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  1. So… an OpenAI model broke containment and bit Hugging Face.

    What the hell happened? And what does that say about where genAI is headed?

    I offer my take in the latest Complex Machinery.

    Read online / subscribe:

    newsletter.complex-machinery.c

    #AI #dataBS

  2. So… an OpenAI model broke containment and bit Hugging Face.

    What the hell happened? And what does that say about where genAI is headed?

    I offer my take in the latest Complex Machinery.

    Read online / subscribe:

    newsletter.complex-machinery.c

    #AI #dataBS

  3. Neat. Positron now recognizes a pyproject.toml, offers to build an environment with one click using uv 🚀 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

  4. Neat. Positron now recognizes a pyproject.toml, offers to build an environment with one click using uv 🚀 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

  5. Bookmarking microsoft/Data-Science-For-Beginners: 10 Weeks, 20 Lessons, in Python or #Rstats, translations available in 50+ languages github.com/microsoft/Da...

    Guide for teachers: github.com/microsoft/Da...

  6. Bookmarking microsoft/Data-Science-For-Beginners: 10 Weeks, 20 Lessons, in Python or #Rstats, translations available in 50+ languages github.com/microsoft/Da...

    Guide for teachers: github.com/microsoft/Da...

  7. Deploying R shiny apps to your own cloud server should be simple, so I created Lightbulb.is. Free 30 day trial. #databs #datasky

    Lightbulb.is

  8. Ten simple rules for teaching data science: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 🧪 With a checklist in the SI

  9. Ten simple rules for teaching data science: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 🧪 With a checklist in the SI

  10. Weekly Recap (April 24, 2026): ggsql, web to markdown, Claude Code pricing, GPT-5.5, AIxBio hackathon ideas, flu vaccine, NIH, Qwen, AI literacy, biosecurity, research security.

    Weekly Recap (April 24, 2026)

  11. Weekly Recap (April 24, 2026): ggsql, web to markdown, Claude Code pricing, GPT-5.5, AIxBio hackathon ideas, flu vaccine, NIH, Qwen, AI literacy, biosecurity, research security.

    Weekly Recap (April 24, 2026)

  12. New blog post: Adding Alt Text in Quarto with Claude Code. Emil Hvitfeldt @[email protected] published a Claude Code skill giving you a new slash command to create alt text for digital accessibility for all of your figures in your Quarto documents. doi.org/10.59350/ej0... #Rstats

    Adding Alt Text in Quarto with...

  13. “The companies three to five years from now that are going to be the most successful are those companies that doubled down on entry level hiring in this environment,” LaMoreaux said. www.cio.com/article/4134... #databs

    IBM looks beyond short-term AI...

  14. Weekly Recap (March 6, 2026): Biology essays, fast bio bounty, PDF accessibility in Quarto, Claude Skills for R, sex lives of neanderthals and humans, Ginkgo cloud lab, Applied Machine Learning Conference, AI in Science #Rstats doi.org/10.59350/2n1... 🧬💻🧪

    Weekly Recap (March 6, 2026)

  15. Tickets for the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference are now on sale! These will sell out fast. April 17-18, Charlottesville VA appliedml.us/2026/register/. Early bird pricing through March 20, starting at only $75

  16. Tickets for the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference are now on sale! These will sell out fast. April 17-18, Charlottesville VA appliedml.us/2026/register/. Early bird pricing through March 20, starting at only $75

  17. Conference registration for the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference is now open! The conference will take place on April 17–18 in Charlottesville, Virginia — now just 7 weeks away. appliedml.us/2026/register/

    Conference Registration | Appl...

  18. Just found reviewer from @[email protected]: Human-scale LLM code review, as if a member of the tidyverse team were there with you to workshop your code for reproducibility, readability, and resilience. Note it's still very experimental. #Rstats github.com/simonpcouch/...

  19. R Weekly 2026-W09 Git commits, Pick a License, and How to choose the best LLM using R and vitals rweekly.org/2026-W09.html #Rstats #databs

  20. Anyone else ever do this? Open up the most powerful data science integrated development environment ever created to do some simple arithmetic?

  21. Anyone else ever do this? Open up the most powerful data science integrated development environment ever created to do some simple arithmetic?

  22. Last chance to submit a talk for the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference! appliedml.us/2026/cfp/ Deadline: Feb 22! ⏳ #rstats #pydata #databs

    Call for Proposals | Applied M...

  23. Friendly reminder: the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference is still accepting abstracts for talks and workshops. Visit the call for proposals page for details! I hope to see you here in Charlottesville this April!

    Call for Proposals | Applied M...

  24. Friendly reminder: the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference is still accepting abstracts for talks and workshops. Visit the call for proposals page for details! I hope to see you here in Charlottesville this April!

    Call for Proposals | Applied M...

  25. Over the moon to announce that @[email protected] will be the keynote speaker for the Applied Machine Learning Conference here in Charlottesville this spring! news.cvilleds.org/p/2026-amlc-... #databs

    2026 AMLC Keynote Speaker Anno...

  26. Government friends, submit talks, enough to enable a government track for a day or half day. It means a lot when we can sit and chat and exchange ideas with fellow govys for more than 20 minutes. And you, yep you who are doubting yourself, submit one please! #RStats #PyData #DataBS #PositConf

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5ol3bgc5trbdgd5h34wynrwo/post/3mchwagr45s2g

  27. In the latest Complex Machinery: Past crashes and other events from history tell me how the world might look after genAI falls apart.

    Come for the hot takes. Stay for the movie references and effects pedals.

    #dataBS #aisky

    newsletter.complex-machinery.c

  28. OK!! #DataBS conf starts at 10am EDT and I'm gonna be busy hosting, SO, things to know:

    Chat is on discord, NOT zoom: bit.ly/databs-chat

    Last min registration:
    us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist

    Official Schedule: databsconf.com/schedule/

  29. #DataBS Conf 2025 preshow! We have two talks that we couldn't fit into the schedule but the speakers pre-recorded their talk for us to share before the main event next week!

    Both are really good and give me lots of excitement about what we'll see next week.

    ti.to/databsconf/databs-conf <-- free tickets

    #data

  30. LAST CALL! Today's the last day to get your talk submissions in for the #dataBS conference! A place for data folk to commiserate about doing data work. Single track, online, free to attend on Wednesday Sept 24

    bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs

  31. Thanks @dslc.io for using #TidyTuesday to highlight the unprecedented and likely illegal termination of >1000 #NSF grants in April. The #rstats, #python, and #dataBS community can help us understand and visualize the story of what's happening.

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:peeplnvlwcohp4jly3fpwj46/post/3logikh4mb22w

  32. 📣 Current and former #USgov data scientists! Join @ropensci.org + @openscapes.bsky.social on May 6 for a community support and networking event: ropensci.org/events/datas... Co-hosted by former feds (NOAA, NASA, DOE, NSF, NIH + Federal Reserve) to discuss their paths to other sectors. #dataBS

    Non-Government Career Paths fo...

  33. This week on Counting Stuff, I say welcome to #dataBS and then try to explain that we're all, collectively, forming and maintaining new norms here and it's up to all of us to be the example of community we want to be in

    counting-stuff.com/were-all-th

  34. Your company built that genAI chatbot to ... well ... chat with people. But do you want it to answer _every_ question? Probably not.

    In the latest Complex Machinery, I offer some age-old legal guidance to AI chatbots: it's hard to get into trouble for something you didn't say.

    newsletter.complex-machinery.c

    #dataBS