Interesting paper, what jumped out at me is the implication the rank for Tucker #tensor decomposition isn't identifiable, but CP/PARFAC, Tensor Train, and Tensor Ring are. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.14523 #statssky #mathsky

Interesting paper, what jumped out at me is the implication the rank for Tucker #tensor decomposition isn't identifiable, but CP/PARFAC, Tensor Train, and Tensor Ring are. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.14523 #statssky #mathsky

if it's after the Yankees lose, you could call it the "Crankee Clipper"

Scientific "expectation" is different from "we're getting coffee and I'm giving you my hot take," not that I expect bsky to know the difference.

It's legitimately wild that the city depends on (effectively) idling semi trucks to refrigerate the produce for most of the grocery store in NYC

It’s tough being the only real science among the social sciences, but it’s our burden to bear

It’s tough being the only real science among the social sciences, but it’s our burden to bear

I wonder how many people are aware that this is the message of one of our country's most famous poems. It's not just about immigration.

The current 12-game Jeopardy champion works at an affordable housing finance agency in NJ, and shamed New York for not building more housing: "NJ's doing really well, we're ahead of NY, CT, PA. If you're from one of those states, shame on you, build more housing."

Once again, this site has a significant problem with people who cannot distinguish between "here is what the law is"/"here is what happened" and "I endorse that law/what happened."

YIMBYism: it’s for the artists

even though I no longer use R, I missed this when the old blog that hosted it ended. Glad it’s back

This is super interesting to read because I was very concerned about the water and AI thing so I went to my one scientist friend who literally worked on water reg/quality/usage and asked her about AI, data centers, water etc. She was far more concerned with agriculture abuses than AI.

Term limits for politicians are bad

This photo is fake. Many people have pointed it out in the replies but the person running this account just keeps hiding the replies. Block this account.

Doomerism is an insult to every American who marched at Selma, landed on Omaha Beach, or faced down the Confederates at Gettysburg; who stood up for the American ideal in the face of long, impossible-seeming odds.

read theory

My musical number about a Montreal snack served on a cracker: Poutine on the ritz

Going to come up with a better tensor. The only possible name? ... ... ... Eleven-sor!

"The Poisson tensor completion parametric estimator" - a neat paper, but the buried lede that I found interesting was that the old MATLAB Tensor Toolbox for Python, which is really valuable, IMO. #statssky #mathsky Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.04957 Tensor Toolbox on github: github.com/sandialabs/p...

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You see this w/Foreign Affairs as well; everyone's (basically) writing fan fiction about the world they want to live in, not the world we actually live in.

this is a good thread and I think a lot about some of the amazing '90s CD comps that will simply never exist again because they licensed the tracks only for that release, comps with nice remasters of obscure singles that are nigh-impossible to get on streaming

ICYMI my solo article on MENA identity. When MENA Americans aren’t given a “MENA” option on forms, they answer identity-related questions on politics more strongly (eg higher end of the scale) than if“MENA” had been added. Having the group label or not changes the average response!

My Fish? Reel Big

Tangential to this, but if you read Kevin Murphy’s 2012 book “Machine Learning: a Probabilistic Perspective,” an encyclopedic tome for ML, he devotes only one chapter to neural net methods (at the end). NNs were basically seen as curiosities! (Free from author: probml.github.io/pml-book/boo...)

Hochul drained the Urbanist chops from every other elected leader like the Monstars in Space Jam

Bullshit Jobs is our generation's Population Bomb

Tangential to this, but if you read Kevin Murphy’s 2012 book “Machine Learning: a Probabilistic Perspective,” an encyclopedic tome for ML, he devotes only one chapter to neural net methods (at the end). NNs were basically seen as curiosities! (Free from author: probml.github.io/pml-book/boo...)

I don’t often play the smug “poli sci is better” card, but I think it’s justified here

“Matt from The Feed” claims to take all sorts of supplements to improve “his” performance. I’d love to see someone (blogger, YouTuber, etc) take what he claims to for a month, and 1) see if there’s any performance difference, and 2) see what the side effects of combining all these things are

If you're a millennial, it's unlikely even your parents roasted their vegetables: they probably boiled them. Roasted vegetables are basically millennial-aged. (slate.com/human-intere...

"give us money if you want to see the rebuttal to the low-quality article we published" is certainly *a* strategy:

Just remember, next time they come asking you to subscribe, what it gets you. Credulous reporting on a pre-print, whose results are derived entirely from a simulation (whose code isn’t available!), used to launder NIMBY talking points

This is the difference between OT STAR WARS; Raimi’s SPIDER-MAN, TOS + Berman-era STAR TREK, and 1st gen MCU and what comes later. Those knew there was dumb stuff, but they played it straight, they didn’t roll their eyes and the camera, and say “can you believe this?” (Metaphorically)

Running Linux, I don’t have to worry about “unnecessary Copilot entry points”

"It’s an interesting coincidence that the man [David Graeber] who thinks large numbers of jobs in sectors of which he has no personal experience are worthless is also extremely critical of scholars who work in different fields to him."

I gotta be me :)

Seems useful (Spotted in the latest Phoenix)

MTB before work, followed by a breakfast burrito for lunch #bikesky

This week on the blog, I get grumpy about Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything and talk about medieval ideas of inequality (add your anarcho-syndicalist peasants here). #medievalsky salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/a...

Now that's a graphic

New analysis suggests that researchers moved the goalposts in their randomized control trial evaluating fare-free transit in Pittsburgh, making results seem better than they were. Eliminating fares had minimal effects on income or healthcare use. nospin.evidencebasedpolicy.org/articles/fre...

also this isn’t the most important thing but you clearly should set it on indoor mode when you’re running on a ship, otherwise you are stealing valor with false distance.

A fun phrase I recently learned: "Giving it the beans" (going all out)

So the Secretary has pushed up all strategic and political decisions to POTUS, and pushed down all operational decisions to combatant commanders. A secretary-as-junkyard-dog theory explains/justifies a focus on "side" issues generally beyond uniformed leaders' purview in pursuit of "lethality." 6/7

I have a Westminster model joke, but it wasn’t first past the post

I have a Westminster model joke, but it wasn’t first past the post

One of the big empirical findings from the poli sci lit is term limits hurt legislative bodies, and give lots of power to lobbyists: there’s no ability to accumulate and sustain institutional knowledge/expertise

St. Patrick's Day celebrates a Roman, Patricius, whose language was Latin and who helped import the Late Roman imperial religion beyond the traditional frontiers of a dying empire. So to celebrate, a little thread on Rome and Ireland.☘️