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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems for some reason I would expect no less
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Ken Butler
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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+cots+glitchBritish person, now in Canada. I teach applied statistics with #rstats at U of Toronto Scarborough. Otherwise, follow soccer and rugby league, ride transit, walk. Grew up in UK with 80s pop.
The big picture is of a train at Paignton station, the little one is of a park bench near me in a Canadian winter.
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@hoco@sfba.social @troublewithwords@wandering.shop @Binder@petrous.vislae.town possibly even this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T55Ng5b2EOw
Typewriter Concerto by Leroy Anderson
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@ndrwy@zeroes.ca done so. You can either mail the ballot or drop it in a drop box (there is one per ward, but the one in my ward is not very close).
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@dyckron@cosocial.ca gonna suggest it's pretty hard to capture a moose running at full speed.... oh, on camera. As you were.
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@weatherwest@mastodon.social my daughter (a fire ranger in NW Ontario) says that most of their fires are started by lightning (there are not many humans around in that part of the world). So a combination of warm and dry and thunderstorms (with lightning and not too much rain) is what produces most of their fires.
Of course, in UK and Europe there are a lot more people around and a lot more scope for wildfires to be started by human carelessness.
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@swisslet@mas.to you look pretty together. No, wait, your crew's movements look well coordinated.
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@zleap@techhub.social @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe there was a (unfortunately short) time when "web literacy" was a thing, and people were encouraged to assess the accuracy of their sources (like, by checking other things on the same site, or assessing the motivations of the site as a whole such as who is supporting it). I watched some Crash Course videos on this a year or two ago (apparently a reliable source).
That seems to have gone straight out the window. It's almost as if people are choosing to be less informed.
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@adriano@lile.cl @astronomerritt@hachyderm.io not overkill at all. Also, don't I recall that the Australian authorities have a dubious-at-best record of dealing with out of control wildlife?
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@theplaguedoc@glitterkitten.co.uk @the_etrain@beige.party I read this as "hard-boiled detective Jaffa Cake".
Need more coffee.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social next thing you know there'll be a goat on top of the dog on top of the hay bale.
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@trib@aus.social I am imagining you looking at the cat, saying "mate" with just the right intonation (Australian is a tonal language) and the cat ignoring you anyway.
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@anna@mathstodon.xyz ditto: I'm often holding a tray with mugs, tea etc. when going into the room where the kettle is (which needs the card to get into).
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@anna@mathstodon.xyz seems to me that professors have absolutely the worst record of locking their keys in their offices.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca once I was the king of Spain, but now I work at the Pizza Pizza (oops).
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@Shine_McShine@neopaquita.es oh say can you see -- oh, I can't because it's got a bleedin' popup in front of it.
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@nev@status.nevillepark.ca namely, Olivia Chow's Scarborough Busway is opening on the 30th.
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@darkling@mstdn.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io what if I told you it's actually the St Ives in Cambridgeshire?
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@JeniParsons@mstdn.social not thinking of @sundogplanets@mastodon.social at all here, oh no.
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@NorcalGma2@sfba.social they look like the kind of old dudes that know exactly what they're doing.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social the guardian dog looks very relaxed, but I'm sure they would jump into action the moment the goats start any funny business.
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@datascienceplus@mastodon.social good article.
Suggestion, however: instead of using pairwise t-tests with P-value adjustment, use the Games-Howell test, which is a takeoff on Tukey using the studentized range distribution (but without assuming equal variances).
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@Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org @the_etrain@beige.party the comedian Jasper Carrott did a bit making fun of normal people.
RE: https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/116994465798199832
a place that might be a data centre on fire, with lots of black smoke. Caption: "migrating physical data center to the cloud".
thunderstormy noises outside. There were kids playing in the playground until about a minute ago, but only two teenage boys are left. It hasn't started raining yet but looks very close to it.
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@nrennie/117033137770352924
today's graph I didn't know I needed.
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@lizardbill@hachyderm.io that's something like dropping 2.5 kg on your keyboard from a metre up, right?
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@millerdl@mathstodon.xyz presumably he didn't regret the second one. (I know, I should read the article, but...)
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems I was thinking Canada-style cold, but where you are you probably get 16 C sometimes *outside* in winter.
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@anna@mathstodon.xyz some of the rooms on my campus open with one of those. I keep it in my wallet, but getting it out of there when I am carrying something is annoying.
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems I was going to say "followed by the season of being tortured by cold", and then I remembered where you are.
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange I used Qwant to search for "diagram of toilet parts" and got ten actual links back, almost all of which seemed to be helpful.
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@eichin@mastodon.mit.edu @MLE_online@social.afront.org my grandparents did England to New Zealand by non-entertainment ship, in the mid 70s. (It took about six weeks each way.)
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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social general comment: that's the first time I've heard the expression "checks and balances" in about ten years.
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@TwoClownsEating@beige.party @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party sounds to me like "names changed to protect the not provably guilty".
the other day I learned that what actually tells you how uncomfortable summer heat is is not the (relative) humidity (that weather apps give you), but the dew point temperature. If that is above 20 C, it's unpleasant outside. Unfortunately, most weather apps seem to give you the relative humidity and not the dew point (Merry Sky gives you both).
Today I learned that there is an approximate but simple formula that (so my source said) gets the dew point temperature to within about a degree C:
- subtract the relative humidity % from 100
- divide by 5
- subtract that from the actual temperature in degrees C
Example: just now here it was 25 C with a relative humidity of 79%, so
- 100 - 79 = 21
- 21 / 5 = 4.2 (double and move the decimal point)
- 25 - 4.2 = 20.8 C.
Am I going to go sit on the balcony? No, I am not.