Jake Wills

@brianmcc... If you ever make it to Wellington let me know and I'll buy you a drink, from a listener based here 😀

@gwynncompton Thanks. Will help with my voting in a few months time :)

@gwynncompton Can you tell us who voted against it?

@nztechtweet @samuelmcneill @Tesla Here it is if you’re interested: tesla.jpw.nz

@samuelmcneill @jakepwills @Tesla Thanks for sharing Sam. I have becone a Tesla geek😂 I’ll check out @jakepwills blog!

Just read this @nztechtweet concise.info/3IccoXw Very cool - @jakepwills also blogs about his @Tesla experience from time to time.

@Samuel_Gregson @3blue1brown This is my list here with my code if you’re interested: #gid=2100853293" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

I thought it might be fun to do a quick distraction project on the mathematically optimal way to play wordle. Wrote a little program yesterday which uses a bank of ~13,000 words along with their frequencies in English, tried it today. Not bad! 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Interestingly, several of the best first guesses aren't in the valid answers list.

So @Thoughtfulnz ... I wasted some compute time & updated my code to use list of all valid guesses to narrow down list of valid answers... "jujus" is worst first guess based on that. Full data here: #gid=2100853293" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… (Code also updated to properly handle duplicate letters)

@Thoughtfulnz ... so I wasted some compute time & used the whole list of valid guesses to see which ones narrowed down the list of possible answers the most / least. Based on the word list being narrowed down is list of valid answers (not valid guesses). Worst guess is "jujus"

@Thoughtfulnz I'm tempted to run it with all the possible words though... as could be a bit of fun... would just leave it to run overnight.

@Thoughtfulnz Took 40 mins to run through all the possible combinations (using just the list of 2315 words that Josh's wife had whitelisted)

@Thoughtfulnz And mummy is the second worst, with 820 possible words left over on average

@Thoughtfulnz I looked at every pair of guesses and answers and how many possible words are left after each 1st guess... gave worst 1st guess of fuzzy with 856 possible words left on average. Full list and code I used: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… (Based just on words Josh's wife thinks are real)

@ta_hughson @Sarah_StatsAko @BronwynEWood Yes. It sadly is. Although maths teachers in general do understand the importance of algebra… so with my optimistic hat on, I’m hoping if they are doing some of the other standards that have algebra components they will still be teaching it, knowing that won’t always be the case

@Sarah_StatsAko @ta_hughson @BronwynEWood Algebra showed the biggest dip after the disastrous 2016 MCAT. Just cause it isn’t being assessed doesn’t mean it isn’t being taught.

@Sarah_StatsAko @ta_hughson @BronwynEWood Geometry showed a much steeper decline than the algebra standard at level 1… you can explore all this data easily here: stats.jpw.nz

@banquotrilogy Yea. Accord ToDs count as being “open”

@banquotrilogy I can’t get how schools have already finished and are following rules. Earliest possible finish date for this year is Monday 13th December assuming you’ve had no ToDs… we had one so finish Tuesday… rules here: #Cal2021" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">education.govt.nz/school/school-…

@samuelmcneill @adamlines_ @craigrenderPE @SeanTierneyEdu Well done… that’s almost as much as I’ve done in my car since June 🤣

A 2nd milestone this week for me beginning with a #5 - 5000km on my #eBike ! Took just under 18months & has been 2nd vehicle for family of 6 for over 12months too. Some great rides & odd scrapes on this but LOVE it! 😍 @adamlines_ @craigrenderPE @SeanTierneyEdu @jakepwills

Updated NCEA Stats on my PowerBI Dashboard now... stats.jpw.nz #edchatnz Has details on overall attainment and standard level attainment by decile, gender and ethnicity.

@muddicea @NZGrapher You can already fit lots of models on #NZGrapher (linear, quadratic, log & more)... just added ability to fit the error bars & a custom line (which is also useful for maths), as well as create new variables using custom functions. Nothing taken away, just new features added.