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Korawich Kavee @[email protected] · 2026-02-06 · 21:36 UTC

@aoanla @quixoticgeek I think both of you are correct, and to make sure we establish something more concrete here, I would model a simple #Bayesian (#Markov) chain:

Helmet‑free → higher bike‑commute mode share → increased daily physical activity → lower incidence of rare cardiovascular disease

#bayesian #markov

aoanla @aoanla · 2026-05-14 · 18:33 UTC

Yeah, on Dispatch: I tried giving episode 5 another go or two, but it's really lost its shine for me. Like a lot of games that want to be "adult", it's mostly like it was written by a 16 year old who wanted to sound like they were a decade older with no experience.

This is not getting my Hugo vote for best game, sadly. (I really did think it might, at Episode 1...)

#dispatch

aoanla @[email protected] · 2026-05-14 · 18:33 UTC

Yeah, on Dispatch: I tried giving episode 5 another go or two, but it's really lost its shine for me. Like a lot of games that want to be "adult", it's mostly like it was written by a 16 year old who wanted to sound like they were a decade older with no experience.

This is not getting my Hugo vote for best game, sadly. (I really did think it might, at Episode 1...)

#dispatch

aoanla @[email protected] · 2026-04-07 · 18:47 UTC

So, in other news, I played Esoteric Ebb over the last week or so.
I thought it was good, but not as good as Disco Elysium, which I'm on record as thinking is the best (computer) RPG ever made. This is relevant because Esoteric Ebb is very open about being influenced by the latter, and by the most philosophical of the late-90s/early2000s D&D video games, Planescape: Torment - broadly, it's approximately D&D 5e mechanics and a homebrew setting with metacommentary on D&D tropes (some of which as well worn as the fact that Enchantment is the most overtly evil school of magic, some of which becomes a bit overly postmodern for me), with DE's "your attributes speak to you", "you can internalise thoughts for bonuses", "politics is everywhere" and general approach to time passing and interactions.
Interestingly, the lone dev does *not* do 5e combat straight - it's a sort of fusion of DE's one combat encounter ("make choices in the same mode as everything else, but with higher stakes") and D&D initiative order and to-hit mechanics. What I find a little irritating about reviews of EE is how they call this innovative, when it's not even innovative for *tabletop* RPGs - there's plenty of systems which don't do D&D's turn-based mechanical approach to combat (including games where combat can be a single die roll, just like anything else, if it's not particularly important to the flow of the game).
And, I guess, broadly, this might also be why I'm generally not as incredibly enthusiastic about EE as reviewers seem to be - it's well-written, there's parts that are even quite effecting (but nothing as good as the best of DE)... but the fantasy-kitchen sink setting and the general "D&D wackiness" of it really detracts from the focus that made DE a truly excellent game.

#DiscoElysium #EsotericEbb #gamereview

#discoelysium #esotericebb #gamereview

aoanla @[email protected] · 2026-01-22 · 12:25 UTC

Back in July last year, I attended a workshop on Decolonising the Physics curriculum at #UniversityOfSheffield .

The recommendations from that workshop went to a report to the #IoP - and they're now public (along with a blog from the convener, Matt Mears) on the per-he website. https://per-he.org/from-cautious-ambition-to-coordinated-action-reflections-on-the-decolonising-the-physics-curriculum-workshop/ (link to Matt's blog that links in turn to the report)

I am especially proud at getting "epistemic harm" into the report as a concept, as I think it's pretty core to thinking about this area.

#universityofsheffield #iop

aoanla @[email protected] · 2025-01-23 · 21:58 UTC

So, whilst I'm still processing the emotional journey of 1000xRESIST, I discovered today that you can actually watch The Witch From Mercury for free on YouTube (officially, even). This may or may not be related to the fact I'm on the Discord for the former...

So, I watched the prologue of TWFM for the first time.
...now I have *two* sets of dramatically induced emotional trauma to process.

(But, I did stay for the 1st episode proper and wow, yeah, I already see why people immediately spotted Utena references. Which is of course good, because Revolutionary Girl Utena is amazing.)

#thewitchfrommercury #utena #1000xRESIST

#thewitchfrommercury #utena #1000xresist

aoanla @[email protected] · 2024-12-22 · 16:14 UTC

A bit disappointed that people don't seem to widely recognise the xorshift prng nowadays...
#AdventOfCode2024

#adventofcode2024

aoanla @[email protected] · 2024-12-21 · 18:28 UTC

CW: Advent of Code 2024 Day 21

I seem to have been the only person who just sat down, thought about what the easiest sequences must be (in terms of "left" being harder than "right" because it's further from the "A"), handwrote a lookup table and then got pt1 perfect, and pt2 off by just one logic error true/false conditions (ironically, in the bit of the lookup table I wrote some code to generate because I was bored of typing).
Sometimes you don't need to throw a DFS at everything!
#AdventOfCode2024

#adventofcode2024

aoanla @[email protected] · 2024-10-05 · 09:35 UTC

bonus thoughts:

Whilst I don't think the language itself was critically important, I was impressed and proud of the work Shahzaib Abbas and Ali Asgha presented on their experience running the first ever Julia workshop in Pakistan, bringing programming and HEP to communities that have less connection to the unevenly distributed world of high-energy physics. (And they're both *Masters* students, self-motivated and using HEP Software Foundation training resources to bootstrap!)

#HSF #HEP

#hsf #hep

aoanla @[email protected] · 2024-04-14 · 08:23 UTC

CW: Super Meat Boy short gameplay video

Okay, #videogames #supermeatboy is almost at an end... but after attempting the final (light world) boss level for about 3 hours in total, I still have absolutely no idea how to do the bit I die at in this video. And I mean no idea - I've tried approaching from various angles and I just die on the sawblades on the floor regardless (I might, if lucky, jump them once, but they get me the next time). What am I supposed to do here?

#videogames #supermeatboy