Cameron Patrick

What’s that you say? Liz has a new book out which even the Telegraph is saying is even more unhinged than the last one? Wonderful, I’ll post this then.

This second step, of transfusing positive feedback straight into our veins, is crucial to surviving the emotional wasteland of academic research!

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 🎂Oct 26, 1954 Luke Tierney born in New York City, NY, USA 🇺🇸 1990: Lisp-Stat, an object-oriented environment for statistical computing and dynamic graphics. It was Influential for devel of S, now #rstats

does anyone else miss those kidney-shaped Microsoft mice from the 90s or am I just weird?

ABBOTT: Japanese developers today have unique names, like FromSoftware COSTELLO: From what ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: I thought you said it was from Japan ABBOTT: It is COSTELLO: But what's the name of the developer ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: The Software's From Japan, though ABBOTT: Yes

Favourite film in haiku: Taking a nice walk With my uncle's old jewellery More hazards than planned

made for a great opening line for Neuromancer, though: "The sky above the port was the colour of a television tuned to a dead channel."

this is very cool! (not sure I love the inaugural puzzle, and a bit unclear how the scoring works... I managed to get a 'perfect' score of 64/64 without finding all of the possible words)

IMO simulation based power analysis is the gold standard here -- not because it's better or more accurate (though often...), but because doing it requires knowing enough about the phenomenon you're studying to be able to plug in values that are even remotely reasonable in the first place!

reminds me of a dating profile profile I saw years ago that said "Make sure we're on the same page about: Transgender people and vaccination" we matched and it turned out they were very much on the wrong page about both of these issues, but at least the red flag was identified quickly

At most 4, but could be a 2 if you count a brief handshake-meet-n-greet with my previous local MP as a connection (Julie Bishop, former Minister for Foreign Affairs)

it is weird that a lot of people think AI would structurally move the economy back to physical labor over intellectual work, but see it more as "how will we train accountants to be CNAs" problem and not a massive decline in QoL unto itself.

I feel like Apple understands this, which is why all of their gadgets have absurd memory bandwidth AND absurdly fast SSD compared what you might think they need

finally saw Odyssey (in IMAX 70mm! yay!). Nolan has clearly heard of subtlety and subtext and decided he will be having absolutely none of that nonsense, lest it break Zeus's Law and collapse our age of bronze. good fun movie though!

It has come to my attention that many people are unaware that the person who figured out that the private key was 4 was a Something Awful forums goon: forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...

a properly aligned ai would never agree to make a pie chart

I am once again asking researchers to not introduce a manual "fiddle with the data in Excel" step between the REDCap database and the statistician

Not unrelated to my facetious Caffeine Theory of the Fall of the Roman Empire--no caffeine, so they couldn't keep up the bureaucracy needed to sustain an Empire. Unlike China, home of tea, you see.

saw someone say "people with mental health" and can we not do that please

fuck yeah locking in for a great read

The second Knives Out movie, whose conclusion (apologies for spoilers) is that its villain is not some dastardly schemer but just an outright idiot, struck me as a taking a bit of a cop out at the time, but the more it's sat with me, the more I think Rian Johnson was right to make THAT the reveal.

for those only dimly aware of cybersecurity people screaming, "a security certificate which underpins the entire internet used '4' for a private key that is supposed to be 116 digits long" and "a popular web language lets anyone run code on your server" are two different issues from the same day

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

I'm a security professional, and I can tell you that security professionals only talk about PHP when they're very distressed

"we used a log-normal distribution to model time to failure"

three weeks until thesis submission deadline and I am physically ill from anxiety

It is because of men that PHP survived. I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago, when the strength of Perl CGI failed. I remember the cgi-bin. The permissions. The 500 Internal Server Errors. I remember when View Source was a development tool.

whomst among us has not used '4' as a password

The TeX Live Utility release notes are still undefeated.

We have a module to catch and warn against that in metacheck :) www.scienceverse.org/metacheck_bo...

ever visit a website and feel like you've been transported to 2001

For me, I started including a line on my syllabus to express my thoughts about aging pop culture references:

The Seinfeld Syndrome

where did the phrase "trending towards significance" come from? i hate it so much

The independent single woman living alone, the gay couple moving to an urban area, even the nuclear family is an expression of a revealed preference that only exists because people have the financial resources available to opt out of the patriarchal tyranny they would otherwise be subjected to.

anyone got examples of (preferably epidemiology) papers that make good use of DAGs or have really clearly presented DAGs that add to the paper? showing off your own papers is welcome/encouraged! (to be used for teaching purposes)

If you are collecting human subjects data, a huge part of data management is going to be keeping a single source of truth regarding your sample participants. Who are they? Did they consent? What ID did you assign them for anonymity? What data did you collect on them? Did they ever leave the study?