Them: why do you keep calling yourself a “statistician” instead of a “data scientist” Me:

www.bbc.com/sport/cricke... we should not sell BBL franchises to these people

I've never found a politician so relatable

I assume this pub is similar to SMH's Good Weekend where the feature is invariably pitched to them by a PR firm, but they continually are taken by surprise that their puff piece comes out the same week a scandal about the subject occurs

Normie libs are correct!

in a heating climate, it’s obviously ridiculous to forbid workers from weather-suitable attire (shorts). creates discomfort for no reason and drives up energy use.

Throw back to when I explained to Huberman that searching "New York Times" in a grants database just gave him all grants that included the words "new" "york" and "times".

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

This should receive the same consequence as if this police chief has sat down and consciously fabricated a fictitious event to justify a policing decision. It should be career ending These people are adult professionals using software, and without consequences this will get keep getting worse

historically accurate☑️

You know, I wouldn’t even know writers festivals existed if it weren’t for their regular paroxysms of weird unit behaviour.

A few months ago I went to a discussion on rising antisemitism in Australia – and how it relates to but is distinct from in both form and response from Islamophobia, First Nations hate and other forms of hate. It was a very insightful and important discussion. But something after struck me.

The best scene in Jaws is when the boat guys sing a traditional sea shanty and Jaws pops out of the water and everyone is terrified but Jaws starts singing as well. There's this unspoken promise in the air that no one will eat anyone until the song ends.

𝔊𝔲𝔶 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔲𝔰𝔢𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯 𝔞𝔰 𝔞𝔫 𝔄𝔫𝔱𝔦-𝔑𝔞𝔷𝔦 𝔞𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫

I heard there was a secret cord. You plug it in and you meet the lord. But you don't really care for Christmas, do you?

these ARE made they should ALWAYS be made i WILL make them i WILL help you make them

type of guy who only eats icelandic food because it's the world's least problematic cuisine

This has a warm glow of nostalgia around it, before the replication crisis, before Gelman would ask annoying questions about how many models you tried, before data colada would check if your data existed. When you could come up with 20 hypotheses and 19 papers before 10 am.

it's a huge indictment of this place that The Archers regularly trends globally

Honestly for the most part knowledge is actually justified true belief and you can sorta not worry about the counter-examples. It's fine.

Mark Parton is the new leader of the Canberra Liberals, which means 44 per cent of the current party room members (4 out of 9) have now served as leader

TIL you can turn off the `summarise()` has grouped output by... message when using dplyr::summarise by running options(dplyr.summarise.inform = FALSE) 👍 #Rstats

In the Garden of Eden Asam named all the beasts, and this gave him dominion over them. To name someone, to render a new name is true power. This is why the Right is terrified of baristas.

the unfortunate truth re: data visualisation is that you really do gotta hand it to bar charts

Comments on the Northern Gateway Draft Plan Amendment close 5pm Tuesday. The @greatercanberra.org.au take: great that rezoning is *finally* happening, but it's also far from sufficient. Height limits as low as 8.5m *right next to light rail* More info: www.planning.act.gov.au/professional...

In October, around half of all electricity in the national grid came from renewable sources, the highest monthly rate on record. The total amount of renewable electricity produced in October is also a monthly record. Coal generation is down to only 46% of our national grid over the last month.

something weird I've noticed over the past couple of years: college students used to be adults, but are now children. it's strange. I'm even seeing grad students, who used to be adults, now be children. whereas people who used to be old, like postdocs, are now normal? maybe TikTok is to blame.

When it's the end of the month and your indulgence still hasn't come through

Today I moved a motion to censure the Transport Minister over the MyWay+ debacle. A damning report revealed systemic failures under his watch. The world-class ticketing system that Canberrans were promised quickly fell apart, leaving people frustrated and confused.

Americans are losing their minds because a baseball game ran for slightly less time than the average ODI

Why does Melbourne keep having machete brawls? Is this just a thing that Melbournians have to learn to live with, like the terrible trains? Why specifically machetes? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Possibly weirded out my long-suffering colleagues with this idiosyncratic observation last week, and feel like it belongs in a meme. #rstats #python #ripdavidlynch

The problem with this is that it's disproven by glancing at either latest or top on the search page for his name. This website is full of people too immoral to oppose political murder on principle and too stupid to see that political violence isn't going to help anyone bsky.app/search?q=cha...

I could have sworn I created this before on our Previous Parish, but couldn't find it so made it fresh. I present: OUR BLESSED mixed models // THEIR BARBAROUS fixed effects

For some insight on why Meanjin no longer exists, put this into the bluesky search bar: domain:meanjin.com.au until:2025-09-03

Bayesianism is rich, poignant and complex, frequentism is childish, boorish and obvious

The Netherlands is a lovely place! The cities are charming and walkable, the people friendly and honest, the food is often sufficient for typical calorific needs.

We are looking for some community feedback on 3 new dplyr functions! - replace_when() - recode_values() - replace_values() New tools for recoding (think, lookup tables!) and replacing (think, replace `-99` with `NA` in `col`) in the tidyverse - I'm pretty excited about these!

See, entry 3 in the bibliography is "Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrizations of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifolds" by one N. Lobachevsky. And if you've ever heard Leher's song "Lobachevsky", you may have just finished that title with "Bozhe moi!"

I admitted to @nicholas-erskine.bsky.social that I had never heard a TISM song and got absolutely schooled

The singularity is awesome

whole genre of post on X these days that’s “it’s so over for men. my friend can’t get a date. this is despite him having a great job, being 6’3 and handsome, and having a great personality. I know this because he is best friends with me, @basedgroypherrapist1488”

late to this i know, but i love quarto and i wish to marry it

You think I have undefined just lying around?