When I was an MSc student I made nearly all the figures for a paper just to get an acknowledgment. I’d love to meet that person now to discuss/berate them as to why they felt this was okay.

A challenge I faced was push back from senior authors for adding junior authors who contributed more than most of the seniors. In extreme, seniors sent emails saying well done after submission and congrats after acceptance. Juniors at the least read the paper and provided useful comments.

You could argue USA is big and diverse but then Canada looks like it varies so they thought about using a quiz to help and they start off with support and kind words www.canada.ca/en/services/...

Variables must be named after the author in numerical order. Chris chris1 chris2 chris3 if you need to make a new one earlier on then add a letter chris1a

No worries. If you get really stuck I’d be happy to have a call.

This book cover all three types. www.paulamoraga.com/book-spatial...

If the values at the locations are of interest, rather than the locations then you want to adjust for spatial correlation. This is where you used random effects models that account for spatial structure. Such as SAR, CAR, ICAR, BYM models. These fall in areal or geostatistics.

There are a couple of things: If the randomness you’re interested is the location, which as you’re calculating distances and analysing them that’s seems to be the case then you can look at point pattern analyses. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_p...

Okay if boundaries are your issue then you can look at edge effects. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Hi @caprosser.com, the problem isn't quite clear to me. I'm not sure it's spatial. Isn't this the same as simulating height and then measuring how far all of them are from 10cm intervals then showing that some of them are nearer to a bunch of the intervals? and then correlations due to boundaries.

And congrats! Last PhD paper back with revisions that took you a couple of hours is a big achievement!

Definitely, once you’re used to submitting papers you realise a lot of these deadlines are arbitrary and if they’ve already sent out to reviewers and you’re asked to respond then they’re pretty invested. I found asking for a month or more is accepted with no fuss.

After I’ve said this, I realise it’s a the same system we use for driving tests in the UK. My motivation is that I want to cause the authors the least amount of work required for the paper to be publishable. Plus what I might think takes hours takes them weeks or vice versa.

I think of major as if you don’t address this then I’ll probably reject the paper. Then minor is suggestions that I’ll let pass unless you ignore lots of them. The amount of time they take is secondary to me, I think of them as importance.

Then sometimes you have loads of computers (docker images) that you want to switch on many times (containers) so you use something like Kubernetes to manage all of that for you.

I like this intro colinfay.me/docker-r-rep...

And tugboat is here www.dmolitor.com/tugboat/

The mains bits are the dockerfile which records how you want to set your computer up (the image) and the docker-compose file which allows you to build the computer, and also switch it on (a container).

Here’s some proof

bsky.app/profile/chri...

I like to leave them all blank and leave interpretation to the reader.