Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
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Mandelbroc season
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Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music.
product of more than one country.
may contain nuts.
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Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
fediscience.org
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@roots@stefanbohacek.online
@roots@stefanbohacek.online not to be confused with the New Zealand podocarp conifer Prumnopitys taxifolia, formerly known as black pine but now known as mataī.
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
fediscience.org
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@thirzajane@social.vivaldi.net
@thirzajane @RedRobyn @BobLefridge @thomasbeagle but Pharmac still can't spend those expected future cost savings, it would have to cut something that it's currently funding that was lower priority than maybe preventing dementia.
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
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@RedRobyn@mastodon.nz
@RedRobyn @BobLefridge @thomasbeagle @thirzajane I think the window should be wider, but the problem with funding it for the entire age range is that the start-up cost is unpredictable and perhaps very large. If even half a million people got it the first year it became available that's a serious chunk of Pharmac's budget for the year.
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
fediscience.org
Dynamics and kinematics in non-inertial frames: how can you dance while the earth is turning
#PhysicsSubtitles
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
fediscience.org
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@futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz
@futuresprog other way around. He was nicknamed "Miles" O'Brien because he travelled a lot
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
fediscience.org
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@timrichards@aus.social
@timrichards@aus.social look out for the drag queen lights, too
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
fediscience.org
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@gannet@sunny.garden
@gannet @betsybookworm the NZ robins are less colorful, perhaps because the pre-human predators here were all birds, with full colour vision
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
fediscience.org
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@StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place
@StompyRobot @rygorous @aeva there's a New Zealand member of Parliament who has been struck by lightning three times. She doesn't approve of synthetic pharmaceuticals or believe in climate change, but that's apparently unconnected with the lightning
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
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@coolbutuseless@fosstodon.org
@coolbutuseless @jonocarroll Seconded
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
fediscience.org
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@debe@mastodon.nz
@debe@mastodon.nz
Pink Martini
Get Happy/Happy Days are here again
https://youtu.be/8DrYXdAB8H0?si=N2BBp5KVld-Dz4LY
#celebrate #JukeboxFridayNight
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
fediscience.org
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@jakalopes@mas.to
@jakalopes@mas.to phylopic is great!
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
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@tslumley@fediscience.org
@baz@mastodon.scot @jackeric@beige.party @buzzyrobin@chaos.social @realsimon@mastodon.green @danielgibert@mastodon.online and someone needs to mention the Ogden Nash poem based on the US signs like
Soft
C A U T I O N
Shoulders
and
Cross
C H I L D R E N
Walk
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
fediscience.org
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@baz@mastodon.scot
@baz@mastodon.scot @jackeric@beige.party @buzzyrobin@chaos.social @realsimon@mastodon.green @danielgibert@mastodon.online I love HEAVY PLANT CROSSING
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
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@jackeric@beige.party
@jackeric@beige.party @buzzyrobin@chaos.social @realsimon@mastodon.green @danielgibert@mastodon.online my favorite old Aus road signs were the ones saying "Loose Stones Travel Slowly", which would make a good meaningless proverb
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
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@Firr@mastodon.social
@Firr@mastodon.social bet against him at 36:1 odds. Or even 40:1.
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
fediscience.org
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@LeoRJorge@mastodon.social
@LeoRJorge@mastodon.social It's model.response(), which has a type="any" or type="numeric" option. lm() uses "numeric" and glm uses "any"
I think the reason I didn't know is that character variables were much less common before the stringsAsFactors revolution so I'd never come across the issue before.
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
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Today I (eventually) learned while investigating student code that lm(), but not glm(), will silently convert a character response variable to numeric. 😐
#rstats
Thomas Lumley
@tslumley@fediscience.org
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music. product of more than one country. may contain nuts.
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@stevelieber@mastodon.social
@stevelieber@mastodon.social nice. That's how the Lord of the Rings movies handled human/hobbit size differences