Kickstarter to get the London Underground lady to do the BART announcements. “Please mind the idiots that get off at 12th st.”
@steppensquirrle Run my code 2.0?
NASA For retail, it's #BlackFriday. For us, it's #BlackHoleFriday. Today, we'll post info & images all about black holes. pic.twitter.com/jsk9vUjcr4
@ethanwhite Two scientists as parents. Can you blame her for asking why?
@fonnesbeck I love it. Will highly recommend.
shellen Just told extended family I'm a 'Bitcoin Prospector Analyst'. Feel free to use that one if you don't want to explain what you do either.
SpaceX Falcon 9 launching in T-4.
bit.ly/1bZAAoY
@David_Dobbs gorgeous.
Thanks everyone for your kindness, camaraderie, and friendship. It’s been a year of ups and downs and glad you were there for the ride.
@jonesor awesome!
@neilfws We have an R package for that. :)
ropensci.org/packages/ropen…
Nice post on writing concisely and the joys of editing science @mickresearch
bit.ly/1cwfmAS
@swcarpentry Signed ARB. Just like the president signs his tweets. Nice.
The A-Z of zoonoses performed by the brilliant, talented, and funny @jennifergardy
youtube.com/watch?v=P2C4U6…
↬ @phylogenomics
@jessitron I fail miserably at this game.
GabrielRossman A Guide to Surviving Thanksgiving With Retrograde Relatives Who Still Use SPSS
@kara_woo @recology_ I think @carlystrasser just mock favorited that tweet. Or dork favorited. I can’t really tell. Forget jetpacks.
@recology_ I hear you man.
@davetaz Is there a laptop nearby?
xkcd on git commit messages.
bit.ly/1eyZYWs
Love the alt text: Merge branch ‘asdfasjkfdlas/alkdjf’ into sdkjfls-final
seanjtaylor Python, R, COBOL, whatever. While you were debating which will "win" someone was writing code that works and nobody cares which they chose.
wow. so science. many p value. much result. such novel. wow. #dogereviews
@polesasunder Nope. Try it.
@polesasunder Also
data.frame(apply(test, 2, as.character))
@kara_woo wow, that’s a big change.
@ctitusbrown Perhaps of interest.
kck.st/1bRmLZP
@phylorich @adaptive_plant Actually you are correct.
hah. Trying a system call on r-fiddle. Result: s3.amazonaws.com/courseimages.d…
@adaptive_plant Pandoc does it too.
bit.ly/VV27Rk
And to many more formats.
@adaptive_plant Are you on osx? My difftool can easily diff Word docs. bit.ly/183HQzl
@adaptive_plant Looks promising but too slow atm.
@thomaslevine running 10 late.
@thomaslevine Sure, see you there then.
@ethanwhite Just got it today. Will let you know once I sink my teeth into it.
Finally getting around to reading @drewconway and @johnmyleswhite ’s machine learning book.
@kaythaney @potch That’s really proactive. This is my usual response to post travel email. dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2223411/gifs…
An interesting analysis of open data licenses by @thomaslevine
bit.ly/IdNSqB #opendata
How to share data with a statistician.
bit.ly/1aNrVJq
↬ @dataJujitsu
@bendmorris You millennials are so impatient.
@polesasunder I solved your problem.
ethanwhite "Unfortunately, I also see my role as the scientific coder being diminished year after year." andy.terrel.us/blog/2013/11/2… We need change *now*.
@ethanwhite *evil laughter*
tomjwebb PhD opportunity with me to study global trends in marine biodiversity sheffield.ac.uk/aps/prospectiv…
@shaka_lulu this is awful. I’m so sorry. And please be safe.
@dbiello happy birthday David. Come back to the west coast sometime.
@adaptive_plant @RobLanfear @enterthesloth @1Password Big 1P fan too. But the GitHub attack got some of those passwords too.
@billymeinke yup definitely.
@billymeinke Are you coming to Open Drinks tonight?
@mickresearch hilarious. Also, I know that room!
RobLanfear Please contact me if you're interested in participating in a @NESCent catalysis meeting on experimental evolution. Please RT too. @RELenski
Here’s a fish with a transparent head.
It can see right through its own head.
uhh.
youtube.com/watch?v=Zoygy-…
↬ @beckerhopper
@adaptive_plant @enterthesloth @RobLanfear So far none! *quickly enables 2 factor auth*
@Protohedgehog @WrightingApril We have a very special cisco VPN which requires its own app. barf.
@npch holy shit! Is that car really on fire?
@WrightingApril @Protohedgehog I only work from home these days. So these links mean throw on painful vpn or download next time at work.
Paradosso My answer to What background does one need to learn R? qr.ae/Gr5yr
beckerhopper PhD position, Beckerman Lab, Sheffield : Adaptation under Climate Change: Coping with Predation and Variation in Food beckslab.staff.shef.ac.uk/Opps/PhDDesc/i…
flyosity This is a real product that Microsoft now sells. microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en…
@JeromyAnglim always?
Current weather forecast for Berkeley hills: Blair Witch pic.twitter.com/R3UZHLxU6v
@hadleywickham @recology_ I temporarily fixed it with:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/tar /usr/bin/gnutar
feltron The app I used to track the 2012 Annual Report is on its way to the App Store in a redesigned and rethought package: reporter-app.com
dweinberger A term we need: "XKcede": to acknowledge that XKCD said it first.
@mbeisen I’m fully on board with this plan.
@americanbeetles this is what I get for scrolling up and replying.
@closesl seconding ggmap.
@americanbeetles I hope there is a follow up tweet. Don’t leave us hanging.
Fun night of nerding out with @johnmyleswhite and @seanjtaylor
Back to the east bay bat cave.
anildash Today is the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln delivering his TED Talk about the role of military sacrifice in representative democracy.
GJFSwan Your chances of surviving if attacked by a hippo is 13.3%, lion 25%, baboon 29.1%, elephant 32.7% or leopard 67.5%. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
@hspter I use it a lot. Love it and it’s super fast.
@WrightingApril Definitely taking you up on that.
@Laelaps @JacquelynGill Is this the bone room?
@kcranstn @WrightingApril It is really hard.
/says guy currently struggling with it.
Programming with Big Data in R is a cool project by the folks @NICS
bit.ly/1hVfpNt
Run large jobs from interactive shell. #rstats
evgenymorozov There's only one way for Rob Ford to redeem himself now: learn how to code.
@ToriHerridge As someone who suffered through a 9 mo one, thank you.
ToriHerridge PLEDGE: I will never advertise a 1 year post-doc position, given how fricking ridiculously stressful these are for people
@tomjwebb @ToriHerridge I love your optimism, Tom. :)
Short-term contracts drove me crazy.
Today in Australia is go home on time day.
bit.ly/1dTsW2u
I’m sure all the academics are excited to work from home this pm.
@ATredennick @naupakaz Very crashy. Stick with 0.98.312
Also I don’t use it much.
@carlystrasser like? Give me a few examples.
@carlystrasser Way to go, Daphne. Spoiler alert. Bad guy is a guy in a clown fish suit. And he would’ve gotten away with it too..,
@carlystrasser Tell me more.
@RobLanfear @americanbeetles I’ll pay extra for international shipping. :)
@americanbeetles on further thought, a nice printed copy.
@americanbeetles downloadable PDFs for $!
wow “@MechaMorgan: Absolutely losing it bit.ly/1dPRd9C”
cc @ppolischuk
@ramnath_vaidya Will do. Just had chat with @fperez_org about it today.
@recology_ Have you tried turning it off and on again?
@emilysdarling wow, looks like you really do need that Software Carpentry course.
@distribecology @recology_ @ucfagls
On line 1 and 4 of your tweet I would recommend using the <- assignment operator instead of the =
@ElDon78 Uni librarian for UC Davis. She’s on the board for rOpenSci and advising a new postdoc with J. Eisen.
@ramnath_vaidya Yep, that’s the plan. Just need to find some time though.
@xieyihui @romain_francois @craigcitro @travisci hear hear!
@skmorgane @ethanwhite @weecology east??
You guys ARE nerds.
- signed,
President of Nor Cal weecology fan club.
seanjtaylor "Let's build a predictive model for your Thetan levels." -- Data Scientologists
@soozaphone I’m excited for you!
@mfenner @npch It’s actually a quote from Dan Ariely about big data. on.fb.me/1bH5wha
@americanbeetles hi Ainsley! Just realized I know you. :)
npch Shout out for @rOpenSci from @kcranstn at #WSSSPE for doing a really great job online - resources, tutorials, live chat all engage community
@TrestleJeff @hadleywickham Always find discussion of R on HN to be equal parts love:hate.
@msanclem mazel tov!
mattdpearce I know everybody was cheering for Batkid but deep down we all hoped the Joker would actually destroy San Francisco
@maxogden ah too bad. Was hoping to introduce you to @recology_ who is currently in town. We’re at the Trappist now.
@maxogden still at awaken cafe? Mind if a couple more people swing by?
hspter omg, the DOJ made a press release for BatKid 1.usa.gov/1aYgsbI
@npch might have to take a rain check on coffee this am. Happy to still give you a ride to the airport if you need one.
@epistemographer Thanks for the support! pic.twitter.com/Xc8Vkp1KUt
Dinner with the @rOpenSci team + guests. #sustainability pic.twitter.com/kLYigSSkvu
@ElDon78 Hey Don, so you know Mackenzie Smith?
@npch hi Neil. Did you make it into town?
@recology_ want to come hang out now?
@recology_ @carlystrasser not meeting till 6ish
@hspter @jaimedash @naupakaz don’t make me drive over there in my solar powered Prius & whack you over the head with my stop all wars sign.
@hspter I do too! Although that is a dangerous path to go down.
@hspter Do you know about cuppow? bit.ly/1cZg9z1
@shaka_lulu @profjsb What is hotwired3? Are you both in NM?
@arfon @fperez_org @profjsb I think registration is only required if you are presenting.
Third time in two days I’ve been asked if I’m an undergrad. Being stressed out make you look younger?
@cjlortie When are you done teaching?
ethanwhite Data Science Fellows "to work at the boundaries between the data-science methods and the sciences." Apply now! cds.nyu.edu/opportunities/
Packrat seems like an interesting tool for #rstats. Wrap all packages for a project into a new lib and version that. bit.ly/188gnQd
@johnmyleswhite @seanjtaylor Yep. Tuesday works if that’s good with Sean. Otherwise could do Fri too. My email is first . last [at] gmail.
@ElDon78 Wish I could quit email. or even stem the tide.
@ethanwhite @recology_ @kaythaney Quick, someone write a plugin that mirrors content to another pad.
@ctitusbrown @kaythaney Yup, same issue here.
@kaythaney Sad face. pic.twitter.com/t1Zbe5vtak
@GrunerDaniel Looks like a giant isopod!
jennschiffer "911 Stack Overflow, what's your emergency?"
"I'm on fire, I need to stop this fire ahhhh" "Why would you even want to do that?"
@ctitusbrown Are you attending?
@ramnath_vaidya the tech meeting is planned for March. Will email you about that soon.
More than 50% of inbox is now filled with @github issues. Need a new mailbox or a issue manager with offline support.
@maxogden So badly want some Christmas crackers now.
@johnmyleswhite @seanjtaylor Drinks some evening in SF next week? Free most days but Thursday.
@maxogden How does one win a blue crown?
@ethanwhite @SloanFoundation @epistemographer hear hear.
@jdtonkin happy to take a look if you post an example somewhere. Nothing comes to mind right away.
@openfisheries @QuantEcologyABC Removing a dependency and working purely with base R (outside of curl calls) helped with that.
@ctitusbrown + 1 on link to transcript
@neilfws Just in time!
@maxogden Can’t wait for next week!
fperez_org We're creating the new Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) as part of Moore/Sloan initiative: vcresearch.berkeley.edu/datascience/ov… #DataScience
@hadleywickham Is there an ETA for assertthat to go on CRAN?
Nice package, very useful alongside testthat. #rstats
@chrismentzel @epistemographer @MooreScientific Congrats! Nice work on the launch.
chrismentzel Starts today! Launching new partnership to advance the role of #datascientists in academia bit.ly/mooreDS @MooreScientific
Program Seeks to Nurture ‘Data Science Culture’ at Universities
nyti.ms/1e1KABP #ddd
ctitusbrown #ddd data science initiative: Sloan & Moore announcements: moore.org/newsroom/press…
TAC_NISO That's a serious commitment: $37.8 million from @SloanFoundation & Moore Foundations to support training of data specialists #Data2Action
NoticeComment Huge collaboration between @UW @nyuniversity @UCBerkeley @SloanFoundation & @moorefund #Data2Action pic.twitter.com/HcOC8ZJwXd
@andrewjdyck fantastic! Glad it worked.
@kobriendublin dude. Nice!
@DrLabRatOry I’m at a party at a friends house. Seems cool to me. Good to know how long to get home.
@kobriendublin hey are you on game of thrones?
Just discovered a new ios7 feature. It tells you how long it’ll take to get home from where you are. pic.twitter.com/hG9RzMRwGq
dhaelewa A carabid, a primitive weevil, and there's a third! Can you see the phoretic mite nymph? [photo: André De Kesel] pic.twitter.com/9EW1gK8w0X
gvwilson .@npch No point requiring deposit of data if no automatic way to verify usability. (This is why most data mgmt plans are pointless ritual.)
@ppolischuk Just found out that there are no Doge is my co pilot stickers in existence. Such disappoint.
Or more correctly, airbags for cyclists (and clumsy people).
bit.ly/1frZcuo
I could’ve used it a few weeks ago.
@abigailamey Right. :)
joshua_ulrich Prof Brian Ripley just announced on R-devel that CRAN now has 5000 contributed packages. Wow! #rstats
@svincenzi Don’t disagree with you. It’s been a hard position to fill.
@figshare woah. When did you get verified!
Another open position in my former lab @UCBerkeley R/C++ programmer.
bit.ly/1fpzw1N #rstats
dansinker They just said we can use electronics throughout the flight. OVERPRIVILEGED PEOPLE WITH NO REAL STRUGGLES, WE DID IT!!!
@kwbroman I no longer have to pretend like I do. Yay.
@ppolischuk nice! Where are you camping?
Dependencies are the baggage of the software world.
dandouglas what idiot called them creationists instead of primate change deniers
“you could bet that if you went to the video store at a certain time in the evening, you'd see someone you knew.” bit.ly/16HDgsR
@kara_woo wow congrats!
@dhalperi Thanks so much for those datasets! Very much appreciated!
@genetics_blog @rstudioapp The issues seem fixed now. Download a nightly build.
Given how busy my Twitter stream has gotten lately I’d pay $$ for a @yo_stellar filter for science stuff.
@TrestleJeff Works great. This is awesome. Thanks Jeff!
TrestleJeff Ace Code Editor in Shiny (shinyAce) now on CRAN trestletechnology.net/2013/11/ace-co… #rstats #shiny
@arfon +1 for Anaconda.
@tpoi love that there is another mutt user.
@mrgunn Fantastic!
@kara_woo Just for testing stuff. Will seek out other examples to ship with package later.
@kara_woo Like unit testing but for tabular data. Run any dataset through package to identify problems.
bit.ly/17DPG8b
Have access to messy tabular datasets? Poorly formatted, lots of UTF-8 chars? missing values? Would love a few e.g to test a new R package.
@noamross Our paper here → bit.ly/17rJkGV
@naupakaz @ATredennick You guys go on without me. Might be running other stuff if I attend.
@TrestleJeff Got it. Thanks Jeff!
nrrrdcore If you're throwing a women-focused tech event 🔜 and would like to get the word out about it, shoot me an email 👉 julie@github.com
@npch @MozillaScience It looks like the fox is saying no pictures please. :)
@WrightingApril file this away for future use in case tables aren’t formatting correctly.
bit.ly/1dKRUBJ
A multi-markdown table generator for Pandoc (if you need something formatted in a pinch).
bit.ly/1dKRUBJ
↬ @paulwalk
@paulwalk Sweet! Thanks for the tip.
@rstudioapp Is it possible to make Shiny work on a different port? These are cloud flare supported ports bit.ly/1dKRNWC
@ATredennick @ethanwhite I have bourbon on my list of how I stay sane.
jessicacollier Finally: many PhDs "voluntarily choose another path because they want...more direct engagement w/ the world" nytimes.com/2013/11/03/edu… #altac
@compadreDB Awesome! looking forward to it.
shelbyfero I like it when people say things like SCIENCE HAS GONE TOO FAR using their tiny hand computers in their four-walled predator free homes.
@CackleofRad @kara_woo just a unix command line tool. So not native osx.