50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in fairfax, deep in marin. audience tape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4fWvG814AI
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I don't like pipes. I think this is idiomatic R:
mbhps |> select(mopfama) |> mutate(mopfama = ifelse(mopfama <0, NA, mopfama)) -> tabdat
To my old eyes that seems a weird way of writing nested functions, and this would be more sensible:
tabdat <- mutate(select(mbhps, mopfama), mopfama = ifelse(mopfama <0, NA, mopfama))
This dplyr-piping is what used to be called syntactic sugar. I think its purpose is to make code look more like a command languag…
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13842
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Terry Edwards:
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#TerryEdwards
#newRelease 🆕 album
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Weezer:
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10038 https://…