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Account age
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📊 Post engagement
4
Avg engagement / post
1.3%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Today's blog post: Historian of fascism Ruth Ben-Ghiat surveys t · 19 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
3.7 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.8×
Follows 111 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
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Today's blog post:
Some dark thoughts on climate change, inspired by the day of ominous yellow smoke over Boston and a brief detour to the Darkover F/SF novels.
https://www.someweekendreading.blog/boston-interplanetary-smoke/
Yesterday's blog post:
GK Chesterton had something to say back in 1929 about Hollnagel's Safety-I and Safety-II (how stuff goes wrong vs how to make it go right).
https://www.someweekendreading.blog/chesterton-safety/
Today's blog post:
DOOM now runs under R. We consult the Devil Girl from Mars for comment.
https://www.someweekendreading.blog/doom-in-r/
RE: https://newsie.social/@STAT/116925780685093491
Alcohol is more dangerous than opioids.
But which one causes a moral panic on the right?
And what does that teach us about the reliability of moral panics on the right?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116920616408445406
Is it legal to deny US entry to a US citizen?
I thought they *always* had to admit citizens, even if they were admitted directly to jail or quarantine or whatever.
Is that incorre…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/116918402963806848
This one rewards thinking about why *that* bit of unicode matters.
@ohiofi
"American Potem[p]kin, 50s style" would be more like this Twilight Zone episode (technically the early 60s):
RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116843654605081393
Let us all hope so.
Let us all work to make it so.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116839338770641658
"Not only will I not take precautions for survival, but I won't let you do so, either."
Blog post addendum:
Wet bulb temps (temp & humidity) in Massachusetts will be extreme this week. Some research shows the lethal wet bulb limit is 87.8F; much of Mass will be above that.
Make plans for cool shelter.
https://www.someweekend…
A plot of the regression model (Russian solders killed vs time):
@ohiofi
"American Potem[p]kin, 50s style" would be more like this Twilight Zone episode (technically the early 60s):
RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116843654605081393
Let us all hope so.
Let us all work to make it so.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116839338770641658
"Not only will I not take precautions for survival, but I won't let you do so, either."
Blog post addendum:
Wet bulb temps (temp & humidity) in Massachusetts will be extreme this week. Some research shows the lethal wet bulb limit is 87.8F; much of Mass will be above that.
Make plans for cool shelter.
https://www.someweekend…
A plot of the regression model (Russian solders killed vs time):
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mathstodon.xyz
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Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
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 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 3.7× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated89/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.3% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Retired physicist, after a career in machine learning & stats mostly for cancer drug discovery. Now blogging about stats in the news.
Avatar: convergence basins in the complex plane of Newton's algorithm searching for the cube roots of unity. (After a NYT column by @stevenstrogatz, long ago.)
Header: Quote from GK Chesterton, London Daily News, 1905-Aug-16 on epistemic humility and the ability to say "I am wrong" as the foundation of idealism.
#statistics #physics #r
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