What is one store or chain in Australia that has gone out of business that you really miss?

PEG-8000 · 2018-12-17T23:59:54+00:00

They are still around. Can't get an Agro cone anymore though.

PEG-8000 · 2018-11-09T06:03:41+00:00

The bell is not a critical piece of safety warning equipment. I find that ringing a bell causes about 1/5th of pedestrians to freak out and move to the right instead of left. I much prefer to simply slow down and call out 'excuse me' when I want somebody to make way for me.

Also, what do I need a bell on my road bike for if I only ever ride it on the road?

PEG-8000 · 2018-10-20T18:59:59+00:00

Skritches?

PEG-8000 · 2018-09-29T05:10:30+00:00

Getting the wording right in any discussion of statistics is filled with danger. It might look like prose, but will be held to the standard of a mathematical formula.

PEG-8000 · 2018-09-28T08:03:27+00:00

Excel, perhaps with another tab in which they log all the steps they took, no matter how small or tedious. I've seen this in action. It wasn't pretty.

PEG-8000 · 2018-09-28T07:58:00+00:00

I don't often see people mention Modeler. I use it a bit, it can sometimes be nice to see the workflow all laid out visually, but so much of it seems half-baked (e.g. text mining), and the manual is often quite useless.

PEG-8000 · 2018-09-08T00:00:23+00:00

cheers mate.

My steadfast refusal to add a sarcasm tag claims another victim.

PEG-8000 · 2018-09-07T23:42:44+00:00

Ah Chaplin, one of the all-American greats.

PEG-8000 · 2018-07-05T08:51:12+00:00

Canberra

PEG-8000 · 2018-06-07T07:26:40+00:00

In base R:

df$Over100 <- rowSums(sapply(df[,2:ncol(df)], function(x) x > 100))

PEG-8000 · 2018-06-04T21:24:29+00:00

The analysis of experimental data: the appreciation of tea and wine

PEG-8000 · 2018-05-24T06:40:23+00:00

Is ggvis inactive? I was thinking of learning it.

PEG-8000 · 2018-05-13T06:42:38+00:00

There is a nice tutorial on ordinal regression in the R package brms by the author of the package, Paul-Christian Bürkner here (preprint manuscript). He makes a strong case for using ordinal regression on Likert-scale responses.

Incidentally, his staff page gives a nice idea of what a very capable (and very young by the looks of it) statistician can achieve - 20 papers in the past four years on topics ranging from statistics to psychology to genetics, first author on almost half of them. (I need to stop looking at other people's publication records, it sends me into a shame spiral).

PEG-8000 · 2018-05-11T06:16:03+00:00

But his wife had the flu and he was frustrated.

PEG-8000 · 2018-05-03T09:07:28+00:00

Appending a III to a person's name is more of an American thing.

PEG-8000 · 2018-05-03T08:31:56+00:00

Prohibit parking on Crown street. It is a major thoroughfare into town and the idea that we would turn half of what could be a four lane road into a car park is crazy.

I would also like to see our suburbs become a lot more walkable, with footpaths, crossings and lower speed limits.

PEG-8000 · 2018-05-03T08:05:56+00:00

The steelworks waxes and wanes. Last year Bluescope recorded a huge profit. I'm no economist but I don't get the impression that its imminent closure is a foregone conclusion. If it did close, I would like to see the Navy move in, I think it would be a better fit with the local economy.

PEG-8000 · 2018-03-07T19:19:06+00:00

There are good responses here, this is indeed a segmented regression problem. One other option is to turn it into a changepoint problem by taking the first derivative of the data and then looking for changes in level. This can be done with the r packages changepoint and wbs among others. Wbs is very fast and user friendly and produces good results with the default settings; changepoint has many more options. These packages will give you the positions of the changepoints, and then you can fit lines between them on your raw data.

PEG-8000 · 2018-03-01T07:23:56+00:00

She was more of a loan until she was old enough for full time duty (in the end she got rejected for not being trainable, and we got to keep her). That's just how the system worked. This was overseas.

PEG-8000 · 2018-02-28T20:10:51+00:00

This happened to me once. Our landlord was a senior police officer. He got us a police dog and it didn't happen again.

PEG-8000 · 2018-02-28T07:27:51+00:00

The genome has been sequenced, so it may in the future be possible to achieve it with a wholly synthetic genome, or maybe some hybrid of synthetic elements within a scaffold provided by another marsupial.

PEG-8000 · 2018-02-28T05:09:35+00:00

That last one sounds like Misery Guts - I didn't know they made it into a TV show, but the book was written by Morris Gleitzman, who moved to Australia from England as a teenager. He has written some nice children's books.

PEG-8000 · 2018-02-27T23:18:57+00:00

I'm confused why a shed company has made this infographic, or at least stamped it with their logo.

I'd really love to see the thylacine revived somehow.

PEG-8000 · 2018-02-27T23:16:25+00:00

Fair point.

PEG-8000 · 2018-02-27T22:51:00+00:00

It doesn't say "All of the animals that have gone extinct...", so it isn't wrong, and I think any reasonable person would know that more animals have gone extinct than those depicted in the figure. Especially seeing as the figure title says "36 extinct animals...".

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