Benjamin Deonovic

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So anyway here's a 7-year-old reddit post with 12 upvotes about higher order moments of statistical distributions that's actually really insightful, even for kurtosis.

Very often, a car is not the most appropriate tool for the job. (🎥 by @BikeIsBestHQ)

@cameron_pfiffer Is that the football stadium in Enschede?

The lowering code will soon be in Julia too, which is very cool. Scheme no mas

@cameron_pfiffer @JuliaConOrg dutch food is pretty garbage. grab a bike and enjoy the landscape as its meant to be enjoyed.

I am flying to Amsterdam in a few hours for @JuliaConOrg! What foods should I try that are unique to the Netherlands?

@IsabellaGhement @VilgotHuhn @rlmcelreath Sometimes when I have extreme imposter syndrome or worried that I am doing everything wrong I take comfort in the fact that all my peers are also doing everything wrong.

@VilgotHuhn @rlmcelreath It doesn’t help at all that there is no consensus among experts on how to do certain things right in the first place. So the practitioners are left having to fend off for themselves, despite lacking the requisite expertise. Signed: A frustrated practitioner 🥴

We need to innoculate ppl against data gullibility. A book proposal: "Street Smart Data Science for Punks" 1 - you are bad stop it 2 - measurement is bad 3 - small samples are bad 4 - large samples are bad 5 - statistics is bad 6 - peer review is bad 7 - you are bad get better

@cameron_pfiffer that probably sets a bad precedent for our future though huh....

@cameron_pfiffer also as he exits take advantage of the vast presidential immunity powers the SC just handed the presidency

I would love to see the Democrats just do some wild fucking move, like pull Biden and put someone completely different up. Like AOC or some shit

@cameron_pfiffer Also gotta point out that the points are just connected...in a creative manner that would make excel blush. Although this doesn't really take away from the main point that there are a lot of papers published in deep learning

Is this good, bad, or unclear?

@moultano just open the parks up to the public for literally anything. golf is cancer

Pickleball revitalized empty tennis courts by being a sport the average person can play at a basic level without a lot of training. All that public land is now put to good use instead of sitting empty. What's the pickleball of golf?

@BorsboomDenny Was the first person perspective important?

ChatGPT often adds stuff to its answers that I didn’t ask for. After many fruitless attempts, I finally found a solution to this. I order ChatGPT to repeat 50 times: “I, ChatGPT, will not add things to my answers that nobody asked for”. Truth is stranger than fiction.

@carlislerainey How else would you guys get funding??

In social science, it is important to make risky predictions about not-yet-collected data.

@cameron_pfiffer Is that the remarkable?

My lil morning desk, reading about information retrieval. Search engines are cool

@karlrohe I have had similar experiences when deciding on priors or the whole data generation model in general in Bayesian workflows

One of the most enjoyable parts of collecting data / cleaning data is that i am forced to confront the edge cases that i never imagined... like, yeah, whoa, i guess that can happen too!

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. "There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. "If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice! "Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

Recommendations wanted: folding e-bikes. My parents bought BIG e-bikes 2 years ago & love them, but have learned due to the total lack of safe biking infrastructure in their suburb they mostly want to bring their bikes to Mpls to ride with us here. Recs on folding e-bikes?

@sp_monte_carlo Sir this is a twitter, don't bring your reasonable ideas here.

@sp_monte_carlo P for hat matrix though? ...is it a commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:… matrix?

@cameron_pfiffer Instead of PascalCase and camelCase I wish they would be called ProudCamelCase and drinkingCamelCase

camel case is objectively bad

@PhDemetri bro same

I'm gonna buy a mouse jiggler because for the life of me I can't get mac OS to just not shut down for 8 hours while I run models

@sethaxen only a hedonistic tau-ist would say such things

@bdeonovic This may be hard to believe, but you can eat pie ANY day of the year!

As every year, I observed Pi Day by sharing with people the good news of Tau and how the two symbols should be switched.