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Ken Butler

nxskok@cupoftea.social

<p>British person, now in Canada. I teach applied statistics with <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rstats</span></a> at U of Toronto Scarborough. Otherwise, follow soccer and rugby league, ride transit, walk. Grew up in UK with 80s pop.</p><p>The big picture is of a train at Paignton station, the little one is of a park bench near me in a Canadian winter.</p>

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    @Binder@petrous.vislae.town &quot;display?&quot; Youngster!

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    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&#39;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:...

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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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    RE: https://fosstodon.org/@nrennie/117033137770352924 today&#39;s graph I didn&#39;t know I needed.

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    RE: https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/116994465798199832 a place that might be a data centre on fire, with lots of black smoke. Caption: &quot;migrating physical data center to the cloud&quot;.

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    @TwoClownsEating@beige.party @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party sounds to me like &quot;names changed to protect the not provably guilty&quot;.

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    thunderstormy noises outside. There were kids playing in the playground until about a minute ago, but only two teenage boys are left. It hasn&#39;t started raining yet but looks very close to it.

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@nicolasgouny/116945393379542507 &quot;can you find the little cat hidden among all these dinosaurs?&quot;

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    @TwoClownsEating@beige.party @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party @adhdeanasl@beige.party three words: Blue Peter Garden.

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    @TwoClownsEating@beige.party I didn&#39;t see the &quot;clique&quot; thing, but it&#39;s entirely possible it was there and I missed it. I joined mastodon.cloud maybe four years ago, and when that went west I moved to where I am now.

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    a little #rstats #rstudio oops somewhere: the latest stable R Studio (with a version 2026.06) doesn&#39;t run for me because I have *too recent* a version of R (4.6.1 rather than 4.6.0). I have downloaded a 2026.07 daily build, so we&#39;ll see how that goes.

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    An #rstats blog post about choosing the prior distribution for a Bayesian analysis: https://blog.ritsokiguess.site/posts/choosing-a-prior/

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    @TwoClownsEating@beige.party I still can&#39;t get used to &quot;his majesty&quot;. It was not-that for so long.

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    @MisterWanko@mastodon.social @AlterEther@mas.to I&#39;m gonna assume &quot;clean&quot;, but you never know these days.

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    @TwoClownsEating@beige.party great story, very well told.

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    Whose bright idea was it to have a dinner that involved frying stuff, on today of all days?

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    RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116840252130255105 Clueless.

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    another #rstats blog post: this time, non-parametric two-way ANOVA. https://blog.ritsokiguess.site/posts/mood-squared/

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    @FediTips@social.growyourown.services I moved from mastodon.cloud to a smaller server, which has been a great choice. (I think I used one of the tips to find the new server.)

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    @cstross@wandering.shop one time, I was travelling on a train through Cowdenbeath in December around 3 pm, and it was getting dark. (On the same trip, I went from Glasgow to Mallaig: it was dark when I left Glasgow, and dark again before I left Mallaig.)