Charles Driver

Would be interesting to see perspectives on this by age. Benefiting from pre entshittification social media was really quite nice sometimes.

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Intervening centrally should be great if you can really intervene and hold it there. But is the view that symptom networks are like social networks (influence flows equally in both directions) still a thing? When I read this it mostly makes it clear how differently I think of a mental disorder.

#4 Relations between depression and self esteem across 3 different time scales / datasets, with @peterhaehner.bsky.social et al. Besides the multiple time scales, extending VARish models to cross-effects that influence over different time scale is unusual I think.

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#3 Examining links between and within social and cognitive development, and how these differ with behaviour problems. Some big moderated growth + fluctuations models. With @mkdeserno.bsky.social et al.

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#2 "Personality functioning as generalized correlated changes in personality traits" -- basically a large factor model over time with some common factor nuance. With @chopwood.bsky.social et al.

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Prepping for @dgps.bsky.social Methods, few recent papers pushing ctsem and dynamic models in interesting directions

#1 Developmental changes in twin cognitive correlation (ACE) across age, test instrument, zygosity, with @evangiangrande.bsky.social @ent3c.bsky.social et al

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Pretty much everything nice requires some kind of compromise though. The tricky question is how much, when, etc. Independence is great but some vague social / institutional regularisation is not necessarily terrible either.

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Perhaps a touch dreamy? but interesting and hopeful thread...

Actually it was totally wrong because I forgot factor() aha. might look again tomorrow.

p value of the treatment effect, for whatever it's worth given p value and random effects discussions...

So if we had a site scale with a few million options, we could then treat it as a fixed effect / ignore it? For me the only justification I understand is the 'target of inference': estimating the specific effect of site / sex / colour etc? Then 'maybe' fixed effects. Otherwise partial/full pool.

Why are they not a random sample? Why does that matter?

Are you arguing they shouldn't pool across sites (ie use dummy site covariates) or they should ignore clustering? If the latter -- yeah people do seem very sensitive to very specific forms of clustering, but I don't really see the harm either...

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Thanks! Yes I fuzzily understood this but knowledge chiming in is great :)

Ok. I can go home this evening.

This is somehow a foreseeable problem with minimal working examples right? My actual document / problem is somewhat grander in scale ;)

Were there long term experiments on smoking? Faxing my historical ethics board already. Yes, agree, smoking is a bit easier, but not easy still.

I've tried lots of fvextra / spverbatim stuff, that solution only wraps the code chunk, the tricky part seems to be the R output. options(width=xx) succeeds in wrapping some output but not character strings (containing white spaces). And, hi back! :) :)

The world would be a better place if we never figured out the whole smoking causes cancer thing eh?

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dear @quarto.org using friends, lost too much time on this already and I'm very stubborn please save me:

---
title: "wrap text"
format: pdf
---

```{r}
print("I just want this text to wrap to a new line I just want this text to wrap to a new line I just want this text to wrap to a new line ")
```

Or just put some policy effort into functioning without the assumption of continual population expansion?

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This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides

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Fair. I could imagine occasionally writing something like that, but would depend on my familiarity with recipient, importance of content, etc.

If we don't need to increase output then what is the point of what we're doing? Yes I'd rather much less and much better output, but I don't see any magical way to get there until someone puts me in charge of all the funding and I can create / mandate the one journal to rule them all.

I wouldn't rely on it in place of expertise like you seem to suggest, to me they are mostly effective in expert hands. If I collaborate with you I expect to benefit from your expertise, but I don't mind if some of the labor is carried out by students, postdocs, LLMs, or highly intelligent mice.