Rich FitzJohn

Once was a biologist.

[Rich FitzJohn @rgfitzjohn]

Very excited to announce the first public release of {orderly}, our reproducible reporting framework for #rstats https://t.co/E88SOcEGjz

[Rich FitzJohn @rgfitzjohn]

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

[Niall Deacon @nialldeacon]

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!

[Rich FitzJohn @rgfitzjohn]

Implement a simple version of symbolic differentiation in a few lines of #rstats - new blog https://t.co/kTO7SB1bJH

[James Laird-Smith @JLS_DataScience]

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.

[Rich FitzJohn @rgfitzjohn]

@agapow Possibly netlogo? https://t.co/dFzXFEhxoa

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

Made a new little playground this week: https://t.co/F46dRdVWVB: a version of Bartosz Ciechanowski’s great https://t.co/BQfYWbXL5j site, but for integers

let me know if you notice any bugs!

[Natalie Wolchover @nattyover]

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. https://t.co/T4UB6Ei6Lo

[Society of Research Software Engineering @ResearchSoftEng]

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
https://t.co/gJbHsV7EP2

[Emily Turner – etwritehome.bsky.social @ETWriteHome]

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…

[Rich FitzJohn @rgfitzjohn]

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

[Simon Hettrick @sjh5000]

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

[Rich FitzJohn @rgfitzjohn]

@seabbs https://t.co/YAYIF1bvyi looks like the link itself was an accidental omission given the number of references within the paper to the repo

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

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[John Bull @garius]

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

[Dr Kate Compton @GalaxyKate]

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

[Dan Quintana @dsquintana]

We’re not talking enough about the espresso reproducibility crisis ☕️ https://t.co/Q7f6umqxaa

[Rich FitzJohn @rgfitzjohn]

@b_rosen_baum If you're interested in discrete stochastic models, we've got a new backend for that https://t.co/lvkvWJJa9t via https://t.co/YKGaxZdJJJ - supports systems of 10's of thousands of equations and runs in parallel on CPU or GPU