Sameer Deshpande

Lmaooo the Cowboys social team is on fire tonight.

Cowboys vs. Eagles third quarter recap: Dallas shows life and down 21-14 Here is what happened in the third quarter of Sunday’s Cowboys/Eagles game.

The Dallas Cowboys completed an epic comeback on Sunday to keep their playoff hopes alive.

They thoroughly embarrassed the fraudulent Philadelphia Eagles.

Happy Thanksgiving week! www.bloggingtheboys.com/dallas-cowbo...

The Dallas Wings will have the No. 1 pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft 🌟

BACK-TO-BACK NO. 1 PICKS 👏

The Dallas Wings will have the No. 1 pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft 🌟

This Sounds from the Sideline is go so hard.

Dak Prescott, George Pickens, Osa Odighizuwa, James Ferguson. Brandon Aubrey are even greater Americans 🤷🏾‍♂️🤠

2026 Best of Statistical Science Workshop (BOSS 2026) The Department of Statistics at Texas A&M invites you to join us for the 2026 Best of Statistical Science Workshop (BOSS 2026)! BOSS 2026 bring...

The Dept. of Statistics at Texas A&M invites you to the 2026 Best of Statistical Science Workshop ( #BOSS2026 ). BOSS 2026 brings together experts, faculty, and students for engaging discussions, presentations, and networking.

See the website 👇 for details.

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NARRATOR: Roth quite clearly did not name call & we need our leaders to stop granting <every bad faith premise> of the far right authoritarians' lawless assault on higher education before we push back.

Btw, it does not matter if he’s smart or a good economist (if you think that). There are lots of people good at their jobs who do not harass and abuse other people!

It’s centered around what is formally a posterior mean wrt a symmetric Beta prior. I think if you use the mean +/- 2 sd heuristic you’ll back out the Beta(2,2) prior. But i don’t think it is the highest density credible interval or necessarily corresponds to nicely-rounded posterior quantiles.

As one Massachusetts school administrator recently said; this moment with AI is remarkably like the moment when we were introduced to asbestos. Yes, it had some remarkably promising characteristics – fireproofing! – and had some real utility in science, research, and industrial applications. But a profit-driven industry bullied us into inserting it everywhere; into our homes and schools and public spaces, before we really understood the risks. This resulted in decades, if not centuries, of illness, injuries, deaths, and the astronomical financial burden of trying to remove the stuff. As you, the leaders and policymakers in our schools, craft an AI policy for our district, we the undersigned call on you to: 1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect our students and teachers from de-skilling and allow them the space and time to engage in assignments themselves. 2. Resist any direct financial relationship or contracts with AI providers, as well as the “training” they might offer. 3. Provide a digital literacy curriculum to help students navigate the current digital landscape, and promote critical engagement with technology. 4. Guarantee that anywhere generative AI has already entered our classrooms or curriculum, an opt-out will allow students and teachers to refuse the use of these products at no risk to their grades, progress or employment.

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

One more week to submit a contributed talk proposal!
Looking forward to seeing everyone in Nagoya next summer

uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Good riddance to Nico Harrison, the personification of everything that’s going on. Blew up something good because he didn’t understand it and it didn’t conform to his vision of toughness. One of the clearest pictures of Everyone Is 12 Now ever produced. Untold damage to my psyche. Enjoy podcasting.

This and the Adelsons sell.

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

As recently as the late 1980s, tuition at @uwmadison.bsky.social was <$1000/semester. In current dollars, that's about $2500/semester. There is one central reason for that: the <massive decline in state funding>. This was a choice. Other choices remain readily available.

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/5….for the nation and the culture where economic and political corruption flourish. It’s not a good thing that so few good convictions came out of the 2008 crash. And if some tech fuckers don’t go to prison after AI collapses I am going to have to punch something.

No.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"

YouTube video by Chris Bilder University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics seminar "The Metrics" on November 6, 2025

If you're following the #UNL #statistics saga (proposed for elimination based on bad stats), you might find the seminar we gave yesterday interesting... youtu.be/fUk2R0UYWpA

It was weird to rail against someone for an hour, but strangely cathartic, and the #datavis seems to have been effective?

Dissolution is letting them off too lightly

AI is changing sports statistics as we know it, but humans still call the plays Even as AI changes the way people look at sports statistics, University of Wisconsin Professor Sameer Deshpande says human analysis hasn’t lost its relevance.

It was fun chatting with @dailycardinal.bsky.social about sports and statistics and AI.
www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025...

Only 24. I’m gutted for his family and teammates.

If anyone was looking for solid evidence that a crash is imminent, here it is:

FROM WAY DOWNTOWN

“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!