Over the past months, Claude Code has become a crucial part of my day-to-day work as a data scientist. While I remain skeptical about the long-term effects of AI assistants on attention spans and our ability to think slowly and deeply, the practical demands of my current job are clear: I need to produce more […]
Author: neurotroph
Magic Links. Make it stop, please!
Dear SaaS-providers, please let me set up a password or a passkey to log in to your service. Magic Links sent via email are terrible for cross-device usage, break the user experience, and are no safer than passkeys. Thanks. (Looking at you, Anthropic.)
Apple’s Liquid Glass: That’s it?
I have been using the current public betas for iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 Tahoe for a week now, but I am wondering about Liquid Glass: that’s it? Apple says it’s the biggest change in visual appearance of their software in years – that might be true, but in many cases it is just a […]
AI will worsen our attention span
While the headline is catchy, this post is not as well thought-out as my previous thoughts on the relationship between AI assistants and psychology. It is more of an aside to a recently published study. MIT’s Media Lab has conducted a study on how AI assistants affect our thinking in terms of intellectual output and […]
What AI tells us about human psychology
The tech world won’t stop telling us how AI will revolutionize labor, displace workers, and surpass human intelligence — either today or in the near future. In short: AI is amazing, and we should be grateful that Silicon Valley has blessed us with this high-end technology we’ll all learn to love. All hail our AI […]
Time Block Planning with the reMarkable 2 Tablet
I’ve always liked the idea of setting up a proper system of task management and emails, but it was only when I’ve red Digital Minimalism and Deep Work bei Cal Newport that I truly delved into productivity systems. While I haven’t fully embraced the digital minimalist way of life, one thing I have adopted into […]
Creating commandline tools using R and optparse
Command line tools are powerful for automating your analysis or predictive models. optparse makes it easy to use command line arguments to make your script adaptable to changing configurations.
How to do stepwise regression in R?
You don’t.
Podcasts for Data Science Start-Ups
I am not a Podcasts person. Most episodes are too long, there is a lot of nonsense talk with inside jokes, and I usually find information quicker when googling on my own. As the past months have been quite busy, however, I was looking to fill the time where I couldn’t read or do other […]
From Psychologist to Data Scientist
Social scientist or psychologist interested in data science? I compiled a list of skills and resources, I think are relevant in order to start in the field.