Cameron Patrick

(I'm completely with you over their behaviour over the last few years! just trying not to be completely doomerist about the future of the USA)

their actual letter is a lot better than that NYT screenshot above suggests. I mean it's still "pretty please start following the law" but it's a also a bunch of clear points that should be the bare minimum for a police force in a democratic country:
bsky.app/profile/sahi...

there is also a trade-off between cost, space and location! if, for a given cost, you can either have a city apartment where you can walk to work, or a big house in car-dependent suburbia an hour's drive from the city, different people may make different choices, & it's good to have options

who else remember the Australian federal election that was Hawke vs Peacock for PM?

{ordbetareg} master race!

US congressional report explores option of not delivering any Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia Report offers alternative of the US navy retaining boats and operating them out of Australian bases

This is not new, Congressional reports have been floating this for at least the last year or two, but it continues to be a gobsmackingly hubristic and dangerous proposal by the U.S. which Australia should not accept and should push back strongly against www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

this distribution is triggering my general anxiety disordinal

RETVRN

the villains in neuromancer being a family of gross inbred rich weirdos who want to live forever in space feels a little too on the nose

agreed but I feel that's a more advanced level of understanding

possibly my most single-dude trait is that my dining table is covered in ... stuff ... and I eat all my meals from the coffee table instead

yes - in my mind there's nothing that implies a fixed effect has to be categorical. (and e.g. if you have a look at the summary() output from lme4 or glmmTMB it'll show continuous variables in the fixed effects table too)

yeah this is why biostats and econ people end up talking past each other about this

Mixed Models in R Mixed Models in R

also! I will be teaching an online short course on Mixed Models in R next week. places still available! scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/statistics-c...

exactly, although that feels a bit redundant to state? but this is where I struggle with the econ terminology because to me "fixed effects model" just means any regression that doesn't include random effects

this is how I was taught fixed and random effects and I think it still holds up well in practice

the idea of Julia is to solve the two-language problem (high level languages like R and Python that need a lower level language like Fortran or C++ for anything that needs to go fast) with One Language To Rule Them All ... love the idea though haven't used it enough to be really won over

There's more than one way to do it: Perl, R, Stan
There's exactly one way to do it: Python, BUGS
There's at most one way to do it: SPSS, SAS

we're definitely a cult

starting to think that R is 21st century Perl:
- there's more than one way to do it (tm)
- surprisingly useful for random data manipulation tasks
- eternal flamewars with Python fans

if you understand this reference, it is time to log off and touch grass

(this applies to me too)

e-bikes are the single best consumer technology of the last 20 years and it's driving me mad that there's this sudden backlash against them

this clearly calls for integer-inflated ordered beta regression

who needs multiple imputation now, i guess

yeah for most of us absorbing the chaos void isn't very healthy. i'm fine obviously, i don't have a chaos void problem... but almost none of us should be doing this. anyone up for void summoning later?

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this is violence

Serial Sex Changer from RadioShack

Idk if trans kids these days know this but back in my day you could just walk into a RadioShack and walk out with one of these puppies

as an Australian, I should not understand anything this sentence refers to. and yet