Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Maybe! It's a good idea! I just try and make sure I'm doing the bits I like as much as I can and that helps. 000
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I think something similar. I think it stems from suddenly becoming an editor and reviewer and not a creator so much. Doesn't matter so much for home projects and mine in any case are small enough to be easy to review and dont take up so much headspace. 100
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I guess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAmateur Norfolk gardener wins prize at topiary awardsPaul Everden says creating his 17th Century-style masterpiece was "just fun in the moment". 000
Reposted by Dan MacLeanAdam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026“I got Claude Fable to do this analysis and write this paper. I’m posting it here, but I haven’t checked it yet.” WELL CHECK IT THEN. WHY ARE YOU POSTING THINGS YOU CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO READ. 47812
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains 010
Reposted by Dan MacLeanMick @mick002.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Fucking bluesky intelligencia wanking each other off while criticising the crowds at the football singing "Wonderwall". It's not about the song, it's about shared joy & social cohesion. Having travelled thousands of miles to support the team, they can sing whatever they want. Good luck to them. 172
Reposted by Dan MacLeanKarsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The fractal Mandelbrot set is sometimes called "Apfelmännchen" ("little apple man") in German. My local Gemma 4 model and I clearly had a misunderstanding when I asked it - in German - to write Python code that draws a Mandelbrot set. 4223
Reposted by Dan MacLeanAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one. 363252224861
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Not finished yet, but enjoying. Also just learned Richard Ayoade is on the next series. Im hoping that will be fabulously awkward! 010
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Playing with some bioinformatics code, genome browser - literature scraper. Even then after code audit, it warns me that this looks like it might fall under prohibited use. 050
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Ha! The British public are being asked to vote what's going on the new edition of the banknotes. How will we Boaty McBoatface this one? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPuffin and bumblebee among 18 creatures shortlisted to feature on banknotesThe Bank of England is asking the public which animals should appear on future banknotes. 011
Reposted by Dan MacLeanwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt 133346528
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 02/04/2026It's not a staycation if you actually go somewhere. 000
Reposted by Dan MacLeanCRAN Package Updates Bot @cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · 30/03/2026New CRAN package peppwR with initial version 0.1.0 #rstats cran.r-project.org/package=peppwRcran.r-project.orgCRAN: Package peppwREstimate best fit distributions and do power analysis for hypothesis tests on phosphopeptide abundance data. 001
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 23/03/2026"It didn't fail" definitely reads like "It didn't succeed" to me. 010
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I have an A1200 in the back room cupboard that I keep promising myself ill get working again. 010
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 09/12/2025en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_r...en.wikipedia.orgTudor rose - Wikipedia 010
Reposted by Dan MacLeanUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think 04817
Reposted by Dan MacLeanPetter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/11/2025LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text But... can they? We don’t actually know. In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test. And our findings are striking: LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵arxiv.orgComputational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI LanguageLarge language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem... 14329131
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Thank you very much, Gaurav, I appreciate you taking the time to say so. 000
Reposted by Dan MacLeanAdam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 15/10/2025(With apologies to Randall Munroe) 18318
Reposted by Dan MacLeanAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 08/10/2025I really really really liked The Oatmeal’s take on AI here theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_arttheoatmeal.comA cartoonist's review of AI art - The OatmealThis is a comic about AI art. 37023
Reposted by Dan MacLeanNick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025New pre-print from our group showing remarkable synchrony of proliferative growth and regulated cell death during plant infection- each conidial cell has a different fate - by the rice blast fungus. Led by Alice Eseola with @osesmir.bsky.social Lauren Ryder @danmaclean.bsky.social and Martin Egan 12010
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 02/10/20252️⃣ For the love of all that remains sane in the world. 010
Reposted by Dan MacLeanBen McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Great to hear Burnham's been to Mancwalk 2000. 0227
Reposted by Dan MacLeanChristian Minich @christianminich.com · 16/09/2025Normalize never saying "leverage" or "utilize" as a verb. Tempted? "Use" is right there! Simple words are better words 121
Reposted by Dan MacLeanSomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025"It has never been clearer: this is a class war, mediated through one person." Love this article from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social. I snorted several times, but she makes some serious points: in the eyes of the tabloids, the working class Rayner can't win, whatever she does.theguardian.comWhy are the tabloids so enraged about every aspect of Angela Rayner’s life? | Zoe WilliamsWhether it’s her housing, clothes, the restaurants she goes to, or the fact she watches opera and drinks wine, she can apparently do nothing right, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams 1209
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 31/07/2025$ ls -laht drwxrwsr-x 3 uname grp 27 Nov 16 2006 .nautilus drwxrws--- 3 uname grp 26 Nov 16 2006 .metacity -rwxrwx--- 1 uname grp 26 Nov 16 2006 .dmrc 😐 000
Reposted by Dan MacLeanGigaScience Journal @gigascience.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Chris outlining the different AI coding agents that can be used for ontology development. Working on documenting best practices for this ai4curation.GitHub.io/aidocs #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025 053
Reposted by Dan MacLeanGigaScience Journal @gigascience.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Today #BOSC2025 and #BOKR (formerly Bioontologies) COSI’s, Chris Mungall is doing the keynote on Open KBs in the age of generative AI #ISMBECCB2025 123
Reposted by Dan MacLeanDarakhshan Nehal @darakhshann.bsky.social · 22/07/2025*Learning visualization in Python as an R user* #ggplot 4355
Reposted by Dan MacLeanfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 21/07/2025I work with a lot of very intelligent people - the experts in a very select field - yet every morning they fight over the parking spots in the shade. By lunchtime they're all in full sun and my unwanted "sunny" spot keeps my car nice and cool. They never learn. 1341812
Reposted by Dan MacLeanClaus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 12/07/2025AlphaFold is great, but contrary to public opinion it has not completely solved the protein folding problem. Much work remains to be done. clauswilke.substack.com/p/no-alphafo...clauswilke.substack.comNo, AlphaFold has not completely solved protein foldingBiology is hard. Yes, even for AI. 312265
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 13/07/2025open.substack.com/pub/clauswil...open.substack.comNo, AlphaFold has not completely solved protein foldingBiology is hard. Yes, even for AI. 010
Reposted by Dan MacLeanMichael Love @mikelove.bsky.social · 13/07/2025I recently ran a session at CSAMA with Laurent Gatto and this is the way. "Good enough" with knowledge of the tools that can help you get there. Here's some of the recs from the paper. 1378
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 10/07/2025😀 This is good to hear. My kid is past kpop phase so won't choose it, but I put it on my mental watchlist as a candidate for one of those nothing else on, dad can still choose some good things, type evenings. 010
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Nice. An API is like a structured set of URLs for querying data that you can send to someone's computer and they'll send you an appropriate response. Eg api.mcdonalds.com/menu/sold/cheeseburger might return 31234543219494938263628 (some big number, anyway)api.mcdonalds.com 110
Reposted by Dan MacLeanMel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I told you we’d be back 15674307312662
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 23/05/2025If it was a small sample I might try Internet archives set of scanned magazines, iirc they have ads scanned or you might find it in reviews archive.org/details/comp...archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine 020
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I use this yihui.org/tinytex/ (mostly through quarto so ymmv) but it's ok for that.yihui.orgTinyTeX - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉TinyTeX is a custom LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live that is small in size, but functions well in most cases, especially for R users. If you run into the problem of missing LaTeX packages, it &hel... 000
Dan MacLean @danmaclean.bsky.social · 15/05/2025media.tenor.coma group of black and white cows standing next to each other with the words okay one last time written on the bottomAlt: Father Ted explains to Father Dougal that the toy cows are small, but the real ones observable through the window are far away 150