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Dans Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts, le Financial Times rapportait cette fin de semaine que plusieurs grands assureurs (AIG, Great American ou encore WR Berkley) cherchent à introduire des exclusions explicites pour les risques liés à l’intelligence artificielle, notamment concernant les usages d’agents et de modèles de langage. Les motifs avancés sont limpides : les pertes potentielles liées à l’IA pourraient atteindre des montants de plusieurs centaines de millions, voire davantage. Mais surtout, le danger ne réside pas … <a …

In Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts, the Financial Times reported at the end of this week that several major insurers (AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley) are seeking to introduce explicit exclusions for risks related to artificial intelligence, particularly concerning the use of agents and language models. The reasons put forward are straightforward: potential losses related to AI could reach several hundreds of millions of dollars, or even more. But above all, the danger lies less in the … <a href=“https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/85148 …

<p><a href='https://ropensci.org/pt/blog/2025/11/25/tradu%C3%A7%C3%A3o-devguide-pt/&#39;>Read it in: Português</a>.</p> <h2> Introduction </h2><p>rOpenSci curates packages developed in the R programming language and also offers a well-established <a href="/software-review">peer review process</a> for R packages. To guide this process, rOpenSci created the <strong>rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review</strong> guide (also known as the &ldquo;Dev Guide&rdquo;). The guide presents …

A few years ago I wrote something on what’s been called the gender equality paradox, a result found in some cross-national studies that “as gender equality increases, so do gender differences.” My post discussed a particular paper published in that … Continue reading → …

In 2021, I taught Survey Research Methods at NYU (thank you to Daphna Harel for that opportunity !). We used the textbook by Groves et al. (in this blog series here). It’s got this helpful image, which even Twitter liked: I … Continue reading → …

A case study of AI-supported maintenance in an R package

Migrating a Test Suite

Going from one testing framework to another in a mature R package can be tedious and still requires some understanding of the codebase’s overall structure and goals, as…

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Read it in: Português.
Introduction
rOpenSci curates packages developed in the R programming language and also offers a well-established peer review process for R packages. To guide this process, rOpenSci created the rOpenSci Packages: Development, M…

Continue reading: <a href=“https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/translating-the-ropensci-dev-guide-into-portuguese-collaboration-community-challenges-an …