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![TIL that "Belshazzar" is "a nickname and a trade name for an overhead projector" (Wikipedia). V. clever name - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar%27s_feast "The basic idea of overhead projection appeared in England just twenty years ago [1949], when the Aldis Company of Birmingham produced a machine known as the Belshazzar." (Willis 1969 doi: 10.1080/09523986908547852). I'm going to us](/img?u=https%3A%2F%2Ffediscience.org%2Fsystem%2Fmedia_attachments%2Ffiles%2F112%2F831%2F631%2F899%2F091%2F026%2Fsmall%2F5f3dd131d0e12241.png)
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TIL that "Belshazzar" is "a nickname and a trade name for an overhead projector" (Wikipedia). V. clever name - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar%27s_feast "The basic idea of overhead projection appeared in England just twenty years ago [1949], when the Aldis Company of Birmingham produced a machine known as the Belshazzar." (Willis 1969 doi: 10.1080/09523986908547852). I'm going to us
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Olympic medals per $ GDP: https://www.sbnation.com/2024/8/8/24215406/2024-olympic-medal-count-ranked-gdp-money ... (only includes countries with >10 medals. Now I have to get the whole list and fit a Poisson mixed model ...)
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jun 13latest
5
Avg engagement / post
3–8
Typical post (engagement)
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
74/100
Very consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 3 and 8 likes + reposts (median 4) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: Don't know whether to feel good or bad that my net utility to th · 11 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.86 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
4×
Follows 324 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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(4/2) FWIW, this paper estimates approx 5% increase in infant mortality from an overall *tripling* of glyphosate use in Brazil ... (caution, I've only skimmed it).
Dias, Mateus, Rudi Rocha, and Rodrigo R Soares. “Down the River: Glyphosate…
(3/2) Or, ideas about where to find county-level infant mortality stats? Based on a quick glance at Michigan live births by county https://www.mdch.state.mi.us/osr/Natality/BirthsTrends.asp (~ 50 per year to 25K per year) and the average r…
(2/2) the paper has replication materials https://zenodo.org/records/10908500 but the health data is protected and has to be requested separately from CDC via https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/nvss-restricted-data.htm . Requires CVs, statement…
(1/2) I'm skeptical of this paper that made the rounds last week: Frank “The Economic Impacts of Ecosystem Disruptions” Science https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adg0344 which claims a (causal???) increase of 8.1% in "internal" (non-accide…
@QPheevr is there a thread/hashtag on here for complaining about the NYT #spellingbee ? 🐝 (1) the only word I missed yesterday was "lookbook" (?!?!?). (2) Today the following are disallowed: CYCAD, DYADIC, CYANIC, NICAD ...
On second thought I don't think I'd need a *mixed* model unless I wanted to scrape & use data on past model counts, or fit a multivariate model of {gold, silver, bronze} ...
Olympic medals per $ GDP: https://www.sbnation.com/2024/8/8/24215406/2024-olympic-medal-count-ranked-gdp-money ... (only includes countries with >10 medals. Now I have to get the whole list and fit a Poisson mixed model ...)
TIL that "Belshazzar" is "a nickname and a trade name for an overhead projector" (Wikipedia). V. clever name - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar%27s_feast "The basic idea of overhead projection appeared in England just twenty …
More and more often I'm finding that the effort of setting up the appropriate test platform in order to reproduce a bug is at least 10x bigger than the effect of actually diagnosing/fixing the bug. (Yes, I know about Docker containers.) Ca…
Computing the cross-product of a matrix A (and assigning it to a matrix AtA) in RcppEigen is coded this way:
```
AtA(MatrixXi(n, n).setZero().
selfadjointView<Lower>().rankUpdate(A.adjoint()));
```
Eddelbuettel and Bates say in https://cr…
@SCO_SOC <https://www.sco-soc.ca/> is looking to upgrade its website, but they’re a small society without much $. Need folks to be able to renew & pay for membership via the site. Any good, low cost recommendations? (🇨🇦 hosting & company i…
Olympic medals per $ GDP: https://www.sbnation.com/2024/8/8/24215406/2024-olympic-medal-count-ranked-gdp-money ... (only includes countries with >10 medals. Now I have to get the whole list and fit a Poisson mixed model ...)
TIL that "Belshazzar" is "a nickname and a trade name for an overhead projector" (Wikipedia). V. clever name - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar%27s_feast "The basic idea of overhead projection appeared in England just twenty …
More and more often I'm finding that the effort of setting up the appropriate test platform in order to reproduce a bug is at least 10x bigger than the effect of actually diagnosing/fixing the bug. (Yes, I know about Docker containers.) Ca…
Computing the cross-product of a matrix A (and assigning it to a matrix AtA) in RcppEigen is coded this way:
```
AtA(MatrixXi(n, n).setZero().
selfadjointView<Lower>().rankUpdate(A.adjoint()));
```
Eddelbuettel and Bates say in https://cr…
@SCO_SOC <https://www.sco-soc.ca/> is looking to upgrade its website, but they’re a small society without much $. Need folks to be able to renew & pay for membership via the site. Any good, low cost recommendations? (🇨🇦 hosting & company i…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.9× per week.
📍Based in Canada.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated52/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Ecology, evolution, epidemiology, statistics at McMaster University.
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