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Ah right, an impairment is when you thought your building was worth £8mn and it gets valued instead at £6mn. That isn't a problem unless you were planning to sell it, or you need to spend £2mn to get it to a usable condition!

So towards the top of RG for % spent on staff costs. Unsurprising they are targeting staff cuts, but it's a strategy that works much less than senior management like to imagine.

Thanks for the charts!

I have not, but my maths suggests the note has frequency of 58.3 Hz or some power of 2 multiple of that. It should look like it is vibrating extremely slowly?

If you bend by a quarter-tone you would almost identically sync with the camera frame rate!

I get that, but I actually think it's good to have a clear distinction between the operators for variable assignment, function parameter setting, and equality testing.

But if it's in your own code, you're not hurting anyone!

Given that #Rstats as a language belongs in the bottom right (I say with affection), I'll allow it!

No, I think using '=' for assignment in #Rstats goes on the bottom row... 😉

"It upsets the people who want me to fail" probably isn't a good enough decision making heuristic to use it regularly or for big decisions...

#NFL I really need to see Sam Darnold tear the Patriots to pieces and get his revenge for the "seeing ghosts" game 🤞

Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money An analysis of 100,000 special issues of academic journals reveals that one in eight is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI

Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money
1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI
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So interesting! Suggests there is willingness to pay a price premium for free range which is unaffected by the regulation change (people don't think the change was enough, or don't know about it) or income effect.

Not sure you would put it down to supernormal profits being allowed in the short run.

We’re running a new study exploring how young people use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for mental health support. If you’re aged 16-25, live in the UK, and have used AI chatbots for mental health, we’d love to hear from you!! @oxchildpsych.bsky.social @emmasoneson.bsky.social
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Still just enough time to put together an application 👍

#math #stats #ComputerScience

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I'm very happy to discuss further with anyone interested.

Please circulate among relevant programmes.

Some of these analyses are currently difficult to conduct and involve computationally expensive naive Monte Carlo.

We will investigate alternatives which can leverage probabilistic programming techniques (as seen in PyTorch, Jax, Pyro, Stan) for lightning fast approximations, and more!

This would be a great PhD for anyone keen on #mathematics #statistics #CompSci #HealthEconomics #UncertaintyQuantification #UQ

Health economic models are used for various analyses to inform decision makers including govt agencies (NICE), research funders and pharma companies...

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How can we use state of the art programming techniques to unlock complex analyses and new ways of working in the evaluation of health technologies?

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The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

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I'm guessing that now there are actually questions for Farage to answer, he won't be on Question Time for a change?

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...use a novel instrument (rainfall) to correct for endogeneity, and show that...

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Deporting legally settled people is ‘broadly in line’ with Tory policy, says Badenoch’s office Conservative leader’s spokesperson sets out plan to strip the right of indefinite leave to remain from people claiming benefits

This is just ridiculous as a policy. We would think it was atrocious if someone we cared for was kicked out of another country they'd made home, especially after securing a settled legal status.

The Conservatives are not serious, they are flailing.

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Star Wars: CCG card for Mantellian Savrip

A great listen as always. I feel you are definitely going to be disappointed if you want lots of New Republic politics world-building.

Also I did not recognise the Mantellian savrip in the teaser... I think it probably all adds up to Mando heading to Ord Mantell!

It feels like it should be consistent and possibly unbiased, but that's purely intuition. Is there a theory covering this?

If I simulate a data generating process with known parameters, then calculate the likelihood function for a single parameter conditional on the other parameters taking their true value, what are the properties of the maximum of that conditional likelihood function as an estimator? #bayesian #stats

You might be looking for @hadley.nz R For Data Science (R4DS) book? r4ds.hadley.nz

Packages like dplyr do have great documentation at their tidyverse.org websites including articles (like vignettes).

And presumably they didn't enter with such high scores that this would be a ceiling effect on the measures?

Trying to sum up, in a pithy way, the challenges of modern (political) polling...

"Voting intention polling has three main weaknesses: they ask the wrong people the wrong question, and the respondents often answer a different question."

Under UK law, a company can make £200m+ in sales and still hide its profit & loss by calling itself “small”.

That’s how PPE Medpro kept its finances secret.

A short thread on one of Britain’s daftest loopholes, the 1970s EU compromise that created it — and how to fix it.