Mairoce

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by Mairoce 5d ago
Yep, I wish more people realized that OpenRouter’s sole value proposition is that they are an LLM wholesaler.
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by Mairoce 28d ago
So they essentially resell their enterprise tier access to tokens from each provider while also providing a nice interface/dashboard for their customers?
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by Mairoce 3mo ago
Please tell us more about how “left wing economic policies” have destroyed Europe.
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by Mairoce 3mo ago
Ah yes, the classic “Europe is in decline” narrative favored by Americans. You’d think after more than a decade of that nonsense, people would start to ignore it or at least question its assumptions. Nominal GDP and venture capital funding
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by Mairoce 3mo ago
The first one by a mile. Is this a joke?
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by Mairoce 3mo ago
That’s a rather glib interpretation of what I said. I’m being rather charitable when I call the tidyverse “user-friendly”. That might be the goal of tidyverse devs, but it hasn’t been the reality since inception. The point is even if we ass
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by Mairoce 3mo ago
The core of the problem is that the tidyverse is trying to turn R into a user-friendly real-time calculator, rather than a tool for stable, deterministic, and literate data analysis.
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by Mairoce 3mo ago
Good you find value in that framework, but it doesn’t seem like a useful starting point for first time R learners interested in plotting and exploring their data. I have a colleague that integrates ggplot2 and other tidyverse packages into
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by Mairoce 3mo ago
> Young people producing bad code is not surprising. They're your grad students, mentor them, and maybe they'll adapt to your ways of thinking. Or not. You’re right, mentorship is key and I do my best to suggest better practice
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by Mairoce 3mo ago
The proof is in the pudding. Every single grad student of mine that was brought up on the tidyverse produces gigantic R markdown files with 20 imports to accomplish something that would be shorter and much much easier to understand (and rev
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by Mairoce 3mo ago
Frankly the bigger problem is an over reliance among R instructors on the tidyverse, an ever-expanding ecosystem of redundant functions and anti-patterns. They’re teaching new R users that everything can be solved with yet another package i