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advent of code 2025 day 5. Seemed suspiciously easy, then got this error and audibly chuckled.
#aoc2025
#adventofcode
#aoc2025
#adventofcode
December 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
advent of code 2025 day 5. Seemed suspiciously easy, then got this error and audibly chuckled.
#aoc2025
#adventofcode
#aoc2025
#adventofcode
Reposted
Launch day 🚀
We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!
Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!
Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈
We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!
Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!
Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈
Chartle - A daily chart game
Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart
chartle.cc
September 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Launch day 🚀
We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!
Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!
Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈
We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!
Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!
Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈
What with all this weather we've been having, I thought it was about time I booted up the old weather stations scraping script. The chart below shows this year (the red line) versus the historical averages for each of the weather stations. The shaded ribbons shows where 95% of historical avgs...
August 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
What with all this weather we've been having, I thought it was about time I booted up the old weather stations scraping script. The chart below shows this year (the red line) versus the historical averages for each of the weather stations. The shaded ribbons shows where 95% of historical avgs...
Is the newest @decathlonfrance.bsky.social logo supposed to be the “Superset” set theory symbol? Supersets fully contain other sets, a bit like Decathlon contains many sports + equipment. Plus it looks like a “D” I guess.
May 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Is the newest @decathlonfrance.bsky.social logo supposed to be the “Superset” set theory symbol? Supersets fully contain other sets, a bit like Decathlon contains many sports + equipment. Plus it looks like a “D” I guess.
Nobody "enjoys" data in Excel.
March 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Nobody "enjoys" data in Excel.
Comments on this are an interesting mix of cohort effect (men born at a certain time, read too many lads mags) and an age effect (middle age men get more sexist).
Good news from the British Election Study: there's no sign of the reported uptick in sexism among young British men
Bad news: what's going on with middle aged men?
Bad news: what's going on with middle aged men?
March 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Comments on this are an interesting mix of cohort effect (men born at a certain time, read too many lads mags) and an age effect (middle age men get more sexist).
Low-stakes remake of Speed
March 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Low-stakes remake of Speed
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DO NOT TURN OFF THE BUS
March 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
DO NOT TURN OFF THE BUS
The improvement on PM2.5, which wasnt the main objective of the zone(which was NO2), is a major MAJOR benefit. PM2.5s are potentially the most damaging but unlike NO2, there’s no legal limit for them.
London expanded its ultra low emissions zone to its outer boroughs in 2023—limiting what types of cars could enter—and the results have been spectacular in terms of pollution reduction. A huge benefit for public health.
March 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The improvement on PM2.5, which wasnt the main objective of the zone(which was NO2), is a major MAJOR benefit. PM2.5s are potentially the most damaging but unlike NO2, there’s no legal limit for them.
If you ask the public, you're going to get Popey McPopeface
Public invited to suggest names for next Archbishop of Canterbury
Public invited to suggest names for next Archbishop of Canterbury
The chosen candidate will be the 106th person to take on the most senior role in the Church of England.
www.bbc.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
If you ask the public, you're going to get Popey McPopeface
Not now. universe
BREAKING | The universe could undergo a 'catastrophic change' that could alter absolutely everything, quantum machine shows
Universe could undergo a 'catastrophic change' that could alter absolutely everything
The universe could undergo a catastrophe that would change absolutely everything, scientists have shown using a quantum machine.
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Not now. universe
I think it will be a titanic success
Another entry for my niche collection of "didn't read to the end of the story being referenced" posts.
February 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I think it will be a titanic success
I think it’s a good example of how much regional devolution is needed by the extent to which it has radicalised regional journalists.
Couldn’t notice or report it any harder than I have but a lot of this is quite technical. In the abstract even I would admit it can be a hard sell. Where the rubber hits the road is when a mayor outside London says “I don’t agree, Doncaster council, that nuclear power station is going there”
December 16, 2024 at 10:40 PM
I think it’s a good example of how much regional devolution is needed by the extent to which it has radicalised regional journalists.
me v gpt - #AdventofCode edition continues, day 4 update (written in R)
Day 4 was fun - basically a computerised wordsearch. We tried very different approaches for part 1; mine was more abstract and faster, GPT went more brute-force. It LOVES nested loops.
However, on part 2 it struggled...
Day 4 was fun - basically a computerised wordsearch. We tried very different approaches for part 1; mine was more abstract and faster, GPT went more brute-force. It LOVES nested loops.
However, on part 2 it struggled...
December 5, 2024 at 10:06 PM
me v gpt - #AdventofCode edition continues, day 4 update (written in R)
Day 4 was fun - basically a computerised wordsearch. We tried very different approaches for part 1; mine was more abstract and faster, GPT went more brute-force. It LOVES nested loops.
However, on part 2 it struggled...
Day 4 was fun - basically a computerised wordsearch. We tried very different approaches for part 1; mine was more abstract and faster, GPT went more brute-force. It LOVES nested loops.
However, on part 2 it struggled...
Who's better at solving #AdventOfCode ? Me or ChatGPT?
2 - 1 to me so far, but we're through the easy days and GPT's trajectory is looking much more positive.
As a little bit of friendly competition I'm pitting myself against ChatGPT this year for AOC. Who writes the fastest solution wins!
2 - 1 to me so far, but we're through the easy days and GPT's trajectory is looking much more positive.
As a little bit of friendly competition I'm pitting myself against ChatGPT this year for AOC. Who writes the fastest solution wins!
December 3, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Who's better at solving #AdventOfCode ? Me or ChatGPT?
2 - 1 to me so far, but we're through the easy days and GPT's trajectory is looking much more positive.
As a little bit of friendly competition I'm pitting myself against ChatGPT this year for AOC. Who writes the fastest solution wins!
2 - 1 to me so far, but we're through the easy days and GPT's trajectory is looking much more positive.
As a little bit of friendly competition I'm pitting myself against ChatGPT this year for AOC. Who writes the fastest solution wins!