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Daniel Lakeland
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Applied Mathematician, Julia programmer, father of two amazing boys, official coonhound mix mutt-walker.

PhD in Civil Engineering. Debian Linux user since […]

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Frozen fish fillet themed memes.
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Y'all can be jealous of my wife whose boyfriend makes the best breakfast baked goods.
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The most important personal security advice from last nights talk.
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
From the first few pages of Alec Karakatsanis' book Copaganda... Let's GOOOO

(thanks to @quietmarc for turning me on to this author / speaker/activist)

(partial automated text recognition as alt-text, not great but gives a flavor)
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
🙄 computers now tell you not to plug into a network or you may be forced to wait a long time for Windows to Update... Computers suck. Fortunately this will become a tiny proxmox box before it ever boots windows
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A two for one out of these Halloween decorations by a little ingenuity
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
You're gonna see this image displayed with articles about a supernova. This image is 100% artistic rendering of what an artist imagines a supernova looks like based on the description from the scientific paper about some asymmetry measurements. This is **NOT** a picture of a far off supernova
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Does anyone else see occasionally this kind of spike in volatile organic compounds in your house? #homeassistant

The fact all 3 sensors went crazy at the same time suggests an external source in air.
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Time for some Whitesnake 😂
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
@eliocamp

Dropping those industries leads to this:
October 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
If you can't see the obvious Nobel Winning result there, it's probably because you're not as incredibly important as that guy who got the Nobel... So let's split it out by industry into separate panels. be sure to read the image alt text.
October 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Now here comes the Nobel Prize winning result! I'm hoping for Two of them this time
October 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Ok, so after subtracting the industry averages, and the year trend via loess, what's the overall plot look like?

Here's that inverted U shape!

However, end effects are real, it's much noisier to estimate a function towards the edge of the dataset than in […]

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October 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Now, with this sequential transformation process, I'm not gonna get proper standard errors, because ... did I mention the toilet? And I hate plumbing?

So, first off... let's see the difference between my year adjustment and Gelmans:

As you can see, if you […]

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October 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Found on a roof rack in the park in Pasadena

#nogodsnomastersnokings
October 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Cocoa and I are walking in hahamongna watershed, thanks to my son who had to get up early for a cross country training session.
October 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Hello, societal technology support, have you tried burning it to the ground with fire?
October 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Premium sprayable stripper in a can.... #fuckaas shit posters... Go.
October 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Ethel Merman says... happy Sunday
October 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Gave our dog cocoa a nice bath that she hardly struggled against at all. She is now comfortably basking in the sun next to the sliding glass door.
October 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Apparently Munich was really hot in the early 2000's among early-career Germans. Brightness here indicates a preference for moving into a region on the basis of its location (controlled for things like density and population etc)
September 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Have you ever looked at the world oil production graph and thought to yourself what the consequences were for material conditions on earth? Also, I'm confused about these units, it's a production rate, but it's in Terawatt-Hours... it must mean "per year" right?
September 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The rapture, maybe it did happen? I'm surrounded by puffy white clouds! Theres a voice speaking to me in my head! Its saying.... Dan, shitpost this amazing sky...
September 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
How to identify members of the gang Trendy Agua
September 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is what I think it should take. Though I couldn't find docs on match-record or define-record-type*
September 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM