Decagon made up of 100 triangles that transitions in a circle of ten swirling teardrops each with a repeat of the larger image at its center. Decagon made up of 100 triangles that transitions in a circle of ten swirling teardrops each with a repeat of the larger image at its center. Martin Laptev
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Dec Measurement System
26 min

Introducing the Dec measurement system, which uses turns instead of months, weeks, hours, minutes, seconds, and degrees.

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Dec date
32 min

Introducing the Dec calendar (Decalendar), which displays dates in years and days using math notation without the need for months or weeks.

Word Count 6,206 words
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Dec time
226 min

Introducing Declock, a timekeeping system that displays time in decimal days using math notation without the need for hours, minutes, or seconds.

Word Count 45,070 words
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World War 2
3 min
Day 184 in the Gregorian Decalendar is the first day of Season 2 by meteorological reckoning and also the anniversary of the start of the World War 2. On 1939+184, World War…
Word Count 409 words
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Git
17 min
software
git
rstudio
quarto

Get started with Git version control, the RStudio integrated development environment, and the Quarto publishing system.

Word Count 3,317 words
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Quarto
19 min
tool
quarto
web dev
git
This blog post is the most important post in my Tools blog post series, as indicated by its centrality in Figure 1, node of the netw focuses on the use of Quarto to author…
Word Count 3,763 words
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Positron
14 min
tool
git
vscode
The goal of this blog post, the second in the Tools blog post series summarized by Figure 1, is to set up the Visual Studio Code (VSCode) source-code editor to run in the…
Word Count 2,627 words
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Observable
45 min
tool
observable
quarto
The goal of this blog post, the fourth in my Tools blog post series, is to set up the Visual Studio Code (VSCode) source-code editor to run in the remote development…
Word Count 8,966 words
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Jupyter
1 min
tool
knitr
jupyter
quarto
The goal of this blog post, the second to last (index: -2) in my Tools blog post series, is to
Word Count 79 words
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Knitr
1 min
tool
knitr
quarto
The goal of this blog post, the last (index: -1) in my Tools blog post series, is to
Word Count 77 words
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Probability
5 min
ml
In this blog post I will discuss a few examples of probability in machine learning. If you are new to probability, I recommend one of great textbooks that cover the topic…
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LLM
1 min
tool
git
llm
ml
Large Language Models (LLMs) are a way to automatically generate text. more informative commit messages based on the currently staged changes.
Word Count 21 words
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All artwork by (allison_horst?) except for the images related to the following articles:

  • Dec: Observable color🎨wheel compass🧭
  • Dec date: Observable calendar🗓️plot
  • Dec time: Observable daylight☀️plot and globe🌍
  • Positron: Positron logo by Posit
  • LLM, which was generated by DALL·E 3 with the following prompt:

a cartoon image of a person climbing a mountain to obtain answers to their questions from an omniscient robotic guru with a glowing positronic brain

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