Ben Brintz

@LakersLead LuBraustin

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@lindsay_keegan @TheFerrariLab Huge mistake, huge

@TheFerrariLab The second best time is when someone shit talks Taylor Swift, apparently.

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today.

@unusual_whales They need this guy

Costco, $COST, is cracking down on membership sharing, per MW.

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

@andyblarsen Great, more XL sized shirts :)

First in person look at the Delta Center with white T-shirt giveaway and purple court:

@mdlaplante Is that a threat?

I'm chronologically older now that my grandfather was when he became a grandfather, and I am feeling completely fine about this. Aging is a different experience now than it was a generation or two ago. It will be even more different soon.

@JWepp Not to mention, playing against a mailman

LeBron would of went 6-0 vs a bunch of janitors and librarians too.

@rnsoicher Ask chat gpt!

I've been trying to import a dataset for 2 hours in R. This is never going to be my thing, is it?

@Saboo_Shubham_ Yeah this is a waste of time. It can basically give you a link to a template and you have to customize it yourself in Canva...

Canva meets ChatGPT 🤯 ChatGPT now has Canva plugin that can transform text into stunning visuals. All you need to do is to provide a simple text prompt in English describing the visual and Canva plugin takes care of the rest!

@StatModeling Indeed! I had gpt4 translate some complex jags code to Stan this week and it did it perfectly after I explicitly defined each variable. Amazing time saver!

Bob Carpenter thinks GPT-4 is awesome. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/08/20/bob…

@noall @Tjonesonthenba

@Tjonesonthenba This shows major disrespect for the culture in Utah. Shame on the NBA.

The Utah Jazz will play three Sunday home games this season. The NBA mandated every team submit four such home dates

@alifarhat79 That donut is Metzed up.

Caption this. Most liked reply wins.

@iberlebe @jdjmke In SLC it's mandatory to stay at my house if you're a Ben.

@jdjmke Utah is mandatory viewing

@rnsoicher I don't think it makes sense to use a paired t test since these students aren't paired. If you had samples of multiple classes, you could use a mixed effects model or something to account for within class correlation but in this case the independent test makes sense to me.

@brintzbe It is a full class, half of which are randomly assigned to one condition (the other half to another). Assuming the class is a sample of undergrad and grad psych students.

Knowing that a t-test and a one-way ANOVA with only two groups are essentially the same, is there a good reason to run ANOVA instead of a t-test? Is my preference for t-test just a preference?

@rnsoicher Hey! I see, I guess I'd agree that the output of the t test from a statistical software is more informative. Regarding dependence/independence, are you just comparing a full class that's split into two groups? Are you assuming the class is a sample of some larger pseudopop?

@brintzbe Ben! That's what I said! But for reporting in a paper, aren't the t-test results more informative (inc. mean difference and confidence interval, rather than only the f-stat and p-value)? Also, what's your thought on my independent v. dependent question? :)

@Utah_IDD @lindsay_keegan @UUtah Yeah, but who's that hippy in the background?!

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@andyblarsen He's been spinning into defenses a lot...

Jazz have been playing awesome team basketball with pace... so THT decides to slow it down and take a pull-up 3 after 10 dribbles himself. So frustrating.

@dscharf3 Just got chatgpt to do this for my R code yesterday! Got the plus version with development funds.

I'm looking for a programmer who can speed up Python code by writing some functions in C++. Please DM me if you are interested or have any leads for me.

@rlbarter I'm using quarto for a couple of papers and I love it... But I'm bad at it!

Tomorrow morning I'm going to delete my old hugo/blogdown blog and replace it with my new quarto one. Here's hoping that I don't mess it up somehow🤞 Advance apologies to anyone whose blog reading gets disrupted during the shift. Side note: holy cow #quarto is so amazing!