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Almost back home. Here's my postcards thread from Mastodon should you want to see it all in one place.

Senaste avsnittet av Tyngre Träningssnack
Om svensk sjukvård med Fanny Nilsson | Podcast https://tyngre.se/podcast/tyngre-traningssnack/om-svensk-sjukvard-med-fanny-nilsson

Om svensk sjukvård med Fanny Nilsson | Podcast
Wille och Jacob möter läkaren och författaren Fanny Nilsson för ett samtal om svensk sjukvård, hennes bok Åk till akuten och vad vi kan lära av andra europeiska

Generalized Jeffreys's approximate objective Bayes factor: Model-selection consistency, finite-sample accuracy, and statistical evidence in 71,126 clinical trial findings
Puneet Velidi, Zhengxiao Wei, Shreena Nisha Kalaria, Yimeng Liu, C\'eline M. Laumont, Brad H. Nelson, Farouk S. Nathoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10358

Generalized Jeffreys's approximate objective Bayes factor: Model-selection consistency, finite-sample accuracy, and statistical evidence in 71,126 clinical trial findings
Concerns about the misuse and misinterpretation of p-values and statistical significance have motivated alternatives for quantifying evidence. We define a generalized form of Jeffreys's approximate objective Bayes factor (eJAB), a one-line calculation that is a function of the p-value, sample size, and parameter dimension. We establish conditions under which eJAB is model-selection consistent and verify them for ten statistical tests. We assess finite-sample accuracy by comparing eJAB with Mark…

You have noticed NFL TV ratings are soaring. Now understand why that is happening https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6699995/2025/10/10/nfl-tv-ratings-nielsen-big-data/

from my link log —
Icons in menus everywhere! Send help!
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/
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Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Been starting a habit of writing down story/game ideas as I have them even though most of them will never seriously get started, let alone finished. It's been fun since writing things down gives me a chance to think them through a bit more than just pondering them in my head. Anyways, here's a #GameDesign idea:
"Grand" - is a "reverse metroidvania" in which as a grandparent, you slowly lose movement options as the story progresses, requiring more and more convoluted routes through the map to reach the same areas. You do still explore "new" areas in memory mode (and unlock movement options like a bike in your memories) before traversing the areas again in the diegetic present. The story follows your quest to protect a grandchild from the machinations of a Kafkaesque state, first trying to track them down within the system and then trying to get them released. Each "boss" is "fought" through an abstracted conversation system where memories, keepsakes, and various kinds of emotional/logical appeals wear down your opponent's nihilism and/or fear until they're willing to help you. Normal "enemies" are just people on the street who might bump into you and drain some of your stamina as you pass by if you don't issue a properly-timed "excuse me" or the like.

Thanks to @… for suggesting this new personality is tunable. I've asked ChatGPT to use a different tone and it says it will remember that. Curious how well this works.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Radio3InConcert
- The Inextinguishable
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Arvo Volmer perform Nielsen's 4th Symphony, alongside Vaughan Williams, a UK Premiere by Ester Mägi, and Helen Grime's Trumpet Concerto.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ldt2

Nielsen: viewership of YouTube on TVs in the US inched down from a high of 13.4% in July to 12.6% in September, but still leads other distributors (Sam Gutelle/Tubefilter)
https://www.tubefilter.com/2025/10/23/youtube-tv-screen-decline-nielse…

Is YouTube's TV viewership plateauing, or is it just back-to-school season? - Tubefilter
YouTube's market share has declined in recent editions of The Gauge, Nielsen's report on TV usage. What is the explanation?

Chrome now has a bug where if a web page pops up "log in with Google" it happens in the browser UI, not in the web page UI. And it freezes things up enough so Ctrl-W no longer works to close the tab while the "log in" dialog is displayed.
Good jerb! I suspect this is related to some monopolistic practice of Google favoring their proprietary, privacy-invading login system in their browser.