Rich FitzJohn

Very excited to announce the first public release of {orderly}, our reproducible reporting framework for #rstats reside-ic.github.io/blog/orderly-1…

TIL package?packagename opens up some sort of help #rstats

Very rare to see this level of tayloring nowadays, even on the wealthy. So let's talk about some of the reasons why it's great. 🧵 1!/n!

Implement a simple version of symbolic differentiation in a few lines of #rstats - new blog reside-ic.github.io/blog/symbolic-…

Have you ever wanted to generate random but readable strings? Like for files or folders? Today's Friday #rstats fun is thanks to @rgfitzjohn for the ids package📦 and its wonderful `adjective_animal()` 😻function.

@agapow Possibly netlogo? ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

One for the hive mind: there was a simulation toolkit (called "net-something"?), maybe agent-based, that could be used to model flows of people from place-to-place (state-to-state) under various rules & stochastic conditions. Does this strike any chords?

Made a new little playground this week: integer.exposed: a version of Bartosz Ciechanowski’s great float.exposed site, but for integers let me know if you notice any bugs!

How neat. Researchers claim to have found, at long last, an "einstein" tile - a shape that tiles the plane in a pattern that never repeats. First two authors appear to have no academic affiliations. arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798

We welcome the publication of the government’s Future of Compute report, which recognises that compute is critical to modern research and recommends a co-ordinated, long-term investment in UK compute capability. 1/2 #rec" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gov.uk/government/pub…

Bus socks on! Ready to roll! I will be delay-tweeting my journey so you’ll see everywhere I go, just after I leave so I don’t get bombarded with route suggestions and, you know, safety and stuff. But time to catch some buses…

@flodebarre Two spaces helps Emacs reflow paragraphs nicely (fill-paragraph), that's probably it

Any ideas on constructing a pilot #RSEng exchange programme that would allow RSEs to spend some time at different research or RSE Groups? Probably two week long exchanges. Any thoughts? Any thoughts on what it will need? cc @ResearchSoftEng @SoftwareSaved

@seabbs github.com/ShozenD/bayes-… looks like the link itself was an accidental omission given the number of references within the paper to the repo

Hmm not ideal having to play hunt the code so I can read!

ooooo - hyped based on the abstract! Got to love a Hilbert Space Gaussian process. arxiv.org/abs/2210.11358

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It's Friday. Have some history. So you know Hadrian's Wall? Well for over 1000 years everyone thought it was built by someone else. Until, in 1840, John Hodgson, an unknown Northumbrian clergyman published the LONGEST footnote in history. Read on... /1

Hot take, regex is a dominant language not because of its intrinsic qualities but because its programs are short enough to be conveniently pasted in any location

We’re not talking enough about the espresso reproducibility crisis ☕️ cell.com/matter/fulltex…

@b_rosen_baum If you're interested in discrete stochastic models, we've got a new backend for that mrc-ide.github.io/dust/ via mrc-ide.github.io/odin.dust/ - supports systems of 10's of thousands of equations and runs in parallel on CPU or GPU

It does discrete stochastic models, too❤️ cran.r-project.org/web/packages/o…

Solving ODEs in R: you can now use the incredibly fast C-version of deSolve in R without having to code in C! This will definitely replace odeintr in my next Theoretical Ecology course. 👨‍🏫