Paul Speaker
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Paul Speaker
@fattailedstat
Associate Professor of Statistics, @michiganstateu. Data scientist. Data science skeptic. Ex-lawyer. Native Texan.
Lansing, Michigan Katılım Mayıs 2010
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@number_pizza111 The MSU dairy store might be the greatest thing of all time
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Just ate ice cream from a land grant university and I Get It Now. This is literally the entire point of America. No clue why we do all that other stuff.
Doc Sportello Democrat@DGDtheSequel
the land grant university is a sign of a developed civilization
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@BenjySarlin Everything the DNC has done with regard to hiring in the last ~15 years has been an absolute disaster, from top to bottom.
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Say what you want about the 2012 RNC autopsy, it was a blue-ribbon commission and not some rando doing a book report and getting a bunch of corrections back from the teacher
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@bttyeo Why did you resample only 300 times for bootstrap-orig? That’s lower than normal and likely contributes to the low power you’re seeing.
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We benchmarked SHARP against 12 existing tests, including fold-dependence-aware tests like the corrected t-test and 5×2 paired t-test. SHARP showed the best overall balance of false positive control, statistical power, and confidence-interval calibration. 8/N
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In a meta-analysis of 210 biomedical AI studies that statistically compared models under cross-validation, 97% used invalid statistical tests.
Here's our new preprint doi.org/10.64898/2026.… led by @tianchuzeng @kkli20111 @ZShaoshi @ten_photos 1/N
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📺The series finale of 'Newhart' aired 36 years ago, May 21, 1990, on CBS
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@cjwarnke Pretty amazing for a rep that is never seen in his district.
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If Tom Barrett’s mileage reimbursements are accurate, he drove enough campaign-related miles to circle the Earth once with about 7,000 miles left to spare. #MI07
metrotimes.com/news/politics-…
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@DKThomp Companies with large capex spend can look profitable because the capex isn’t expensed; just depreciated. Cash flow is what is important to track.
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Anthropic just had a profitable quarter at a $44 billion annual run rate with a fairly enormous compute shortage that's forced them to ration service and pushed some customers (perhaps just in the short term) into the arms of competitors.
I don't think it's crazy to think their annual revenue would be $100b or more with sufficient compute for inference.
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Far from dominance: American consumers have seen the biggest hike in petrol and diesel prices of all countries across the G7 since the start of the war on Iran. More featured on today's Chartbook Top Links in the comment below.
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@AstorAaron These are percent increases, so same change + higher base = lower percent increase.
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Interesting that US gasoline prices have gone up faster than in the other G7 nations.
Adam Tooze@adam_tooze
Far from dominance: American consumers have seen the biggest hike in petrol and diesel prices of all countries across the G7 since the start of the war on Iran. More featured on today's Chartbook Top Links in the comment below.
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Antony Beevor has a new biography of Rasputin out and we're dad book dooming?
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
"Dad books" — which this article, and some publishing insiders, use to describe "serious nonfiction" books across biography, current affairs and business and economics — are reportedly in a free fall, with sales declining every year for the last few years “The trend couldn’t be clearer,” said Jonathan Karp, the former chief executive of Simon & Schuster and publisher of the new Simon Six imprint. “When we have internal meetings to talk about this problem, it always comes around to podcasts,” said Jonathan Burnham, president and publisher of the Harper Group at HarperCollins Publishers.
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@50YearsAgoLive What made different medical personnel kill a bunch of patients with curare back then? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Arbor…
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@lxeagle17 @JHWeissmann What lead would qualify as potential dummymander territory?
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It's amazing that we aren't all being killed by the 20,000 atomic bombs going off *every second* in the US
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For all the insinuations by rivals about Becerra being a co-conspirator, the plea deal indicates that he was in the dark as his chief of staff and political aide conspired to siphon money from his campaign account
Melanie Mason@melmason
Dana Williamson, Newsom's former chief , will plead guilty to 3 counts including one related to conspiring to steal campaign funds from a dormant account of Xavier Becerra's. Factual basis for the plea says she made false statements to XB abt the funds politico.com/news/2026/05/1…
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@MattZeitlin I knew a 16 year old girl in my high school with 3 kids (all separate pregnancies).
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@MattZeitlin I was in a Dallas high school in the late 80s. In the sex education unit of my health class, they were going over the number of kids in Dallas who has babies by age. They started at 17, and went down in age. They didn't stop at 11. They didn't stop at 10. They stopped at 9.
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the decline in teen pregnancy had stalled out in the 1970s and started climbing again in the late 80s, hitting a local peak in 1991
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
Moral panics of the 1980s included teens drinking, teens having sex, teens driving, teens smoking, teens watching television, teen movies, teens playing RPG’s, teens listening to music, teens playing video games.
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@fattailedstat @Blue_Mage @ArchivesDynasty @ReichlinMelnick Except I am not.
The rule is narrow and this does not meet the requirements outside of the judge's hallucination and activism.
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HOLY CRAP: Never seen anything like this: "DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case. It has misrepresented and withheld information to both this court [and Judge O'Connor in Texas... Its representatives have, under oath, misrepresented salient facts."
Chris “Law Dork” Geidner@chrisgeidner
BREAKING: Judge McElroy quashes DOJ's Rhode Island Hospital subpoena in full, calling out DOJ's conduct as "misrepresent[ing] salient facts" under oath. "[T]he Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena."
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@Blue_Mage @chieffishell @ArchivesDynasty @ReichlinMelnick Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 45(d)(3) says a motion to quash is brought where “the court for the district where compliance is required.” So yeah he’s full of shit.
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