If anybody has a nice loud bell and access to a nun’s habit, I think the Portland protest could get a little louder.

Shoutout to the #rstats hive mind: does anybody have any go-to packages for iterative proportional fitting? I’m turning up packages that haven’t been updated in years (maybe they’re perfect); but I’m surprised there isn’t anything more recent coming in my search.

What I dislike most about the AI summary at the top of each search is that I no longer seem to get many (if any) results from stackoverflow. So now I have a useless and often misleading summary and the algorithm no longer points to the gold mine. Sample size of one - so maybe it’s just me.

Thoughts and prayers to all Queenslanders who are about to endure two weeks of heinously early meetings until we southerners adjust to your temporal distortion.

The darkest timeline.

The general’s reaction to Pete Hesgeth’s pep talk reminds me of the real skill involved it took for the troops to march so badly during Trump’s birthday parade.

The war in Portland has reached a new stage.

This why studying Latin was so enormously helpful in my career as a statistician. People never believe me, but programming is language.

St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.

How did the strangler keep a grip? Unanswered questions from the house of guiness.

Watching the new series on the Guinness dynasty. The statistician hasn’t come on. Will let you all know when it gets interesting.

We hardly ever shoot people on sight down under. For starters we can’t find a gun.

Breaking: water causes autism. In 100% of cases, autistic people at some point consumed something with water in it.

They’re coming after the middle aged white guys now.

I could see this happening.

My kids don’t want me to help with their math homework. I point out that it’s for all intents and purposes, it’s my job. Their reasoning? I’m a statistician. Betrayed, in my own house.

"Will no one rid me of these meddlesome statisticians?" #econsky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

Being stuck in an elevator is way less fun than rom-coms had led me to believe.

Why do I need two hands to open the door of Tesla ride share? Interesting design choices on parade.

In terms of vampires, is a bamboo stake through the heart just as good as a wooden one ? I’m sorting out my knitting needles and thinking about which ones to keep.

Whenever shopping, I remember how many useful things bicarbonate soda can do. It’s just that I forget how many times I’ve had that thought.

Apocolocyntosis divi Trump. There are about three people who will understand this reference but it makes me happy.

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Couldn’t remember the word ‘kofta’. So I called them linear rissoles. Technically correct.

What a replacement.

Life turned out ok for the sun king in his palace of Versailles, right?

‘New data that no one has ever seen before.’ I, too, regularly find surprising things down the back of the couch.

Inspired by this kind of forward thinking, we should really start taking that bridge to Tasmania idea seriously.

Watching Foundation and I have to say psychometrics has econometrics beat. Those crazy kids worked out how to estimate change points.

It’s been nearly 10 years since the Microsoft bot Tay started posting racist and anti semite content and was taken offline. So Grok’s racism and anti semitism is no surprise. But … it’s been nearly *10 years*.

#rstats Has anybody worked with fable in conjunction with arrow before? Any tips? Thanks!

You know it’s getting real when this turns up in an Australian’s instagram feed.

What gives, Bayesians?

Forget the 51 federalist papers. If he was around, Hamilton would have written 510 papers since January 6.

Went for a coffee with a friend yesterday morning. Got home and trump had bombed Iran while I was gone.

Inoculated this #miniworld with pleurotus ostreatum and turkey tails at build time. I don’t think this is either, but healthy mycelium = healthy system.

#minisky Begonia pavonina and friends.

You know when a character on tv/movies announces they have multiple PhDs? And everybody thinks ‘you are very smart’. Just for once I want someone to respond with ‘my deepest condolences’. Which is way more realistic.

I learned to march when I was in kindergarten.

Marching in that parade must have been humiliating.

The park rangers are providing weather advice and the penguins techniques for peaceful resistance. It’s probably the least unlikely thing so far.

Awwww it’s all grown up 💕

"We are sad that the journalist didn't dodge the projectile that chose to go towards her" said her employer. Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...

Seriously thinking that I could teach a whole statistics course using only screencaps and memes.

And one more time for the people up the back.

I knew my kid was multifaceted when she announced, apropos of nothing, ‘you look like an econowife’.

When the ex shows up to offer advice.

‘Disappointed’- that’s mumspeak for ‘angry’.

But did he inhale?

Telling somebody you’re an R user is a bit like telling them you’re a vegetarian. Most people don’t care. But there’s always that one person who wants to know why you’re not eating steak. More people eat steak. You should eat steak. You don’t win friends with salad. You don’t put salad in prod.