Post by @annasdtc@sciences.social

2026-06-12 22:41 UTC

Other than work, I am interested in (too) many things. I live with a human partner and two cats, I take viola lessons and play in two community orchestras, we (the humans, not the cats) usually vacation by bicycle (sometimes also train), and I do some swimming and strength training (at my own pace, not a gym bro). I read mostly nonfiction and I have a somewhat defined goal to read/learn more philosophy and, particularly, ethics. Again, any recommendation will be very welcome. #introduction

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@nxskok@cupoftea.social 2026-06-13 04:36

@annasdtc@sciences.social I use a lot of R, so one way to combine that with markdown is to use Quarto (in, say, R Studio) and then you can learn tidyverse etc. as well and practice writing about what you have learned. (Quarto is basically Markdown with some extra stuff, but Markdown itself is not hard to learn.) A more off-beat suggestion: if you want to learn touch typing, you might find it easier to learn on a keyboard like dvorak, where all the common letters are on the home row. (This was what I did during COVID.) This is assuming that you have a QWERTY keyboard right now, or something similar in Spanish/Catalan. I found that since the letters on the keys no longer reflected what letter they would produce, I had to type by feel rather than by looking. (My keyboard looks like a qwerty one, but it actually isn't.)

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@ml@ecoevo.social 2026-06-15 04:37

@annasdtc@sciences.social For cycling, you should check out #BikeNite, which is an (a)synchronous weekly chat from community-submitted prompts. People from several continents participate (even though people speak several languages themselves, the chat is overwhelmingly in English). You can follow @bikenite@fedigroups.social to see other posts that remember to mention that group bot. Or the hashtag for those who remember to use the hashtag. Phil does the questions every week so follow. https://sfba.social/@ascentale/116739386359376606

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@MintSpies@beige.party 2026-06-15 22:08

@annasdtc@sciences.social I can't help with the work stuff (I only teach economics at secondary school level, so econometrics is over my head!) but I play viola, so a big shout out from the best* section of the orchestra. *for a given value of "best", obvs.

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