Sociologist in Limerick
Mostly playing with unrealistic computer models of real world processes
Emacs, Stata, Shiny & Rstats, Julia, Python
Linux on the desktop since about 1997
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Someone's gone up in my estimation (not a lot and from a low base, but up)
https://www.thejournal.ie/media-minister-x-grok-6921938-Jan2026/
(Also, a sign that X is being recognised as toxic, finally.)
'The question on everyone’s lips this week has surely been: “Has Gerardus Mercator fooled Donald Trump?”'
I was certainly thinking that
Total Cohort Fertility Rate and Total Period Fertility Rate for Ireland, using birth data up to end 2024. Consistent downward trend in both, the relative pause in the middle of the TPFR decline is associated with large net in-migration (including of young women) during the Celtic Tiger.
I was wondering about that. Fingers pointing you know where re the huge power outage in Berlin, and the original claims re a leftwing group are being discounted