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Achintya Rao • ಅಚಿಂತ್ಯ ರಾವ

Missed my talk on the and the ?

It’s not quite the same but here’s the episode of the podcast I was recently on, in which we spoke about , , fundamental research, the costs associated with it, why and how do we do this sort of research, and much more!

Feedback welcome; this was a new experience for me.

soundcloud.com/ratiobg/ep94-ac

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#introductions 

Here's a much-overdue introduction!

I am a science writer by training and profession, working at since Sep 2010 and communicating everything to do with .

Since Jan 2014, I've also been pursuing a PhD in , from UWE Bristol (remote, part-time -- a hell of a combination that I do not wish upon anyone).

I love learning (about) programming.

When I can spare the time, I also attend training and play for the CERN Cricket Club.

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Gwmngilfen

TIL: there is a Matrix room for #rstats! Come chat! FOSS tools forever :P

matrix.to/#/!FeFZUTDOtgIlOUoYh

@rstats

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Yo Yehudi

📢 PLS BOOST: Help fund trans-led research into the trans healthcare issues - Clara is leading a study into neovaginal microbiome. They've already hit the minimum funding level and are working towards their stretch goal to enable sequencing of more samples.

Please donate if you can and share onwards so this amazing team can get to the full optimal finding target 💙💗🤍💗💙 🏳️‍🌈

en.goteo.org/project/transbiom

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cynthia

pandoc question 

anyone know how to generate an annotated bibliography with pandoc/markdown + bibtex?

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo

I am a happy user, but I have finally started to learn Here I make my first comparison between and while testing reticulate package to combine both in same document: carloscamara.es/en/blog/2020/0

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Thomas Hodgson

makefile, pandoc 

After @RaoOfPhysics did it, I thought that I would share my too:
cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/view

Comments and suggestions welcome.

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Achintya Rao • ಅಚಿಂತ್ಯ ರಾವ

R, blog 

I had an :rstats: itch to scratch, so I hacked together a solution and posted my first-ever blog entry on R:

blog.achintyarao.in/post/r-mar

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Markdown + pandoc, writing articles (+) 

Ugh, this is the right link: blog.achintyarao.in/post/markd

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Markdown + pandoc, writing articles (+) 

I documented my workflow here (finally): blog.achintyarao.in/markdown-p

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stragu

An example of a reproducible article using ERA (Executable Research Article), a tool developed by eLife and Stencila.

elife.stencila.io/article-5225

Both #Python and #RStats can be used.

More info about ERA here: elifesciences.org/labs/dc5acbd

#reproducibility #openScience @rstats

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Avery

is this a fucking joke, I literally cant see what the design community is saying

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Administrative account

#SummerSchool wrap-up 

Hi friends!

The slides, recordings or other media for that presenters have shared with us are now available at the following page:

summerschool.scholar.social

Thanks again to everyone who participated, moderated, presented, and of course to the organizers!

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Achintya Rao • ಅಚಿಂತ್ಯ ರಾವ

Cricket 

Nice day for some cricket at Cossonay. Maybe we will win our first game of the season. (Probably not, but you know… Unreasonable optimism.)

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Achintya Rao • ಅಚಿಂತ್ಯ ರಾವ

Racism, Twitter (–) 

Experienced me first “Return to your homeland!” on Twitter today (after 11 years on Twitter and around the same time living in Europe) and I am still upset by it.

Blocked the person, obviously, but it really affected me.

Just needed to get it off my chest.

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Particle physics, new discovery, CERN 

The LHCb experiment at CERN found a new kind of composite particle at the Large Hadron Collider and I got to write about it for home.cern:

home.cern/news/news/physics/lh

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Markdown + pandoc, writing articles (+) 

I ❤️ using pandoc to convert markdown content simultaneously to various formats that I can e-mail people at work for feedback:

– PDF, because it’s beautiful to look at and the physics nerds will appreciate LaTeX-formatted content
– HTML, so those on their phones can open it with the built-in web browser with a font size that isn’t tiny
– DOCX, for those who need to edit the document and/or send me comments

Thanks to one makefile I copy into new projects.

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Jupyter, looking for tips and tricks, boosts welcome 

So, computer nerds!

Jupyter: Notebooks/Lab/Books/Kernels etc.

What is your one Jupyter Top Tip™ for a relative newbie, who mainly uses R and is familiar with R Markdown (Bookdown, Blogdown etc.)?

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Achintya Rao • ಅಚಿಂತ್ಯ ರಾವ

Missed my talk on the and the ?

It’s not quite the same but here’s the episode of the podcast I was recently on, in which we spoke about , , fundamental research, the costs associated with it, why and how do we do this sort of research, and much more!

Feedback welcome; this was a new experience for me.

soundcloud.com/ratiobg/ep94-ac

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cynthia

at 6pm utc today @RaoOfPhysics will be presenting about the large hadron collider and the higgs boson, and using Very Big things to study the Very, Very Small for ! ⛰🐜

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ƒ(t) = ∮ ashwinvis ㎗

Ramanujan number, Wikipedia, decolonise science 

@RaoOfPhysics Wikipedia mods are just like mods elsewhere. Biased with god-like complexes.

Here is another one I know. This has to do with Principle Component Analysis / Proper Orthogonal Decomposition:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karhunen

> the Karhunen–Loève theorem, also known as the Kosambi–Karhunen–Loève theorem ... Stochastic processes given by infinite series of this form were first considered by Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi

Being first does not count

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Selfie, science, CERN, COVID19 

Snuck into the ATLAS experiment’s cavern around 100 metres underground, on my first day back at since March.

If you are interested, join my talk tomorrow evening, where I will tell you all about the and the .

Send me a DM to get the video-conference info for tomorrow.

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