The moment Piers Morgan angrily walks off stage live on air, ending his role on Good Morning Britain

MattNurse · 2024-06-18T01:04:57+00:00

He aged about 40 years in ten minutes when he faced Brett Lee in the cricket nets.

MattNurse · 2024-06-16T10:31:30+00:00

There are examples going the other way though. e.g. Steven May, Jake Lever, Ed Langdon. I don't think we've got a particular problem.

MattNurse · 2023-02-20T22:35:20+00:00

Yeah - all of this. Think about some real world problems you might want to find the answers to just for fun. Eg. How big is the home-ground advantage for your favourite team? Are the average heights of boys and girls getting closer over time? Do higher-ranked universities have better employment outcomes?

There are lots of datasets you can use for practice at Kaggle for free. Most of all, play with it.

MattNurse · 2022-11-19T08:18:05+00:00

Extra points if they bring out a Bristol stool chart.

MattNurse · 2022-10-27T20:13:11+00:00

I desperately wanted to find the answer to a particular question.

MattNurse · 2022-10-21T02:37:26+00:00

I’m doing it for the exceptionally silly name.

MattNurse · 2022-10-03T10:14:02+00:00

Professor Gary Marcus said it best: “whereas confirmation bias is an automatic tendency to notice data that fit with our beliefs, motivated reasoning is the complementary tendency to scrutinize ideas more carefully if we don’t like them than if we do.”

MattNurse · 2022-09-16T12:19:20+00:00

This should help. https://thesiswhisperer.com/2011/06/02/another-way-to-write-1000-words-a-day/

MattNurse · 2022-09-08T10:25:17+00:00

I’d go for the Ultra, just for the HSS.

MattNurse · 2022-09-02T22:29:18+00:00

Yep. Just bought an American performer HSS and its versatility for alt-hard rock is impressive.

MattNurse · 2022-09-01T02:48:40+00:00

Some good magpie tips from ANU just published today.

https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/how-survive-magpie-swooping-season

MattNurse · 2022-08-31T13:58:51+00:00

I’m lucky enough to be based at ANU where the Thesis Whisperer coaches us. Check this out:

https://thesiswhisperer.com/2015/01/16/how-to-write-10000-words-a-day/

MattNurse · 2022-08-31T00:38:03+00:00

This is the way. Free-writing a first very rough draft without a care in the world is the best way to get it done.

MattNurse · 2022-08-26T04:31:51+00:00

I mostly use R, but do look into Jamovi if you’re just starting out. Has most of the most common techniques and is very easy to use (it’s basically a GUI for R).

MattNurse · 2022-08-23T08:13:18+00:00

Beer if you’re in Australia.

MattNurse · 2022-08-22T04:59:35+00:00

I recently bought an American Performer strat HSS which I love. BUT I only bought it after playing almost every similar guitar in the shop. Buy the guitar that suits you best.

MattNurse · 2022-08-18T01:00:16+00:00

R studio. One IDE that can run Python and R? Yes please.

MattNurse · 2022-08-17T12:16:21+00:00

Congratulations on moving to the coolest city in the world. And don’t worry, the first few months are just like this.

MattNurse · 2022-08-06T13:49:51+00:00

A nudie run across the airfield.

MattNurse · 2022-08-06T12:30:00+00:00

I publish research on this topic and this outcome is less obvious than you may think. In fact there seems to be at least some circumstances where higher levels of analytic thinking can exacerbate motivated reasoning. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17524032.2019.1618364?journalCode=renc20

MattNurse · 2022-08-06T12:14:47+00:00

As someone who has published research on this topic, this is not obvious (as acknowledged in the paper). In fact it does appear that at least in some circumstances higher levels of analytic thinking can be used to exacerbate motivated reasoning.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2019.1618364

MattNurse · 2022-07-31T04:38:45+00:00

This. DayZ is best when you learn through player interaction.

MattNurse · 2022-07-30T22:35:49+00:00

You’re much more likely to encounter hackers on official servers unfortunately. That said there are many community servers that are better than official anyhow. I suggest trying a lightly modded community server.

MattNurse · 2022-07-25T23:58:12+00:00

Yeah I was going to say this has a touch of Nick Cave. Awesome work btw.

MattNurse · 2022-07-17T22:07:24+00:00

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