Scott Ashworth

Kudos the the tenure-letter author who just made me legit chuckle with a parenthetical joke.

I assume this came up in the Yarvin convo.

Nighttime kitchen view.

It’s where you learn about the importance of always having an enormous bottle of water nearby.

You owe it to yourself to be the kind of person who could potentially be fired from a school-wide committee when circumstances warrant. This would be good exercise for that.

I take him more seriously in his more considered writing. He, like Ganz and Yglesias, improves a lot when he's not posting in the moment.

I’ve resigned myself to that being the actual job of the professional opinion-haver.

not specific enough—understanding my post means you also have too much internet, yet are not…like that

I feel like people aren’t engaging with the challenge of a grand unified theory of today’s Noah tweets.

Sherlock is jealous of Roger’s luxurious box.

rationalist version: “to retain access to your blog, email us within the next 15 minutes explaining the role of mutual absolute continuity in the so-called washing out of priors”

On the plus side, my fantasy certification rules would decimate data-bro punditry.

I appreciate your demonstration that real analysis should be a prerequisite for stats.

A downside of TikTok knowing I love Surfer Rosa is getting way too much Taylor Swift rn.

Excited for Taylor’s Verhoeven era.

Can’t wait to sign this motherfucker’s compact about civil discourse.

Colleges weigh whether to sign onto Trump plan or forgo federal benefits A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

I finally understand why the neighborhood grocery store used to carry Spire, Warren, and no other comics.

It’s officially all-ages material.

Definitely identify as a political scientist today.

Political science is not even in the running here.

Proposal: no pundit may be called “wonkish” when they’re currently in the discourse mixing up margins and averages.

I agree with one caveat: once you go down the strategic route, it is 100% in bounds for your interlocutors to be suspicious of your motives when you are trying to tell the truth.

This is becoming a problem for the abundance program I think.

Why is there a bad remake of Patton on my tv?

But it gave us this gem:

try to keep up rafe

You both need to work Larry Goone into your stupidest possible world.

Reference to making is interesting. When I try to make simulations, getting bogged down in code interferes with the process you describe. But working up a proof feels natural, so I get those benefits more directly.

I always want an exploratory proof. You’re right of course that not all proofs are like that.

I only rarely find simulations useful for explanation, as opposed to certifying some claim is (probably) true.

That’s right and I’ve made good use of that in research. But it never even occurs to me in teaching.