David Barry
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David Barry
@pappubahry.com
· Jul 27
Senate preference explorer 🥳🥳🥳 version 2!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
This introduces a custom query language to allow many more ways to filter and slice the data.
Downloads: pappubahry.com/pseph/senate...
Video tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOfO...
Conversational documentation: pappubahry.com/pseph/senate...
This introduces a custom query language to allow many more ways to filter and slice the data.
Downloads: pappubahry.com/pseph/senate...
Video tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOfO...
Conversational documentation: pappubahry.com/pseph/senate...
"Metrists rejecting feet may find an ictus moving to the right."
December 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Metrists rejecting feet may find an ictus moving to the right."
An unusual post that spends most of its time arguing against the meaningness and worth of AI literature, but also cites the Yud book in two separate paragraphs: virginiawoolfreadinggroup.substack.com/p/no-i-do-no...
December 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
An unusual post that spends most of its time arguing against the meaningness and worth of AI literature, but also cites the Yud book in two separate paragraphs: virginiawoolfreadinggroup.substack.com/p/no-i-do-no...
Till ranks of seeds their witness bear -
And softly thro' the altered air
Hurries a timid leaf.
And softly thro' the altered air
Hurries a timid leaf.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Till ranks of seeds their witness bear -
And softly thro' the altered air
Hurries a timid leaf.
And softly thro' the altered air
Hurries a timid leaf.
Confessions of a folk Cartesian: pappubahry.substack.com/p/confession...
December 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Confessions of a folk Cartesian: pappubahry.substack.com/p/confession...
Sixth Test team innings containing 11 scores in double-figures and no centuries: stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/st...
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Sixth Test team innings containing 11 scores in double-figures and no centuries: stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/st...
Not a fan of the new Substack apostrophes and quotation marks.
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Not a fan of the new Substack apostrophes and quotation marks.
Substack : The New Yorker :: Bluesky : AI
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Substack : The New Yorker :: Bluesky : AI
Reading some Chaucer: pappubahry.substack.com/p/reading-tw...
December 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Reading some Chaucer: pappubahry.substack.com/p/reading-tw...
I did not correctly identify the GPT-written paragraph in this essay by a philosophy professor on assignment-writing: grecowansley.substack.com/p/grading-in...
December 2, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I did not correctly identify the GPT-written paragraph in this essay by a philosophy professor on assignment-writing: grecowansley.substack.com/p/grading-in...
Latest Lizza the least interesting so far. (I don't and wouldn't subscribe but the Twitter algorithm feeds me the screenshots.)
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Latest Lizza the least interesting so far. (I don't and wouldn't subscribe but the Twitter algorithm feeds me the screenshots.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_...
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pedestal bowl:
Archaeological
Ante-historical
Cultural parts but we
Can’t know the whole.
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pedestal bowl:
Archaeological
Ante-historical
Cultural parts but we
Can’t know the whole.
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_...
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pedestal bowl:
Archaeological
Ante-historical
Cultural parts but we
Can’t know the whole.
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pottery pottery
Pedestal bowl:
Archaeological
Ante-historical
Cultural parts but we
Can’t know the whole.
Reposted by David Barry
This is an extremely interesting article about the collapse of early farming societies across Europe around ~5000 BC.
We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.
We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This is an extremely interesting article about the collapse of early farming societies across Europe around ~5000 BC.
We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.
We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.
I'm enjoying Charli XCX's Substack, for the novelty value at least: itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realit...
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I'm enjoying Charli XCX's Substack, for the novelty value at least: itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realit...
Just saw a LinkedIn post from last week suggesting GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5 Pro if you want a powerful AI model.
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Just saw a LinkedIn post from last week suggesting GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5 Pro if you want a powerful AI model.
I was planning on tweeting that I refuse to be captured by my Substack audience of confused aging Americans who want to read the humour writer Dave Barry, but so far I've only lost five subscribers after my Discrete Fourier Transform post, a little high but not unusually so.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I was planning on tweeting that I refuse to be captured by my Substack audience of confused aging Americans who want to read the humour writer Dave Barry, but so far I've only lost five subscribers after my Discrete Fourier Transform post, a little high but not unusually so.
Understanding the Discrete Fourier Transform: pappubahry.substack.com/p/just-fouri...
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Understanding the Discrete Fourier Transform: pappubahry.substack.com/p/just-fouri...
I learned today that Hamilton's playing at the cinema this weekend, and I'm already excited.
November 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I learned today that Hamilton's playing at the cinema this weekend, and I'm already excited.
Joining an unexclusive club and sending an Excel tip to Mr Excel, mixing LET and TEXTSPLIT. I still feel a little of the excitement I used to feel ~15 years ago when getting a reply from a famous person on the Internet.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Joining an unexclusive club and sending an Excel tip to Mr Excel, mixing LET and TEXTSPLIT. I still feel a little of the excitement I used to feel ~15 years ago when getting a reply from a famous person on the Internet.
Reposted by David Barry
Parce que les enfants reçoivent, dès la mobilisation générale, beaucoup plus souvent qu'avant le prénom de leur père (qui est donc plutôt un vieux prénom) coulmont.com/articles/nam... 2/5
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Parce que les enfants reçoivent, dès la mobilisation générale, beaucoup plus souvent qu'avant le prénom de leur père (qui est donc plutôt un vieux prénom) coulmont.com/articles/nam... 2/5
My post on sample quantile definitions (one of my better Substack posts, pappubahry.substack.com/p/i-have-opi... ) gets a shout-out in this post discussing the difficulties in handling weighted quantiles: www.practicalsignificance.com/posts/weight...
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
My post on sample quantile definitions (one of my better Substack posts, pappubahry.substack.com/p/i-have-opi... ) gets a shout-out in this post discussing the difficulties in handling weighted quantiles: www.practicalsignificance.com/posts/weight...
A lot more voters in New York than City of Perth, where Bruce Reynolds was recently elected mayor with 1918 votes after preferences.
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A lot more voters in New York than City of Perth, where Bruce Reynolds was recently elected mayor with 1918 votes after preferences.
I'm not surprised that AI-generated music is starting to become popular, but I am surprised that the first AI song to make a Billboard chart has very audible vocal artefacts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=opuD...
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I'm not surprised that AI-generated music is starting to become popular, but I am surprised that the first AI song to make a Billboard chart has very audible vocal artefacts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=opuD...
The Facebook algorithm has found that I get nerd-sniped by geometry puzzles, and now I am torn between hiding on principle the ones labelled 'Olympiad' when they are pitched at my level (well below Olympiad), and clicking on them because they are fun puzzles.
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The Facebook algorithm has found that I get nerd-sniped by geometry puzzles, and now I am torn between hiding on principle the ones labelled 'Olympiad' when they are pitched at my level (well below Olympiad), and clicking on them because they are fun puzzles.
Anonymous Lichess bullet anecdote: a rare case of a Lichess game result differing from FIDE laws. There is no sequence of legal moves that leads to checkmate, so this is a FIDE-draw, but the simple Lichess heuristics don't detect that it's a fully dead position and awarded me the win on time.
November 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Anonymous Lichess bullet anecdote: a rare case of a Lichess game result differing from FIDE laws. There is no sequence of legal moves that leads to checkmate, so this is a FIDE-draw, but the simple Lichess heuristics don't detect that it's a fully dead position and awarded me the win on time.
DW Griffith in 1924, on movies in 2024: "I am quite positive that when a century has passed, all thought of our so-called speaking pictures will have been abandoned. It will never be possible to synchronize the voice with the pictures." babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
DW Griffith in 1924, on movies in 2024: "I am quite positive that when a century has passed, all thought of our so-called speaking pictures will have been abandoned. It will never be possible to synchronize the voice with the pictures." babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...