Y'all, the new theming work in Quarto 1.6 is going to be so, so cool:
Apply for fully funded doctoral student position to work with me on Bayesian workflow, model selection, inference, and diagnostics!
Apply through a joint call https://fcai.fi/doctoral-program and choose me as the supervisor, and tell in the motivation letter why you want to work with me. DL Sep 9.
You can also ask me more about possible research topics and information how it is like to do doctoral studies at Aalto and in the Bayesian workflow group.
Carol Cadwalladr is a hero. She is the reporter that at grave personal risk broke the Cambridge Analytica story. When she raises an alarm about this election we had better pay attention.
"If Musk chooses to “predict” a civil war in the States, what will that look like? If he chooses to contest an election result? If he decides that democracy is over-rated? This isn’t sci-fi. It’s literally three months away."
"There is an obvious alternative: universities, libraries, and academic funding agencies can cut out the intermediary and directly fund journals themselves, at a far lower cost. This would remove commercial pressures from the editorial process, preserve editorial integrity and make research accessible to all."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions
#Diamond #OpenAccess
Undecided whether to use a gif for "Staying alive" or "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" for my revised lecture slides on survival modelling in HTA... Mostly, I suspect my students would have no idea of either --- but may frown more at the Bee Gees big hair...
Thoughts? 😂
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The {this.path} #rstats 📦 "provides a mechanism for an R script to retrieve its own path without the explicit need to write it elsewhere."
It is compatible with several GUIs including RStudio (including background jobs), VSCode + REditorSupport, Positron, Jupyter, and Emacs + ESS.
And, it works with functions incuding sys.source(), shiny::runApp(), Package::targets(), plumber::plumb() and knitr::knit().
By Iris Simmons. On CRAN.
https://github.com/ArcadeAntics/this.path/blob/main/DESCRIPTION
Three days driving through France and Switzerland to get to Italy. It's been fun, for the most part - - - Anna would get to the evening with very little left in her tank, which made her a bit cranky... Kobi would not care to any historical fact I was trying to tell him. Marta and I really enjoyed beautiful Colmar and was impressed by Nancy!
Now final leg to get to Florence and on to the summer school on Monday!
Some very good stuff on survival modelling (with potential applications within HTA and beyond) from Luke Hardcastle (who's doing fantastic work in his PhD) with me and Sam Livingstone (also, @stats_UCL).
