feedback that would’ve improved the original post. Oh well, no going back. This is take two. So, we have a dataset of all runners from the 2025 New York City Marathon. We …
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Programming with LLMs in R & Python
R.I.P., Tomas Kalibera
I hate writing yet another RIP post, but the other day, I learned on Bluesky that Tomas Kalibera had passed away. I don’t really know Tomas well, and have never met him in person, but I just to write down a couple of things while I remember them.
My first interaction with Tomas was a small pull request to my testit package in 2016: yihui/testit#3. He found that testit did not work with the byte-code compiler, and …