Andi Fugard

Social policy evaluator. Based in #London UK; #RStats user. Personal account – views mine.  Posts auto delete after a month.

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2026-04-06 10:09:12 UTC

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I suspect some of this intersects with your interests, @npub1u32…xcf5 - pointers welcome on what to read next would be very gratefully received. I'm on Horty at the mo.

2026-04-06 10:04:36 UTC

I've disappeared down is-ought and deontic logic rabbit holes. Fun stuff, combining my current job in social policy evaluation with my past in the psychology of reasoning and computer science.
https://andifugard.info/what-should-the-is-ought-thesis-state/

2025-12-02 20:14:39 UTC

I'm doing #AdventOfCode again - until I run out of time - using #RStats, of course. Aiming for O(finishes by Christmas day) worst case time complexity.
First two solutions (and beyond, if/when I do them) yonder: https://github.com/InductiveStep/aoc2025?tab=readme-ov-file#aoc2025

2025-01-26 13:43:12 UTC

I have a csv dataset and a word doc code book. I could easily reshape the code book by hand into something easier to read, e.g., another csv spec of variable names, labels, and factor levels. Is there a robust #rstats package that takes such a code book and fixes up factor levels etc in a data frame?

2024-12-29 11:01:04 UTC

Looking for examples of internet services (including but not limited to websites) that are free (at point of use, so BBC News is in) and ad-free.
Some examples:
BBC News
The Conversation
Mastodon
openDemocracy
OpenStreetMap
Project Gutenberg
Signal
TheyWorkForYou
Tilde.Club
Wikipedia
Any other big ones? Or an existing list? Sounds like the sort of thing that's on Wikipedia somewhere but my searches failed me.

2024-11-23 11:00:54 UTC

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the current state in north London
https://cdn.masto.host/sciencessocial/media_attachments/files/113/531/899/155/054/148/original/70cbbcaba481ac51.png

2024-08-28 14:27:15 UTC

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I like it though I don't understand it.

2024-08-20 07:46:08 UTC

I have a conjecture about Mastodon users. Have you heard of xkcd? Boost for a large convenience sample.

2024-08-20 07:33:26 UTC

(BBC 19 Aug 2024) A rocket engine exploded during a launch test at the UK’s new spaceport in Shetland, SaxaVord. The test, conducted by German company Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), was part of trials for launching the UK’s first vertical rocket into orbit. No injuries were reported, launchpad fine. #SaxaVordSpaceport #Shetland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy54wqzz0kvo

2024-08-11 22:45:38 UTC

“I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat. Yet if I try to imagine this, I am restricted to the resources of my own mind, and those resources are inadequate to the task” (Nagel, 1974).
“Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you” (Bedingfield, 2004).