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hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
Wesley
@hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
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'metrics and game theory
23, he/him
econ/maths student, aus
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hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
trying to do my serious empirical project and learn about pseudo-Poisson models seriously and then
Economics paper with a quote at the top reading "I think he be transform'd into a beast", attributed "Wm. Shakespeare, As You Like It [II, 7]"
October 23, 2025 at 6:26 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
election turnaround is going to be wild
March 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
they are so little 🥹
Miniature votive images or toys from Harappa, c. 2500 BCE, clay figurines of zebu oxen, a cart, and a chicken.
February 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
this might be my imagination but it looks like trump's appointment might be causing a late boost to labor polling here
A graphical representation of two-party preferred polling outcomes for the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal-National Coalition. Until about October, the polls are roughly neck-and-neck with the Coalition seeing a boost over the end of 2024. However, January is seeing a slight reversal in trend (although the Coalition is still ahead).
February 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
she reminds me of this post hehe
Two pictures of a fluffy tuxedo cat sitting on a wrinkle in a traditional carpet, with the caption: "Every single day my long-suffering husband straightens our rug, and every single day our cat pulls the rug back up so that he can fold it over and lay on the wrinkle like this"
February 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
i fear that the zora were an inevitable design sequel to Superhero
Princess Mipha, a pink Zora from the Zelda franchise (a humanoid species with shark fins and a long dolphin tail instead of hair), stands turned to the left, holding a silver trident over one shoulder angled toward the ground. She wears a long blue scarf and the background is a brief splash of black and blue in a paintbrush style.
February 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
is this a clever political loophole im missing or have people just forgotten how to effectively negotiate
Screenshot of an ABC news article headline with a picture of a hospital corridor, reading "One-third of NSW's resigning psychiatrists rehired as contractors". The headline is tagged "By Tony Ibrahim" and "Public Health", and is noted as a 4 minute read.
February 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
obsessed w this sign
A cardboard sign held up during the annual Invasion Fay rally, written "YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A COUNTRY" in the style of the early anti-piracy shorts before films. The word COUNTRY is illustrated with blood running down from the letters.
January 26, 2025 at 5:19 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
they are my favourite narutoverse bit. never die yeh boomers
A manga panel showing two old people sitting in thrones, side by side. On the left is a bespectacled man with a long beard and cane. On the right is a woman in a long robe with a stylised half-down hood and a chopstick holding her hair in a tight bun. They look very old because they are. They were the two old advisors of one generation earlier than Boruto, when his father Naruto was a boy.
January 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
reading ruridragon while theres a storm :)
Two panels on a page of a manga. The rightmost shows a girl's determined face with her eyes stylised as crosses, in the rain. The second zooms out to show her calling down lightning in her school outfit, the wind whipping around her.
January 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
albanese at it with the political savvy again 💯

forreal though i really don't want the coalition back in power
In short: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended his government's social media ban for under-16s and broader online safety crackdown after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg pledged to work with Donald Trump to fight "censorship" from governments The Albanese government is considering options to expand the remit of the Safety Commissioner to broader forms of hateful or harmful speech, but the timing of those reforms is unclear. What's next? Mr Zuckerberg has declared a "new era" for his company, moving closer to fellow tech tycoon Elon Musk and the incoming Trump administration.
January 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
crush you like bbug (emoji crushing bloody bug beneath fist, angrily)
January 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
my unproblematic fave
December 28, 2024 at 5:29 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
forgot to poast my absolute favourite paragraph from piketty so far
Screenshot of a book (Capital in the 21st Century, Piketty) that reads: "All told, when one adds up the positions of all the wealthy countries, one is left with a slightly negative position, equivalent to about -4 percent of global GDP in 2010, compared with close to zero in the mid-aggos, as Figure 12.6 shows [not displayed in picture]. It is important to recognize, however, that it is a very slightly negative position (amounting to just I percent of global wealth). In any case, as I have already discussed at length, we are living in a time when international positions are relatively balanced, at least when compared with the colonial period, when the rich countries enjoyed a much larger positive position with respect to the rest of the world. "Of course this slightly negative official position should in principle be counterbalanced by an equivalent positive position for the rest of the world. In other words, the poor countries should own more assets in the rich countries than vice versa, with a surplus on the order of 4 percent of global GDP (or 1 percent of global wealth) in their favor. In fact, this is not the case: if one adds up the financial statistics for the various countries of the world, one finds that the poor countries also have a negative position and that the world as a whole is in a substantially negative situation. It seems, in other words, chat Earth must be owned by Mars. This is a fairly old "statistical anomaly"..."
December 24, 2024 at 5:58 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
ive never before seen a summary so succinctly show why conservatives want to keep the focus on culture wars lol

www.marquette.edu/news-center/...
Screenshot showing an article summary. It reads: "Dec. 18, 2024 Also: Views of the economy improve, though personal finances are unchanged • Public split on Trump cabinet appointments, while a large majority think Senate should take time to hold hearings Majority is concerned that tariffs will hurt the economy and divided on whether Trump policies will increase inflation • More than three-quarters favor requiring transgender athletes to play on teams that match the sex they were assigned at birth"
December 19, 2024 at 8:15 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
uru-chan has the same qualities she attributes to remi - focused on the long-term picture, attention to personal details, and Very epic fight scenes
December 19, 2024 at 4:31 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
man i dunno how i feel about data graphics like these
Data visualisation. Title: Advantaged schools get majority of top band awards. Subtitle: Top band awards by quartile of socio-educational advantage. Quartile description: Q1 is lowest socio-educational advantage and Q4 is the highest. 56% of Catholic school students in top band are in Q4, 39% in Q3. 77% of Government school students in top band are in Q4, 13% in Q3. 96% of Independent school students in top band are in Q4. Overall, 83% of students in top band are in Q4, 12% in Q3.
December 18, 2024 at 7:57 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
here's a slightly updated plot with non-govt schools included (and a bagplot for fun)
A scatterplot showing the year 9 average NAPLAN scores of high schools versus their suburb's median house price, with a linear regression line. Most data points are clustered in the bottom left. Suzanna Cory High, Nossal High, and Ballarat Clarendon are outliers with high scores and low house prices. Melbourne High has the highest scores with moderately high house prices. St Catherine's and St Kevin's have the highest prices, with St Catherine's scoring slightly above St Kevin's. Camberwell Grammar scores high and a little above Camberwell Girls Grammar, but Camberwell High (a government school) scores middlingly - all three have very high house prices. Robinvale and Croydon Community have very low house prices and scores. Collingwood notably sits below the linear regression line with moderately high house prices and slightly lower scores. The same scatterplot without labels, but with shaded convex regions displaying likely outliers in red - a bagplot. Most schools scoring above 660 are designated as outliers. Most schools with median house prices above 3 million, especially with scores below 650, are also outside the bagplot. No schools with very low house prices or very low scores are highlighted red.
December 5, 2024 at 3:58 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
here's what i spent today making for fun: Victoria's year 9 average NAPLAN score of a high school versus its suburb's median house price, with some outliers and extrema labelled

disclaimers below

#NAPLAN #dataSKYence #Econsky
A scatterplot of year 9 average NAPLAN scores at high schools versus their suburb's median house price. Some labelled points are Melbourne High (both score and house price high), Suzanna Cory High/Nossal High (low house price but high score), Camberwell/Kew High (high house price but moderate score), Glen Waverley (moderate house price and good score), and Robinvale (both house price and score very low). Also to note are Charlton (very low house price and moderate score) and Croydon Community (very low score and middling house price).
December 4, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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i did not think this would end up being a cautionary tale for transmascs
A book page from "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", showing the caterpillar with the words: "But he was STILL hungry..."
December 1, 2024 at 10:28 AM
hermeticcombustion.bsky.social
i Am enjoying capital in the 21st century, but some of these diagrams make my data viz self Grumpy #econsky #piketty
Per capita GDP growth over time, Western Europe versus North America. The time scale from 1700 to 2012 is irregularly spaced.
November 24, 2024 at 11:27 AM