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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 13h

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 14h

Great post by @andrew.heiss.phd on animating #rstats {dplyr} operations

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/04...

Visualizing {dplyr}’s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() with animations | Andrew Heiss

Visually explore how {dplyr}’s more complex core functions work together to wrangle data

www.andrewheiss.com

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 18h

Halloween coming up soon. Maybe you'll find out then why the garden is unexpectedly fertile.

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 20h

I've only read them via Nils Hjort's book

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 23h

Also too, research impact statements

From Matt Levine:
I used to be a corporate equity derivatives investment banker, and I once watched with uncomfortable awe as my boss explained that a derivatives deal we did for a biotech company lowered its cost of capital and thus allowed it to develop a promising cancer treatment, so if you really thought about it we were basically curing cancer. Did I believe that? Did he believe that? I mean. Perhaps his grandparents did.

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 23h

There is a bit of a gray area in citations that are purely to give prior credit in academia. I haven't read Bonferroni on the union bound in probability or Takeuchi on model-agnostic versions of AIC (because languages). I'm not citing them as evidence for the propositions they contain, though.

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 23h

The standard in law (which lawyers are actually being sanctioned for violating) is that including a citation is an explicit claim that you, *personally*, have checked the citation, it says what you are claiming, and it hasn't been overridden by later decisions.

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

It's not the first time that I'm seeing this

I'm afraid that hallucinated citations is an issue that scientists and experts will have to deal with from now on

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Not the main point, but when you're missing ~20 yr of data, I think you should just leave it blank.

Iit could be that it rose for the next five years, then plummeted and kept going! Maybe it's roughly linear! Maybe something else.

I mean, it's rising in the 1970s: you sure it pivoted RIGHT THERE?

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

Gallup has been surveying Americans' trust in legacy media since 1972. This year, a mere 28 percent of the public have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust in legacy media, its lowest level in more than five decades of tracking.

news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 1d

survey::rake does iterative proportional fitting but it might not be exposed in a way you can use it

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

Among other things the reason is apparently "time spent looking at the CCTV footage", indicating that BTP have *still* not understood the binary chop algorithm despite having it explained to them by numerous angry computer science professors.

Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 1d

The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 1d

Chickens are white
Water is wet
Wheelbarrow red
Word count is met

Death could be angry
Death could be sad
Betting on fire
Ice just as bad

Icebox is cold
Plums are delicious
Write a quick poem
Looks less suspicious

Japonica's red
Rifles are not
Spring's in the garden
Which you have not got

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 1d

Long time ago I would use them in pasta or risotto or salad, but snow peas are better for all three nowadays

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 2d

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.

Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 2d

OpenAI is discovering that there are reasons the fan creativity problem in copyright law hasn't been solved yet, despite decades of work.

More later, but a couple of quick points now.

futurism.com/future-socie...

OpenAI's Sora 2 Is Generating Video of SpongeBob Cooking Meth, Highlighting Copyright Concerns

In a video that went viral, a clip shows Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up meth, raising copyright concerns.

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 2d

"I do not consider it is plausible on the basis of information currently before the Court that this waka originates from the Hanseatic states of Germany," --Doogan J

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 3d

Heartbeat? 60s Yorkshire

Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 3d

My guess is people who think they're much smarter than they actually are.

a man in a suit is standing in front of a candle and talking .

ALT: a man in a suit is standing in front of a candle and talking .

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 3d

I endorse this strategy

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 3d

I think it's more like saying I know an ebike can't fly. There's nothing about the substrate that forbids it -- drones use similar tech --but we understand the design of the bike at a high enough level to distinguish it from the drone. It's not like "it's made of meat, how could it possibly think?"

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 3d

"It was only relatively recently that groups like The Tallis Scholars started bringing this music into concert halls."

Since the Tallis Scholars were formed in the same year as AC/DC, "relatively" is doing a lot of work here.

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 3d

Back when HP still made the printer that never dies

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New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social · 4d

Remember the Magic Eye books of the 90s?? Now, you can have a crack at viewing New Zealand’s native flowers in 3D. Clematis, orchid, ngutukākā, korukoru, oioi… this is a luscious, spectacular feature by @rebekahwhite.bsky.social, based on the new book He Puāwai by @theobrominated.bsky.social

Magic flora

Philip Garnock-Jones has spent more than a decade photographing our native flowers as they’ve never been shown before: in luscious, three-dimensional detail.

www.nzgeo.com

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Cinnamon Roll Day to those who celebrate
#korvapuustipäivä

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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 5d

A thread of some design/code highlights for me from our 'How Bangalore Uses the Metro' 📊 project.

1. The header sign is fully HTML/CSS. 'Go Down Take Up For Toilet' is real signage at one of our biggest stations (pic below) :P

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 4d

Want a bit of a distraction from The Horrors?

Want to dip your toe into anime?

1 like = 1 short (26 ep or under), complete story arc anime available on Crunchyroll or Netflix I'd enthusiastically recommend. Until I run out.

a man in a blue shirt with his mouth open is surrounded by bubbles

ALT: a man in a blue shirt with his mouth open is surrounded by bubbles

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