steph
@urschrei.eurosky.social
Academic at the ⋂ of cities, technology, and climate adaptation. Reluctant polygon enthusiast. Sometimes I work on computational geometry and spatial data algorithms, which I promise almost never to discuss.
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steph
@urschrei.eurosky.social
· Nov 24
My offer of a gherkin has just been rejected out of hand as "too reviving at this hour".
Nobody show this to the more-than-human geographers or they’re going to have to spend the rest of the day breathing into paper bags.
Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
February 11, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Nobody show this to the more-than-human geographers or they’re going to have to spend the rest of the day breathing into paper bags.
@leaflet.pub Is there any reason I shouldn’t be able to publish a Looseleaf? I’ve finished editing my text but clicking the “Publish as Looseleaf” link doesn’t do anything (only a “Viewport argument key “interactive-widget” not recognized and ignored.” error in the console, on Safari).
February 10, 2026 at 7:52 PM
@leaflet.pub Is there any reason I shouldn’t be able to publish a Looseleaf? I’ve finished editing my text but clicking the “Publish as Looseleaf” link doesn’t do anything (only a “Viewport argument key “interactive-widget” not recognized and ignored.” error in the console, on Safari).
I think the Aer Lingus CTA ID rule change is the thing that is finally going to drive me to become as insane as the rest of the people on this site. They’re claiming that it’s because the CTA is just an “agreement” and not based on legislation? No, no. This won’t do. Something has gone on here.
February 9, 2026 at 11:54 PM
I think the Aer Lingus CTA ID rule change is the thing that is finally going to drive me to become as insane as the rest of the people on this site. They’re claiming that it’s because the CTA is just an “agreement” and not based on legislation? No, no. This won’t do. Something has gone on here.
I'd be interested to know which flood relief schemes Jack Chambers was referring to when he cited judicial review as a barrier to their delivery. Anyway, not to worry; the thousands of young people our research project has helped to educate about flooding will make their voices heard in a few years.
Judicial reviews ‘major issue’ in delivering flood defence schemes – minister | BreakingNews
Jack Chambers said judicial reviews were causing ‘paralysis’ in some flood defence projects
www.breakingnews.ie
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
I'd be interested to know which flood relief schemes Jack Chambers was referring to when he cited judicial review as a barrier to their delivery. Anyway, not to worry; the thousands of young people our research project has helped to educate about flooding will make their voices heard in a few years.
It’s that time again.
February 1, 2026 at 11:49 PM
It’s that time again.
Cited in Lancet. You know what that means [I am about to be unmasked as a charlatan whose fraudulent research findings will directly contribute to the deaths of millions]
January 31, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Cited in Lancet. You know what that means [I am about to be unmasked as a charlatan whose fraudulent research findings will directly contribute to the deaths of millions]
Open Science Guys: preregister your research to increase transparency and reduce bias in your findings!
Jonathan Schooler [holding torch under chin]: but most importantly, to deter the moon ghosts
OSG: why are you holding…?
JS: moon ghosts
Jonathan Schooler [holding torch under chin]: but most importantly, to deter the moon ghosts
OSG: why are you holding…?
JS: moon ghosts
January 26, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Open Science Guys: preregister your research to increase transparency and reduce bias in your findings!
Jonathan Schooler [holding torch under chin]: but most importantly, to deter the moon ghosts
OSG: why are you holding…?
JS: moon ghosts
Jonathan Schooler [holding torch under chin]: but most importantly, to deter the moon ghosts
OSG: why are you holding…?
JS: moon ghosts
Having watched a few of the early episodes of The Crocodile Hunter over Christmas, the baby's bath-time growling routine now routinely prompts an enquiry as to whether she is a "salty" or a "freshy". She has yet to declare herself.
January 23, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Having watched a few of the early episodes of The Crocodile Hunter over Christmas, the baby's bath-time growling routine now routinely prompts an enquiry as to whether she is a "salty" or a "freshy". She has yet to declare herself.
If you aren't totally confident about writing numerically-stable floating-point expressions in Rust, I've finally (after nearly 11 years) resurrected herbie-lint as a Dylint plugin: github.com/urschrei/her....
GitHub - urschrei/herbie-lint: A Herbie-based linter for numerically unstable floating-point expressions in Rust
A Herbie-based linter for numerically unstable floating-point expressions in Rust - GitHub - urschrei/herbie-lint: A Herbie-based linter for numerically unstable floating-point expressions in Rust
github.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:43 PM
If you aren't totally confident about writing numerically-stable floating-point expressions in Rust, I've finally (after nearly 11 years) resurrected herbie-lint as a Dylint plugin: github.com/urschrei/her....
Can someone explain why ~1200 lines of code and an aggressive IP policy that comprise a product that doesn't do what it's supposed to needs a big office in central London. I feel like I'm on drugs. Who are those people? What do they do?
At what3words for Darren Jones speech on 'Move fast and fix things: modernising Whitehall to deliver for Britain'
@instituteforgovernment.org.uk's Hannah White asks what will make this attempt at reform different - says what matters is what comes next
@instituteforgovernment.org.uk's Hannah White asks what will make this attempt at reform different - says what matters is what comes next
January 20, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Can someone explain why ~1200 lines of code and an aggressive IP policy that comprise a product that doesn't do what it's supposed to needs a big office in central London. I feel like I'm on drugs. Who are those people? What do they do?
Inspired by a nameless mutual's post, key texts for understanding two of the major topics in this place are: Eco's 1995 "Ur-Fascism" (subject obvious) (theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...), and James Hague's 2012 "The Silent Majority of Experts (prog21.dadgum.com/143.html) (LLM use).
theanarchistlibrary.org
January 20, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Inspired by a nameless mutual's post, key texts for understanding two of the major topics in this place are: Eco's 1995 "Ur-Fascism" (subject obvious) (theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...), and James Hague's 2012 "The Silent Majority of Experts (prog21.dadgum.com/143.html) (LLM use).
If you use Claude Code, you've been able to use it to search your local Zotero library and analyse the results using my pyzotero API client and a skill I wrote for it. Now, that skill can also query Semantic Scholar for gap analysis and related papers. github.com/urschrei/zot...
GitHub - urschrei/zotero_search_skill: A Claude Skill to leverage Pyzotero for searching Zotero research collections
A Claude Skill to leverage Pyzotero for searching Zotero research collections - urschrei/zotero_search_skill
github.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:08 PM
If you use Claude Code, you've been able to use it to search your local Zotero library and analyse the results using my pyzotero API client and a skill I wrote for it. Now, that skill can also query Semantic Scholar for gap analysis and related papers. github.com/urschrei/zot...
[desperately trying to rile up everyone on Bluesky] This is how every white-collar job is going to end up.
January 13, 2026 at 2:24 PM
[desperately trying to rile up everyone on Bluesky] This is how every white-collar job is going to end up.
The new office affords an excellent view of the apparently spectral tour guides. The living are but the latest casualty of university cost savings.
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 PM
The new office affords an excellent view of the apparently spectral tour guides. The living are but the latest casualty of university cost savings.
If you see something, say something. Be constructive and polite about it. You can always get snippy later if that doesn’t work.
Some people bring up (1) the cost of criticism and (2) that a lot of criticism has already been voiced but ignored. Both points are valid, so here are some suggestion for (1) reducing backlash and (2) increasing impact (from this talk of mine: juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...
January 8, 2026 at 9:53 AM
If you see something, say something. Be constructive and polite about it. You can always get snippy later if that doesn’t work.
My child points approvingly at art, an occasional series.
January 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
My child points approvingly at art, an occasional series.
@aodhbc.bsky.social in answer to your question: they are very much still at it, and in new and “creative” ways.
January 4, 2026 at 10:42 AM
@aodhbc.bsky.social in answer to your question: they are very much still at it, and in new and “creative” ways.
Magical in Leitrim this morning
January 3, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Magical in Leitrim this morning
Reposted by steph
Forthcoming paper in Journal of Housing Economics concludes that
- Institutional investors reduce rent + consumption inequality, while increasing wealth inequality thru lower home ownership
- Higher housing supply reduces inequality and increases home ownership
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Institutional investors reduce rent + consumption inequality, while increasing wealth inequality thru lower home ownership
- Higher housing supply reduces inequality and increases home ownership
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 2, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Forthcoming paper in Journal of Housing Economics concludes that
- Institutional investors reduce rent + consumption inequality, while increasing wealth inequality thru lower home ownership
- Higher housing supply reduces inequality and increases home ownership
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Institutional investors reduce rent + consumption inequality, while increasing wealth inequality thru lower home ownership
- Higher housing supply reduces inequality and increases home ownership
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A pleasing regional dish-washing programme variation.
January 1, 2026 at 10:08 AM
A pleasing regional dish-washing programme variation.
The hostile-vehicle barriers do suck some of the festive magic out of the winter market.
December 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The hostile-vehicle barriers do suck some of the festive magic out of the winter market.
Modern computers are fast. I've just finished a first pass of the geo crate's new Voronoi module: it can read and process 2.69+ million valid UK postal address code centroids to generate a Voronoi diagram, and write the resulting geometries to disk in under 10s. tangled.org/strings/did:...
December 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Modern computers are fast. I've just finished a first pass of the geo crate's new Voronoi module: it can read and process 2.69+ million valid UK postal address code centroids to generate a Voronoi diagram, and write the resulting geometries to disk in under 10s. tangled.org/strings/did:...
