L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen

A meme of the Lorax, wearing a us military forest camouflage helmet, saying "I am the Lorax And I speak for the trees. The trees speak Vietnamese"

The trees speak Vietnamese and so too does the girl who straps your girlfriend down

> spend last night banging my gf and ellie nguyen's gf

> walk into my bedroom tonight to see ellie nguyen tying up my gf and banging her gf

well well well, looks like the rice paddy hat's on the other head

Gambling should be grungy, dirty, if you wanna actually do any kind of sports betting it should have to be at a casino at the edge of town, from a bookie who chain-smokes cigarettes offering you terrible odds and outcomes that overwhelmingly favor the house.

You should feel seedy while gambling.

Most state and local hiring is done with robust civil service protections, examinations, and the like. Part of the legacy of the progressive era and attempts to cut down on graft from a previous generation.

And state and local budgets aren't exactly... robust. See, for example, Maryland.

> start hiring people in state governments on fast track

I couldn't even get state and local governments to bite when I got separated from the feds, and I had:
- recognition for assisting with the Hurricane Helene response
- data scientist
- graduate degree
- was an AI fellow at the Wilson Center

Yeah, it was definitely more like this when I was in school there in the late 2000s.

a man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiers Alt: A man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiers

My attitude watching this:

A view of the Bay from the hills of Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California. Boats are parked on the left and the Casino is visible.

A view of the Bay from the hills of Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California. Boats are parked on the right and buildings are visible on the left.

A view of the Casino on Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California.

A selfie of Lucille Eleanor Nguyen wearing a bike helmet at a green Georgetown University tee shirt. It is sunny and she is wearing polarized sunglasses.

I was born today!

I spent the last few days in Avalon, Santa Catalina Island to celebrate.

Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.

Trump perceives basically all independent institutions as a threat to himself, including economic institutions like the BLS and the Fed, he won't stop trying to wreck them until he's out of office, and it's everyday Americans who are going to feel the consequences

Brook, a short-haired black cat, wears a blue bow tie collar and has a tag reading "Brook" in the shape of a star.

Brook, a short-haired black cat, wears a blue bow tie collar and has a tag reading "Brook" in the shape of a star.

Brook, a short-haired black cat, wears a blue bow tie collar and has a tag reading "Brook" in the shape of a star.

My cat has a dapper collar now!

ex-girlfriend, actually

escalate to deescalate babeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

"PhD level experts"

Damn I didn't know that they finally managed to get imposter syndrome and random desires to quit it all and start a bakery in a LLM model

Truly this is a step towards general intelligence!

Hochul, like Newsom, is a weather vane that moves with the political winds and dear G-d, we're in a fucking storm given what their recent actions have been.

library(tidyplots) gene_expression |> tidyplot(x = group, y = expression, color = group) |> add_violin() |> add_data_points_beeswarm(white_border = TRUE) |> split_plot(by = external_gene_name, ncol = 1, nrow = 1) |> save_plot("my_genes.pdf", multiple_files = TRUE)

This is how you can generate multiple PDF files at once in #tidyplots 🚀

#rstats #dataviz #phd

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.

It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

The Bayesian model (with a whole 11 examples) sez what the boss wants to say if you put the prior correctly

BLS Commissioner Marco Rubio and Associate Commissioner for Survey Methods Research Steven Miller are going to Make Statistics Great Again /s

As a former member of the federal statistical system, I'd like to say

[Panicked Screaming]

TBH both probably work in the same office

For the record, I didn't drop out of college!

I hold a master's degree in data science, did graduate work in mathematics, and am currently doing another master on technology management and artificial intelligence at Georgetown.

Hey, cult of the dropout wins in tech world I guess, and now in DC.

I'm around the same age (23 vs 24) as this guy.

Except, I actually spent over a year working on safety systems at the Forest Service and fraud detection at Federal Student Aid as a data scientist.

He gets a GS-15 salary (163k) to be a wrecking ball. I left when they cut my agency indiscriminately.

Lucille Nguyen wearing a tee shirt wearing "A Computer Can Never Be Held Accountable, Therefore A Computer Must Never Make A Management Decision."

IBM 1970s training slide noting "A Computer Can Never Be Held Accountable, Therefore A Computer Must Never Make A Management Decision."

Accountability is the best aesthetic.

(or don't trust the AIs to make decisions, folks, always double check)

Dang, AI can now delete the database and lie about it?

They really are coming for internships and entry-level jobs, lol

NEW ARTICLE: American automaking is halfway into its grave. Is it fixable? Did we fix it once and then let fascism ruin everything? Today on LaserChronicles: Solving The American Car…Again: open.substack.com/pub/laserdyk...

Screenshot showing Firefox browser displaying a webR REPL interface in the foreground, with an RStudio session visible in the background. The webR interface shows decoded R files (main.R, functions.R, config.R, sample_data.csv) that were embedded in a shareable URL. The RStudio console in the background displays the encoded webR sharelink URL that packages all the local files. On the right side, R documentation is open showing help for the 'Create WebR REPL sharelink for multiple files' function. This demonstrates the workflow of encoding local R project files into a URL that can be shared and automatically reconstructed in a browser-based R environment.

Step 1: Write R code
Step 2: Share it
Step 3: Spend 2 hours helping someone install R and troubleshoot their environment

OR

Step 1: Write R code
Step 2: webR sharelink

webr.r-wasm.org/latest/?mode...

Step 3: Profit ✨

#rstats #webr

DDLC Author: In my visual novel, we invented Monica as a cautionary tale

Elon Musk: At long last, we have created the Monica character from classic sci-fi visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club

"Benchmarking parallel trends violations in regression imputation difference-in-differences" https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ngr3d_v1

New working paper! - zikai.li and I look at the problem of assessing pre-trends using one of the "new" DiD methods - fixed effects regression imputation. tl;dr - don't use the same regression you used to impute post-treatment to also impute pre-treatment. osf.io/preprints/so... (1/14)

Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to g...

I was a data scientist overseeing Federal student loan servicers before being targeted for removal by DOGE. I actually have experience with working in FedRAMP environments.

By all accounts, the DOGE folks have no idea how the technologies they're using work.
www.propublica.org/article/insi...