Steve Haroz
@steveharoz
Visual perception and cognition scientist (he/him) My site: R guide: StatCheck Simple:
Unbiased but noisy! Great post by @gelliottmorris.com. While outcomes are necessarily dichotomous, predictions and the reliability of polling are often reported that way too. Polling can be both noisy and still informative.
Is this a praying mantis on my windshield? Or giant praying mantis on the road?
Yeah, just driving across just the north island is more than a 1 day trip. Great scenery!
Years of vision science has trained me for this 😅 www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
I was hesitant to watch the series version of "What We Do in the Shadows" because I loved the movie so much. But it's excellent! The Collin Robinson character is genius. He's an energy vampire who feeds off of people's boredom and frustration. Here he is feasting at a city council meeting:
Like most things in vision: salience ~ size * luminance contrast (The image is also manipulating font-weight (bold) and character spacing, which contribute to size and contrast in less clear ways.) When size and contrast aren't correlated, it gets interesting...
Great editorial! Minor correction though: "our introduced change stops short of making data and code sharing mandatory in line with the TOP Level 3 standards" The current policy stops short of TOP Level *2* standards.
Reposting the response from James Scott-Brown source: Cleveland’s 1985 “The Elements of Graphing Data”
One of the challenges to trusting polls is that there are more scam messages than actual pollster messages. cc @awmercer.bsky.social
Final donation in hopes that Harris+Walz can pour money into voter turnout.
This is the most French thing ever. Paris is banning car traffic from a large region of the city... but look at all the exceptions! So basically, it's the same as before but now with a fuckton of bureaucracy and vague arbitrary enforcement. source: www.thelocal.fr/20241031/par...
If you see this, post a picture taken in the mountains. From Dalvíkurbyggð
This one has less noise in the original like yours. Very compelling demo!
Nice! I wanted to see it where x and y were on the same scale. Code: gist.github.com/steveharoz/3... (and looking forward to the book!)
Since a new version of #Factorio is coming out soon, here was my biggest megabase. Specs: 2400 science/minute 450k green chips/minute 102 Trains 199 Train Stations full view - drive.google.com/file/d/1T92C...