[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 - teapaw.org/metabolomics/status/82…
No, that's a 3D pie chart. A nice graphic is something else. teapaw.org/metabolomics/status/82…
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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.
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Good read. Also publishers still as they were last time I checked 10 years ago (20...30...40...)
robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/sc…
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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
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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" 🙄
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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
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the language we use, to say "we should put back a little of what we've destroyed" - bbc.com/news/articles/cm1j43…
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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…
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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
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still hear my English teacher's voice saying "isn't that in fact a hit" when I hear the words "near-miss"
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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."
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"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
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"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…
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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…
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is it because it's genuinely meaningless
Why the human brain can't fathom what it means to be a trillionaire
spklr.io/6017E3qVx
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"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…
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