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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I believe you’re looking at the change in the long tail of the distribution and trying to generalize it to the average.

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s just wild that other shows got season specifications but GOT didn’t

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nethack has a surprisingly thriving community for an almost 40-year-old ASCII-based game. There are community tournaments every June and November.

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Watching (select episodes) of @gamechanger.dropout.tv with my 9-year-old means his newest stuffy is named Grant O’Brien

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 9 376 pts · ★★ pangram first · no hints 🟨🟨🥞 🥞⭐🟩 🟨🟩🟨 I like it!

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Smush

A daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required.

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I do wonder and worry about how things will work when “the basics” includes things developed post-AI, where maybe most of the documentation is AI-generated.

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I think rather than thinking about exactly which basics to teach, teaching the habit to ask AI about stuff you don’t know in AI response could work. It ought to be quite good at explaining the basics… at least for now…

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It has a similar risk of unhelpful/incorrect things to try as a forum, but the instant response unfailingly supportive tone make me feel safe asking additional questions without worrying about asking dumb questions. In that way I think I learn more using AI than hunting forums for an answer

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I installed Linux on an old laptop last weekend, something I haven’t done in 15 years or so. Getting a working driver for the WiFi chip was a real pain, but Claude helped a lot and made the process much less frustrating. …

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Reminds me of coaching stats students out of saying “My goal was to fit a model that…”

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

But for M&C we need a well-funded series. I should like that, of all things…

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It’s abysmal. It takes minimum 3x the clicks and 5x the time for me to find and open a document in Teams vs Google Drive. And there’s a long tail on that, sometimes it’s much more time because I just can’t find the document and the search sucks.

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The screenshot examples are very compelling!

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Female, emale, male, ale, le, e

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Very compelling case here! I’m gonna try it out tomorrow

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I wish we lived in a world where more people laughed at it as hard as you did

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Got surprised today that an inline comment in my .Renviron file worked fine in my interactive session, but threw an error knitting from Rmd. Still lots to learn! #rstats

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

‘anytime’ package is the best thing I know for this!

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

You have no business writing a book on the A-Z of Tolkien if the only entry you can come up with is yourself! Where do you even appear in Tolkien, the Silmarillion??

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

That’s nicer than a posterior of Bayesians

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I was really bummed when I learned that ggplotly wasn’t getting any maintenance anymore. Great to see the potential here!

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Two weeks ago there was a massive No Kings protest nationwide, millions of people protested, but it got relatively little press and now “where are the protesters??”

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I think it was taking the (good) advice of not relying on R saving your environment on close and taking it to the opposite (terrible) extreme of never saving anything but a final product.

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

In grad school I was reading about reproducibility and loved the ideas but obviously didn’t really get it because I spent an embarrassing number of weeks running my entire data pipeline everyday so I could pick up work at the end. It took 10-15 minutes every day.

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Love reporting that’s not scared to use the word “lie”.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

That’s what that continuous integration thing I keep hearing about is, right? Continuously working on integration issues?

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I’ve been catching the bias in myself that the less I know about a field, the more likely I am to think that yeah, AI could probably replace a bunch of those jobs.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 14/02/2026

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

"I say! Are you Georgina?"
The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short
curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and
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her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was
rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's.
"No," she said. "I'm not Georgina."
"Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?"
"I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl.
I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I
can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any
fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if
you don't."
"Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't
care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway,
you look like a boy."

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Mar-rick @marrickg.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Let's talk about the midterms. ICE is terrorizing and punishing blue states and cities to suppress your votes using fear from ICE- yes it's already started. Blue states need to wake up and have a plan to deploy the National Guard to protect polling stations & voters from the federal government!

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Multigenerational protesting yesterday. Resistance unites us!

Two adults and one child standing by a road in the snow holding an American flag and anti-ICE protest signs

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Wow. That Matt Walsh one is really something.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Ahmed the Fruiterer being the everyday hero that saved multiple lives of mostly Jewish people today is the only politics worth a pinch of shit in this act of terrorism

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Just got my first-ever Nielsen survey, where I was delighted to list @dropout.tv as my favorite channel

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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

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Horse of Course @horsecourser.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Mark Kelly has responded:

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/11/2025

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The intention and awareness of the errors is a big part of this. I expect an intern to seek help in things they’re not sure of and to flag them for extra review if they’re still not sure.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

You can't make this up.

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.”

“Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I’ll second the Joplin recommendation. I often expect FOSS solutions to take a bit more maintenance, but I’ve been using Joplin for about 5 years and I’ve put in 0 extra effort after the initial setup. I’ve used it on Windows, iOS, and MacOS

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Gregor Thomas @gregorthomas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Years ago on Stack Overflow someone edited one of my answers to “correct” my seed value from 47 to 42.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 21/10/2025

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Thanks, New Yorker

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