Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 17hjust checked and my oven is labelled in increments of 50C (from 50C to "MAX" which I have always assumed from context is 250C), with intermediate tick marks every 25C. I'm pretty sloppy with oven temperatures anyway, being within 25C seems fine (I'm not much of a baker and it shows?) 130
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 17hI didn't know this and it is somehow more horrifying than SPSS's handling of missing data 1150
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 17h> records missing values as "NA" > why is there some much missing data in "continent" 160
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 18hhah. I will confess I don't have a copy of that one, despite its excellent author list! 120
Reposted by Cameron PatrickReconstructionist Urbanism 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇹🇼 @texasurbanist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026God: rolls dice, it comes up on, “fuck you that’s why”. 1512
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 23hmy TV has no physical power button, and sometimes its internal software decides to start ignoring input from the remote until I unplug the power cord and plug it back in. and it's old enough it's not a smart TV, can't even blame it on being internet connected! 180
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm the opposite - every job I've had since 2008 has been from a referral 230
Reposted by Cameron PatrickKybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit. 4789252163
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026of all the methods for dealing with missing data, "keep asking until someone finds it, or finds out why it wasn't recorded" rarely appears in textbooks but can be SUPER EFFECTIVE in practice 2274
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026another week, another variable that inexplicably has 88% missing data. let's hope we can find those missing values somewhere, perhaps behind the sofa... 2121
Reposted by Cameron PatrickGavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026📝 My paper on generalized additive models (GAMs) in animal science is out! Learn nonlinear relationships from data, estimate growth rates and compare treatments, with cows, pigs and quail + reproducible #RStats code. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #mgcv #AnimalScience #Statistics 🧪 110228
Reposted by Cameron PatrickFonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026 🌏 OceaniaR 2026 is fast approaching! 🌏 Join fellow #Rstats nerds in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia and work on meaningful projects. Learn skills, wrangle interesting data and solve problems! 🗓️ Sun 29 Nov 0900 - 1600 📌 Register statsoc.org.au/event-6818002 084
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The only name on the list I recognise is Noah Smith (Noah Pinion, right?). I'm assuming the others are all racist Twitter personalities. 030
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I feel conflicted about this. When I look at American hustle culture it doesn't seem particularly healthy! On the other hand, I was brought up with an implicit "you should be successful but never show any outwards indication of hard work" and that is also very bad. 240
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yes, but the outcome they've specified is constructed based on a combination of other variables which are themselves fine. There's scope to salvage this but it will require a A Conversation. 130
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026sometimes the purpose of my life is to serve as a warning to others. 120
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm just a statistician Standing in front of an analysis plan Wondering why the outcome was defined so it could only occur in one exposure group 2242
Reposted by Cameron PatrickMattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 06/10/2026This was so fun to to! And finally puts to rest the long lasting issue that has fractured society for so long - do different colored marshmallows actually taste different?? 1144
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Terrible human but I did rather enjoy some of his books 010
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Matt Yglesias and Noah Pinion are essentially indistinguishable to me 170
Reposted by Cameron Patricksamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 06/10/2026I think scientific trainees need frequent and comprehensive warnings about the threats to confidentiality posed by commercial AI tools 1414
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026[confused nerd] but what does NetBSD have to do with trump rallies 000
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026easy to say that when you're studying identical indistinguishable particles, much harder when you're studying humans or pretty much anything else in the natural world. (and even physicists need stats these days as their experiments have become more complicated!) 120
Reposted by Cameron Patrickmcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of 6163112426
Reposted by Cameron PatrickClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026if I had "Orinoco Flow" money I too would disappear to a castle and you'd never see me on the internet again 139735
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026as an enjoyer of FromSoft video games I've died far more times than that 2140
Reposted by Cameron Patrickdonoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026lotta people out here bragging about "training models" but why do that when you can model trains 252832549
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"conversion? like turning a doc into a pdf? sounds easy, i could do that" 040
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026my other hot take is that working 5 days a week is ridiculous in an advanced economy, and a 4 (or even 3) day work week should be the norm. I've been Bertrand Russell "In Praise Of Idleness" pilled 0211
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026the great thing about having a 9-5 job that pays well is that you can use that money to live well and still find meaning in something other than your work. which is something that I realised too late in life because I did not grow up with great role models for "your job is not your life" 2190
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026yeah the 90s GenX "the worst thing that could happen to you is to sell out to Da Man and have a cushy office job" vibe has not aged well 3424
Reposted by Cameron Patrickworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent 10260881707
Reposted by Cameron PatrickThe Almighty Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No one under a certain age remembers the water gun arms race these things set off. Suddenly, the simple squeezy-trigger spring loaded squirt gun was laughably obsolete. Every battle between the new technology and the old was like a backyard Somme. 1117518
Reposted by Cameron PatrickGreg @mostech6502.bsky.social · 02/10/2026oh the See Also on this one delivers as well en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving... 676177
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026gotta say. Australian politics discourse on this here website is. not. good. 030
Reposted by Cameron PatrickIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14780791989
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I thought they meant Hawkeye Gough from Dark Souls 110
Reposted by Cameron PatrickXan López @xanlopez.net · 30/09/2026Well, that’s not the opening paragraph I expected. 434593
Reposted by Cameron PatrickCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Nobody past the age of twenty should be obsessed with what people majored in in college and see it as the single defining choice that entirely shapes someone, deterministically, for all time 713815
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026co-sign this, but also, I just really don't like talking human language to computers. I don't like Google Maps telling me where to drive, I don't like asking Siri for anything, and I don't like Chatting to GPT 030
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"I don't understand X" seems commonly used as a polite form of "you explained X terribly" or "you are wrong about X and I am giving you an opportunity to realise that and correct yourself without losing face" 160
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026preferential voting is truly Australia's national religion well, third national religion. after football and cricket 170
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026urgh there is an LLM called GLM and this is messing with my brain that very strongly wants to read that as Generalised Linear Model 380
Reposted by Cameron PatrickFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up. 532631265
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026yeah surely being able to do that means it's legit malware that's broken the usual Apple security protections that stop one app from being able to access another app's data? this sounds much more serious than the tone of the reporting I've seen (tee hee hee isn't meta bad at privacy how cute) 110
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026that's about right IMO, RM-ANOVA is essentially obsolete. I think @mattansb.msbstats.info has a more nuanced take (e.g. it's easier to fuck up mixed models if you don't correct specify random slopes) 150
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Bit of both I suspect? Recent punctures have just been in suburban Melbourne so *shouldn't* be a problem, but road maintenance here is not great 000
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I seem to get a flat tyre every few years, and I only drive ~ 5000km / year! Maybe I'm just unlucky?! 210