ninepointeightone.net

Who am I?

This is still the personal webpage of David L. Miller. It's (continuously) undergoing a bit of a redesign. Sorry about that.

I'm a statistician and programmer. I move around a lot, the last time I checked into Latitude I was here:

You can find me on github and twitter.



Things I've done...

You might be interested in things I have worked on:
● msg, a package for smoothing over spatial regions with odd shapes (one of the topics of my PhD thesis), some info also at this wiki page.
● Distance, a piece of software for assessing animal abundance.
● mmds, R package for performing distance sampling analyses for mixture model detection functions (now available on CRAN).
● RXMPP, an XMPP library for R.
● Some maps of the 2010 UK election using ggplot2.

Some interesting things from the internet

  • "John Roderick is the songwriter and singer/guitarist of The Long Winters, forming the band from a mound of clay back in 2001. Widely acclaimed as one of America’s preeminent artists, credited with resurrecting Seattle’s moribund music scene and bringing new life to the rock genre, John also writes his own press bios. A central figure in the Northwest music community, John nevertheless maintains his outsider status by being both dangerously edgy and completely huggable, in contravention of established Seattle practice. Equally talented at almost any instrument, (except guitar, at which he is even more talented), John has made it nearly impossible for any other musicians to find work in Washington State, effectively playing ALL the music that needs to be played. John is also a widely respected journalist, an extensively quoted author and philosopher, a prima ballerina, a cowboy and an astronaut."
    via John Roderick (of the Long Winters) - Tickets - Mercury Lounge - New York, NY - January 28th, 2012 (I am so annoyed I will miss this!)
  • Improbable Research » Fifth editions: DSM vs. D&D - [link]
  • "

    2012-01-04 Front-Brain & Rear-Brain Learners

    Some professional educators go on about “left-brain” learners and “right-brain” learners. See, for example, http://bit.ly/wdVoyV. (Thanks to Mo Costandi for bringing it to our attention.)

    There is controversy about the notion of left-brain learners and right-brain learners. Much of that controversy is between — on the one hand (the left, or maybe the right) — people who have spent much of their time studying brains and learning, and — on the other hand — people who have spent much of their time talking about right-brain learners and left-brain learners. Those on one of the hands tend to think the idea is nonsense. Those on the other hand like to like the idea.

    We propose a new controversy. Henceforth let us all speak confidently, arbitrarily, about a new concept:

    Some people are FRONT-BRAIN LEARNERS.

    Other people are REAR-BRAIN LEARNERS.

    Please help us spread this confounding notion.

    This is one more in our series of Cogno-Intellectual activities.
    For Cogno-Intellectual background, see http://bit.ly/xVTVIk

    "
    from this month’s mini-AIR
  • Video | Girl Walk // All Day - [link]
  • Book Glasses | F.A.T. - [link]
  • The Restart Page - Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems - [link]

    via Will

  • Optical illusions - Boing Boing - [link]
  • Maylong Android Tablet: more versatile than you think | BBYOPEN - [link]
  • Tomintoul 33 Year Old / Special Reserve : Buy Online - The Whisky Exchange - [link]

    @hooleyca and I were drinking this last night. Delicious and even better with a wee spot of water.

    • More?


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