Danielle Navarro

Data science and generative art. (she/her)

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2024-09-15 04:20:34

We should never have let Bayesian inference go mainstream
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/139/169/550/038/975/original/5216a052ea0f4cf0.jpeg

2024-08-30 06:56:07

Just got an email from a 12 year old girl asking for #rstats help. Might need to take a couple of days off while I weep in joy

2024-08-08 12:32:05

Me: …
11yo: …
Me: …
11yo: would centaurs have 8 nipples?
Me: …
11yo: …
Me: *sighs*

2024-07-20 02:09:18

Dear LinkedIn,
I will never try to write my posts using AI, for the same reason I don't use a robot to hug my children for me
Love,
A human being
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2024-07-12 08:19:38

omg I hate data. there is no point in cleaning data. data is inherently unclean and it must all be eliminated. I will not be taking questions at this time.

2024-07-07 10:54:14

I regret to inform you that I have written another blog post. Was it a good idea? Probably not. But it's done now and there's nothing any of us can do about it.
#rstats
https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2024-07-04_flextable/

2024-06-24 05:36:23

This seems exactly correct. I make computational art, and I write about the same technical topics that LLMs aren’t terrible at. But I genuinely don’t think I’m losing my audience to the latest gpt model. It’s not my skill as a coder or an artist that makes people care about my work, it’s the connection between the author and the audience that makes it work. I’m not stackoverflow, I’m a human being who shows herself in her work
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/669/487/036/372/188/original/27742978ca4521ac.jpeg

2024-06-23 12:23:01

For the first time in a long while, I wrote a thing. Possibly pretty reckless of me to do so, but if you’re interested in making tables of descriptive statistics using concise #rstats syntax, the table1 package might be a good choice
https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2024-06-21_table1/

2024-04-05 00:44:55

Me creating a new repo
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/215/365/487/993/554/original/b92d6496fe7d10fd.jpeg

2024-04-04 01:44:38

At long last I think I have an actual criticism of mastodon. I do like it here, but of late I’ve been feeling like if you’re not posting about programming then you’re not really part of the community. Normally I post about code quite a bit, but haven’t really been in the mood lately, and as a consequence I’ve started feeling like I’m not “really” doing mastodon right. Like, maybe we’re just a tech community, and not a general social media site?

2024-03-22 08:06:35

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And on a personal note, yes I am pretty angry that so many people are fine with throwing trans people under the bus. Fediverse is basically the last place left on the Internet that feels safe to me. If threads content starts intruding here and I end up repeating the twitter experience I think that will be the end of social media for me. There’s nowhere else left to go

2024-03-22 08:04:17

Okay. The mere fact that I saw Mark Zuckerberg posting on fediverse today is a pretty good sign that it is only a matter of time before I end up having to see Libs of TikTok or Gays Against Groomers. I had quite enough of that from twitter. I am absolutely not letting that shit back into my life.
Preemptively blocking the entire threads.net domain.

2024-03-21 04:45:19

Ah mastodon. Gotta love a social media network where GLAAD joins and — in the first six replies to their first post — there are three people ‘splaining how federation works and two comments pinging them about the lack of alt-text 🫠

2024-03-21 00:57:41

Fuck me. Okay not only is @npub1ywr…cw0w using 91 of my GitHub repos without permission, several of those are private, have always been private, and some of them contain proprietary data that is not cleared for public release. This is extremely bad behaviour, and I don’t even know how they got access to some of them.
EDIT: ignore my comment about proprietary data, and possibly also the “always private” part. Just checked, it’s bad but not *that* bad
https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack
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2024-03-04 14:14:33

Ah linux forums. Always a pleasure
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/037/591/551/572/033/original/76318774f591edf5.jpeg

2024-02-29 03:09:09

It has finally dawned on me that the reason that the NSW Police / Mardi Gras fiasco has hit me so hard is because it runs right into personal trauma. One of the big reasons I never reported when I got raped about 18 months ago was fear of the police, and how they treat trans women specifically. So now, seeing NSW police force their way into Mardi Gras over community objections, in the wake of very high profile crimes against our community committed by one of their officers… yeah, that hurts 😔

2024-02-28 01:08:56

The saga of the SGLMG disinviting NSW police from Mardi Gras continues to be a remarkable litmus test for politicians and organisations. On the one hand, AFP saw this and decided to voluntarily pull back from Mardi Gras on the grounds that federal police at Pride won’t help community relations right now. NSW police continues to whine loudly about the evil queers. Meanwhile Minns, Albanese, and (to my surprise) *Alex Greenwich* have all come out in support of NSW police rather than Mardi Gras

2024-02-28 00:23:00

There are very few situations in life where I think that plastering Pride symbols on a business establishment *actually* helps much as a safety signal (mostly I think it’s just an empty gesture companies do every time Mardi Gras rolls around), but the laser hair removal clinic is a huuuuuge exception to that rule. This one really did help, especially because they used the progress pride colours and not just the regular rainbow colours. This is a good way to signal safety to trans clients
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/006/004/342/272/989/original/1270c7fe2eb2cff9.jpeg

2024-02-25 00:08:38

I’m sitting on a park bench next to the Marks Park Memorial in Tamarama, memorialising the victims of hate crimes targeting the LGBT community in Sydney. The site was a gay beat in the 70s and 80s and the nearby cliffs were the site of several brutal murders that the NSW police ignored because of who the victims were.
Less than 1km away, Mardi Gras is setting up a massive beach party at Bondi and straights are playing beach volleyball and sunbathing. It feels like a metaphor, but idk what for
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/988/946/736/343/510/original/07ef2e9c56f187d4.jpeg

2024-02-17 23:31:48

This is something that is very apparent when viewing American politics from the outside. Everything is so dramatic, and the drama fuels conflict and chaos. Journalists typically love drama. It’s more fun to write about than reading policy documents. But in reality, people lead better and happier lives when politics is boring and driven by careful policy. In truth, you *want* to live in boring times. Boring politicians are good. If you want excitement watch a movie.
(Via https://c.im/@cdarwin/111948876445719682)
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/949/176/410/880/608/original/8ed18545804f5f38.jpeg

2024-02-16 07:31:00

Sorry for the rapid “post and delete” thing. I can’t talk about that topic. I can’t. Some art, instead.
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/939/746/267/401/699/original/09ecda34173b8c91.png

2024-02-12 21:07:50

Pet peeve.. if you are advertising an online tech event that anyone can join, regardless of where they live, please advertise the time in UTC as well as the local timezone. I know my *own* local timezone relative to UTC off by heart, but I have no idea what it is relative to US Eastern or whatever

2024-02-08 08:48:46

I’m in a really foul mood about it, so one more Jesse Singal comment. The reason this incompetent twit can get away with this sort of thing is because professional statisticians waste their time and mine faffing about with asymptotics instead of looking at how statistical claims are made in the world.
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/894/751/152/934/473/original/2d73d4faadbc769b.jpeg

2024-01-28 01:27:36

I don’t like doing the “doom posting” thing about trans issues because I feel like all it does is make trans folks miserable and cis folks just ignore it. But I’m going to make an exception in this case.
A transcription of a conversation between legislators in Ohio and Michigan was leaked, in which they very openly state that their goal is to eliminate all trans healthcare for everyone. Cis allies please read.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/ohio-michigan-republicans-in-released

2024-01-24 23:17:02

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@npub1gv7…upz3 yup. like, okay, some of those posts are people familiar with language X and frustrated that language Y does it differently and then deciding that the fault lies with language Y for being a bad language. I could almost excuse that, since yeah I’ve sometimes had that same feeling. But a lot of the time it’s not that at all, it’s someone who is bored and trying to stir up some shit on the Internet. Those people are block-on-sight material. I just don’t have the energy for this

2024-01-24 07:21:46

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@npub1gv7…upz3 literally only surpassed by “base R vs tidyverse” and “whatever batshit thing is happening today in US domestic politics” for my least favourite thing on social media

2024-01-17 03:15:21

Reflecting on my last post. It’s such a strange aspect to transness, the way you end up celebrating things that for everyone else would be utterly unnoticeable. Wearing a swimsuit. Someone calling you by your own name. Seeing that name in an email. Being called daughter. Seeing your name on a photo id. Making it through airport security. Being invited to a girls night out. Being permitted to take your medication. Each of these is utterly prosaic, yet something you have to fight so damn hard for

2024-01-17 01:52:32

And there it is. My voter registration is no longer in my deadname. That was the last of the dominos. It’s taken me the better part of a decade since I formally changed name and had my change of gender marker registered. After years of work and heartache, my documentation is finally up to date
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/768/513/010/173/983/original/e3c0124bfa3e462b.jpeg

2023-12-31 05:18:22

Every now and then I look at the current state of the US anti-trans legislative maps maintained by Erin Reed, and am shocked to realise that the place I did my postdoctoral work many many years ago is now deeply hostile to me. I actually quite liked Ohio once upon a time, but hell will freeze over before I ever go back
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/erins-2024-anti-trans-legislative
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2023-12-29 12:29:37

Pursuant to my last post oh my god I do not care about the n-teenth amendment to your fucking constitution I live somewhere in the rest of the goddamn planet

2023-12-28 23:38:39

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@npub1g57…y839 honestly no context for it except that the Australian expression "we're not here to fuck spiders" was on my mind and then the "Spiders Georg" meme popped into my head for some reason
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Not%20here%20to%20Fuck%20Spiders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiders_Georg

2023-12-28 02:10:40

“Average Australian not here to fuck spiders” actually statistically correct. Georg Spiders who fucks 1000 spiders a day an outlier removed by the ABS from census data and was not counted

2023-12-23 22:26:14

I have to admit, as someone who has long been wary of any form of content recommendation system on mastodon (see: every other social media platform in existence amplifying all the worst, emotionally manipulative content every damn time) I do get a little frustrated at missing posts from people in different timezones. Admittedly that was always a problem on twitter too, but it does feel a little more severe here. Maybe I need to use lists more?

2023-12-22 05:26:20

Thinking about the whole “Substack has a Nazi problem” issue, and the problem we have now where so many people have this problem (again!) where they're stuck on a platform that spreads bigotry. I can’t help but notice that this was wearily predicted by minority folks a long time ago. I remember publicly complaining about it when all the big name transphobes moved there, and it’s like… if you had actually taken us seriously at the time you probably wouldn’t be in this mess now?

2023-12-15 21:28:24

I’ve been reading a lot of articles about the Biden presidency lately, and again struck by how badly US politics is hampered by the first-past-the-post voting system. In Australia the Labor party under Albanese has been a huge disappointment, and they lost my vote a long time ago. But preferential voting permits this. I vote Green as my first preference and when, inevitably, my preferred candidate doesn’t get up, my vote still counts, and goes to the Shit Lite Party instead of the Shit Party

2023-12-01 03:33:24

oh thank god someone in the Australian press remembered how to do a journalism
https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/12/01/kissinger-monster-one-succession/

2023-10-12 22:42:49

So apparently my generative art talk from yesterday is already online.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8rY-DNQI2Q

2023-10-12 03:17:38

I'm told it's #NationalComingOutDay, at least that's what it is in the United States. Not really a thing in my part of the world, as far as I know, but the sentiment is something I care about... so, seems a good moment to repost this piece
#rstats #rtistry #generativeart
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2023-09-24 01:46:22

happy #bisexual visibility day. may you be ominously lit and glowing during this brief window in which monosexuals can perceive you with the naked eye.
#rstats #rtistry
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2023-09-11 00:49:17

This is pretty awesome. An enterprise bargaining agreement (i.e. union contract) locking in a 4-day working week with no loss of pay. First time that’s happened in Australia, apparently
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-11/four-day-week-expansion-with-union-agreements-locking-in-spread-/102681412

2023-09-01 08:16:56

How is it that I have no problem teaching myself a whole bunch of programming languages, have no problems with git, docker, cloud computing services, am totally fine with bash and various utilities, and can even manage to write a kubernetes application if I absolutely have to… but no matter how hard I try I still cannot get Microsoft Word to do what I want it to?