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Brendan Halpin
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Sociologist in Limerick
Mostly playing with unrealistic computer models of real world processes
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Bugger! I'm trying to get suncalc in R to show me when the eclipse will happen but it's not quite matching up!
The Irish government is making noises about thinking about thinking about nuclear power.
Given their track record with big projects, I reckon we will have a plant online by about 2100 and it will cost 2-3 times annual GDP to construct.
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/05/04/why-are-we-talking-about-building-nuclear-reactors/
I've been wondering if "one-off rural housing" can be described as ultra-low density suburbanisation. I've been looking at data: Census Small Area statistics, in fact.
Result, this map:
Rural Census Small Areas with >40% of housing stock build in the period 2000-2022 (bulk in 2000-2008, 2nd phase of Celtic Tiger). Huge patterns of ultra-low density suburbanisation in some areas (Galway city environs) but not others. What's going on east of the M11, SE coast?
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@ColmDonoghue A clear overview:
https://o.blanthorn.com/population-around-a-tile/map/#x=-6.235892047069001&y=53.34602564558327&z=12.48580945300675
(From Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom )
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@helvick @MartinJBreen The point about Derry is interesting, and likely true. Ditto the Wicklow/Wexford difference.
And note how the Galway Sprawl (I think it has a name, now) doesn't extend either west of the city (not much, anyway) or into North Clare.
Open letter to Irish minister who's pushing ChatControl from @mariafarrell@mastodon.social
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It's partly because the hard right realised some time ago that if democracy continued, they'd be losing elections forever, so when an opportunity to sideline democracy comes up, they seize it
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@hanno The binomial distribution (& normal approximation) are indeed what to look at, but there is a wrinkle: how to define length. E.g., is it 101 => 2/3 or 0101 => 2/4?
My intuition wd be to round up the length to an even number. Obvs matters very little for larger numbers.
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@bovine3dom Go for it!
This is based on (very) small area statistics (avg popn 260ish); yesterday I was looking for similar data for France and found your IRIS map: very neat, I'll be spending lots more time with it!
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@ColmDonoghue It's just a reflection, as in the original graph, to put the centre at the centre, I suppose. Also note that distance doesn't have a direction.
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@helvick I'm very impressed by the Wexford/Gorey block, and I suspected the M11 explained a good deal of that.
Because the Small Areas are very small, they should pick up coastal-strip effect. However, the age of the housing stock is a bit of a blunt tool (I use it because it gives an insight into change, in a single data set, and merging SAPS over time is hard).
And Galway seems to think it's Los Angeles!
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@PalmAndNeedle@norden.social @deborahh@cosocial.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social I was a big fan but 7 Eves turned me off: dopey biological determinism leading to sexism & racism...
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@Limerick1914@mastodon.ie Sacking huge proportions of staff and scaring the best of them away will also destroy it. If he's doing it on purpose, he's burning a lot of money.
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@helvick A 2km radius is pretty small in a very big city, and a lot matters where the precise centre is. I imagine London's one looks a bit like this, i.e., capturing the City of London and other business-heavy areas