Today's blog post is about for loops with a range in R Post: www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/... #R #RStats #ForLoop #Range

You may have heard of ROC curves, but what exactly are they? Learn the the basics of ROC curves using simple #RStats code and intuitive explanations. "ROC Curves in Two Lines of Code": rworks.dev/posts/Horton...

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

It is very clear the gutting of Teen Vogue is about silencing their excellent political coverage. Corporations want you uninformed and shut off from meaningful journalism. And they’re staggeringly successful at it so far.

In all fairness, some statistical methods are so much fun that you should be allowed to write exactly one paper whose entire motivation is "we wanted to apply this pretty cool method to some data we had lying around"

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

Its 2025. Everything you use is shite and the monthly subscription has just went up.

Uh oh, they’re doing ‘Halloween is a terrible modern American import’ discourse and all the Scots in earshot have a twitching eye and a tightening jaw.

AI in the streets ML in the sheets

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

The “health surcharge” is an utterly bogus labelling. It’s not hypothecated for health spending and you can’t choose not to pay it and not use the NHS. You could call it an education surcharge or a defence surcharge or anything. It’s just using the sanctified status of the NHS to rip off immigrants.

The microbiome is an easy target for purveyors of pseudoscience.

Super easy to use the mapgl package and @oldinsurancemaps.net to compare 1886 Richmond, VA to today in #rstats. The site of Gallego Mills, the ruins of which became an iconic photo after the fall of Richmond in the American Civil War, is now an office building and freeway.

Westminster wants Scotland to accept nuclear power stations for the same reason they site their Trident WMDs here: because they are safely far away from their core voters in the SE of England.

The Standing Charge has increased so much that even if you use no electricity at all you are now being charged as much you were for using 3kwh's per day in 2021. It is blatant theft.

I truly wish all immigrants could stop work for a week. I don’t think it would take much longer than that to change everything. /endPS

I think Lucas Pope needs to re-release "Papers, Please" which now requires you to refuse entry to anyone who has a meme about the dear leader on their person.

I am opposed to mandatory digital ID - people should be able to go about their daily lives without such infringements. That aside, by calling it BritCard, the Prime Minister seems to be attempting to force every Scot to declare ourselves British. I am a Scot. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Please enjoy today, 25/9/2025, the last square date until 2116 (5^2/3^2/45^2).

Who is asking for this rubbish. Lower the price of food for godsake.

Digital ID run by the likes of Palantir, what could possibly go wrong? Though it is much quicker to answer what could go right? ...

Do you have a lot of annoying admin tasks or household chores you need to accomplish, but never seem to find the time for? Then may I suggest: setting aside a day to do nothing but write, you will be amazed at how many such tasks you can accomplish.

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

Started, going, etc.

Funny, I thought that a guy using his social media platform to call for the overthrow of the UK government would be news

I wrote this in January, about the issues we face when responsibility for covering the irony-poisoned and extremely-online trolls of the far right, falls to journalists who can't rotate a PDF. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Why is Tommy Robinson's crappy march plastered to the BBC? They had marches for Palestine 100x bigger than this and the BBC barely mentioned them in the daily news.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Really sorry to hear the news that @kevinstewartsnp.bsky.social will be stepping down. Across his time as an activist, a Councillor, a Minister and an MSP, he’s been an absolute stalwart for Aberdeen in the SNP, and through the SNP for Scotland. You’ll be missed at Holyrood, min 👍🏻

If you know anyone who has to keep a phone secret, and can safely let them know, it is going to be really, really, important that they know to make sure those phones are switched off, or on airplane mode, before the alert goes through at 3pm.

Nigel Farage making his announcements at the Reform UK conference.

I've a feeling Mr Farage might very much be regretting his trip... round about ... Now 👇

not every political party is silent in the face of Faragist Deportation chat

"A handful of rightwing bigots turn out to grab nationwide headlines - media obliges" Fixed it for you.

This is basically what I mean by "noseblind to Hitler particles." If center left people and fascists get used to each other, that's a big victory for the fascists and nothing gained by the center left.

Even if you believe you are "smart enough" or "experienced enough" to not be swayed by the propaganda you are marinating in on twitter, it still swaying you by presenting a false perspective on the prevalence and popularity of ideas.

This a million times

The paper about splines in R that I wish I had known about when I was learning splines in R. bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Brilliant article from the perspective of an infectious disease doctor of two major pandemics in our time. blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

This view, that if we’d stayed neutral in 1914 we’d still be running India, has been popular in those circles for a long time. Questioning WW2 has been utter taboo in Britain though because WW2 is so totemic, even the BNP didn’t do that. That it’s escaping containment is highly worrying

I’m never surprised to hear English people describe Scottish nationalism as a problem, just endlessly amused at their failure to acknowledge their own nationalism, which is almost always at the root it. Indeed, they don’t see it as nationalism at all, just ‘common sense’.

Some days it feels like we've just stopped training domain experts and now expect trainees to know a lot about a lot (and because of time, they end up knowing a little about a lot, with poor consequences)

Feature request: one cursor per monitor and a key command to change cursor focus to stop you doing the wavey hand dance to try and find out which bloody monitor the damn cursor is on

Man, I just read a quote from Carrie Fisher that's going to be burned into my brain forever. "Things are getting worse faster than we can lower our standards."

What's hilarious about this is how far from the 'authentic' recipe the Good Food one isn't. Bar 25g of butter, the inclusion of which in anything always strikes me as a good idea, it's so close as to make no difference. As ever it misses the fact that all recipes are just made up by somebody.