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What is R Again?
Great presentation by John Chambers at UseR! 2006 https://www.r-project.org/conferences/useR-2006/Slides/Chambers.pdf
The times have changed, now R is very much suited for production use and not just an academic research language
Highly recommend reading Advanced R for more comprehensive details on the quirks of the language https://adv-r.hadley.nz/index.html
R VS Python for Data?
Different philosophies on the use of the language
CRAN vs PyPi
Interoperability becoming more mainstream now
Visualization: R has always been leaps and bounds ahead (Grammar of Graphics, interactive widgets, etc)
R Dev Stack?
IDEs: RStudio, now Positron https://positron.posit.co/
Managing package installations with renv https://rstudio.github.io/renv/
Building web apps with Shiny: https://shiny.posit.co/ (I got so engrossed in this space that I created the Shiny Developer Series because of it)
Early adopter of using Docker with R in devcontainers with VS-Code.
New tech I’m excited about to enhance dev stacks and sharing apps
WebAssembly with webR https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/
Shiny apps in webR? Yes you can https://github.com/RConsortium/submissions-pilot4-webR
Managing dev environment combined with Nix: The rix package https://github.com/ropensci/rix

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R Language: https://r-project.org
Posit (formerly RStudio): https://posit.co
RStudio IDE https://posit.co/products/open-source/rstudio/
Positron (still in beta): https://positron.posit.co/
History of S and R presentation by John Chambers at useR! 2006: http://www.r-project.org/user-2006/Slides/Chambers.pdf
Advanced R (2nd edition) by Hadley Wickham https://adv-r.hadley.nz/index.html
Shiny - Easy interactive web applications with R: https://shiny.posit.co/
renv - Project environments for R: https://rstudio.github.io/renv/
R Markdown: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/
WebR - R in the browser: https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/
Rix - Reproducible Data Science environments for R with Nix: https://github.com/ropensci/rix

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DeepSeek has everyone freaking out; we'll look at what's legitimately fascinating, what bits have been an overreaction, and the big mistake that made this all possible.

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• Report: 88% of companies are contemplating leaving Oracle Java — 72% of respondents were already thinking about it when surveyed in 2023.
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• Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race
• DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China — Amid ongoing fears over TikTok, Chinese generative AI platform DeepSeek says it’s sending heaps of US user data straight to its home country, potentially setting the stage for greater scrutiny.
• DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it's limiting registrations — DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services.
• Satya Nadella on X — Jevons paradox strikes again! As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can't get enough of.
• Jevons paradox - Wikipedia
• Sam Altman on X — deepseek's r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price. we will obviously deliver much better models and also it's legit invigorating to have a new competitor! we will pull up some releases.
• Biden Got Freaked Out About AI and National Security After Watching the Newest 'Mission: Impossible' Movie — Speaking to The Associated Press, deputy White House chief of staff Bruce Reed recalled that while Biden has grown concerned over the use of AI to generate fake images of himself or clone a user's voice, it was a screening of "Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part One" at Camp David that particularly alarmed the president.

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• Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost its Faith — I believe we're entering what might be called a "Startup Winter" - not because startups have stopped being created, but because the mythology around them has frozen over.
• Introducing the Solid Trifecta | Rails 8 Unpacked - YouTube — The Solid Trifecta is a set of database adapters in Rails 8 that simplifies app development by replacing traditional RAM-based solutions like Redis with efficient, cost-effective database-backed tools. Solid Cable handles WebSocket messages, Solid Cache powers caching, and Solid Queue manages job queues, all using databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite.
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The CEO who bet on SwiftUI—and lost their job. Then poke some fun at Rust stans, SalesForce claims they're not hiring any developers in 2025, and more!

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• Sonos CEO steps down after app upgrade debacle — On its fiscal 2024 earnings call, Spence shared news that annual revenue had gone backwards by four percent, and admitted one reason for that result was “we mishandled the rollout of our new app.”
• Salesforce Will Hire No More Software Engineers in 2025 — “30% Productivity Boost” from AI
• Massive Memory Leaks in System76's Cosmic Desktop (Written in "Memory Safe" Rust) - YouTube — Plus: Hyprland developer weighs in, "No, I don't think it's beta ready :P"
• Reference Cycles Can Leak Memory - The Rust Programming Language — Rust’s memory safety guarantees make it difficult, but not impossible, to accidentally create memory that is never cleaned up (known as a memory leak). Preventing memory leaks entirely is not one of Rust’s guarantees, meaning memory leaks are memory safe in Rust.
• Handling memory leaks in Rust - LogRocket Blog — Once in a while, you may experience memory leaks in your Rust projects due to many factors, from unsafe code to shared references, etc. Ideally, you’ll want to fix these memory leaks and ensure your programs are efficient, which may lead to performance gains and resource safety.
• Memory leaks are memory safe, and there isn't much to do about it | /home/Samsai — Despite their potential for destruction, Rust considers memory leaks "memory safe" and thus doesn't aim to prevent them. Rust's design, however, makes it less easy to create memory leaks, since it uses a Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII) pattern to abstract resource allocation and deallocation.
• Google Donates $1 Million to Donald Trump's Inaugural Fund — The total inauguration fund for the returning US president has already reached a record $170 billion, according to an ABC report.

CES 2025 Secrets Revealed: A developer’s dream or just more hype? Plus, NVIDIA flexes its AI muscles, and we're admittedly impressed. Then, our thoughts on Dell's historic rebrand.

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• ChatGPT Pro plan is making OpenAI lose money, CEO says — “I personally chose the price…and thought we would make some money,”
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• Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI agents are ‘a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity’ and ‘the age of AI Agentics is here’ — “The age of AI Agentics is here,” Huang told the crowd, describing a shift from generative AI to agentic AI—a future driven by intelligent AI agents capable of assisting with tasks across industries. Huang called this emerging sector "a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity," positioning Nvidia at the forefront of the movement.
• Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs — Four new RTX 50-series GPUs are on the way, including the $1,999 RTX 5090 and $999 RTX 5080.
• Nvidia’s AI NPCs are no longer chatbots — they’re your new PUBG teammate — Nvidia says that ACE characters can use AI to “perceive, plan, and act like human players,” per a blog post. “Powered by generative AI, ACE will enable living, dynamic game worlds with companions that comprehend and support player goals, and enemies that adapt dynamically to player tactics.” The characters are powered by “small language models (SLMs)” that are “capable of planning at human-like frequencies required for realistic decision making” as well as “multi-modal SLMs for vision and audio that allow AI characters to hear audio cues and perceive their environment.”
• Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits — This desktop-sized system can handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters.
• The World’s Smallest AI Supercomputer — A Grace Blackwell AI Supercomputer on your desk.
• NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips — Project DIGITS systems running Linux-based NVIDIA DGX OS
• Dell mocked at its own press launch for copying Apple's names — Now, most of the company’s new PCs will be divided into three tiers: Dell, Dell Pro and Dell Pro Max
• Apple Intelligence summaries might get warning labels. That’s not enough. — The BBC, following up on two reports of Apple Intelligence summaries that transformed its own headlines into factually inaccurate text, got a public response from Apple
• Nvidia’s stock heads for worst drop in months as CES speech lacked one big thing — We believe many investors were hoping for more concrete progress updates on the ramp of Blackwell and some input as to the company’s progress with its next-generation GPU platform, Rubin,” Benchmark Research analyst Cody Acree wrote in a note to clients.
• shoutrrr — Notification library for gophers and their furry friends.

Some debates never die, and this week, we’re reigniting one of our spiciest from the archives. Plus, our boldest 2025 predictions yet.

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• Nvidia's next move: Powering humanoid robots — The chipmaking giant Nvidia is leaning more heavily into robotics in 2025. More specifically, in the first half of the new year, confirms the Financial Times, Nvidia is launching a new generation of compact computers for humanoid robots called Jetson Thor.
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• Musk vs. MAGA on H1-B visas - YouTube — CNBC’s Megan Cassella joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss Musk going against MAGA on H1-B visas.
• Ethan Evans on X — There are three simple economic arguments for increasing legal immigration by highly educated workers
• Mitchell Hashimoto on X — "r/linux": arguments about what "native" means, angry they have to click one link to learn what it is, disappointed that another terminal exists, 50-comment discussion about GTK vs QT
• Broken Money — Why Our Financial System Is Failing Us and How We Can Make It Better.

We’re taking a victory lap down memory lane. From spooky-accurate predictions to "did we really say that?" moments, this one’s for the history books.

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• Coder Radio 439: Github NoPilot — Microsoft has a bunch of new goodies for developers, but Mike is becoming more and more concerned about an insidious new feature.
• Coder Radio 421: Misdirected Request — Has Google already started its decline? Our surprising take. Plus the trouble with Co-Pilot, and a lot more.
• Coder Radio 472: Drunken Copilot — Mike just signed up for a year of GitHub Copilot and Chris tries to understand why. Then we catch each other up on some recent surprises.
• Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far — A new survey by tech trade-in site SellCell found that AI is an important factor when choosing a new smartphone.
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Sam's Checkmate: How Open Source AI and Silicon Valley Kingmakers dethroned the OpenAI emperor! Plus, Tesla's API Apocalypse has arrived.

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• Tesla Is Screwing Over Dozens Of App Developers — Tesla is preparing to begin charging software developers to access the Application Programming Interface for its cars—something used by just about every third-party dev that builds software that integrates with Tesla's vehicles.
• Donald Trump Names David Sacks as White House AI and Crypto Czar — Intelligence and Cryptocurrency, two areas critical to the future of American competitiveness. David will focus on making America the clear global leader in both areas,”
• E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more - YouTube
• OpenAI launches a new $200 monthly subscription and an updated model — The company is also introducing ChatGPT Pro, a new $200 monthly subscription tier that includes unlimited access to OpenAI o1, GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice mode. It also includes a version of o1, exclusive to Pro users, that uses more compute to provide the best possible answer to the hardest problems (called o1 pro mode).
• Introducing ChatGPT Pro — ChatGPT Pro provides a way for researchers, engineers, and other individuals who use research-grade intelligence daily to accelerate their productivity and be at the cutting edge of advancements in AI.
• OpenAI explores advertising as it steps up revenue drive — OpenAI is discussing plans to introduce advertising to its artificial intelligence products, as the ChatGPT maker seeks new revenue sources as it restructures as a for-profit company.
• AI startups snatch San Francisco offices, use Zoom fatigue to recruit — “In-person teams have a magic to them,” Tratar said. “When one thing is going well it adds energy to the system and people get excited.”

GitHub has done the research, brought the receipts, and knows just what to do to get more developers into the flow state. Is it legit or hype? We’ll dig in. Plus, making the case that Rails is better low code than low code, and we help someone go from Pizza to Rust.

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• rust-query: Type safe query builder for rust — The goal of this library is to allow writing relational database queries using familiar Rust syntax. The library should guarantee that a query can not fail if it compiles.
• Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires — Intel has announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired, effective December 1, and stepped down from the company’s board of directors.