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The best language for AI agents is the one YOU believe is the best.

Maybe some, there are also people who cheer for the capacity of humanity to figure out solutions that can benefits humanity. I view the perspective you describe as people externali…

Seems complicated, although this is the best description of depression I've ever read, go outside and start walking.

https://docs.posit.co/ , it just makes sense the way everything is organized.

A commercial food scale from Kilotech; quicker, more robust, always on, stainless, larger scale area and clear display.

For anyone who thinks about doing these, here are a few tips for the advanced CAS exams. - Time is your enemy. - Use memorization techniques, like a memory palace. - Grader are loo…

Hated/Loved doing the exams to get my FCAS. It allowed me to explore my mental capacity. It teaches you how to learn fast, how to memorize, how to be quick at solving problems. It …

5 years in. No regret so far. How long before you had regrets?

So this is the new bluetooth?

Fully agreed. Add `sessionInfo()` output as an appendix to your publication. Should not be too hard to rebuild from that.

R has data.table. It is the game changer as I agree base R data.frame do not cut it for performance. tibble will come close once they incorporate more of the data.table performance…

GPU integration was broken for a long time. Managing VMs / Environments. The absolutely horrible integration with git/Github. Having to rebuild your environment from scratch when y…

It came down to IDE, workflow and data.table. RStudio is an absolute killer solution from the get go. Package management in R is simple and robust. Shiny is the new Excel pivot tab…

I'm pushing for our actuarial team to transition to more R + Git. After 3 years of preaching, most of the actuaries now use RStudio + git as their primary work tool. It is happenin…

RStudio, server and connect are such a treat to interact with compared to anaconda entreprise.

A plumber in front of your ML serving function running in a docker container. There, simple, fast enough. We have multiple R containers in production, it is working fine and the da…

Probably because I believe you should wear whatever makes you comfortable within the context of the event you are attending. Women could be wearing suits, and men dresses or skirts…

And men told to wear blazer/sport coat, slacks, suit and 'step it up'. I don't see malice in the statement, it is just poorly worded.

It is interesting to see this discussion about notebooks while I'm thinking about all the RStudio users who do all their work inside the IDE and are pretty happy. Notebooks seem li…

This comment has to be the most insightful I have ever read. It is true on so many levels and captures perfectly the mentality that some senior decision makers have about AI.

Were you using jsonlite? Great library that can parse directly from a URL and transform into data.frame depending on JSON representation. I agree it is not clear from the get go wh…

Believe me, I know. The code just becomes unreadable when you put all execution inside the same data step and use hash table to do fast small to big merging. And not to mention deb…

Debugging is something I could not do as easily in Julia vs debugonce and trace in R. Compiling takes time. But so far we have seen great development. Flux is a truly beautiful ml …

One of the reason we use data.table is that it reduces the depencies when building custom images and its stability has been better than the tidyverse in the past. It might not be t…