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The official unit of measure in the carribean is the heap. Interestingly it is unheard of to have a fractional number of heaps. Most typically you will simply have a single, whole, heap, particularly when measuring a specific quantity of trouble. For example "man chew be in a whole heap'a trouble".

Oh! This is a nice paper summarizing a lot of information about prior choice in Bayesian models. It's targeted at ecologists and the kinds of models they tend to use, but useful outside of ecology I expect.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ab

#ecology #modeling #stan #bayesian

I colorized the intro ascii art for my MUD game (text-based mmorpg).

Back when comic book characters taught you something too. One of the simplest radios you can make.

It’s the return of the #GEDI (data). NASA’s laser on the Space_Station has a new look at Earth’s trees 🌳 & the carbon they store. The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation instrument makes 3D maps 🗺 of forests, like this one in South Carolina.

I have nothing against your "enlightened" sort of christians. But for all the others...

I am a badge to the police and a license to a doctor. What am I to a king? riddlewot.com/riddles/9NuCB81z #riddle

This pretty much sums up life in america these days. Nothing but extremist fanatics on both sides, it is so sad :(

So I just tried a traditional dutch breakfast snack for the first time and it was amazing. You put butter/margarine on some bread (usually untoasted but fresh) then add some chocolate jimmies that actually taste like chocolate (not that American crap). The result is suprisingly tasty.

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