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  The threatening thaw: climate professor on heatwave risks to tipping point of permafrost — Jonathan Watts, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/20/tipping-points-heatwaves-wildfires-permafrost-climate-crisis The environment is non-linear, including non-proportionate reactions, feedback loops (positive and negative), critical (“tipping”) points, and practically irreversible phase changes. The permafrost has been my go-to example for this for 30 years (https://www.taylo...

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  A favourite xkcd is https://xkcd.com/2303/. Errors of Interpretation are the subject of chapters 13-15 in the TDDA Book, with Chapter 14, Errors of Communication being exactly the Type VI errors in Randall's cartoon. https://book.tdda.info/book/14 #books #tdda

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  All the top cats are reading the same book today. Be like Mozzie and Alfie and get hold of a copy of the TDDA book on improving data analysis and data quality. Use the discount code 26ESA2 at the publishers website for a 20% discount on anything format: https://www.routledge.com/Test-Driven-Data-Analysis/Radcliffe/p/book/9781032896700 Available from all good booksellers and all sellers of good books, shipping Tuesday 19th June. The matching 3.0 release of the tdda command-line tool and Pyth...

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  RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/116579389641354626 Really good from Julia on structuring CSS. I’ve been feeling my way towards something similar (but smaller) and benefitting. Merely defining variables for colours and sizes (using CSS’s ugly, difficult format) has been a boon.

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  My new book, Test-Driven Data Analysis is now available from all good booksellers and all sellers of good books. Get 20% at the publisher’s website with code 26SMA1 (until 30 June 2026). Publisher site: https://www.routledge.com/Test-Driven-Data-Analysis/Radcliffe/p/book/9781032897158 TDDA library (Python) including command-line tools: PyPI (python -m pip install -U tdda): https://pypi.org/project/tdda/ Source: https://github.com/tdda/tdda.git Online docs: https://tdda.readthedocs.io/ Book re...

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  @codinghorror@infosec.exchange You know this a cover of the Queen song, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO6D_BAuYCI The original is better in every respect, surely?