According to Spotify: Green Goblin by Alecs DeLarge The Birds Attacked My Hot Air Balloon by Pile How Many Times / Winds Above by chazaiya Hours Played by Pink Navel, Kenny Segal IGOR’S THEME by Tyler, The Creator Sweet Dreams by Johniepee, Mick Jenkins Simulation Swarm by Big Thief Baddadan (feat. IRAH, Flowdan, Trigga & […]
Author: Erik Gahner Larsen
Argument or pipe when using left_join() in R
In a recent post on R Weekly, there was a link to a question asked by Spencer Schien on BlueSky. Specifically, he asked for people’s preference when using dplyr::left_join(). The first option is to pipe the first data frame into left_join() with the second data frame specified within the function: df3 <- df1 |> left_join(df2) […]
The time problem in the big problem paradox
Here is the abstract from a new paper on what the authors coin the ‘big problem paradox’: Across 15 studies (N = 2,636), people who considered the prevalence of a problem (e.g., 4.2 million people drive drunk each month) inferred it caused less harm, a phenomenon we dub the big problem paradox. People believed dire […]
25 interesting facts #35
851. Women who compete in the Final Jeopardy segment of the game show Jeopardy! are no more risk averse than men (Leeds and Leeds 2024) 852. Dogs and their owners resemble each other in the way they look and in their personality traits (Bender et al. 2025) 853. Wearing a helmet while cycling is beneficial, […]
Cleaning up my Twitter
More than a year ago, I decided to stop using Twitter. In brief, the Musk takeover made it a worse social media. A worse social media due to amplification of far-right voices (something Charlie Warzel already wrote about back in May 2023). A worse social media due to product changes (especially to features such as […]