Andi Fugard
@andifugard.info
Social policy evaluator. London-based, Belfast-born. They/them. Personal account – views mine. Posts auto delete after a month.
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Mastodon: https://sciences.social/@andi
Web: https://andifugard.info/
DM: https://andifugard.info/contact/
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99% of all subgroup analyses give the others a bad name.
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
99% of all subgroup analyses give the others a bad name.
Last weekend was wild - Fri eve giving a talk at a philosophy club mostly attended by lawyers. Sat eve doing something very different.
November 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Last weekend was wild - Fri eve giving a talk at a philosophy club mostly attended by lawyers. Sat eve doing something very different.
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"For students, AI teaching appears to be less transformative than it is demoralising".
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"For students, AI teaching appears to be less transformative than it is demoralising".
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Happy #WorldPhilosophyDay! I recently came across a fun paper by Kadri Vihvelin which offers an intriguing analysis of how free will might still be possible under determinism. I've written a blog post summarising her argument over here: andifugard.info/kadri-vihvel...
Kadri Vihvelin on free will – Andi Fugard (∧⇒)
andifugard.info
November 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Happy #WorldPhilosophyDay! I recently came across a fun paper by Kadri Vihvelin which offers an intriguing analysis of how free will might still be possible under determinism. I've written a blog post summarising her argument over here: andifugard.info/kadri-vihvel...
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I recently discovered Conventional Comments (conventionalcomments.org) for providing a pseudo-standard set of labels for feedback and just tried it for an article review and it was really helpful to specify issues vs. thoughts vs. suggestions, etc. Hopefully it's helpful for the authors too!
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I recently discovered Conventional Comments (conventionalcomments.org) for providing a pseudo-standard set of labels for feedback and just tried it for an article review and it was really helpful to specify issues vs. thoughts vs. suggestions, etc. Hopefully it's helpful for the authors too!
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This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Any Mersenne Twister experts out there? Based on some experiments, I suspect that the longest initial run of identical values, that is all 0s or all 1s, from rbinom in R is 32. Since that's a power of 2, wonder whether it's an artifact of the algorithm. #RStats
andifugard.info/a-mersenne-m...
andifugard.info/a-mersenne-m...
A Mersenne Mind-Twister – Andi Fugard (∧⇒)
andifugard.info
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Any Mersenne Twister experts out there? Based on some experiments, I suspect that the longest initial run of identical values, that is all 0s or all 1s, from rbinom in R is 32. Since that's a power of 2, wonder whether it's an artifact of the algorithm. #RStats
andifugard.info/a-mersenne-m...
andifugard.info/a-mersenne-m...
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All very nice but please consider how the message will be understood by those of us who weren’t born here. You risk replacing one exclusion with another.
November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
All very nice but please consider how the message will be understood by those of us who weren’t born here. You risk replacing one exclusion with another.
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
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"Isolation" at Gorse runs from 8.30am to 3.05pm and sees pupils having their lunch in the room and not being allowed to socialise with other students.
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Isolation" at Gorse runs from 8.30am to 3.05pm and sees pupils having their lunch in the room and not being allowed to socialise with other students.
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The Gorse Academies Trust’s current behaviour policy also sees pupils facing what it itself calls “Isolation” for “lines in their eyebrows,” uniform violations or forgetting their student planner twice.
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Gorse Academies Trust’s current behaviour policy also sees pupils facing what it itself calls “Isolation” for “lines in their eyebrows,” uniform violations or forgetting their student planner twice.
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New: Academy trust cuts sanction for children with “inappropriate hairstyles” from three days in isolation to two:
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/academy...
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/academy...
Education Uncovered | News| Academy trust cuts sanction for children with “inappropriate hairstyles” from three days in isolation to two
Pupils at the Gorse Academies Trust also face “isolation” for “lines in their eyebrows,” for uniform violations, or for forgetting their student planner twice, its behaviour policy states. However, th...
educationuncovered.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
New: Academy trust cuts sanction for children with “inappropriate hairstyles” from three days in isolation to two:
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/academy...
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/academy...
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found the random seeds used in the opening scene of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
found the random seeds used in the opening scene of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
If you take 30 draws from a Bernoulli distribution, e.g., to randomise people to one of two conditions, there’s a 1/536,870,912 chance that all 30 will be assigned to the same condition. Try seeds 236903047 and 627034302 with rbinom(30, 1, .5) in #RStats
Read more: andifugard.info/totally-rand...
Read more: andifugard.info/totally-rand...
Totally random – Andi Fugard (∧⇒)
andifugard.info
November 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
If you take 30 draws from a Bernoulli distribution, e.g., to randomise people to one of two conditions, there’s a 1/536,870,912 chance that all 30 will be assigned to the same condition. Try seeds 236903047 and 627034302 with rbinom(30, 1, .5) in #RStats
Read more: andifugard.info/totally-rand...
Read more: andifugard.info/totally-rand...
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Two suspects detained in connection with London-bound train stabbings
Two suspects detained in connection with London-bound train stabbings
Police have not yet disclosed a motive behind the stabbing attack at a train headed to the capital, London, which injured ten people, nine of them critically. Officials say investigations into the incident are still ongoing with the two detained suspects.
l.euronews.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Two suspects detained in connection with London-bound train stabbings
I'm out and about and the rain has just stopped. What I want to know is whether the clouds floated off or I walked away from the clouds.
November 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'm out and about and the rain has just stopped. What I want to know is whether the clouds floated off or I walked away from the clouds.
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Wait until you learn about common ways of doing segmentation analysis in marketing.
"Yeah, we ran a K-means algorithm, gave each cluster a cute name and a persona, and now we're making every decision based on whether Pumpkin-Spice Peggy or Truck-Nut Terry will like it".
"Yeah, we ran a K-means algorithm, gave each cluster a cute name and a persona, and now we're making every decision based on whether Pumpkin-Spice Peggy or Truck-Nut Terry will like it".
It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Wait until you learn about common ways of doing segmentation analysis in marketing.
"Yeah, we ran a K-means algorithm, gave each cluster a cute name and a persona, and now we're making every decision based on whether Pumpkin-Spice Peggy or Truck-Nut Terry will like it".
"Yeah, we ran a K-means algorithm, gave each cluster a cute name and a persona, and now we're making every decision based on whether Pumpkin-Spice Peggy or Truck-Nut Terry will like it".
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Bonus points if you find clusters that you label as "low" "medium" "high" and "mixed"
It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr
October 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Bonus points if you find clusters that you label as "low" "medium" "high" and "mixed"
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It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr
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After following lots of economists on social media for the last 10+ years I think agricultural economists should rebrand as “less upity economists” or “economists without pretenses” or possibly “literally bean counters”
October 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
After following lots of economists on social media for the last 10+ years I think agricultural economists should rebrand as “less upity economists” or “economists without pretenses” or possibly “literally bean counters”