Roger Watt
@rjwatt42
Emeritus Professor of Psych at Stirling University Trumpet player Statistic-ist Grandpa
Meadowsweet enjoying a bit of a breeze. Echoed by the faint wisps of cloud up above
I've probably shown you this before - see Q7 from 49 years ago with the telltale "discuss".
For size. They are dark giant horseflies. And apparently they have a bite to fear. And I wish they would go away.
On the one hand, not seen a cloud for over 24hrs, which I thought was impossible for Scotland. On the other, we’re getting dozens of these brutes that I’ve also never seen in Scotland.
and I doubt you’ve even heard of a book of log tables! This slide rule has all the basic trig and log/exp functions which it can multiply but not add
Redcurrants are the best. These days I prefer to see the birds enjoy them, which they certainly do.
😂 if this fell into the wrong hands, they’d get our shopping lists, which appear to feature bananas more often than I can explain, 2 medical histories. And completely inexplicable pages of numbers.
It’s a bit late in life, but this made me think I should read the warnings
There’s a richness to the experience of grass that can’t be achieved by anything other than flesh and blood and can’t be given by anything other than life itself.
Yes, they were quite unreliable even when new. And the scratchy sound they made in the disc drive was never exactly comforting.
At that point, I got hold of a whole set of more ambitious stuff: Matlab S-Plus (the commercial predecessor of R) Mathematica Mathcad Statistica All on our own cloud (a shelf in the lab). Of these, I stuck with Matlab until teaching circumstances forced R & Shiny.
There's a lot I would say about Alice Heim, extreme left in this photo. Notably, nearly all the men in the front row had or went on to get prestigious chairs; she didn't. I went to her class on IQ tests and it pretty much set the scene for my take on Psychology ever since.
Back from a lovely sunny week self-catering in this amazing potting shed in Old Montrose. Quite a few cuttings of plants came back with us.
This is a hummingbird hawk moth. It’s flown here from southern Europe which is pretty mind boggling.
Sennelier oil pastels are often described as like lipstick. I've never understood that. Until today, when they melted in the sun. It's a lot of fun like this.
#WildflowerHour Two orchids that have made themselves at home in our grass
Ha. The sun set at its furthest north for us. My problem for these few weeks is that I tend to wake around 3am and it’s already daylight.
Hmm. Given our weather, a stopped clock is more useful. Having said all of that, I have a rare video of the sun rolling down a hillside.
There’s a paragraph in The AI Mirror by @shannonvallor.bsky.social that jumped out to me about this. At its best, sm is a kind of collaboration that revolves around those virtues.