Cauchy @Cauchy@social.cleverlibre.org

December 21.

Dear diary,
Loooong day. Santa and his helpers need some tea before bedtime. But the big day is almost here! Only a few days left to prepare.

In late autumn.

Guelder Roses are red but rarely encrusted in white. Pre-dawn.

#photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #woodland

#JohnMastodon is proof that things *CAN* go viral here on Mastodon, but the key is that *YOU* are the algorithm. The reason that the John Mastodon meme showed up on other people's timelines is because so many users boosted the posts.

The lesson here is: please don't just favourite something if you really enjoyed it; BOOST it so that other people can enjoy it, too! This is the only reason why I bother to create as large a social graph as I can on Mastodon—to act as an amplifier. You can, too!❤️😉

@dayatsea Sorry. Let me try again.

"There's a stupid thing going on with the self-appointed Mastodon Police where they're scolding newly arrived artists and writers for promoting their own work.

That's some serious bullshit, and it needs to stop."

Better?

December 18 and 19

Dear Diary,
Today you get 2 for 1. I did wear my Hanukkah hat yesterday but things got a bit busy and no pic was taken. Today I pulled out an old favorite - a knit Santa hat with a belt.

I came across a math puzzle here in the fediverse, and puzzled about it for a while. (Lost the link to the original post; if it's yours let me know.)

Here's the problem:

```
Bob was given 30 distinct natural numbers. He wrote down all the 435 pairwise sums. It appears that among those sums, 230 are divisible by 3. How many of the original 30 numbers are divisible by 3?
```

I was able to find the answer after playing with it for a bit. Then I made this cool visualization. (It's a spoiler, of course.)

How it started. How it’s going.

Twitter's increasingly aggressive policy of blocking links to other social media platform, in the words of its own CEO.

New issue of Statistical Thinking News available at https://paper.li/stn #statistics #biostatistics #StatThink

A brand new goal.

I really despise this idea some people have about the need to stay on Twitter "to fight". To fight what? This isn't a war where ground is won or lost. The platform is wholly and unquestionably owned by the person you're trying to fight against. He has shown he doesn't care about loss of advertisers, loss of respect, loss of users. Twitter is now nothing but his personal alt-right cult. The only valid reason to stay is to assist others in leaving. If you're generating any other forms of content, you're simply enabling him to radicalize *your* userbase.

@dotsonapage
@freemo
I'm delighted by all the goodies and benefits I happened into on mine here at qoto. The starting text block is at 64K, which is huge in comparison to most, for example. The description page at https://qoto.org/about/more will give you a rundown, and I think you'll be pleased and surprised by the list of features.

Despite the recent enormous surge in activity and memberships, the server is still speedy (as is the administration). I've had zero trouble with any unpleasant characters lurking about. The management is pro-active in handling issues quickly. The underlying reason for its existence is as a science and science education instance, so there are many intelligent and well-spoken folks about.

Even though there are now over 25,000 users, the admin is reachable and responsive.

Hope you check us out!

Who's the toughest?

#JohnMastodon, #BillBrasky, #ChuckNorris, #PaulBunyan

Boost this poll, dammit. I want to be Fediverse famous just once.

So, um, turns out #Elmo's Jet is the commercial proerty of #SpaceX and its shareholders...

via joshtpm@journa.host

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/its-not-musks-plane-it-belongs-to-spacex

So, um, a corporate aircrat asset financially subsidized by US Tax Payers? er, what?

🧐

#StreisandEffect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

@elonjet
#BigTech
#PlutocratTheatre
#PlutocratTheater
#Attention #Engineering
#Misinformation
#Disinformation
#TechnoFascism
#CorporateWelfare
#SpaceKaren
#ElonMuskIsATroll
#MentalHealth
#Democracy

John Mastodon explaining the federated timeline to the new users

In my mini-guide to Mastodon I point out that the interaction numbers you see when you click on someone else's post won't necessarily accurately reflect what's happening.

https://mastodon.online/@hildabast/109500463568547711

Here's a great example! First example is what a currently viral toot looks like from "my Mastodon" right now - the second is what it looks like over at its home instance.

New section on character manipulation functions in R Workflow at http://hbiostat.org/rflow/rbasics.html#sec-rbasics-charmanip . I'm seeking more types of useful examples for these #rstats functions: gsub, sub, grep.
@VUMCbiostat #statistics #datascience

I appreciate all of John Mastodon’s visionary efforts, don’t get me wrong. But naming the system after himself like that kind of diminishes the contributions of the many other, already less visible, volunteers who built it.

And isn’t it long past time we also acknowledge the foundational work of Julia Mammoth?

Hi Econ Mastodon. I’m relatively new here but if nerdy economics podcasts are your thing I host one called Trade Talks. Here’s the latest episode (with Steve Redding):

173. Did Britain’s slave trade help drive its industrial revolution?

https://tradetalkspodcast.com/podcast/173-did-britains-slave-trade-help-drive-its-industrial-revolution/