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I wish claude would just admit it doesn't know instead of attempting to gaslight me
Bruce only likes to chew toys while holding them over the edge of the couch, and gets very upset when he drops them
The flexibility of `geom_polygon` lets you do basically whatever you want with your plots, e.g. (code: gist.github.com/rdboyes/7a7f...)
Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.socialBeautiful vintage #infographic on the ceiling & speed of different aircraft (via Reddit bit.ly/4c2bMCs)
Cool study, and I’m convinced they’re generally correct. Very high lizardman quotient in this figure though - if you’re not getting 100% strong agreement that “betting (real money)” is a form of gambling, something is off, and the SVK sample “strong agree” for that item is <50%
Veli-Matti Karhulahti@mkarhulahti.bsky.socialbehold, we found great variation in how people think! Many activities that we thought would be “gaming” weren't & vice versa, eg half of the participants interpreted ‘gambling’ to be ‘gaming’. Ergo: surveying ‘gaming’ without defining it creates data mess
Average programming language enjoyer: there are two hard things, cache invalidation and naming things #julialang programmers:
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.socialmods are asleep post forbidden greek letters
Only had time to finish part 1 of #adventofcode today - hoping to get back to p2 on the weekend though!
Two #adventofcode solutions for the price of one today, since I was too busy working yesterday. TypeScript feeling ok, but how is array.sum() not a thing!?
![function solve(line: string, bat_length: number) {
const arr = line.split("").map(function (char: string) {
return Number(char);
});
let end: number = arr.length - bat_length + 1;
let start: number = 0;
let digits: number[] = [];
while (digits.length < bat_length) {
const selected = Math.max(...arr.slice(start, end));
digits.push(selected);
end += 1;
start += 1 + arr.slice(start, end).indexOf(selected);
}
return digits
.reverse()
.map(function (n, i) {
return n * 10 ** i;
})
.reduce((a, b) => {
return a + b;
}, 0);
}
console.log(
require("fs")
.readFileSync("data/2025/3.txt", "utf-8")
.split(/\r?\n/)
.filter((line) => line.trim().length > 0)
.map(function (line: string) {
return [solve(line, 2), solve(line, 12)];
})
.reduce(function (a, b) {
return [a[0] + b[0], a[1] + b[1]];
}),
);](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2h5e6whhbk5vnnerqqoi256k/bafkreiguiw3f25b5gl5t2usqsebbfgkmulqaz5ywg3sufsz35q7hyp3rnq)
TypeScript #adventofcode Day 2 complete! Rocky one, really missing some of the builtin functions from my "home languages", but we got there
![const range = (start: number, stop: number): number[] =>
Array.from({ length: 1 + stop - start }, (_, i) => start + i);
function chunkString(str: string, length: number) {
return str.match(new RegExp(".{1," + length + "}", "g"));
}
const divisors = (num: number) =>
[...Array(num)].map((x, i) => i).filter((x) => num % x === 0);
function solve(id_range: string): number {
const arr_range = id_range.split("-");
const possibles = range(Number(arr_range[0]), Number(arr_range[1]));
const ans = possibles
.map(function (element: number): number {
let id_string = `${element}`;
const checks: number[] = divisors(id_string.length).map((num) => {
return new Set(chunkString(id_string, num)).size;
});
if (Math.min(...checks) == 1) {
return element;
} else {
return 0;
}
})
.reduce((a, b) => {
return a + b;
}, 0);
return ans;
}
console.log(
require("fs")
.readFileSync("data/2025/2.txt", "utf-8")
.split(",")
.map(function (id_range: string) {
return solve(id_range);
})
.reduce((a, b) => {
return a + b;
}, 0),
);](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2h5e6whhbk5vnnerqqoi256k/bafkreidp2p5ferqbjmivb7rn2i6cwlrvnyzvi3ikab36earezakwqkdspm)
Doing #adventofcode in TypeScript this year since I need to learn it for work... missing #julialang but it's not too bad. Day 1:
![Typescript solution to advent 2025 day 1. Code: class Dial {
current: number = 50;
zeros: number = 0;
pass_zero: number = 0;
turn(s: string): void {
if (s[0] == "R") {
this.current += Number(s.substring(1));
if (this.current >= 100) {
this.pass_zero += Math.trunc(this.current / 100);
this.current = this.current % 100;
}
} else {
if (this.current == 0) {
this.pass_zero -= 1;
}
this.current -= Number(s.substring(1));
if (this.current <= 0) {
this.pass_zero += -Math.trunc(this.current / 100) + 1;
this.current = 100 + (this.current % 100);
}
}
if (this.current == 0 || this.current == 100) {
this.zeros += 1;
this.current = 0;
}
}
}
var p1 = new Dial();
require("fs")
.readFileSync("data/2025/1.txt", "utf-8")
.split(/\r?\n/)
.forEach(function (line: string) {
p1.turn(line);
});
console.log(p1.zeros);
console.log(p1.pass_zero);](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2h5e6whhbk5vnnerqqoi256k/bafkreienupynbsg3lshxcxg4u4haqgzpvdyn2stgg7netyvpb5uvevi5me)
I assume the reviewers didn’t like the original title, “oh no: we have to throw out all survey data collected in the last 1,084 days”
Josh McCrain@joshmccrain.bsky.socialnew paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
Exploring some ideas for how to create a macro-free (or macro-light) implementation of the tidyverse in #julialang (get out the jolly roger 🏴☠️): www.randy.pub/posts/piracy/
I’m doing my honest best to listen to this with an open mind but hooiiioill There are so many words said that have absolutely no bearing on the facts of the case podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
I miss being able to just buy a thing and have it, I hate paying for subscriptions
erika@yeeeerika.bsky.sociali don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
