Thomas Lumley

Baby takahē are cuter: black floofballs with outsize dinosaur legs and feet

Marmalade Rye:
50% rye, 50% wholemeal, some gluten.
a little butter, quite a lot of bitter English marmalade, caraway seeds.

Let the wheat flour and a little yeast and water ferment overnight then add everything else and mix thoroughly. Divide into rolls/loaves and let prove until it be enough.

Note for locals: if you are anywhere near Auckland Uni this coming week there will be ten thousand teenagers on your bus or crossing major roads at unpredictable locations. Individually they are wonderful people and the future of the country, but collectively they can be a lot.

When someone is pretending to think Khomeini and Khamenei were the same person, remember that Khomeini was older than Jimmy Carter.
By two decades.

Javascript code for a noncentral t cdf produced by Claude. It is simply a call to the normal CDF, which is not correct (though will be a decent approximation with large N).

I've been testing Claude to see how well it can "vibe out" a stat. power app that I've already coded completely myself - so I know what I want. It mostly gets things right with animations (those are easily verifiable) but looking into the backend stats code is nightmare inducing (see pic).

nice paper from @bingkai.bsky.social adding evidence that adjustment in RCTs is good but ML is often not better than linear regression.

arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00434

The result shouldn't surprise you! The signal to noise ratio is too high to learn useful nonlinearities in all but the largest trials.

My Dad also had migraine without headache just like this

Yeah, maybe. Along those lines, the left-hand Invercargill building, "New Zealand Loan and Mercantile" is pretty similar to their building in Timaru
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

It really almost does, but the middle building (National Mortgage Agency) is too low and has different windows an columns from the middle building in the mystery photograph. The other two fit nicely, as does the telephone pole. Could the middle building have changed between the photos?

And why are we citing a user survey and not an outcomes report

The “Bots Ate My Map Tiles” post is so depressing.

I've just published a reference for anyone using git while trans, explaining how to hide or remove your deadname in git repositories

Please share ❤️

code.curly.kiwi/2026/02/27/u...

I would have said it's also 100% on the part of the person who was checking the results

One of the questions in our @rainbowr.org 📊 workshop, was "could you make the beeswarm chart interactive?" 🐝 The answer is "yes, you can" and here's how: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/interac...

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #VisLGBTQ

tryCatch(
plums |>
icebox()|> mutate (
delicious=if _else(cold & sweet)
) -> me

error_no_breakfast=function(e) "forgive me"
)

Mittens

They didn't get the authorization.

You can straightforwardly check that the video was signed by someone who knew the private key corresponding to the public key Bob published. It's harder to check that this was *Bob's camera*. We have traditionally been a bit reluctant to assume Bob's camera can keep secrets from Bob.

It's not all it grants them (I didn't take notes, but there were multiple items). Also, I didn't say they could add items to the peer review section of my profile.

To agree to do a review, one of the options for signing in to Wiley was via Orcid. Wiley was asking not just for authentication but for authorization to edit my Orcid profile!

What even is truth? Seems like it should be the purview of philosophers and poets — clearly not people (me) designing snakemake workflows.

A picture worth a thousand words

There's some amazing work here - an incredible breadth of projects from drug discovery & clinical trials, to avian influenza surveillance, TB control, and community-led initiatives for drinking water safety. Very proud to have contributed in a small way to this
www.teniwha.com/news/ebook

There is a "no hair" theorem for black holes, so this is definitely an important cosmological discovery. You should write a letter in green ink to a physicist at a nearby university

We had a talk in UW biostat by Don Rubin about how intention-to-treat was so over. He was trolling, but it was still useful.

I've been teaching CACE since 2010 (which is when I first got to teach clinical trials)

Landscape shot of the entrance to New Lynn Library on a sunny day.

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland has a Wikimedia meetup on this weekend! New attendees are always welcome.

📅 Sunday 1 March, 12pm
📍 New Lynn War Memorial Library
🔗 w.wiki/H$Az

📷 New Lynn Library by Prosperosity, CC BY-SA 4.0

Though, seriously, I thought we called it short-read sequencing now?

Nostalgia Generation Sequencing

Waiting for the details

In August, the Guardian and the BBC reported a successful clinical trial of an "AI stethoscope". I'll note at the start that this isn't ChatGPT, it's the older deep neural network style of AI that works more predictably and consistently. The BBC said A British team…