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New postdoc opportunity in our lab!

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I'm too depressed to dunk on the constant stream of bad statistics takes on the site. If, however, you're looking to lurk through or engage in productive discussions on (narratively generative) probabilistic modeling then drop by the Discord server I set up, www.patreon.com/posts/genera....

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Adios by Antonio Saura, 1959
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world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

YouTube video by Zipp - The Replay Zone Peanut Responds to the Day 1 Marathon Hater

Im not sure how I feel about Marathon but I definitely agree with my man Peanut about how players continue to discourage new IPs.

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One of the most ridiculous saves I have seen for a while. Doing that at Olympic final makes it even extra ridicuolus. We have a thriller !

Defend democracy like Connor Hellebuyck defended goal

Unreal stick save by Hellebuyck on Toews

This really is a great picture:

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

A personified AI agent submitted a github PR to matplotlib. The project maintainers closed the issue, then the AI (really, the developer controlling it) published a blog post on "its" blog accusing the project maintainers of discrimination, then the LLM (again, the developer) had to issue an apology

In the Dune universe, only the Butlerian Jihad was able to eliminate infinite scrolling

This isn't shortread data, but alignments of genome assemblies with N50 > 100Mb. The plot is the # of bp per 100Kb window that are dropped because of missing data -- because those bp physically are not there in one of the other 25 genomes. This is what normal plant genomes look like, folks.

Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but not to her - the prize was awarded to her (male) supervisor. #CelebratingWomen

Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line.

Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access).

Water Lilies isn’t one painting—it’s a series.
Monet returned to the subject again and again, creating over 250 canvases. One pond, endless light.

as I'm revising my course materials, I keep stumbling upon cool @mc-stan.org developments.

Current favorites:
1. your model has funnels and you exhausted reparametrization ideas: metric = "dense_e" makes your HMC learn about covariance btw parameters. Sloooow, but effective!
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New pre-pre-print:

Finally listened to this lecture -- highly recommended if you've ever been confused about fixed effects vs. random effects models. Love that the framing starts from group-level confounding -- here's a problem, what could be solutions (rather than: here's a model, what are its features).

ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

I guess he just got lucky.

Data centers are coming to Colorado. Can the parched state handle their large-scale water needs? Data centers are popping up in semi-arid areas like Colorado. Experts say they should come with a warning label when it comes to water.

Data centers are coming to Colorado. Can the parched state handle their large-scale water needs?

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“Fear not the those without papers, but those without conscious.”

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YouTube video by Richard McElreath Statistical Rethinking 2026 - Lecture B02 - Multilevel Model Expansion

Lecture B02 of Statistical Rethinking 2026. Multilevel model expansion: workflow, cluster and feature engineering, non-centered parameterization, dank memes. Continues next week with models of population covariance and (if there is time) group-level confounding and "Mundlak machines".

The trick here is basically to run screaming away from dichotomizing findings and into the warm and loving embrace of the vast language we have for describing uncertainty and scale, interpreting whether it matters accordingly. Use figures that make it clear.

In my mind, it’s very often the case that one can cast a frequentist model as a special case of an analogous Bayesian model (albeit not without simplifying and handwaving in both directions). I guess this can be somewhat useful pedagogically but not a helpful heuristic in general?

Simulate, then fit. Simulate, then fit. Simulate, then fit.

Please share: looking for postdocs to work on the theory/ concepts of multiple factor impacts.

semantic network of Trump's speeches today about Maduro's arrest.

Example of Trump's phrases about oil: "Well, in terms of China and Russia, yeah, uh, well, Russia, when we get things straightened out, but in terms of other countries that want oil, uh, we're in the oil business, we're gonna sell it to them."

I scraped a transcript of Trump, Rubio, etc. speech today about Maduro's arrest. It is freely available at this link. One curiosity: Trump’s speeches about Maduro’s arrest featured oil in 17 phrases and democracy in none.
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