L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen

The 2028 Republican Primary Padishah Emperor Caudillo Libertadir Macus Rubius versus JD Vance

Relevant:

A search for factors for algorithm understanding results in multiple terms displayed as documents, including available, compact, and aligned. These are shown to be necessary and sufficient. Other, similar terms are shown in the background faded, like intuitive, rule-based, grounded, modular, linear, decomposable, accurate, symbolic, causal, and personalized.

Is the only way we can create algorithms that people understand to make them trivially simple? We argue, no.

People can predict the behavior of algorithms that are arbitrarily complex, if and only if they are available, compact and aligned.

arxiv.org/abs/2601.18966

I do oat milk and Special K instead of wheetabix with my estradiol, can say that my mental well-being is better off for doing so

Heartwarming: All The Worst People You Know Are All Fighting

YouTube video by Andrew Perfors Part 1: How do LLMs work?

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊

Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

How it feels to write a GPKG library in 2026 (in Rust!) There are a lot of existing libraries to deal with GeoPackage (GPKG). GDAL is the undisputed champion...

Writing a GeoPackage(GPKG) library from scratch taught me a lot about some friction between the spec and the modern geospatial ecosystem🦀🌍

GPKG is SQLite. We take that for granted, but have you ever stopped to think about the advantages and disadvantages? Here’s my take.

dev.to/yutannihilat...

The Spring 2026 course website for my grad causal inference class is up and running. Was inspired by @andrew.heiss.phd and @mattblackwell.bsky.social to move my materials over to a standalone site and use as little of Canvas as possible.

www.antonstrezhnev.com/ps813/

I mean, the way I see it, half of it is strategizing? You push your preferred policy all the way because you know you have to get it through a legislature of varying interests.

Easy to start big and cut down to sensible, then start sensible and cut down to inadequate.

🔥I am super excited for the official release of an open-source library we've been working on for about a year!

🪄interpreto is an interpretability toolbox for HF language models🤗. In both generation and classification!

Why do you need it, and for what?

1/8 (links at the end)

> are they trying to dress like Trump too?

This is an insult to the Florida Panthers, they are more than capable of looking like idiots themselves

Not their fault that the President looks like a dipshit and ruins the good name of all earnest dipshits out there

> Sponsored by Jack Daniels

Unironically this is a dumb business decision for them.

As a Brown-Forman shareholder, the stock is down 23.6% YOY. Sponsoring CBS's old dude hour is not exactly the way to revive struggling Jack Daniels sales my dudes

1/ We found that deep sequence models memorize atomic facts "geometrically" -- not as an associative lookup table as often imagined.

This opens up practical questions on reasoning/memory/discovery, and also poses a theoretical "memorization puzzle."

You wanna read a new (hopefully improved, thanks to very helpful comments from a bunch of very smart colleagues) version of paper called "The Political Economy of Shitcoins"? Of course you do. @tompepinsky.com & I are at your service.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

GitHub - rfordatascience/tidytuesday: Official repo for the #tidytuesday project Official repo for the #tidytuesday project. Contribute to rfordatascience/tidytuesday development by creating an account on GitHub.

The TidyTuesday project has a whole bunch every Tuesday, going back to 2018!
github.com/rfordatascie...

The partisan heuristic and the voters’ knowledge: The essential role of the information environment The low-information rationality theory expects voters with low political knowledge to make more use of the partisan heuristic than those with high kno…

Walder and Strijbis (2023) seems relevant here: the information environment matters.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I mean, do voters know?

That's an honest question. We're talking about voters as if they're analyzers of policy, and not selectors of heuristics about partisanship, strength, and other factors including vibes.

We cannot build the future of science and medicine on quicksand.

Hanoi was historically called Thang Long, literally "ascending dragon," which is cool but "egg bells of the earth and demon" is also catchy!

Volatile US interest rates depress emerging market productivity by tightening collateral constraints and discouraging innovation, even when average rates do not change, from Nils Gornemann, Eugenio I. Rojas, and Felipe Saffie www.nber.org/papers/w34595

r^2 = 0.069

*screams*

OpenAI's business model being unviable != Devs of open source models' being unviable

For example, China's DeepSeek is a project funded by an extremely profitable hedge fund, High-Flyer Technologies. Tools, platforms, and services also serve as monetization points for other businesses.

I mean, in a sense, it's kind of an extension broadly of Judith Shklar's "Liberalism of Fear"? That the inherent political ordering creates in-groups and out-groups, so the primary concern of politics is the results of power and powerlessness.

aeon.co/essays/disco...

NEW PAPER: A decomposition of Fisher’s information to inform sample size for developing or updating fair and precise clinical prediction models - part 2: time-to-event outcomes

* Implemented via pmstabilityss module, facilitates models with precise & fair individual-level predictions
rdcu.be/eUVam

I mean, I think it's a question of intent? The immigrant dad who works and picks up extra shifts to help his kid go to college is a workaholic, but can also hate work, for example.

There's also jobs where "the suck" is a communal part of it: nursing, welding, the armed forces.

The thing is that when you couch it in a layer of abstraction and irony, you can advocate anything and everything because you never have to live with the consequences.

That's the heart of online discourse, I think: people who will never have to see the effects or handle the consequences.

Yeah I've been a developer in the fire/medical space.

Shit is roughhhhh

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.