Plus ⭐️
Let's say connected with a new audio format - Plus #1
A new format so that you don't miss any of the behind-the-scenes stories of my popular science work.
Olivier Simard-Casanova
Economist, Statistician, Writer
Notes 🗒️
In the United States, Threads already has more daily users than X
Matt Navarra on Threads, citing a Business Insider article, reports that in the United States, Threads already has more daily users than X, formerly Twitter. In April 2024, Threads has 28 million daily active users, X has 22 million. Threads has 100 million monthly active users, X has 140 million.
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2024 has already broken multiple temperature records
Carbon Brief has published a comprehensive article containing multiple visualizations of global temperature data. The visualizations show that 2024 has already broken multiple temperature records. As shown in Figure 1, the first four months of 2024 have seen the largest temperature anomaly since the 1940s. The temperature anomaly is the
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Joe Biden's campaign is raising a lot more money than Donald Trump's campaign
Figure 1 is an interesting plot shared on Bluesky by Jacob T. Levy. It shows the cumulative total of funds raised by the campaigns of Donald Trump (in red) and Joe Biden (in blue), in 2020 (dotted line) and 2024 (solid line), between 600 days before Election Day and Election
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Threads likely to show ads as soon as the second half of 2024
As a reminder, Threads is Meta's Instagram-backed Twitter competitor. According to Digiday, Meta has been promoting Threads' upcoming advertising features to a selection of executives working in the advertising industry. The advertising features would arrive in the second half of 2024, a bit more than a year
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post.news is shutting down
Noam Bardin, CEO of the social network post.news: It is with a heavy heart that I share this sad news with you. Despite how much we’ve accomplished together, we will be shutting down Post News within the next few weeks. We have done many great things together. We
Guides ⚡️
Safari: Restyle a folder icon with an emoji in the bookmark bar - Guide #7
Discover how to restyle a folder icon with an emoji in the bookmark bar with Safari
Guess The Plot 📈
Guess The Plot #3
Can you identify the data represented on the plot?
Guides ⚡️
🚀 Homebrew: Uninstall orphaned packages - Guide #6
Discover how to uninstall orphaned packages with Homebrew
Wiki 📖
What is a dependency? - Wiki #15
Discover what a dependency is in programming
Guides ⚡️
🚀 Homebrew: List installed packages - Guide #5
Discover how to list installed packages with Homebrew
Guess The Plot 📈
Guess The Plot #2
Can you identify the data represented on the plot?
Agenda 🗓️
New online sessions for my two-days workshop "Getting Started with R for Busy People" are open
A workshop for busy people who want to get started with R
Notes 🗒️
Air Canada had to refund a customer after its customer service AI hallucinated
In February 2024, a Canadian court forced Air Canada to partially refund the airline ticket purchased by one of its customers. The customer had asked the customer support AI bot under which conditions Air Canada reimburses emergency-purchased airline tickets when a loved one dies. The bot responded by hallucinating a
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Daniel Kahneman has passed away
I just learned on Bluesky that the American-Israeli psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman has passed away at the age of 90. During his long scientific career, Daniel Kahneman helped to show that psychological mechanisms, including cognitive biases, have a substantial influence on human decisions. Trained as a psychologist, his work
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X's lawsuit against a group fighting online hate has been dismissed
In July 2023, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a group fighting against online hate, published a series of reports claiming that X, formerly Twitter, does very little moderation of various hate speeches. In response, Elon Musk announced that X was going to sue the CCDH, alleging that the