Macs have a GPU to do fast matrix operations. Statistics involves lots of matrix operations. R is a language for statistics... hughjonesd.github.io/Rmlx #Rstats #mlx @rstats.bsky.social

What we talk about when we talk about "ancestry" open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p...

Adam Smith’s second big idea open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p...

A way to think about scientism open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p...

100% this. Citation farming, like most forms of academic careerism, is a degrading game played for absurd and/or tiny rewards.

Behavioral economics Also: no political Coase Theorem Also: my entire life

Featuring Ain't Going to Goa (Alabama 3) open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p...

Reflections on Britain's triage-ward state notes.archie-hall.com/p/reflection...

Moar data open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p...

Quite interesting to hear what would, a few years ago, have been a very conventional argument. Now it reads as almost contrarian.

A little post with some data wyclif.substack.com/p/the-cultur...

A lot of people talk about it but when they start doing it…

Happy to see my first thesis article out in Behavior Genetics! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Top-5 journals in economics (#econsky) desk-reject half of submissions. Your globally-impactful paper is a diamond in the rough – how to get it taken seriously? Submit it to unjournal.org (bit.ly/UJsubmit) for public evaluation & rating. -->

bit of nostalgiaposting open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p...

The graduate visa route needs tightening, because it is very obviously being used as a migration back door. I mean, if you want more migration, then argue for it, but be frank about it.

So if you get tariffed 10% but your competitors get tariffed 20% or more, you may gain market share or even increase total sales. I wonder which industries this might apply to.

Whilst markets are crashing, let's not forget the Ukrainian madlad who posted his underwear on the camp flagpole www.politico.eu/article/save...

This deserves to be a meme

I like everything about this paper except for the venue...

How do genetics relate to socioeconomic status? A study in Nature Human Behviour explains how historical social stratification is visible in the genetics of populations today, and what this means for our understanding of social inequality. https://go.nature.com/42k0xTM 🧪

Shocking lack of opsec. Everyone knows you should use Facebook Messenger 😭

I'm sorry

It's not even that these people want to politicize academia. They want to cosplay at politics. "Aim like storm troopers!" So exciting and retweetable

No, you absolutely should not stand up for the creepy authoritarianism of the DEI people. They are exactly the same people who will now bend the knee to creepy right-wing authoritarians. wyclif.substack.com/p/thought-bu...

Heisenberg & Dirac on a cruise: 'Why do you dance?' Dirac asked his companion. 'When there are nice girls, it is a pleasure,' Heisenberg replied. Dirac pondered this notion, then blurted out: 'But, Heisenberg, how do you know beforehand that the girls are nice?' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Di...

Whoda thunk

Guess what? The deans, admin etc. who were spineless in the face of left-wing mobs are unlikely to be courageous when facing right-wing bullies.

Diverging media attention on geographic flash points may be indicative of escalation risks — or opportunities.

No longer available on X! open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p...

Ah, WSB

Super nerdy but I joined in:

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Do IFLScience even if it risks “dangerous forms of bioterrorism”? Matt Clancy's models: on balance, yes, it's ~60x better to give $1 to science than to a guy earning $50k/yr . #Unjournal commissioned 3 expert evaluations, and Clancy responded in detail: https://bit.ly/4hYwc20 -->

Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

I am very excited to share this latest preprint! We figured out how to study a latent index driving partner choice without measuring it directly. The genetic correlates that we uncover with this latent index can be used to study the process of partner choice and correct GWAS for assortative mating.

80th day of the protests in European Georgia. This is Tbilisi tonight. Look at that crowd. 80 days of this. That’s how you resist a Putin-backed coup.

Ongoing experiment: - publish a paper on scientific publishing, MDPI being an outlier in *every* metric: ✅ - get invited to MDPI Special Issue on *antioxidants*: ✅ - send *that* paper: ✅ - "submission welcome": ✅ - add antioxidant to abstract & submit: ✅ Will it be sent to reviewers? Stay tuned!

US Democrats and Republicans as authoritarian cults, but in different ways open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p...

That's all we needed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_YR4

I dunno man, over there John Sweeney is John Sweeney. Here it's "a 60 year old sissy from Vermont" and/or some MBA dude

Evaluation Summary and Metrics: "The animal welfare cost of meat: evidence from a survey of hypothetical scenarios among Belgian consumers"