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New R Package called LazyMouse with single function for randomly moving mouse cursor in your favorite R IDE. For every R developer, R data scientists and all those everyday R users, that also need a break and do not want…Read more ›

AI btw v1.1.0: Implements a toolkit for connecting R environments with Large Language Models (LLMs). Provides utilities for describing R objects, package documentation, and workspace state in plain text formats optimized for LLM consumption. ...

In my previous post, I shared my annual running stats which were generated in R using summary data from Garmin Connect. The code I use to generate these summaries was beginning to get a bit unwieldy, so I have now rebased it into a package. GarminCSVr – is an R package ...

Using yieldcurveml in Python examples for 'Beyond Nelson-Siegel and splines: A model- agnostic Machine Learning framework for discount curve calibration, interpolation and extrapolation'

      I have been at lots of business meetings where the speaker would say something like, "As the red line clearly demonstrates, ..."       I would quickly look up at two particular co-workers. ...

1 Introduction This article is part of a broader series on data preprocessing in R. In earlier posts, we focused on two problems that quietly ruin analyses long before modeling begins: missing data and outliers. Both topics shared a commo...

Testing Super Learner with TMLE showed some interesting patterns 🤔 XGBoost + random forest only hit ~54% coverage, but tuned xgboost + GLM reached ~90%. Seems like pairing flexible learners with stable (even misspecified) models helps? Need to explo...

1 Introduction This article is part of a broader series on data preprocessing in R. In earlier posts, we focused on two problems that quietly ruin analyses long before modeling begins: missing data and outliers. Both topics shared a commo...

In this post I’ll use R to recap my running data from 2025. Previous round-ups are here (2021, 2022, 2023, not sure why I didn’t post one for 2024…). I had a goal of running a total distance of 3650 km in 2025. In truth, after running 3500 km in 2024, I decided to aim […]

A rigorous benchmark of Dynrmf vs Theta Method on M-Competitions and Tourism competitition

Just a brief blog post that effectively is jotting down some thoughts and sources on New Caledonian nickel exports. This post was motivated by my (still incomplete) reading of this 2017 book on Large scale mines and local level politics—between New Ca...

Today is the last day of 2025. Depending on where you’re reading this, the party might have already begun. I begin this end-of-year post by wishing you a safe and fun time tonight. This blog is just a personal hobby. When I’m extra busy as I was this year ...

An optimised layout for a polyglot country 5 years ago I discussed what features a keyboard optimised for Luxembourg should have. I’m talking about Luxembourg the country, and not Luxembourgish the language, because in Luxembourg no one types only Luxembourgish. The most commonly typed language is probably French, and English ...

Eurostar 3213 and 3214 in Marseille-Saint-Charles in 2017 – CC-BY by Roel Hemkes The following map from 2024 by Simon C. Scherrer (via @freakonometrics) indicates that one-third of the Swiss population lives in a five-kilometer-wide strip ...