Ben Nagy

lol when they weren’t looking I snuck nonlinear models into a linear modeling library tylerjamesburch.com/blog/statist...

if you haven't tried alphaxiv.org yet - you should, it's zotero for doomscrolling it's peak

After quite a long time sitting as a development package epidist is now on CRAN. It extends brms with a framework for epidemiological extensions.

I just analyzed 1.9M recipes and can now report that the yummy simplicial complex is arguably *not* flag. The following flavor trios have far fewer recipes containing all three ingredients than the recipes with pairs of ingredients would predict.

You love to see it. (for non-tech peope: embedded devices won't usualy support cert revocation, and eMudhra leaked root certs, so reverse engineers can impersonate 'the mothership' to their devices. Expect more of these! 😻)

10 years on, Ella Haselswerdt’s “Re-Queering Sappho” remains so excellent

NEW OPPORTUNITY: Short fiction writer? Love the world of Heaven's Vault? ... then come play in the waters. We're looking to commission 20 short stories set in the Nebula for a new anthology. Paid, obvs. Full details and a link to the form on the blog: www.inklestudios.com/2026/10/24/t...

Here is a reminder that if you’re into manuscripts and book history there is a starter pack for it! go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo

A modest proposal: if you cite the "LLM as judge" paper, you should only get AI reviews

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

It’s either the abbreviation of his first name written as IHCOYC in mediaeval Greek (C was often used instead of Σ). That was shortened to IHC. This was interpreted as standing for his “initials” (thus I H C: Iesus H Christ). Or it’s just Jesús Hernandez de Christ. What do I know?

Fun thing! I'm looking at a copy of a book of summaries of Aristotle’s natural philosophy (Naturalis totius philosophiae paraphrases (1538)), and the book has a semi-circle mirror set into the backboard. Has any one seen this elsewhere? What's going on? A device to connect up with the Aristotle?

Thanks team for the massively successful redirect actions this week. Hardly anyone looks at the curl code right now.

I guess I was officially (legally) back in Belgium, but I have now had "one or two" local Antwerp beers with the squad and then takeaway fritjes, so I am officially (officially) back in Belgium

Was he a Plato scholar?

I apologise to anyone following me who doesn't know/care about computer security, I will be returning to normal programming at some point but it's almost impossible to describe how entertaining things are right now

PRIVATE KEY NUMBER FOUR I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE

Claude: "No! That's too far! I will not use leaked certs to impersonate Sony! Go buy a new cable!" Astra:

I win a nerd point! Verg. Aen. 8.45: alba solo recubans, albi circum ubera nati, New Brill commentary, translation: "a white sow reclining alone, and around her teats there will be her young, also white." But scansion says the first 'o' is short (AL ba so LO), it's "on the ground" not sōlō 🤓

The macOS built-in curl, git, pip, python3, perl, ruby, and openssl all read /etc/ssl/cert.pem, which still has the emSign root, but they don't check revocation like Apple's Secure Transport libraries. This is, uh, a problem. git and pip especially. I added a short-term workaround to this page.

wild thread, I am in full duality right now

it's 0552 in Antwerp and I am awake-by-jetlag and just spent half an hour backsliding by doing a deep dive into the eMudhra thing and a) wow b) LOL and c) hahahahah (also the number 4 is completely irrelevant cryptographically. I say this because 3 *has* been critical in some old RSA disasters)

(honestly, if you're exposing a PHP service to the bad world in 2569 BE then I have no sympathy. none.)

(the best thing about PHPocalypse is that, historically, there's at least a 20% chance that their patch is going to create a new 0day or unblock a different one ;)

I should have posted about this last night before the news but I had no idea Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor was being rereleased and there's a demo on Steam RIGHT NOW. Possibly the best thing to happen this week.

The phonological crystalline entity is back, this time in typst, and parameterized, so you can mess with the angles if you want: typst.app/project/rP23...

New preprint! Computational Humanities needs falsifiable theories. With 25 Paris-based researchers who share the same ambitions for the field and had an exciting conversation. zenodo.org/records/2349...

Europe I am in you! Now officially a resident of Belgium 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪 9am and I just got off a long haul, but *after a nap* I will be celebrating later with Belgium's finest product 🍺

this is a good level of commentary if you're learning about Latin poetic grammar quirks. It doesn't seem to have any snarking at the quality of the verse (very common historically) which is good. Would like more attention to meter, but I am a meter nerd

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

The invincible airplane

📝 New in Computational Humanities Research's special issue on computational poetics, ed. by @artjomshl.bsky.social & @nmhouston.bsky.social! For centuries, books that taught people to scan, recite and parse English were stuffed with borrowed lines of poetry. Which poems did they reach for? 🧵

You might naively think this is trochaic octameter. It's not. There is NO SUCH THING, even if some weirdos write two lines per line sometimes (Poe?!) This is tetrameter catalectic in a trenchcoat. Not that each line has a word ending at the 4th foot, and that the central caesura often rhymes!

Baby dragon was beginning to be irritating. BL Arundel MS 98; Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis (books 1-18); 12th century; Southern England; f.2r @blmedieval.bsky.social

history is written by the vectors