Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics wittering on in a private capacity. Also have public and private sector experience as data scientist. Keen Hillwalker and Kayaker, and my amateur Radio callsign is M1TEX. #Emacs and #Rstats fan. #Linux based developer. Background image is Avon Reservoir, Dartmoor.
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Last Notes npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson A mathematician once said "This is not right, it's not even wrong" and that sums up how I feel. I can understand someone looking at the long term projections and worrying, but they are long term projections. That gives you time to sort out mental health support (if that's what you think the issue is). It also feels like a relatively small saving for all the damage it will be do. npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson I rarely have that problem. Mind you, I'm rarely well enough to go *first* thing, but any later than first thing gets my circulation / brain working. But maybe I don't work out as hard as you do. npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson I can't quickly find the book that makes the same point. I have no expertise here (I'm no psychologist, counsellor or anything) but I'm persuaded that a good proportion of poor mental health is a feature of individualising societal problems. If we dealt with housing shortages, pandemics, employer closures collectively it could all look very different https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/healing-the-wounded-healers/202410/can-we-separate-individual-mental-health-from-the npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson I feel that might be an accurate perception. If you have a large share portfolio, the economy is doing well. If you are a minimum wage worker, when was the last time there was a raise in the minimum wage? The trouble is, I don't see any resolution that doesn't involve wealth redistribution and I don't see that happening anywhere any time soon. npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson Is there a difference between the Void and listening to Musak (apart from hearing me scream)? npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson I thought I would scream into the void today, but even they put me on hold npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson one of the underlying problems isn't entirely the ONS' problem. It's declining response rates to official surveys. Sure, I agree the ONS are the professionals who need to address that as best they can, but it feels like a bigger issue of trust in institutions, civic duty or something that really lies with national leaders, not technicians here. Or maybe I'm miles off npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson at the same time, I always feel we spend a lot of time, energy, money and expertise collecting these data and rarely make full use of their value (full disclosure, I tried to track responses to road injury and difficulty finding work due to a lack of transport from a variety of surveys). But even if they are withering, they are soooooo much better than a vote on twitter or whatever "they" think counts as data collection. npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson Eglot and Corfu in Emacs along with a latex and R language server. npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson David Aaronovitch has written a brilliant piece on this, where he mainly reprints an old article of his about fix hunting where all the same doom-mongering was being raised (and hasn't happened). Mind you, it would be nice if the government could look at the cartel like price control farmers are being subject to, which does help fuel the anger. npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson That's my assumption. He won't save the US government $2Tn, a good part of that will be redirected into rockets or other toys npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson Me disgusta el comportamiento del periódico británico detrás de este meme. Pero es la primera vez en mi vida que presto atención cuando nace un meme npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson Lovely picture. I've seen one on maybe three occasions, and I have a tiny blue dot on a photo as proof of one encounter but that's it npub1q8xxe33kekywyd4fe0y8hpwkjx3ep0qthd3e8v9frkv2hdt7f7ysvdgkps Paul (Tex) Hewson i have Dupuytren's contracture, and it's not that I can't use a mouse, it just hurts (a lot). I'm currently swearing a lot at a corporate Microsoft teams set up, and worse, some corporate web based stuff. But I'd kind of assumed the Mac stuff would have been better by now.
