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Matt Peeples

@pattmeeples.bsky.social

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Archaeologist and associate prof of Anthropology at Arizona State University. I mostly “skeet” (is that what we’re calling it?) about archaeology, baseball, stuff I cook, and the weather.

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Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · 2d

I think a Mariners vs. Phillies World Series would be the most fun (for me) to watch. It feels weird to have October baseball with no Astros.

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · 10d

More rain than all of 2024 in just 24 hours followed by one of the brightest rainbows I’ve ever seen

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Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · 11d

We got more rain in the last four hours than we have for the entire year before today.

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · 16d

Future archaeologists will find only ChatGPT essays and my comments on them

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · 21d

This is the best one of these “honk if” stickers I’ve seen

Bumper sticker saying honk if you want me to flip you off because I forgotten the sticker is on my car

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · 21d

Congrats to Emily Thurman and Babalola Jacobs for the recognition of their research at the Pecos Conference: news.asu.edu/b/20250910-a...

ASU students recognized for their archaeology research | ASU News

Two graduate students from Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change received recognition for their outstanding research at the Pecos Conference last month in Utah.The Cor...

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Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · 29d

Good point! I didn’t find it initially because I’m using different terms to Google for things in Archaeology than the community ecologists, but i bet ChatGPT could’ve found those connections.

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · 29d

I thought that I had come up with a new method for comparing local and broader spatial autocorrelation in multivariate artifact distributions but then I found an R package that does almost exactly what I was doing. It would’ve been nice if I found this before I spent a day and a half coding.

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Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Sep 7

In this case I already had tabular data from this report. I didn't find any errors so far but will definitely check carefully.

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Sep 7

I used this prompt in chatGPT to extract data from an archaeological report where I already had the data so that I could check accuracy. Much of the extracted information comes from paragraphs and not tables and it worked well. This will save me so much time even if I have to check things manually.

ChatGPT output showing tabular data extracted from free text in a report.

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Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Sep 1

I answered a question online about the archaeology of poop and may have accidentally written the most read thing I’ll ever write…

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m learning this year that there are way more Lego robotics teams than archaeologists.

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 26

Southern Arizona social media is nothing but pictures of rain and dust storms. I love it!

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Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 26

Finally!! The first big haboob in years and a real monsoon storm

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Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 21

My son was explaining to me a game that kids at his school are playing, which is essentially a pen and paper version of Civilization where they draw tech trees and take turns building their cities. It’s all just sort of made up on the fly and anything you can convince other people of you get to do

a woman in a dress and crown is standing in front of a dark background .

ALT: a woman in a dress and crown is standing in front of a dark background .

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Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 20

I miss that place. I like my electronics stores like I like my pyramids… with talud tablero architecture

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 20

The current high bid is only $60 but you’d have to rent a truck and have help to move it

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 20

Does anyone wanna pool our resources and buy the giant double headed serpent from Fry’s electronics? www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/former-...

Phoenix Fry’s Electronics store’s fixtures are up for auction

Items being sold off include the now-closed retail store’s shelving and Aztec-inspired decor.

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Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 18

We finally finished a major revamp of the website for the Center for Archaeology and Society. Check it out here: shesc.asu.edu/centers/arch...

Center for Archaeology and Society | School of Human Evolution and Social Change

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Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 16

Baseball is more fun when more teams are competitive. I hope this trend continues

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 15

I just got an email from a service that produced a sample AI generated podcast about one of my articles. The article was a very technical methodological study, and it was very weird to hear two excited sounding robo-voices discussing the selection of classifiers and matrix algebra.

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 12

Its successor has a lot to live up to.

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 12

It’s finally time to say goodbye to my faithful laser printer nicknamed Rocky IV (after Paulie’s robot). It served well for 23 years. It ran on parallel port but stood strong since Windows 2000 with a laptop dock as a USB converter. It can no longer print without jamming and it deserves a rest.

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Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 10

August 24th, AD 79 in Lego form.

Matt Peeples @pattmeeples.bsky.social · Aug 6

We 3D printed a display for some of my son's Lego minifigs. Turned out pretty cool!