Will Lowe

@conjugateprior

Señor Research Scientist, NPC at the Hertie School in Berlin 🇩🇪 via Princeton, Mannheim, Edinburgh and a bunch of other ivory towers that will probably be billiard balls and decorative boxes by the end of the decade. Rome Statute appreciator.

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Bluesky

¿Es tu perfil?Reclámalo y conjugateprior.dirty.social es tuyo.Reclamar perfil

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· 26d

It's a little known fact that Bluesky has *two* official movies

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· 28d

Last chance to be in the Control group

Control making a point about DAGs in a similarly mysteriously-walled room
(Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 2011)

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jul 10

JIRA? Dann muss ich Edward Ruscha (1962) zustimmen.

You can find this accurate depiction of working with JIRA in the Museum of Modern Art.

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jul 8

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jul 8

Setting the language to "English (Jacobian)" has massively improved this HR software

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jul 3

I don't know if it's possible to die of cringe, but I think I'm about to find out.

The headline for one of the Economist's Charlemagne (a British energy and finance journalist now inexplicably writing about European politics). "Happy Birthday America, the ally Europe admires — questioningly" and a cartoon of a tiny urban male offering a birthday present to a pair of cowboy boots and stars and stripes trousers, presumed to be belonging to someone ten times his size.

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 30

Here's May-June, in case the front page tempts you to a subscription.

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 30

speaking of causal efficacy, I just walked into the office kitchen and found these. Is this what they call manifesting?

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 30

it's not well known but non-convex booze ingredient combination is the origin of Jensen's Inequality

Not actually the Jensen of Jensen's inequality. I lied about that part.

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 30

huh, I had imagined the bottle was glass

Another couple of those little bottles you can pick up next to the cashier in a German supermarket

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 28

Also no expert, but nothing that gets this kind of writeup from the Guardian (afaict fairly representative of the underlying material when I flipped through it) is going to fill me with confidence

The review, conducted by researchers from four UK universities known as the Action on Digital Device Immersive Conditions Team, did not establish causal links between screen use and specific developmental conditions.
However, it was emphatic that "no under-twos should receive regular intentional screen time.
Passive exposure is societally unavoidable, so adding deliberate use compounds risk without any meaningful benefit."

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 28

The devil carries molecules. A musical, obviously.

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 27

Nah, the OP's just being parochial. Spot the countries that are weird about AC.

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 26

"Es wird dich verändern", habt ihr alle gesagt. Naja...

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 22

But, but, the stamps said...

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 22

Never should have fired this guy

Admiral Ackbar would've known that invading Greenland for shrimp wouldn't work.

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 19

One-Night-Stand der Dichter und Denker

Und noch ein Aspekt könnte eine Rolle spielen: In der Evolutionsbiologie gibt es die Theorie der teuren Signale: Der Schweif des Pfaus ist zwar unnütz, er demonstriert damit aber, dass er es sich leisten kann, so viel Energie in etwas praktisch so Nutzloses, ja Hinderliches wie dieses Rad aus Federn zu stecken. Der Schweif ist ein Zeichen des energetischen Überflusses. Wer es je probiert hat, weiß: Auch Lesen ist ressourcenintensiv, es verbraucht sehr viel Zeit. Wer liest, zeigt mithin, dass er nicht jede freie Minute braucht, um seine physische Reproduktion sicherzustellen. Er hat die - im Sinne der Alten - aristokratische Lebensform des Müßiggangs erreicht, er ist in der postmateriellen Gegenwart angekommen, in der Lesen Teil der seelischen Selbstsorge ist.

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 16

auf Wiederschauen Wien, Stadt der Kultur

Mozart chocolate pumpkin spice edition. Because some towns know their audience.

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 15

TFW you look at the audience and know exactly who's going to ask awkward questions

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 12

"That's Winston Pooh, to you"

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 12

Like, yes! But also no! Because I think that's this argument (Thatcher, 1987)

"who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and [end p29] there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first."

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 11

"The one thing you can't experience in this perfect world of pure pleasure is the 10,000,001st inhabitant" www.admin.ch/en/sustainab...

Poster for "Flucht in's 23 Jahrhundert" (Logan's Run)

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 11

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 9

Nothing says 'science focus' like not knowing what an exponent is or how to make a superscript in html 😁

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 9

Fun mediation analysis thread here. It reminds me of my favourite mediation analysis misapplication, in which you wonder if something mediates a relationship, fit a mediation model, then use it as evidence that there is a mediation relationship.

Fit a mediation model, get indirect and direct effects. What did you expect to happen?

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 8

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 6

At least the debate *around* what it means to be English is the right phrasing, even if it's a bit of an unusual choice. There's a debate, but it's not really about what it means to be English, it's just around it. On, ah, related topics. Off to one side, as it were. Which side? Oh, you know the one

Debates are usually about things, but once in a while they're only around them.

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 5

Taken about a week ago. I was similarly 🤩

sprudelnd, sprudelnder, am sprudelndsten

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· Jun 5

Picard knows there are four pictures, but the maternity ward insists there are six.

Will Lowe@conjugateprior· May 30

Ah, these are the best shots. And it's too good that the two you-s are loosely tethered by a line on a graph.