Paraphrasing Bo Burnham - If I could kill myself for a year, I would do it today. But alas, when you kill yourself, you're dead forever. And we shouldn't be dead forever yet. So let's just not. Come on guys! Chin up!!!

Thanks to all speakers for keeping to time. Conference lunch was top, a lovely selection of leftovers from last nights Indian. Hopefully can attend this again next year, 10/10 would recommend.

It's more appearing in scientific writing now. I went through a paper this week and added alt text for all the graphs. It really forces you to communicate what the point of the graph actually is ("see this bit over here is higher than that bit over there!") vs a more scientific venacular.

I'm always reluctant to see something insidious where plain ignorance and obliviousness can also explain things. Putting a grant together for a collaboration like this wouldn't be simple.

Also struggle with emotional connection. Story driven games don't hit in the same way. I just can't connect with the characters. I played the Last of Us again for the PC port and noticed a stark difference. And thats one of the most emotionally engaging games of all time.

One way I can judge how I'm feeling is to do a sudoku. I've done so many of them in my life and how much I struggle to keep thoughts in my head is a barometer. Part of being foggy is you can't evaluate how foggy you actually are. Game switching happens too, Im much less patient.

Curious about this as someone with long covid. I personally know that the way I play computer games changed because I could not process the information on the screen in the same way. Is that the kind of thing you are thinking of?

That makes me some sort of Bayesian pragmatist I think? But I have never really formalised this. I don't think of maths as describing reality, just as a tool that can work well enough for certain tasks.

This is really interesting. I use "true parameter" purely abstractly when reasoning about a hypothetical data generating process, but after that I don't care if "the real world" actually has a parameter like that to be estimated. I just care if I can use the model for the thing I need it for.

They can apply to lots of things, a pic of a strava profile for example. Things like #statsmodelling #datascience or something might work better.

My friend was shocked that I eagerly chose the murder option here but I was in a full "we will be a depressed goth couple" arch and I just wanted to be evil together. I regret nothing.