Peter Dalgaard

Peter Dalgaard

@pdalgd.bsky.social

Statistics in general, #rstats in particular (Core team member). Professor at CBS w/biostats background. Likes cooking and bicycling and socialising in general. Oh, and music: Opera, Jazz, ProgRock.

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BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

#rstats 4.6.2 "Diversified Portfolio" scheduled for October 29. Full schedule on developer.r-project.org (or the svn if you're impatient.)

"Dom förtvivlade säger att döden är lika för alla Men det är väl sannare att säga att man kan dö på samma sätt som man har levt" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsgY...

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Gillian Martin@gillmartin.bsky.social

On the 16 September 1973, Chilean communist folk singer and musician Victor Jara was murdered by the forces of General Augusto Pinochet following his US-backed coup a few days before.

Without saying your age, what was your favourite film that came out when you were 20 years old Actually several important movies that I never got around to seeing in full, but....

Lars Fischer@lpfischer.bsky.social

Without saying your age, what was your favourite film that came out when you were 20 years old This was a period I didn't go to the movies much and saw few new ones - but I liked this on.

O: Half full P: Half empty England soccer team: It's coming home. Really. This time. We mean it!

Thomas Lumley@tslumley.bsky.social

Optimist: the cup is half empty Pessimist: the cup is half full Solomon: what we need here is a sharp sword

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Og hvad har det så med macOS at gøre? Jo, et mig nærtstående statistiksoftware bruger DCF (Debian Control Format) filer i sit pakke-format. "Nogen" har fået den ide at standardisere dem til UTF-8 dog sådan at ulovlige bytes skulle omskrives a la <ed><a0><80>. Og tilføjet regression test for det.

Nævnte regression tests fejler så på halvgamle, men stadig brugte, OS versioner, fordi Apple's iconv lader de ulovlige endpoints slippe igennem, mens vores test for valid UTF-8 stadig fejler. Og det var så det jeg fik brugt min fredag på at hitte rede i..</rant>

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(65535 tegn skulle man ellers tro var nok til alle, men nænej.) Så en blok af UTF-16 koderne er taget ud, med den ide at de bruges parvis for at skaffe bits nok til 1M forskellige tegn. Det er så en fejl hvis der kun er én. UTF-8 koder der peger på disse "halve" code points er også ugyldige.

Det viser sig så at de ugyldige surrogate code points alligevel kan finde på at optræde i gyldige Windows filnavne, så for at håndtere disse tillades de uformelt i nogle programmer under dæknavn WTF-8.

Forhistorien er at iconv() på macOS Monterey ikke substituerer ugyldige UTF-8 bytes hvis de indgår i sekvenser såsom hex eda080. Sådan nogle hedder "surrogate code points" og stammer fra at UTF-16 (jo!) ikke helt har code points nok til kinesisk.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Robert Piil@piil.org

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Peter Dalgaard reposted

Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.