Dan Simpson

"if you want to be open-minded, there’s no good reason to start with work promoting a politically loaded, much-debunked idea and published on a propaganda site."
--Andrew Gelman

Weird. You’re a much better writer than

The Box-Cox power exponential distribution – Notes from a data witch This is so obviously a prequel post to something else that I want to write about GAMLSS models

I regret to inform you that she has, yet again, written more words than are necessary on a topic you don't care about

Naked Gun is extremely stupid and I’m very happy about that.

WBN releasing this and making me have these feelings in the middle of my work day? Rude.

I don’t know why but while Wes is just not an English name, Streeting is so English he might as well be named Britain McBrittface

If you liked this thread, and you're like, "I bet that guy would make an awesome coworker," I'm currently on the job market - primarily looking for data scientist/quantitative researcher roles, but I'm flexible!

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*Screams in @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social*

I just read diff-on-diff as dilf-on-dilf so that’s how Monday is going

Let it be said that the insistence that universities must produce useful things is what is killing (or has killed) universities. The reluctance to value useful things to the same extent as other things is what allowed this to happen.

lol. Academias doesn’t value it at all. Useful is (generally) neither prestigious nor quantifiable. There are people in academia who value it and will help. There are even some rare places that will do it. But being useful (broadly or narrowly) really isn’t the goal of most academic systems.

New Yorker Instagram post of "Sniffies brings cruising into the digital age" by Emily Witt, with New Yorker style cartoons of naked men on their phones

hot take: cis women should not be writing about Sniffies for mainstream publications, and you should not be reading those pieces.

DO YEAR newyorkermag "On Grindr, the third thing you send is a picture of that your genitalia; on Sniffies, it's your profile picture." a Sniffies user THE NEW YORKER 2/5 :

newyorkermag "I can wake up on a Saturday and be, like, O.K., I don't have a lot to do today, I should clean my house, but instead I'm just going to go out and have sex with someone." a physician in L.A. .. 3/5 THE NEW YORKER

newyorkermag "I think it's understood that everyone there is probably there to fuck and not necessarily, like, 'Would you like to go to the theatre with me?"" a Sniffies user 4/5 THE NEW YORKER

In case anyone wants to try and pretend that @embits.bsky.social's New Yorker article on Sniffies is anything other than pure voyeurism, here are thre three pull quotes @newyorker.com is using to promote it.

They know what they're doing, and they're selling it hard.

While I was on vacation enjoying Finnish summer, Frank Weber finished some PRs and made a new major CRAN release of projpred mc-stan.org/projpred/ (for projection predictive variable selection). This release contains some major features add by me and Frank.
1/4

Needs another S

AIC comparing discrete to continuous (or mixed discrete/continuous to continous) models? Run away!
notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/07/22/a...

Same reason we shouldn't use LLMs to do arithmetic (although I've seen people with PhDs try). We already have calculators. They're reliable, fast, and widely available.

This will get taken up as a problem with the model (it gave a bad answer), when it really should be taken up as a problem with the use (people shouldn't turn to LLMs for this kind of question, though I'm sure some do).

That’s literally my strategy and I hate it.

I would really like them to add an accessibility setting that’s basically just “I don’t want to fucking do this”

Elder scrolls oblivion is fun but the lock picking minigame can truly fuck right off. Atrocious.

You can have some of ours.

Is the appendix a grave?

In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”

Image of spell check suggesting "reprehensibility" as a replacement for "reproducibility"

Spell check making some very strong claims this morning

More like Babylon Cis-ters, amirite

Like I’m sorry if anyone here is impressed by leaderboards. Fucking grow up. To the extent that there are actually good metrics, I promise you they are very intentionally not public.

Like I don’t post about work on here because, like, that is not my journey anymore but this is definitely true. Both for regulatory oversight, but also like just for making the damn things work reliably in a production environment. Your metrics will decrease but they were bullshit anyway.