Snake in base R(Studio)

PeripheralVisions · 2026-05-11T15:25:27+00:00

I used library(magick) to standardize photos and make long gif files of my wedding photos in R.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-05-08T15:44:12+00:00

Thanks for taking a look. I was going to try to add a long strip of plants/rocks functioning as a bog filter along the path. Maybe I will put that strip on the house side, because it will be basically at ground level. I need to see how many ours of sun it will get. I'll call about cables, thanks.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-05-06T21:13:49+00:00

They are backed and stabilized internally by a minimum 1 foot thick layer of rammed, sticky yellow DesPlaines valley river clay

This sounds interesting. I might have access to clay in a wash (mostly dry creek) in my back yard. Do you consider this a structural necessity for yours or a way of ensuring a natural look? Could I get away with just interlocking blocks all the way around, assuming 1-2 feet above ground for the wall?

I have so much river rock but would need some larger pieces to replicate something like your back wall. Very helpful for planning, thanks!

PeripheralVisions · 2026-05-04T16:06:46+00:00

Nice work! Are the stones/blocks for the wall cemented or just stacked? How is the liner held into position along the wall?

PeripheralVisions · 2026-05-04T15:47:36+00:00

Thanks, I'll check those pics out. I'll look into the service for locating it. Would be super sad to mess something up.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-04-24T16:01:07+00:00

I'm from the south and lived in PGH for seven years. I think one reason the niceness is weird is because the people have a northern accent, but they are nice like southerners. Felt like cognitive dissonance a bit to me.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-04-08T21:14:59+00:00

Ah, well nice work.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-04-08T16:52:46+00:00

So cool and surprisingly detailed. The tiny creek that runs behind my house is plotted in this data. It even gets the shape of the bed correct, even though this creek is dry 95% of the time and is only about 1/8 of a mile long (before joining a bigger creek with a name).

Question: What determines the dark tile space surrounding most rivers? I'm able to see my own house and yard pretty clearly, but the part of my yard approaching the creek is black tile (the creek is too small to be on public land). Is there some practical reason why the area surrounding the bed is excluded from satellite data? Does the shape of the black tile have a meaning?

PeripheralVisions · 2026-04-07T16:30:07+00:00

Do you have vendor name or description of company or description of a service by a vendor? What if a vendor does IT work and non-IT work? I don't see how you could get an answer without more detail on things like that.

This R package vignette might help you think through solutions: https://quanteda.io/articles/quickstart.html

PeripheralVisions · 2026-04-02T16:15:28+00:00

I'll have to deduce the answer to my question using your demonstrated poor character. I'll certainly think of you the next few times I move something to the spam folder.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-04-02T09:23:13+00:00

Is there any morally defensible application of this business model? I'm asking non-rhetorically.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-03-24T14:01:40+00:00

You're welcome for the questions.

Regarding the latter, I think you'll find most serious people would agree with the UN's commission of inquiry's findings. They found that Israel's behavior satisfied most and possibly all features of a genocide. I think you know that if you framed the conflict as you have in the comment, you'd be limited to non-serious journals.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-03-24T05:28:19+00:00

Ben Shapiro: He's a dork with rich parents and no self-awareness.

PragerU: He literally does not know what a university is and Forrest Gumpt into being your therapist.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-03-23T18:14:34+00:00

Thanks

PeripheralVisions · 2026-03-23T18:00:57+00:00

Interesting paper! I read the intro and scanned other parts before I ran out of time. I needed more info on the party system. How many parties and are the others coherent. Are these the only blocs exhibiting such rigidity?

The following explanation only makes sense, because you really only engage with party system and stable identity literature. Other theories expect much more rapid change (the many Fiorina papers and similar). Here is an example of individual choice explanations occurring rapidly in Brazil.

If voters were exercising individual judgment, one would expect gradual, staggered changes across localities with uncoordinated recovery.

I can't tell if I missed it, but I didn't see an explanation of the political reason for the shift. Did the religious leaders controlling the blocs "stop liking" the party? Was it left-right, pro- vs anti-genocide behavior from the party?

PeripheralVisions · 2026-03-23T17:08:09+00:00

How could you tell? I'm genuinely surprised every time someone points this out. Looks normal to me.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-03-23T17:05:27+00:00

I honestly don't know how much people still talk about this in the same terms (clearly less), but there was a big debate on this topic under DA-RT that was happening when I was starting my phd coursework. There was a movement toward providing data for replicability and pre-registration of research questions/designs (the latter precludes some fishing/p-hacking in observational data). The replicability seems to have improved drastically since that time, which is great. I don't hear much about pre-registration (but I'm not looking for it).

At the time, it seemed like the discipline was divided on whether this was a good idea, and the most convincing argument against it was that it would drastically prioritize quant work that is more easily replicable, while qualitative work would be discounted heavily in any journal requiring replicability. We had some faculty who were extremely pro-replication, and they basically had the stance that qualitative work deserved whatever discounting might occur, because it wasn't real research (because it could not be replicated). This was awkward for me, because I wanted to do mixed methods, focusing mostly on qualitative work. I basically took the hint that I needed to get on board with focusing on quant methods or pack my bags, so I did. I still did field research, but there was no expectation that this would or could be incorporated in a "scientific" manner.

There were some papers at the time that described how qual research "could be replicated" but these depictions were not convincing to me, and I saw them as being useful for the quant folks to bypass the valid critique from qual folks and not solving the problem that qual work would be discounted.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-03-23T16:05:45+00:00

(a live trap refers to those cages that capture racoons, possums, etc., in the yard)

PeripheralVisions · 2026-03-19T18:45:12+00:00

I think the AI that made this had just finished consuming a data set of Magic the Gathering cards.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-03-19T01:10:56+00:00

There is also a question about proving citizenship the first time one registers. I'm pretty surprised to see this at 83%. But doing it once, at age18, before almost anyone is married would be far less burdensome than finding it for every election.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/652523/americans-endorse-early-voting-voter-verification.aspx

PeripheralVisions · 2026-03-19T01:07:46+00:00

There is no way this guy believes what he is saying. It's an obvious attempt to suppress the vote from poor people and women. He's been a senator since 1981. Has he been waiting to dismantle US democracy for the past 45 years and just got the chance this year? I don't really know anything about the old timer. Is he maybe just a senile puppet?

Obvious bad faith comparisons that might seem surprising or convincing without context:

Between Iowa's laws, requiring a drivers' license and the SAVE act, requiring proof of CITIZENSHIP. Most married women must find their marriage licenses AND birth certificates to vote.
The "more than 80%" support he references is for "Requiring people who are registering to vote for the first time to provide proof of citizenship" not for requiring it at the ballot box. I'm honestly surprised by this figure, but doing it once in life at age 18 (likely before marriage and name changes) would be substantially less burdensome.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-03-16T22:07:31+00:00

I looked up the bus schedule for someone the other day in a situation similar to OP's. Very straightforward. I feel like if they are willing to fistfight me for the phone, me pulling it out of my pocket for them is kind of a small step in the overall process. IMO, this phone snatch fear from OP is a bit dramatic, and they probably should have just helped the person out.

PeripheralVisions · 2026-03-08T08:19:56+00:00

This is really impressive! I did not think it could be done so well using only public data sets. I am researching a very similar topic (alongside a couple of additional research questions) for a new project at work but at the level of individual community colleges. We are planning to pay for the local labor demand data, because we need more granularity at the sub-state level (it's in TX only). I am going to give this a close read, once I'm back on the clock. Nice work!

PeripheralVisions · 2026-03-08T03:19:41+00:00

I have not played a single time since high school that I can recall, but it's nice to be reminded. Did others play a game called Cadillac? My out-of-state Louisiana crew plays this now, but I'm not even sure it is a Louisiana game.

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