Damian Tootell

[Damian Tootell @Tootell]

@louise_a_martin Welcoming a fellow Stokie back to China. 😀

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@louise_a_martin @HeadHarrowHK I’m often mocked for doing this (everywhere I go!)😀

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@RyanIckert @Isotopx_MS Regardless of what we say, I have a feeling you’re gonna experiment anyway😜

[Damian Tootell @Tootell]

@RyanIckert @SavageEarth_ Yeah, we live in a Blinkist world where bots taking snippets out of press releases loses the original context😂

[Damian Tootell @Tootell]

@RyanIckert @emilyemixon @J_Ramez @Isotopx_MS Every letter cost as much as a collimator! Thank God (and all other deities) that we’re not called Thermal Fishing Scientesticles

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@MeijaJuris @RyanIckert It’s laced with U
Gotta improve the signal to noise somehow!

[Damian Tootell @Tootell]

@RyanIckert @NoahDatesRocks @cwmagee @KSircombe I can give you a demo in Hawai’i? 😀

[Isotopx @Isotopx_MS]

Are you interested in a career in engineering and science? 🔬

Could you see yourself testing and installing high value, high precision scientific instruments?

If this interests you and you have a background in science / engineering, get in touch: [email protected]

[Damian Tootell @Tootell]

@RyanIckert @J_Ramez @Darren_F_Mark Ahem! 😛

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Harassment , relentless abuse , intimidation and now arson . And what next . . . ? I will not be cowed , I will not buckle , but can I ask for your help ? If you are an @nationaltrust member please sign to end hunting here and now .

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[Damian Tootell @Tootell]

@AstroExploring Plate solving? I used to do 2 or 3 star alignment which was always a pain, error prone and time-consuming but now I just slew somewhere close to my target, plate solve and then I can hone in exactly on my target.

[Damian Tootell @Tootell]

@TrouserdogSCFC Didn’t he also refer to Preston as Tottenham at some point today?

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@RyanIckert @NoahDatesRocks There'll be some tension across the dinner table tonight coming out with statements like that!😂

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if I sample a normal distribution n=1000, calculate mean and median, then repeat that 1000 times. The variance of the medians is always greater than the variance of the means. Can anybody explain why?#Statistics
@AndrewM_Webb @NoahDatesRocks @RyanIckert

[Damian Tootell @Tootell]

@NoahDatesRocks @RyanIckert @AndrewM_Webb Yeah, my intial investigation injected odd, occasional spikes like we see on a mass spec(not part of the normal distrubution), &each time the median 'won', but then i turned off the spikes leaving just a normal distribution & the wheels came off my understanding, so i reached out

[Damian Tootell @Tootell]

Thanks for all the responses! I have many blindspots in my knowledge of statistics and this just reaffirms that i shouldn't fill those blindspots with intuition. It just didnt feel right, and Google was no help!😉

[Damian Tootell @Tootell]

@RyanIckert @AndrewM_Webb @NoahDatesRocks But if that's the case, then as you increase the sample number n, then wouldn't you expect the median to become a 'better' estimator and get closer to the mean's variance? In the few models i ran, that doesnt seem to happen but levels off at some fixed difference

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@TremblayMarissa @PurdueEAPS But I suppose I would need to DM them for fear of letting the cat out of the bag, or indeed, the goose out of the gaggle?