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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 4h

And with the very obvious prejudices held against trans people, the ‘we’ll deal with it’ mentality seems completely fine on the outside.

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 4h

And here was me thinking the justice system was supposed to be at least partly about rehabilitation. And that torture didn’t come into it. Because that’s what it is.

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 1d

I seem to have started using them for plain language reprex. LLMs have become a rubber duck in my case.

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 1d

😂

econmaett @econmaett.github.io · 1d

#stats #rstats

tommasorigon.github.io/datamining/s...

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 2d

Is it statistically correct?

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 3d

This is a huge concern of mine.

Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 3d

it's also extremely dangerous for users who work in regulated industries. the potential for accidentally passing commercial-in-confidence data to an unauthorised third party is unacceptably high when you start inserting LLM links into console messages. this "feature" needs to be opt-in, not opt-out

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 3d

FFS is right. We need an LLM to turn all the other LLMs off and then delete itself.

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 4d

If anybody has a nice loud bell and access to a nun’s habit, I think the Portland protest could get a little louder.

a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her

Alt: a woman in a game of thrones nuns habit is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her. She is ringing a bell.

media.tenor.com

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you! These might be just what I’m after.

Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you both! This is a huge help.

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 7d

Shoutout to the #rstats hive mind: does anybody have any go-to packages for iterative proportional fitting?

I’m turning up packages that haven’t been updated in years (maybe they’re perfect); but I’m surprised there isn’t anything more recent coming in my search.

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 8d

What I dislike most about the AI summary at the top of each search is that I no longer seem to get many (if any) results from stackoverflow.

So now I have a useless and often misleading summary and the algorithm no longer points to the gold mine.

Sample size of one - so maybe it’s just me.

Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 9d

I learned Latin and a bit of Greek. World saving powers have failed to appear, sadly.

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 10d

If it’s not adding positively to your life then I say bin it with no regrets. Your happiness and wellbeing is so much more important than this place..!

Also I am desperate for a coffee again - maybe next week?

Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 10d

Thoughts and prayers to all Queenslanders who are about to endure two weeks of heinously early meetings until we southerners adjust to your temporal distortion.

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 10d

The darkest timeline.

An auction listing for ‘a Pizza Hut special edition bottle of port’. There is a picture of a clay bottle labelled with Pizza Hut special edition port.

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 11d

Excellent my new Wednesday shirt!

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 12d

It made a huge impression on me as an undergrad.

Another one I love is witch trials by lesson and Russ:

academic.oup.com/ej/article-a...

And they released their data!

Witch Trials

Abstract. We argue that the great age of European witch trials reflected non‐price competition between the Catholic and Protestant churches for religious m

academic.oup.com

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 12d

The general’s reaction to Pete Hesgeth’s pep talk reminds me of the real skill involved it took for the troops to march so badly during Trump’s birthday parade.

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 12d

Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders
Avner Greif
The Journal of Economic History
Vol. 49, No. 4 (Dec., 1989)

www.jstor.org/stable/2122741

Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders on JSTOR

Avner Greif, Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Dec., 1989), pp. 857-882

www.jstor.org

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 16d

Mine was around somewhere but it was quickly claimed by my kids. I still have my socks!

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 16d

I’m really sorry. I have a medically complex kid too and watching the mountains they have to climb is really hard.

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 16d

I already ordered one. My favourite co worker is going to be so triggered when it becomes my Tuesday shirt.

Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 16d

Proceeds to the R foundation? I would love a few different ones. I have a colleague who is very triggered by R.

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Steph Stammel @stephstammel.bsky.social · 16d

Alt text: a screenshot of a group of people in a pillow fight in a community college cafeteria. This is from an episode of Community.

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