Cameron Patrick
@cameronpat.bsky.social
stats consultant and PhD student in Epidemiology & Biostatistics (multiple imputation, causal inference, clinical trials) @ University of Melbourne. always graph your data. also runs, bikes, hikes, etc. he/him #BiInSci 🏳️🌈
https://cameronpatrick.com/
https://cameronpatrick.com/
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my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time
March 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time
how had I never heard this particular Musk Horror Story before
Tesla engineer was concerned about known thermal runaway problems in the batteries, elon and his head of security concoted a mass shooter threat pretending to be him, leaked it to the press and got a bolo issued to tried to get him swatted, Elon then stiffed his head of security
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
how had I never heard this particular Musk Horror Story before
Dark Souls 2 pigs
what we need is an rpg with realistic wildlife where cows are killing people
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Dark Souls 2 pigs
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This one has both:
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This one has both:
worth reading even if you're not a programmer and don't know what a Rubygems is, the important bits are about community and power and brainworms and being a good person
After the Rubygems drama, I felt frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life.
I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness.
Join me in building a better future:
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness.
Join me in building a better future:
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
In Praise of dhh
A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.
okayfail.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
worth reading even if you're not a programmer and don't know what a Rubygems is, the important bits are about community and power and brainworms and being a good person
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Ah, the classics.
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Ah, the classics.
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You categorised patients as responders or non responders by dichotomising a change from baseline?
You triple criminal!
You triple criminal!
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
You categorised patients as responders or non responders by dichotomising a change from baseline?
You triple criminal!
You triple criminal!
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Because everything is shit, I give you ... Puggles. #Platypus #AustralianWildlife
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Because everything is shit, I give you ... Puggles. #Platypus #AustralianWildlife
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Approiximately my Belz Lecture in Melbourne from a couple of weeks ago (there may be a recording later?)
notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/10/30/l...
notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/10/30/l...
Laws and Orders - Biased and Inefficient
notstatschat.rbind.io
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Approiximately my Belz Lecture in Melbourne from a couple of weeks ago (there may be a recording later?)
notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/10/30/l...
notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/10/30/l...
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the only instance in recorded history of a traffic collision between a car and a u-boat!
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
the only instance in recorded history of a traffic collision between a car and a u-boat!
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Yeah, ggview() looks exactly like what I need.
It would save me constantly having to reopen files.
It would save me constantly having to reopen files.
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Yeah, ggview() looks exactly like what I need.
It would save me constantly having to reopen files.
It would save me constantly having to reopen files.
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Rubin's gonna Rubin, but Robins Rubins harder.
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Rubin's gonna Rubin, but Robins Rubins harder.
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virtue signalling is good actually
Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
virtue signalling is good actually
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This, to me, is Blueskyism
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This, to me, is Blueskyism
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someone call georg
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
someone call georg
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sometimes i like to lecture kids about the lost discipline of human factors: 'they used to watch users interact with the program and then they'd *make the program work the way the users needed it to* instead of making users adapt to random, meaningless changes'
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
sometimes i like to lecture kids about the lost discipline of human factors: 'they used to watch users interact with the program and then they'd *make the program work the way the users needed it to* instead of making users adapt to random, meaningless changes'
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The camcorder package helps. Check this out from @rfortherestofus.com :
rfortherestofus.com/2024/09/prev...
rfortherestofus.com/2024/09/prev...
How to preview plots at specific dimensions in RStudio
Learn how to preview plots in RStudio with exact dimensions using the ggrecord() function from the camcorder package, ensuring consistency with ggsave().
rfortherestofus.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The camcorder package helps. Check this out from @rfortherestofus.com :
rfortherestofus.com/2024/09/prev...
rfortherestofus.com/2024/09/prev...
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Nintendo Gamma Boy
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Nintendo Gamma Boy
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Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
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Finnur Dellsén got a nice pic of me on my standard Q&A slide, so now I have a stock reply to any time anyone disagrees with me.
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Finnur Dellsén got a nice pic of me on my standard Q&A slide, so now I have a stock reply to any time anyone disagrees with me.
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people often confuse sentimentality with kindness. being sentimental is easy and common. being kind is hard and rare
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
people often confuse sentimentality with kindness. being sentimental is easy and common. being kind is hard and rare
AI tells you what you want to hear, statisticians usually tell you what you don't want to hear
The advances we've made in statistics, experimental study design, and causal inference over the past century are remarkably useful for understanding our world. But there is never been a push to make people use them like we are seeing with generative AI. Perhaps take a moment to consider why.
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
AI tells you what you want to hear, statisticians usually tell you what you don't want to hear
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The advances we've made in statistics, experimental study design, and causal inference over the past century are remarkably useful for understanding our world. But there is never been a push to make people use them like we are seeing with generative AI. Perhaps take a moment to consider why.
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The advances we've made in statistics, experimental study design, and causal inference over the past century are remarkably useful for understanding our world. But there is never been a push to make people use them like we are seeing with generative AI. Perhaps take a moment to consider why.
FUCK YEAH
Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
FUCK YEAH