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All Roads Lead to Philosophy
Successively clicking the first link in a Wikipedia article almost always leads to Philosophy
17 hrs ago
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Stephen Turner
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Weekly recap (Oct 3, 2025)
R updates (from rOpenSci, Blaze, R Works, RWeekly, Posit), Slidecrafting, AI highs & lows, structural variation, biotech, RAG, tinytable, "vibe work…
Oct 3
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Stephen Turner
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Construct objects with idiomatic R code
Use the constructive package instead of dput() to construct R objects with idiomatic R code for human-readable reproducible examples
Oct 2
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Stephen Turner
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September 2025
Voice control ggplot2 with ggbot2
Today I learned you can create and customize ggplot2 visualizations using your voice alone.
Sep 27
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Stephen Turner
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Weekly recap (Sep 26, 2025)
Apple gets into protein folding, parsing R/Markdown and Quarto, vibe-coding an R package, AI in biosecurity and writing, nothing about AI is inevitable…
Sep 26
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Stephen Turner
Charlottesville R Users
Recap of the first R User Group event in Charlottesville VA
Sep 25
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Stephen Turner
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Weekly recap (Sep 19, 2025)
AI-generated genomes, R news for my posit::conf() FOMO, biosecurity, mirror life, teaching and AI, ELSI for AI, in defense of CRAN, Anthropic Economy…
Sep 19
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Stephen Turner
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Mirror Life: Through the Looking Glass of Biology
Why the discussion surrounding mirror life echoes past scientific "shocks," and how adaptive governance, not outright bans, can foster responsible…
Sep 17
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Stephen Turner
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Closing my tabs (Sep 12, 2025)
AI in academia, $1B NSF cut, AI+biosecurity, bacterial DNA from mammoth bones, understanding LLMs and their math, bioacoustics for conservation…
Sep 12
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Stephen Turner
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70 years of AI hype
Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia."
Sep 11
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Stephen Turner
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Single-cell analysis and infectious disease forecasting: Google's new AI scientist
In Google's new paper, "An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software" an AI supposedly "invents" new methods in bioinformatics…
Sep 10
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Stephen Turner
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Make your development environment portable and reproducible
Dotfiles, VM setup scripts, R "verse" packages, and dev containers
Sep 9
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Stephen Turner
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