Julia Piaskowski

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Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· 28d

Anyone know of a CS student really excited to get some hands-on experience writing unit tests?? It's for a good cause!

Report of test coverage for the R package 'emmeans' using covr. Overall coverage is 26% and many files have zero percent coverage.

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Jun 8

That definitely was part of the design process for this one:

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· May 18

Joint talk I gave with Russ Lenth at WASANR on how the maintainer hand-off is going for 'emmeans'. jpiaskowski.gitlab.io/talks/WASANR...

Still image from "Into the Spiderverse" with Peter Parker and Miles Morales swinging through trees, carrying a computer between them.

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· May 12

Great talk by @lucystats.bsky.social at the Agricultural Statistics conference in Lincoln. wasanr.unl.edu

Final slide for "Mind the Causal Gap" Keynote talk

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· May 7

Ah, this error that crops up every few years (rlang won't compile in a GHA). The maintainer of R actions has a "works on my computer" attitude, so I won't bother going there. Any ideas on how to fix it?

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Apr 30

Totally lost trying to figure out the "SciENcv" format for C&P and BioSketches. The eraCommons is a endless series of circular links, but low and behold, instructions on how to format an *XML* format, something most scientists have never heard of.

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Jan 8

What’s striking about the administration’s response isn’t simply that it’s dishonest. A year into Trump’s second term and a year into this era of unshackled immigration officers, we should only be surprised if their initial presentations hold up under scrutiny. Instead, what’s remarkable about the immediate responses is that they include no statements of regret or sympathy. Hours after a federal agent shot and killed a young mother, the government couldn’t even be bothered to extend its condolences. This wouldn’t have made the effort to impugn Good’s life and actions any better, certainly, but it would at least indicate some sense of humanity. It would suggest that even critics of the administration live lives worth preserving and appreciating.

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Jan 2

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Dec 1

Things may have gone too far

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Nov 29

This is wild

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Nov 10

These graphs of self-taught teenagers' startup to design agricultural herbicides is something else. 'Bindwell’s website once described these [AI] models as insanely fast [that] could predict, in mere seconds, the results of experiments that would have taken days' www.wired.com/story/ai-sta...

Anand grew up in India reading Hacker News with his dad and was building his own large language models halfway through high school. Before he graduated, he, his cofounder (now 18), and two other friends from summer camp published a paper on bioRxiv, about an LLM they’d built to predict a facet of protein behavior. It got scientists buzzing on X. The paper was cited in a well-respected journal. They decided they should try to build a startup, brainstormed, and settled on protein-based pesticides. Then, the fairy tale continues, a wood sprite (sorry, venture capitalist) got in touch on LinkedIn and offered them $750,000 to drop out of high school and college and work on the company full-time. They accepted and got started. The teens knew next to nothing about agribusiness. That was last December.

Five months later, Anand and his cofounder opened their first biological testing lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, then moved to another, where they personally squeeze drops of promising molecules into tiny vials. (A protein-based compound can more precisely target a locust or aphid, goes the theory, and not also take out the humans, earthworms, bees.) I asked him how he’d picked up the skills to work in a wet lab. “I hired a friend,” he said cheerfully. The friend coached him over the summer before heading back to college in the fall. “Now I can do some biochemical assays,” Anand says. “Not like a whole range of assays, but basic, wet-lab validation of our models.”

Huh, I thought. That a few teens had in a handful of months built their own LLMs, learned the biochemistry of pest control, used their models to identify potential molecules, and were now pipetting away in their own lab seemed not shabby. In truth, once I’d tallied up all that they’d done, it struck me as completely absurd.

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Oct 16

Ya know, I just wanted to know more about major land use areas.

NRCS website notice: "Due to the radical left democrat shutdown, this government website will not be updated during the funding lapse. president trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the american people."

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Aug 18

Just made my first actual substantive PR to emmeans (that I am learning how to co-maintain). By substantive, I don't mean huge, but something that's not just fixed typos. Dang, it's terrifying to try to carry on a legacy package.

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Aug 13

apropos of me rewatching it, the Acolyte is good. Sure, it's no Andor, but it is a well paced, interesting story with some very strong emotional beats. Bummer that Disney gave into the trolls and cancelled it.

picture of osha and the stranger looking at each other

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Aug 11

If you see this, post a bad woman you love.

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Jun 18

This definitely helps me understands why I got so many divergent transitions during HMC:

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Jun 5

Ag statisticians checking out the Snake River valley along the idaho-WA/OR border. This stuff reminds me what I love about Idaho.

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Jun 5

NCCC-170 meeting on! All the important applied ag stats discussions.

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· May 3

Dedra Meero is back, still putting up with no one's bullshit and being a complete bitch. I've missed her!

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· May 1

Me and my three friends

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Apr 15

I don't know what version of retrograde mercury is in, but nothing is working with my quarto CI build today. taking ideas on what to do/spells to cast

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Apr 2

Wisconsin Voters

Isiah Stewart of the Detroit Pistons pointing at this jersey with pride after getting ejected after a basketball game brawl

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Mar 25

that's a new one

Error: cannot allocate vector of size 51.6 Gb

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Mar 23

There are actually open jobs with the USA Jobs (the hiring freeze is over) probably some people are applying, but I'm curious what the application rate is now.

screenshot of job vacancies from usajobs.gov

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Mar 17

It would have been the bro's 45th bday today. Miss ya, buddy.

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Mar 16

Buried in the source code of lme4 (predict.R) is this gem. @bbolker.bsky.social is this your doing??

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Mar 12

hey folks, I know we are all struggling. Here is a reminder to take a breath and attend to your needs, whatever they may be. For me, there are some writers I enjoy, and crafts that occupy my mind in a positive way. What helps you?

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Mar 8

13. Episode with a great one-off celebrity guest: the answer is of course Iggy Pop in DS9's "the Magnificent Ferengi", which is as fun as it sounds.

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Jan 4

I think we now all have an explanation for the infamous Batman 'nipple suit'

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski· Jan 2

I wrote up a new years blog post about how I rely community actions to keep hope in my heart and I also drag those garbage arguments that "the world is getting better". jpiaskowski.gitlab.io/posts/practi...