Rob Davies
Reads, runs, looks out for birds, teaches data analysis methods in Psychology at Lancaster University, researches individual differences in reading and language; he/him/his
- I have been reading the Yashim detective novel series and was very sad today to come to the end of it. They are well balanced mysteries, with interesting plausible characters and deeply felt portraits of friendships, granting a wonderful sense of Istanbul and Ottoman culture, plus deft cooking
- Walked up Whitbarrow last Sunday — a great limestone plateau in Furness — and the top was covered in orchids: stands of Early Purple orchids everywhere #wildflowers #orchids
- I somehow took a bunch of pocket photos and ended with these pleasing (to me) abstract images
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- Looks fascinating!
- A male Baltimore Oriole takes off from a flowering Crabapple.
- Lovely shot
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- This is a great idea (and an inspiring list)!
- Azaleas in bloom in the garden: so scarlet it feels like they’re bleaching photoreceptors
- Picture of a Linnet: it’s not great but I’m amazed I got anything on my phone. I heard and saw a flock of five or so, in the woods above Chittery Lane, below Hoad #cumbria #birding
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- Great thanks
- This caught my eye: plastic policeman points to the right, standing on a fake road, in an old amusement arcade, Lytham
- Bluebells now in bloom in the woods below Hoad #Cumbria #wildflowers
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- Thanks for sharing: great thread!
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- Thanks so much for writing and sharing the book @brodriguesco.bsky.social it looks really useful!
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- Awesome
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- There is just so much content: someone can do a tech AI (that looks like) Apocalypse Now and it vanishes
- Yes it did: a beautiful mix of landscape and tech — like really cool old school scifi book covers from the 80s
- So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9
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View full threadMy father programmed in COBOL, among other languages, so there are punch cards in the attic: they were mysterious artefacts when I was a kid, along with reels of paper tape and big car-tire-hub-sized magnetic tape
- The idea that people can write code that sits there, working, ensuring that the wheels keep turning, long after the original programmers are gone is spooky, and reminds me tangentially of Jason Kottke’s ideas about human wormholes kottke.org/12/01/human-...
- Spring! Was pleased and sorry to disturb a frog while gardening
- This is a great article: interesting in lots of different ways
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- “248 mainframe computers”!
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- Really interesting work — thanks for posting! There is related research in health communication: guidance on medication information requires that risks should be stated in verbal probability terms but people tend to overestimate the probabilities (paywall sorry) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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- Lovely plots
- Five years ago today, most historical UK monthly rainfall observations were not available to scientists. But the 66,000 pieces of paper containing the data had been scanned. With covid lockdown approaching we saw an opportunity to transcribe the data. #RainfallRescue began... 🧵
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- What a great project!
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- Lots of useful functions here
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- Very nice: thankyou!
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- This thread is full of great examples @solomonkurz.bsky.social! Check it out @tombeesley.bsky.social
- Sunny Spring morning walk through the woods and they are awash with wild garlic, also found some wood Anemone in bloom #spring #wildflowers
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- Congrats!
- I’m enjoying “The Janisssary Tree” by Jason Goodwin. TIL Ixarette, described as the secret sign language of the Ottoman court
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- Reading the descriptions of shopping for vegetables and then cooking, I think the recipe book is going to be pretty good
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- I love detective fiction, and a friend, who once lived in Istanbul, recommended the series to me last week: I think great detective stories are all about the context and I am really enjoying the descriptions of cooking, and the streets, as much as the who does what stuff
- And found some articles about it: www.jstor.org/stable/26191...
- Here’s a pop history article in Spanish: entrehistorias.com/cat/historia...
- Watching Vera and I’m thinking sometimes it really peaks: Brenda Blethyn is fantastic but sometimes the whole ensemble of fine character actors, the scene setting and the writing all just sings. This episode, set with call backs to the miners strike, a full of nice touches
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- This thread is really interesting: thanks
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- Great abstract
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- Love this paper: it’s rare to see a paper this good being this funny
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- This is great! Really helpful — thanks for sharing
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- Great pictures!
- Out for a walk in hazy nearly spring sunshine, through the woods at Roudsea Nature Reserve. Lots of song birds. Old yews growing out of the rocks
- In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.
- Real artist there
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- I think there is a tutorial by @matti.vuorre.com and @paulbuerkner.com on dealing with ordinal categorical data you could use, in AMPPS I think
- Coming back to this, here’s a link to the paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... and I want to add the paper gave me everything I needed to do and understand and report my analyses: kudos to the authors because I think that that is a difficult balance
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- Is there an exam?
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- I actually need to do this: thanks @andrew.heiss.phd !
- It's not finished. This is just the outline. But I wrote about why North England is poor. Which it really really is. tomforth.co.uk/whynorthengl...
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- Responses to writing sometimes remind me of the rhetoric of reaction: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rhe... the fit is not altogether right, I think, but trying to put thoughts in the world can sometimes look like trying to engage in change action, and the response can likewise seem reactionary
- I think it’s a nice model: better out in the world in a preprint, blog post, or tweet [I guess, not everything, not all the time]
- I reflected that that comment was likely obvious but it comes from being impressed by how much useful information — in data analysis — comes out of posts that the writers often describe as “here’s something quick” or “here’s a fix for something that bothered me” when quick-and-dirty is good enough
- Really interesting analysis: and nice that it is iterative
