Microposts

Fri 15 Mar 2024 22:10

A world I know nothing about: ctxd.com/items/pike-ug.pdf

Fri 15 Mar 2024 22:04

The control panel of temporary road crossing signals.

A box full of buttons and dials with labels like “max grn”, “phase 5”.

Mon 11 Mar 2024 09:05

As seen in Bluestocking volume 308: "Respect to the Japanese here for having data that goes back to the ninth century."

Interactive plot: ourworldindata.org/grapher/dat

Where I saw this:
helenlewis.substack.com/p/the-

A graph showing the variation in blossoming dates for cherry tree in Kyoto. It starts in 812 and runs to 2024, and shows a sharp downward 20-year averge, implying earlier blooming in the year. The title explains this is due to warming spring temperatures.

Wed 06 Mar 2024 13:17

Reading about Google's AMIE, and the benefits and risks of machine diagnosis. This phrase jumped out: "As apps are direct-to-consumer health technologies, they represent a new folk medicine"

theconversation.com/health-car

Sun 03 Mar 2024 09:51

I find it surprisingly fun comparing old (paper) ordinance survey maps to modern digital editions.

Top: paper map, showing a region south of York, probably sometime in the 1960s. Bottom: latest digital view of the same region (showing a village expanding, differing fonts, colour changes on the map).

Sat 02 Mar 2024 20:19

How have I not seen the film Argo before? You’ve all let me down. I do like a bonkers based-on-true-story film.

Tue 27 Feb 2024 20:54

TIL there’s such a thing as the Journal of Visualized Experiments.

Eg jove.com/v/65342/daily-transfe

Mon 26 Feb 2024 07:31

The postage stamp change-over is happening.

UK stamps. One showing the Queen the other the new guy. Side head portraits on a purple background. Marked as 1st (class)

Sun 25 Feb 2024 21:15

Ben Goldacre: “the best way to view [medical records] is a little bit like nuclear material […] incredibly powerful, but it’s also really dangerous. Once it leaks, it can’t be un-leaked”

10 minutes on medical data and the project, allowing researchers to run their code on sensitive data, safely:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hcdw8r

Sat 24 Feb 2024 22:36

A day including a couple of beach walks with the . A good day.

A small black and white terrier standing on a chalk ledge with a sandy beach, seaweed, and sea in the background.

A small terrier dog running across the sand with a chalk cliff in the background.

Fri 23 Feb 2024 14:44

Very nice if, like me, you enjoy this kind of thing: nature.com/collections/qghhqm/

for , "Points of Significance" short explainers (from the 2010s).

Tue 20 Feb 2024 10:39

I did not know this shortcut: "If you are running macOS Sierra (10.12) you can choose ⌘⇧. to toggle files starting with a dot to show in Finder.app" — via @mountainduckapp