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This was also discussed on HN a few days ago.[1] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552440

Got it, thanks!

What exactly is the innovation here compared to the press release from two years ago?[1] [1]: https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/05/Ultrasonic_col...

I wouldn't call this a minor detail (i.e., nitpicking), and it is worth pointing out again and again when these studies get public attention. We should encourage stronger research …

A lot of people might read this and infer that AI use causes depressive symptoms, but the study cannot say anything about causation at all. The study is also transparent about this…

Great stuff! You can make minor adjustments to the R-script so you do not need to rely on {dplyr} and {tidyr}. For example, use merge() instead of left_join() and use the base pipe…

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Not OP but I guess Gladwell-style can be understood as writing that is presented as nonfictional but has more in common with fictional writing.

https://archive.is/84dmE

They are already combined in dtplyr[1]. [1] https://dtplyr.tidyverse.org/

Interesting to see far-right terminology being used unironically at HN.

100% agree. I am more than happy to see Astral taking steps in this direction. People can continue to use uv, ruff, and ty without having to pay anything, but companies that benefi…

Looking good! What does it mean that it is free forever? That the code is available on GitHub and we should not have to be concerned about the site going offline or moving to a dif…

Did you write the stand-up comedy set? This have all the telltale signs of AI (down to the use of em dash).

The article is more than five years old (from February 2020).

Most of these examples/walkthroughs look like they have been generated by LLMs. They might be useful for teaching purposes, but I believe they significantly underestimate the amoun…

Point taken! I should have considered a subtitle for the post to make it clear what my main point is. That being said, I tried to nuance the post and not make any bold predictions.…

Fair point. My personal preference is still for blog posts to share this information in the URL, i.e., to communicate when a blog post was published even before I click a URL. Usua…

Good point! There is a difference between blog posts and pages to take into account here. For blog posts, I would like to see at least the publication year in the URL, as well as t…

I agree with a lot of these ideas but I do not get the obsession with short urls. E.g., why not make it easy for readers to see the date of when something was published? In this ca…

ggplot2 is pretty much an exception at this point, and if the package was created today it would use the pipe instead of add [1]. Most packages use pipes now (especially with the i…

I am not against AI in software per se (I like the ChatGPT desktop app), but I prefer not to have AI in tools where the primary use case is not related to AI. Specifically, I don't…

I have gotten into the habbit of removing any software with opt-in AI chatbots. I recently uninstalled iTerm2, and I fear Firefox will be next.