Hi all. Just a reminder that we have a bot that posts all the posts on this blog. It’s the twitter account StatRetro. We started it a couple years ago with our very first post from 2004, and it just … Continue reading → …

Welcome to post 55 in the R⁴ series.

r2u brings CRAN packages for R to Ubuntu. We mentioned it in the R⁴ series within the last year in posts #54 about faster CI, …

Release 0.6.39 of the digest package arrived at CRAN today and has also been uploaded to Debian.

digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects. It can use a number different hashing algorithms (md5, sha-1, sha-256, sha-512, crc32, xxhash32, xxhash64, murmur32, spookyhash, …

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Monarch butterflies somehow fly from Ontario, Canada to Mexico City, but the migration…

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Dans From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State, Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967, David Beito revient (entre autres) sur l’histoire du mutualisme afro-américain, et raconte des histoires passionnantes dans l’histoire de la protection sociale (et peu connue, il me semble). Entre la fin du XVIIIᵉ siècle et les années 1930, les Afro-Américains édifièrent un système complet d’assurance maladie, funéraire et de soutien économique. Ce système, né dans un contexte de discrimination et d’exclusion des protections commerciales et publiques (dont j’avais déjà un peu …

Here: Michael Sanders based his World Bank-funded study in Guatemala on a trick supposed to increase tax compliance, but now says Francesca Gino’s work misled him At the time Michael Sanders remembers being embarrassed, even ashamed. He had convinced the … Continue reading → …

Registration is now open for our first AI in Production conference, taking place on 4 and 5 June 2026 in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
AI in Production is for people who want to see how AI works in day to day environments. The event brings together data s…

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