nicholas erskine
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likes: statistics, cricket, cities dislikes: the National Capital Development Commission (1958-1989)
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William B. Fuckley
4 days ago
Itβs called βvs codeβ because the code is an enemy you are fighting
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Ketan Joshi
4 days ago
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
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jennifer uncoolidge
7 days ago
historically accurateβοΈ
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Ross Floate
9 days ago
You know, I wouldnβt even know writers festivals existed if it werenβt for their regular paroxysms of weird unit behaviour.
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Travis Jordan
about 1 month ago
A few months ago I went to a discussion on rising antisemitism in Australia β 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.
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Jeremy C. Shipp
about 1 month ago
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.
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Richard ε‘ζ£γΌη·
about 1 month ago
ππ²πΆ π΄π₯π¬ π²π°π’π° ππ―ππ¨π±π²π― ππ° ππ« ππ«π±π¦-πππ·π¦ ππ£π£π’π π±ππ±π¦π¬π«
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Willie Dustice
about 2 years ago
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?
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drewtoothpaste
about 2 years ago
these ARE made they should ALWAYS be made i WILL make them i WILL help you make them
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type of guy who only eats icelandic food because it's the world's least problematic cuisine
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about 2 months ago
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Richard ε‘ζ£γΌη·
about 2 months ago
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.
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it's a huge indictment of this place that The Archers regularly trends globally
about 2 months ago
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2 months ago
Honestly for the most part knowledge is actually justified true belief and you can sorta not worry about the counter-examples. It's fine.
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casey briggs
2 months ago
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
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Liam Hogan
2 months ago
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Dan Oehm
2 months ago
TIL you can turn off the `summarise()` has grouped output by... message when using dplyr::summarise by running options(dplyr.summarise.inform = FALSE) π
#Rstats
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CAMERON WILSON
2 months ago
hey Bluesky whatever youβre doing to pick the thumbnails for videosβ¦β¦. Keep doing that Shit
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Richard ε‘ζ£γΌη·
3 months ago
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.
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Matt Cowgill
3 months ago
the unfortunate truth re: data visualisation is that you really do gotta hand it to bar charts
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Andrew Donnellan
3 months ago
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:
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Chris Bowen
3 months ago
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.
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William B. Fuckley
3 months ago
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.
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Rose Ruane
3 months ago
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3 months ago
When it's the end of the month and your indulgence still hasn't come through
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Andrew Braddock MLA
3 months ago
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.
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Americans are losing their minds because a baseball game ran for slightly less time than the average ODI
3 months ago
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Microplastics Sommelier
3 months ago
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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?
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Allan says Victoria machete ban is working despite brawl at community sport event
Police were called to a fight among a large group of men armed with machetes on Saturday evening
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/26/allan-says-victoria-machete-ban-is-working-despite-brawl-that-left-teenager-with-serious-injuries
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Chris Newton
3 months ago
Possibly weirded out my long-suffering colleagues with this idiosyncratic observation last week, and feel like it belongs in a meme.
#rstats
#python
#ripdavidlynch
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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...
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4 months ago
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Cameron Patrick
4 months ago
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
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For some insight on why Meanjin no longer exists, put this into the bluesky search bar: domain:meanjin.com.au until:2025-09-03
5 months ago
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Rafe Meager (they/them)
5 months ago
Bayesianism is rich, poignant and complex, frequentism is childish, boorish and obvious
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5 months ago
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.
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Sharon
5 months ago
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Davis Vaughan
6 months ago
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!
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Opal
6 months ago
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!"
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I admitted to
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that I had never heard a TISM song and got absolutely schooled
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K. Thor Jensen
7 months ago
The singularity is awesome
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William B. Fuckley
6 months ago
whole genre of post on X these days thatβs βitβs so over for men. my friend canβt get a date. this is despite him having a great job, being 6β3 and handsome, and having a great personality. I know this because he is best friends with me, @basedgroypherrapist1488β
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casey briggs
6 months ago
late to this i know, but i love quarto and i wish to marry it
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Richard ε‘ζ£γΌη·
7 months ago
You think I have undefined just lying around?
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CAMERON WILSON
7 months ago
tired: wow lucky guy found some trains wired: wow lucky guy could afford a house
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Tyler Burch
7 months ago
Everyday I get more and more calcified in my opinion that state-dependent programming (read: using notebooks) is bad and you should really just not.
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Randall Munroe
7 months ago
Tukey
xkcd.com/3104/
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Erin Cook
7 months ago
Lmfao
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Cameron Patrick
7 months ago
people say "BlueSky is dying" but then I get replies to my posts explaining cool lore about the internals of R's implementation of linear regression
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Thomas Lumley
7 months ago
A regression without collinearity diagnostics is like a fish without a bicycle
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Jonathan O'Brien
7 months ago
The Auditor-General is right: Victorians should not be paying for the privilege of having our public sector deskilled. There are two reasons a department might rely on external consultants, and neither is particularly good. π§΅
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