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Research Software Engineer at The Alan Turing Institute, UK. Former cognitive neuroscientist
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"why doesn't Bluesky have its own Grok" well because the human users already bring up completely unrelated human rights atrocities in your mentions for no reason

I know he's younger than the previous pontiff, but even so, this is pretty impressive stuff given the limited time he'll have had in nets recently.

Don't really want a generative summary of my train tickets thanks, Adobe. Oh, I can't get rid of the tab that's covering part of the ticket, perfect

I mean what are you going to do when the shell garage in lothlorien is shut, not going all the way to mirkwood for those little shits

Meant to go back and take a proper screenshot of this but by the time I remembered it had gone, for some reason. Folks, remember to remove all "memorabilia" from view before the estate agents come round to take photos.

So this week in the world of farm/environment/land management/ mapping has been “interesting” And by “interesting” I mean “verging on the utterly bonkers” Why? Well this week started with Natural England launching a new map naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/12/a...

I wrote a thing about multivariate normal sampling in #rstats, and why you would be well-advised to prefer mvtnorm::rmvnorm() over MASS::mvrnorm() Now. Let us never speak of this again

Big savings down at Aldi

The merger will happen during a 3 hour window tomorrow afternoon.

i wish grok broke down a week later so all of my students could submit final papers they haven't bothered to proofread about the mass annihilation of boer farmers

I had to go over and check for myself that this one was real, but it is

“The damage this has done to our country is incalculable.” This sentence would feel right at home in some of the 1970s Monday Club/National Front material that I read for Imperial Island.

This is getting lots of attention - check the thread. I want to emphasize the basic problem: Just because you have randomized (or pseudo-randmized) a treatment, that doesn't mean you can reliably estimate interactions with that treatment. Which means post-strat prediction for population not possible

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

drinking a glass of metamucil so i can poop healthy and strong for the glory of the state

Pope announcement after party

Geef mee een klap Papam

I always say that playing Dungeons & Dragons teaches you all the skills to do Product Management

I was on French Exchange when John Paul II died and my friend's exchange's pet rabbit also died, leading her mother to utter the immortal words <Le pape est mort, le lapin est mort, tout le monde est mort.>

it looks like Nextdoor automatically scans posts and creates an invite to things it thinks are events?

Oh did the leftists say that? Maybe time you lefthis app and went to the gym.

She does look a lot like him to be fair

🥳 New Unfold-Family documentation page! unfoldtoolbox.github.io/UnfoldDocs/m... A unified look, comparison to others, and some global perspective - check it out for #rERP & #EEG analyses! --- A good time to learn Unfold is this Friday: Free online Unfold workshop - www.s-ccs.de/workshop_unf... 🧠🧪

The CEO of Ikea was just elected Prime Minister of Sweden. The first thing she’ll do, obviously, is assemble her cabinet.

not saying anyone should, but I bet you could convince Trump to re-open Alcatraz in under 20 minutes

oh my god

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

I like this paper: not only does it review of all the reasons standardized coefficients are bad, actually, It also then goes on to show how test statistics can be used as measures of unique contribution/ effect size! - something that just sounds so so wrong! #stats doi.org/10.1080/0003...

#Microsoft added a notch filter to audio playback in #Windows to eliminate the specific frequency in Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ that would cause PCs in the vicinity to crash. Amazing!

1804. Oceans are now Battlefields. In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French. It should be a massacre. Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵

Wow, what a horrific typo. Right on the cover.

Took the opportunity to flex my #marginaleffects muscle and write a little guide for computing ranks and rank-based contrasts from ordinal regression models. Check it out! #rstats

Just found a classic Yeltsin-related anecdote, as told by John Major at an event in Texas in 2001. georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/release...

Another q for the stats people! People worry about collinearity (cf blog post below). Consider a scenario in which the collinear predictors are just controls to account for confounding. Including both of them doesn't impair the precision with which the effect of interest is estimated, does it?

Not only has registration just opened for RSECon25 (rsecon25.society-rse.org/registration/ ) but there is still time to submit your proposal. Submissions are open until Friday (2025-05-02) see rsecon25.society-rse.org/call-for-sub... #RSECon25 #rse #UnivsityOfWarwick #Coventry