Hadley Wickham
Person on 4 sites
Statistician and software developer; chief scientist at RStudio/Posit and creator of the tidyverse of R packages.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
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4 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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16 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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One of AI's most dangerous features is that it destroys our heuristics for judging effort and trust. (opens korrents.com)
“I think this is one of the most dangerous features of AI: it trashes our existing heuristics for effort and trust.”
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Work that contains none of a human's thinking is slop, however polished it looks. (opens korrents.com)
“While the output might look polished, it represents zero human effort, making it slop.”
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You should never inflict AI writing on other humans. (opens korrents.com)
“I strongly believe that you should never inflict AI writing on other humans, so I use a skill to ensure that Kimi creates all the PRs as drafts, accompanied by a clear statement about their provenance (AI created, like…”
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One of AI's most dangerous features is that it destroys our heuristics for judging effort and trust. (opens korrents.com)
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23 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (opens rcmnd.app)
“But this book is very useful for somebody like me, with experience in high-level engineering languages, like VBA, PHP and R. They're incredibly useful languages, but ones that computer scientists generally disdain,…”
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Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (opens rcmnd.app)
“Another similar and also interesting book is Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, which explains all the models of computer languages and how they fit together.”
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The Algorithm Design Manual (opens rcmnd.app)
“To me, this book is an illustration of the power of names. Today, in the era of Google, if you know the name of something, you can find out about it with a simple search. But if you don't know of what you're looking…”
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (opens rcmnd.app)