tiredofsametab

Mosquitos: jackpot!

I live in rural Japan where it’s 04:30-05:00 instead (it’s quite light out already in east Japan by then). Trying to work past like 11am in the heat and humidity is miserable and dangerous

I’ve accidentally read until like 3am before, so I imagine the content/interestingness is important.

I did find that site last night, but assumed it was not the original. Now, actually at a PC, I see this:

If you are thinking, “I’ve seen charts like these before,” you probably have and they were probably mine! The original version of spurious correlations was published on the web in 2014, and in book form in 2015. I am that same guy. These charts are also frequently used in class materials, textbooks, and elsewhere because they are not copywritten.

In January 2024, I released a big update to the project based on user feedback. I added 25,000 new variables, improved and expanded the discover feature, and added a sprinkle of GenAI (including spurious scholar). Thank you to all the teachers, students, and other nerds who provided input on this version!

Disappointing.

I wonder if the old spurious correlations website is still around

If the Japan life/visa/legal/finance subreddits would fully move over, I could finally be rid of reddit. Sadly, they have not. Some subs exist, but it’s worthless without the institutional knowledge that some of the people have; Japanese legalese be tough.

When I was in Japanese language school, this actually came up amongst the Chinese students in the group as it was an example in the textbook or something. Laughter was had and then they explained to the rest of us later.