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Retired physicist, after a career in machine learning & stats mostly for cancer drug discovery. Now blogging about stats in the news.

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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.

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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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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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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · 5d ago

RE: @Edmonds_Scanner@universeodon.com

A few economists disagree.

The loudest of them tend to get eaten by curious ghost cats.

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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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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Feb 26, 2026

RE: @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

Now *there's* a turn of phrase:

"What used to be bicycles for the mind are now subscription-based pickup trucks driven by Nazis in a neverending demolition derby."

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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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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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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Feb 15, 2026

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Quantum mechanics done at the typeface level.

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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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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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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Feb 15, 2026

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Checks out.

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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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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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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Feb 13, 2026

Today's blog post:

Prasad/FDA refuse to review Moderna mRNA flu vax.

Despite previous FDA agreement, he wants high-dose vax as control. That's (a) medically inappropriate for trial popln under age 65, (b) not legally available in Europe, where trial was done.

https://www.someweekendreading.blog/fda-nixes-mrna-flu-vax/

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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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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Feb 11, 2026

@skeletor@mas.to Inspirational Skeletor is inspirational.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/115998586927326681 You know, if you're a white supremacist and your goal is to deniably exterminate the untermenschen in camps by negligently letting plagu

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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Feb 02, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @Green_Footballs@mastodon.social If they think letting disease rip through the population will "evolve" us, by selecting for good genes... well, that takes a while to happen. Here's a walk-through of a paper on the evidence for an ancient viral pandemic in Asia. Yes, it changed the genome... slightly (42 genes with evidence of some selective mutation). But... that pandemic apparently ran for about 20,000 years. https://www.someweekendreading.blog/really-long-covid/

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Today's Shorter Trump: "Give me Greenland or I'LL FORCE ORDINARY WORKING AMERICANS TO GROW OBESE!" (Ozempic: made in Denmark, so presumably getting more expensive for US consumers thanks to his raised

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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Jan 17, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop We are (a) already obese, and (b) can't get GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs for obesity because our insurance won't pay for it. "Cosmetic issues", don't you know. You have to become diabetic to get it prescribed and (mostly) paid for.

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Taking paracetamol during pregnancy not linked to autism or ADHD in children, Lancet study finds https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-17/lancet-rejects-trump-paracetamol-pregnancy-autism-claims/1062362

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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Jan 17, 2026

@kcarruthers@infosec.exchange Here's a walk-through of an earlier paper (Ahlqvist, et al., 2024), reaching the same conclusion with a variety of pain killers and a variety of disabilities. The key is to use sibling data so the comparison is genetics-aware. A genetics-ignorant comparison is useless, given the genetic component in autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability. Exception: aspirin is *protective* against intellectual disability. https://www.someweekendreading.blog/autism-acetaminophen/

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/115887342621053928 All you need to know to understand how actually-existing crapitalism operates. (You don't deal with a mafia organization by fining them o

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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Jan 13, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop What @johnrogers.bsky.social called his 2nd law of crime: "Punishable by a fine" means "legal for a price". https://buttondown.com/kungfumonkey/archive/cons-heists-101-orientation/#:~:text=SIDEBAR%3A%20THE%20RULES%20OF%20CRIME

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@mcnees@mastodon.social I'm convinced this phenomenon is where H. P. Lovecraft got his sense of cosmic dread from. During his lifetime, the postulated age of the universe increased by about 3 orders o

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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz @mcnees@mastodon.social Lovecraft was already 39 when the great depression started (1929). He died before WW2 began (unless you count Japan invading Manchuria, or the An

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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Jan 02, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @mcnees@mastodon.social Ok, thanks. I should have checked the dates.

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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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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Jan 02, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @mcnees@mastodon.social He was also living in New England during the depression. There were scores of factory buildings and the like that were completely shut down, doors locked, and guarded. He might have wondered: if there's nothing much to steal inside those buildings, then why are they guarded? Maybe the guards aren't keeping buglars out, but keeping *something* inside!

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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org @MissConstrue@mefi.social @ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org @androcat@toot.cat You're forgetting Nixon's earlier time with HUAC and

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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Dec 30, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org @MissConstrue@mefi.social @ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org @androcat@toot.cat You're right, his time with HUAC and the McCarthy goons was indeed an early sign. OTOH, he was "just fitting in" with the McCarthy goons. "Just fitting in" so he could be a member of the elite was, I think, paramount for Nixon. He *could* have been great, had he kept better company and been under the influence of better people. That's both (a) a moral weakness on his part to be so easily persuaded to do what the VIPs did, and (b) a diagnosis of American society that the Republican VIPs were so bad. Trump isn't even anywhere near that league. He fails on a much more pathetic level, and did not have the seeds of greatness in the first place.

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Uh … AI bubble costing the US as much money in 12 months as *two major wars over 13 years* is quite the buried lede! "If it can't go on forever it will stop." — economist Herb Stein, 1985. (The "it" i

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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Dec 27, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Stein was a very conservative economist, of the American Enterprise Institute sort. So while his saying is quite the _bon mot_, I'm always queasy about quoting him. I guess even the other side can have a point, now and again.

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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Dec 19, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop I wrote a bit about the analemma, and why the day of earliest sunset is not the same as the shortest day. It looks like Edinburgh should have had its earliest sunset Dec 15 or 16. So unless you're an early riser, it's getting better now. Slowly, of course, but better. https://www.someweekendreading.blog/analemma-2025/

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oh dear chulhu the nineties were 35 years ago /me: crumbles to dust https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/115641842232215523

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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Dec 01, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop When I started blogging about applied statistics & the news, I never thought I'd spend so much time saying vaccines were safe, effective, and useful.

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Can't park there, mate https://dresden.network/@longiflorum/115560279958319155

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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz · Nov 16, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Well... they sort of *can*, but only *once*.

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