[data] science (now), [bio] informatics (previously), education, open [source|data|access|science], photographer
Sydney, Australia
Joined March 2008
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thanks for ruining one of my favourite tweets @X by changing the ID of the target - now here - nitter.gq/metabolomics/status/82…
No, that's a 3D pie chart. A nice graphic is something else. nitter.gq/metabolomics/status/82…
Who would have thought that importing a CSV file in a Google Drive folder to a Google sheet in the same folder was...so very difficult.
Good read. Also publishers still as they were last time I checked 10 years ago (20...30...40...)
robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/sc…
I remain healthily sceptical of the AI wave, but it looks like the days of writing code to extract data from PDFs are numbered and that can only be a good thing
was following someone new here and enjoying their content for the first time in years, until they ruined it with a random tweet containing the words "woke", "preachy" and "climate change" 🙄
it's a lot of questions for one paragraph and whilst not knowing the answers, I note that the Australian media breathlessly reports One Nation's every move, however minor, whilst either ignoring or pillorying The Greens
the language we use, to say "we should put back a little of what we've destroyed" - bbc.com/news/articles/cm1j43…
you'd think the open sewer at the north end would be a clue (weirdly everyone just acts like it isn't there) theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Neil Saunders retweeted
At a 9/11 remembrance event night a man told the audience his brother's remains were not identified until April of 2002.
Seven months. The room gasped. They heard neglect.
I was sitting in the back of that room, and I knew what those 7 months actually were. Because my job took me to a garbage dump on Staten Island that I believe is one of the most sacred pieces of ground in America.
For 10 months after the attacks, investigators in white personal protective equipment stood at conveyor belts on a hill called Fresh Kills and searched 1.5 million tons of the World Trade Center by hand, down to fragments a ¼ inch. An average of 30 human remains recovered every single day. Wedding bands. Police shields. Office ID cards. Names given back to families who had nothing else to bury.
The wait was terrible. But the wait was the search.
Almost nobody knows this story. I wrote down what I saw on that hill one day in my journal 25 years ago. Today I published that story.
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and one of them has also discovered R/corrplot 😉
A team reports on new results from a clinical trial of pneumococcal vaccines to foster immune recovery in adult survivors of #sepsis, showing a lack of clinical benefit but also providing crucial data about variation in vaccine response. @ScienceTM scim.ag/4wmkSDH
still hear my English teacher's voice saying "isn't that in fact a hit" when I hear the words "near-miss"
I like this idea.
abc.net.au/news/2026-08-12/m…
"Ennis spent five years working on the book. Unusually in a digital age, she writes and edits in longhand.
"I don't put things on the computer till later," she says.
"Writing in longhand allows me a lot more fluidity and experimentation rather than getting into a fixed position."
no RStudio I do not want native pipe as default because it can't do this: %>% .[[1]] #rstats
"Even the star's out. You won't find a star like that in the wild."
If the number of satellites in Earth's orbit exceeds 100,000, humanity may lose its ability to study the universe from the planet's surface. space.com/astronomy/the-grow…
got up to 'Smith' and thought "Mark E. ?" but sadly not
An asteroid has been named after Smith, who died in 2003 at the age of 34. space.com/astronomy/asteroid…
is it because it's genuinely meaningless
Why the human brain can't fathom what it means to be a trillionaire
spklr.io/6017E3qVx
"as conditions in coastal waters continue to change" - and why are they changing @7NewsAustralia ? Your article doesn't say for some reason.
(also culls: no)
7news.com.au/sunrise/governm…
