Stephen Wild

So weird they're called czars. People remember what happened to the Romanovs, right?

Me too, albeit it I'm skewed

10/10 response

No. Everything is headed by a tsar. I don't make the rules.

Be content that you are worthy of unhappiness or disrespect?

Michael Lewis was a mistake

We need some other discourse tbh

I raise you

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Protein in everything

Been a day

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nice paper from @bingkai.bsky.social adding evidence that adjustment in RCTs is good but ML is often not better than linear regression.

arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00434

The result shouldn't surprise you! The signal to noise ratio is too high to learn useful nonlinearities in all but the largest trials.

I just finished this excellent book. Strong recommend.

An old man drinking coffee. In the first panel he is looking at a computer. In the second panel he turns and looks at the reader. Text, panel 1: "Yesterday I was an expert on contract law." Text, panel 2: "Today I am an expert on war."

Oh, Bluesky. Never change.

The Schitt's Creek gifs will continue until morale improves

I used to work for a bank. This happened to a few clients and yeah, it was ugly

a cartoon character wearing a purple hat and a black shirt is standing in front of a door . Alt: Mr Burns wearing a purple hat and a black shirt is standing in front of a door. He says, "Ahoy fellow school chums."

Everyone is too young until one day you aren't

Jokes aside, if you don't have a will, POA, etc, go get them. Do it before you need them.

Best part of the movie

Great movies

a man in a cowboy hat stands in front of a large dinosaur ALT: a man in a cowboy hat stands in front of a large dinosaur

But *the* core memory is from 1993

Movie poster for Mortal Kombat. It features a dragon

Movies peaked in 1995

MS is weird, man. And symptoms vary so much depending on where the lesions are

The Schitt's Creek gifs will continue until morale improves

they were talking to the baby smh

I got some “Thank you for doing the work” comments when I posted a photo of my baby in a sling here. Bewildering (but thank you).

And the other 10% is demanding compliments for doing so

So you're saying the Katyn massacre was justified?

I think edgy thoughts, so I am smart.

As a man, I demand compliments for keeping my offspring alive. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

MoAr WWII discourse!

Because priors make some people uncomfortable, we should use confidence distributions as a Trojan horse. Bayesians unhappy because no prior, frequentists unhappy because you're interpreting them as probabilities. Discussion over.