Not sure this counts as a timeline cleanse but check out the weird little cars I made

RFE/RL, which has sued Kari Lake to block her termination of its federal funding grants, resumes shortwave radio broadcasts into Iran following the imposition of an internet blackout by the Islamic Republic. about.rferl.org/article/radio...

the nerd urge to bring a project with you when visiting family over Christmas

Time to start a bluesky Christmas fight: Most over-rated and under-rated cuisine? For me: Over-rated: French Under-rated (globally): Mexican Under-rated (US specifically): Indonesian

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Many of the most passionate Bayes verses frequentist debates are not between I and II or III and IV but rather I and IV. People are often excited more about the freedom to work with better models than having uncertainty quantification.

Giving #scisky #icanhazpdf another go - does anyone have access to this? thejns.org/pediatrics/v...

New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

>10 years on and i still haven't seen a single question answered with clustering

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Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral. This tragedy must end now. Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt

This is a great article about "AI" and art:

Sleep when the baby sleeps, eat when the baby eats, edit your manuscript when the baby edits their manuscript

John «most of my published research is wrong» Ioannidis

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

The open access movement has been captured by the publishers, and the journal system is worse than ever. Suggestions like open review do nothing to make research or peer review better, nothing to break the bullshit of rewarding people for simply publishing, right or wrong. Where is our courage?

Pilot Whale You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay! www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...

Really wonderful podcast. This episode was my introduction to it but I've listened to a few now. Also noticed that @kathrynnave.bsky.social is on Bluesky!

Technically released last week, here is a paper from me and my team: multimodal conversational diagnostic AI. We extend previous work on AMIE and enable it to request, reason about, and report on images.

Study in Nature: “Across 30 out of 32 evaluation axes from the specialist physician perspective & 25 out of 26 evaluation axes from the patient-actor perspective, AMIE [Google Medical LLM] was rated superior to PCPs [primary care docs] while being non-inferior on the rest.” (& AIME is an older LLM)

I quite enjoyed this 'Experiments, Causal Inference, and Limits of Evidence' event, particularly @devezer.bsky.social's talk, which aligns well with my own views as well as Nancy Cartwright's scepticism. Thanks a lot to the organisers.

This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS. 1/n Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

That is why psychophysics works so well. As it is experiments on psychophysicists whose natural habitat is a darkened room sitting in front of a CRT

Paris Proves the Power of Pedals: How Cycling Helped Cut Pollution in Half. momentummag.com/paris-proves...

Where at Duolingo do I send in my sick note to get my streak reinstated?

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData

Sam Altman pretending to be amazed by absolute dogshit, #4948829:

Possibly one of my favourite photos ever. Latvian children dressed as bottles of vitamin D and fish oil, for their school’s annual carnival of health in 1967. #Latvia #Baltics

The German word for what I just did? Rathausposten

Merz mobilisiert - nur eben nicht für sich, sondern gegen seine Türöffnung für die AfD. Starkes Bild heute in Berlin (Quelle: @wunderlicher)

“Every Rose Has Its Porn: Optical Character Recognition and the Middle English Problem” is a title for an article that I don’t even need to write. Please cite this post.

The chances are, the tomato puree in your fridge was made by Uyghur slaves. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)

Remembering so many friends that aren't here today to see this, and it's hard not to be overwhelmed by the staggering number of heroes this war took from us.

My documentary, The Battle For Kyiv, is available online now for the next two weeks as part of the Byline Documentary Festival, you can watch it from today until the 8th December using the link below thanks to @bylinetv.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ERJ...

Dear Reviewer #2,

Reminder that the blog is here too! @statmodeling.bsky.social Please repost 🙏

600 days ago, academic & researcher dedicated to human rights in the Middle East Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped by Iranian proxy Kataib Hezbollah in Baghdad.

brms book update: I have added a new chapter on generalized linear multilevel models (GLMMs). See paulbuerkner.com/software/brm... for the latest draft of the book. I would love to hear your thoughts!

summoning circle, hope this works 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 A cure 🕯 For being clums- 🔥 🕯 Ah shit 🔥 Ah no 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 Oh no oh no 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

ICYMI: turns out that Drax, the UK's biggest biomass plant and the country's single largest source of CO2 emissions, and which has denied burning old-growth forests, has indeed been burning old-growth forests.

Next month on Wednesday November 6 I will be offering my comprehensive hierarchal modeling course at a steep discount in an effort to raise funds for World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders, particularly their ongoing work in Gaza and Lebanon.

Popular workflow / Biblically accurate workflow (from a talk I gave today at MPI-CBS here in Leipzig)

I have updated the meme to celebrate the occasion.

"Guyana’s Indigenous communities are under siege from all sides – including an opaque carbon-offsetting scheme agreed by the government on our lands" "..with the carbon credit markets, Indigenous rights are rarely respected, and no one notices" www.climatechangenews.com/2024/10/03/g...