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Adam Austin

@ataustin

Director of data science, fanboy of #rstats Make interoperability, not war. Also at @ataustin@fosstodon.org

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I legit can't tell if the phrasing is so weird because the LLM sucks, or if the guy is trolling me and wrote that hastily himself

13.03.2026 01:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

UPDATE they went with a tech person who doesn't even have insurance experience!! ๐Ÿซ 

12.03.2026 21:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Finally got my first bite!

Sung to the tune of "Golden" I suppose.

12.03.2026 15:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yessssss you convinced me

12.03.2026 03:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a woman is making a funny face and looking at the camera . Alt: Kombucha girl makes weird faces and says "no. well..."
12.03.2026 02:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I really feel like the Werther's is the nucleus of that whole scene, everything else just springs up organically around it

12.03.2026 02:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was interviewing with actuaries so I just assumed they'd want to grill me about GLMs, credibility, and all the fun stuff. But no, they just want to get the machine learning off their hands and go back to their actuary stuff, so it seemed like a win-win

12.03.2026 02:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Until I realized how old some of those songs were that I still knew the words to

12.03.2026 02:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

2018 data twitter is right here, don't leave us hanging!

12.03.2026 00:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I put on Shania Twain for the 14yo but she quickly exited the room, so now it's just me, Shania, and my glass of tequila and I don't apologize for who I am

12.03.2026 00:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You should have clicked through, it was comedy gold
bsky.app/profile/atau...

11.03.2026 16:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - EllaKaye/localtime: Quarto shortcode to display times in the reader's local timezone Quarto shortcode to display times in the reader's local timezone - EllaKaye/localtime

Announcing localtime, a #QuartoPub extension for displaying times in the reader's local timezone e.g.

{{< localtime 2026-03-09 20:30 UTC >}} will render as 2026-03-09 21:30 for someone in CET.

Has nice formatting options, and automatically accounts for daylight saving.

github.com/EllaKaye/loc...

09.03.2026 20:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Two young siblings sit in front of an oven and watch muffins bake

Two young siblings sit in front of an oven and watch muffins bake

Muffin time!

09.03.2026 20:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'll say this for MS Teams: it works super well to record a mtg and then ask Copilot about it. I no longer feel the need to distract myself with simultaneous note-taking. And I can have a requirements convo while being fully present, and then extract structured requirements later for my docs

09.03.2026 16:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I really don't know what stash is for other than "oh shoot I need to work on this other branch suddenly" but I love this idea of testing

08.03.2026 17:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I suspect my main problem is using only the git command line ๐Ÿ™ˆ sounds like the IDE integrations are the way to go!

08.03.2026 17:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I used git stash once and I never saw that code again ๐Ÿ˜…

07.03.2026 14:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Golden GNU" is beautiful ๐Ÿ˜‚

07.03.2026 14:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just trying to summon @jennybryan.bsky.social with that one ๐Ÿ˜‹

06.03.2026 23:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

On Her Majesty's Secret API Key
For Your Working Directory Only
No Time to Document

06.03.2026 23:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 24 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I want the next Avatar movie to be subtitled YOLO and Cry

06.03.2026 22:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

good news I didn't need stats at all ๐Ÿ™ƒ

06.03.2026 22:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

preparing for an interview and realizing how much advanced stats theory I've forgotten ๐Ÿ˜–

06.03.2026 18:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

a better description has never been written

06.03.2026 17:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love the gem icon. Like "look it's shiny, you definitely want this"

06.03.2026 14:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Skyscrapers and Riverwalk at dusk

Skyscrapers and Riverwalk at dusk

Black and white buildings over a river with fog

Black and white buildings over a river with fog

We are criminally underrated ๐Ÿ˜ญ

06.03.2026 03:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Looking down from a bridge at the river, where sharp reflections of the skyscrapers are visible

Looking down from a bridge at the river, where sharp reflections of the skyscrapers are visible

Chicago River was surprisingly undisturbed this morning
#chicago

05.03.2026 22:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 308 ๐Ÿ” 22 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Opted out by default! What a concept

05.03.2026 17:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We just had a leader training at $DAYJOB in which, as part of a breakout group activity, we had to coach an "employee" who was just an AI chat bot. It was gross.

05.03.2026 17:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ha fair enough. was thinking pedagogically -- like I suppose people might learn just enough tidyverse to crash their way through data tasks, without ever really treating R like a programming language

05.03.2026 03:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0