Brandon Hall @bthall@scholar.social

This morning I realized that "inflation" means that there's price increases across the board, so you need to think about factors that increase prices in order to understand it. And until now I'd overly associated the term "inflation" with the concept of there being expansions in the money supply that in turn drove price increases. (That's evidently only one factor that can cause it.)

I figured this out after looking into why the Fed would think that instituting a hiring freeze would help to curb inflation. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-the-fed-wants-corporate-america-to-have-a-hiring-freeze-morning-brief-100055174.html
#economics

I'm giving a short intro to #openscience (very broadly defined) to PhD students this week.

What are the things you wish you had been told as a PhD about how to practice Open Science?

What still confuses you to this day?

If you see yourself honoring and valuing the things you've done or created in the past, you can feel more confident that you'll be a good steward for the fruits of your present and future efforts.

Programmers, are there any resources that you'd recommend for learning how to understand and navigate documentations? Videos or courses might be especially helpful.
#docs #programming

All right, tomorrow I'm updating my resume and linkedin, Sunday I'm going to look at all the jobs people have sent me, going to get serious about the jorb search. Let me know if you know anybody looking for a statistician/data scientist!

and if any of you know anybody who might want a statistician/data scientist, let me know!

Not really an academics or working at any academic institution, but I still doing research in my free time. I'd very happy to hear your tips to publishing paper as an #IndependentResearcher.

Field of interest ranging from #Philosophy, #ReligiousStudies, to #Mysticism.

Currently based in #Indonesia. #introduction

@bthall "I'm the engine driver, not the oily rag" - Mr Kinnoch, Chemistry (used to assert his classroom dictatorship!)

Alt text:
"Your manuscript 'Don't Pay $25 to Access Any of the Articles in this Journal: A Review of Preprint Repositories and Author Willingness to Email PDF Copies for Free' has also been rejected, but nice try."

@bthall
But also, besides adding my own quote, if I may comment on yours... it is surprisingly useful to understand why quantum computing (and quantum technologies) are interesting.

Indeed, working with quantum tools to do logic actually changes logic rules!

@bthall
"Don't say 'it can't be done', say 'I don't know how to'".

It was probably 10th grade, a science class, and it referred to a particular chemical reaction, but it's usable in a surprisingly wide range of contexts!

Actually, it was in Spanish and to me it was subtly different, since the "yo" is optional so including it is emphasizing that it is oneself in particular that does not know:
"No digas 'no se puede', di 'yo no sé'".

#FediverseMetrics 2022 #MastoPoll. To all #Mastodon / #Fediverse users:

On which continent/region are you?
Sur quel continent êtes-vous ?
Auf welchem Kontinent sind Sie?
¿En qué continente estás?
Em que continente você está?
あなたはどの大陸にいますか？
في أي قارة أنت؟
На каком вы континенте?
您在哪个洲？
In quale continente ti trovi?
Na jakim jesteś kontynencie?
आप किस महाद्वीप पर हैं?
Je! Uko bara gani?
در کدام قاره هستید؟
어느 대륙에 있습니까?
Sur kiu kontinento vi estas?

#Poll #Vote #FediPoll #MastodonPolls

@bthall
Because that's your local instance you can do this pretty easily

Switch advanced web interface (turn this on in preferences->appearance)

Search for introductions which adds your search as a column.

Then toggle the column to be local only.