Patrick Spedding

Data Scientist | Statistician | Mathematician | Product Manager | MBA | MTEACH | MENSA | Director, See-Change Solutions | Guitarist | Golfer | Opinions=mine

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

Check out this GetUp! Campaign to reform the press council! via @getup https://t.co/Mfx08TYAg8

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

@openclaw Yeah I’m not upgrading. 2026.5.2 was such a clusterf*ck upgrade that I’m only just getting everything working again.

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

@openclaw The upgrade (from 2026.4.26) wiped all my cron jobs and also my Discord and WhatsApp configurations, which I needed to re-install.

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

@openclaw I’m currently on 2026.4.26 and everything is working great. From the comments it sounds like 29 is buggy. I’ll wait for a more stable version before upgrading.

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

@prjrev @openclaw Same. Managed to rebuild it eventually

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

@steipete @roubenate @openclaw Every time my agent updates the config it breaks something. I’d rather make the change myself to be safe.

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

@thekitze Same. It’s excruciating. I’ve gone from a productive “can do” developer (Claude) to an external consultant that does nothing more than give me “plans” on how to execute but never actually does anything.

[The Math Flow @TheMathFlow]

Mathematics. Functions. Dance.

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

@dhinchcliffe @nvidia Set mine up late January, been using it and improving it ever since. It’s really useful.

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

@DavidPocock Too much bureaucracy and red tape to get R&D funding in Australia. Not worth the effort.

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

https://t.co/eOZqVE32JH

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

@Scobleizer @openclaw Producing month-end timesheets for my clients based on my calendar activities, extracting any tax-return relevant invoices attached to emails and organising them into folders on Google Drive, and creating me a university-level macroeconomics course for deployment in Teachable.

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

@RbGotRugged @steipete @openclaw I find DeepSeek works pretty well via OpenRouter. My agent uses it for bulk work to reduce cost, and uses Claude Sonnet for more complex stuff. Working well so far.

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

Meanwhile: “The Commonwealth Bank has beaten expectations with its profit rising to $5.4 billion for the half-year.” #ABCNews

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

“KPMG urban economist Terry Rawnsley said the impact of interest rate rises was two-fold — less consumer demand for apartments due to a reduced borrowing capacity, and greater difficulty for developers in getting the finance needed for projects.” #ABCNews

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

@TheKouk Long term unemployment rate/total unemployment trend is up. Jobseeker recipients trend is up. Job Vacancies trend is down. Yet only 35% of Australian households have mortgages. So perhaps they are not the ones driving up inflation. But they are the ones paying the price.

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

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[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

@Acyn @grok is there any evidence that there was “Horrible corruption on elections” in Detroit, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Atlanta?

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

@TheKouk “Housing costs, driven by electricity, were the largest contributor to annual inflation over the past 12 months, the ABS said, up 5.5 per cent.” (ABC News).

[Patrick Spedding @spedding]

“In the pantheon of policy mistakes, the train wreck that is Australia's east coast gas export industry is a stand-out.” https://t.co/77xviplA4J