Sam Clifford

Time to sort out some formwork and pour a giant concrete block in the middle of the carriageway there. Make it completely impassable to drivers.

Planning research tasks and let me tell you, I really miss JIRA as a way off coordinating a plan across more than one person. Heck even for one person it's a valuable way of tracking tasks. If only there was a company with a human-centred approach to product development.

Champion. Oh, I also only just learned that SPI-M-O was awarded the Weldon Memorial Prize in 2022!

Just submitted a pull request for some minor changes to a shiny app that I last touched six years ago because I want to show it to some public health students as an example of how we use statistics in public health work beyond just running Chi-squares tests. @bquilty.bsky.social please approve ;_;

But under socialist single payer healthcare like in the UK or Canada you'd be waiting up to nine months to give birth!

This started pretty cringe and I was indeed wondering where it would go from there. 🤢

They also don't have jurisdiction unless ICE is grabbing people at post offices. The PMG isn't appointed by POTUS, but the board of governors of the USPS is. Would Steiner direct USPIS to arrest ICE agents and leaders? Would any PMG?

Just. Build. Rail.

USPIS?

www.publications.qld.gov.au/dataset/a214...

Obviously it varies from place to place, road to road, but for the Queensland study data speed limit compliance is pretty good compared to other data I've seen (everyone speeds in the UK when they can, it is dire).

If you can find videos of the Albert Cuypmarkt from around this time you'll see a bustling streetscape with many pedestrians walking right alongside the market stalls because there was still through traffic! Now we know better and street markets are closed to traffic except for market setup/packdown

Worth pointing out that this is a side street that connects the Albert Cuypmarkt to Sarphatipark and that the entire area has a traffic circulation plan that helps make this possible. The neighbourhood and city decided that through traffic would be gradually removed.

You wouldn't recognise it these days

I tell you what helped my health after work, walking to Tottenham Court Road tube station during the taxi strike over the plans to remove through traffic. And then when the plan went forward of course. Much less noise, could hear birds, pedestrians could get around without dodging bad driving.

Of course it's Rosindell. Ugh

Unfortunately the only way to get around was by walking, cycling, tram, metro, taxi, zip car, personal car. You had to get the tram or metro to the bus, mainline train or ferry, so it wasn't a complete transport paradise. Kid and I either walked, cycled or got the tram to her daycare and school.

In my Amsterdam neighbourhood I could walk to a LIDL, an organic supermarket, mainstream supermarkets, Indian/Asian/etc. grocers, a handful of butchers and bakeries, health services, heaps of restaurants, bars and cafes, bike shops, homewares shops, vintage shops, picture framers, a violin maker!

I would love to introduce peer-generated feedback like this even at the undergrad level. It would have to be during face to face classes though. AI sure is providing a unique opportunity to create innovative learning activities – ones that do not include/admit its use at all!

Can't wait to see the world's first "vibe coded" bridge, built by robots 3D-printing molten slag. And six months later it will fail catastrophically but the company has been phoenixed and all the plant sold off to paramilitaries on the dark web.

Even before AI started pissing in the educational pool I was recommending online resources instead of expensive books (though I did recommend Statistics and Scientific Method by Diggle and Chetwynd as it's a great read) but these at least had identifiable authors who were experts.

Textbooks will be considered outmoded, there are already AI-generated articles/books and I'm sure that there'll be "academic" "publishers" who'll set up genAI "ebooks" whose material is accessed via microtransactions and it will all be built via machine-hallucinated code.

And this was when we were down to six candidates and they were trying to figure out which four would go to a human interview. A human interview of all six would have saved time.

Luckily I've never had an AI interview but when applying for a permanent job at my old workplace they had us record video responses to a PowerPoint slide deck of questions so a person could watch them later. I gave feedback that it was disrespectful to candidates and the worst hiring process ever.

I live in the suburbs and ride my bike 1km to the train or 4km to the bus to commute. Within a 10 min walk of my house there's two salons, a GP, a cafe and a tobacconist. Hardly a dense city. Expand it to 15 and you get a butcher and a fruit shop.

Also a good defence against accusations of plagiarism is when you can point to your milestone docs showing progress and you can name which member of staff gave you feedback after a discussion.

Not mandatory but they did have the reward dangled in front of them of 5% of their grade at the end of those weeks for submitting a brief report on 1st: the team, the data set, the hypothesis, 2nd: the model, some graphs and any early conclusions.

2nd: did their model give them the ability to test their hypothesis and was there anything missing from it based on the data set they were using? They could get feedback on the code they had written, conclusions they were drawing, graphs they'd made, how to structure their work, etc.

One of the most valuable things we did in the first year quant methods class I ran was provide two optional workshop sessions for students to check in with a demonstrator about their progress on their group project. 1st: Did they have a reasonable hypothesis and good exploratory data analysis?

The job interviews are via an AI interviewer and the goal of the interview is to hit keywords and trick the AI into thinking you're worth it.

I do wonder whether aged care homes would be as necessary if there were more walkable neighbourhoods with libraries for people to stay physically and mentally active as they stopped working and driving.