Start calling literature reviews “the lore”

Using coding agents sometimes feels like herding feral toddlers

You’re telling me a cat displayed the contents of this file to console??? 🐱

workin on some stuff

Therapy for anxiety has accidentally made anti-consumption much easier! When I feel panicky, my therapist and I practiced tolerating the feeling just for a little while, then checking in and seeing if I could tolerate it longer.

The rise of AI slop across all domains, including its disturbing (yet unsurprising) penetration into academia, comes with a nice twist for us who reject it: Having actual domain expertise, a deep understanding of a field, a firm grasp on a topic... These now seem like magic 🪄, like a superpower🦸.

My favorite method of scicomm😈 jokes that make people so curious they have to learn a little to fully appreciate the meme.

ggplot defaults are bouba, matplotlib defaults are kiki

A math class, but it’s just me teaching something super in depth with the SOLE PURPOSE of students understanding one very niche meme I made by the end of class

If you’re having eigenproblems I feel bad for you son, I’ve got 99 eigenvalues…but the residuals for my unconverged Ritz values are no long steadily decreasing so i need to restart my Lanczos algorithm with a new starting vector 😔

The problem with math education is that eeeeeveryone and their brother wants to make a video on how to calculate something sexy like a determinant, but AS SOON AS YOU want to learn about krylov subspaces there’s like one guy who made one video about it 10 years ago take it or leave it 🤨

Me when Claude calls another one of my points “sharp”

Me when someone tries to distract me from generating shareholder value

How I go about my workday knowing I’m going reward myself for being a good little statistician with a crispy fountain Diet Coke today 🥤

THE WORDLE CREATOR MADE A CRYPTIC CROSSWORD GAME I AM SO HAPPY www.parseword.com

The CLT finally showing up when n = 30*

It’s surprising to me how often the solution to my problem is “randomize/analyze within segments rather than pure randomization/analysis”🤔

The most fascinating applications of statistics are the ones where you have to creatively work around pragmatic constraints. E.g. quasi experimental methods.

Mon mari m’a acheté une livre de Python en français pour mon anniversaire. Bien que je connaisse bien Python…le français…BEAUCOUP mois…😂 alors je vais apprendre rapidement.

I’ve been helping a friends kid study for the AP stats exam. I forgot how much beef I have with the AP Stats curriculum* 😂

Them: why do you keep calling yourself a “statistician” instead of a “data scientist” Me:

My query just failed to run because I referenced a CTE as “unshited” 💩 instead of “unshifted” so…

We LOVE DATA ENGINEERS 🙇🏻‍♀️

Me when I can’t SELECT * FROM AMAZING_DATA.CLEAN_TABLE

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Drilling students into memorizing the “we are 95% confident that….” Language is USELESS if you dont teach them what that MEANS

🚨hey so this is absolutely HORRIBLE for so many reasons I can’t even fully list out. But a few: - licenses are immediately invalid, making it difficult to even get around to change license or god forbid APPEAL THIS DECISION

Perhaps we statisticians might need to stop just saying “it depends” and instead emphasize WHAT IT DEPENDS ON lol

People are learning DS buzzwords instead of the concepts and how they relate 🤔 I’ve had convos with people who know certain things are “good ideas” (e.g. 80% statistical power, adding covariates to an analysis, using conjugate priors) but can’t explain WHY or when that idea breaks down

I’ve moved on from bookmarks to stickers for our next (food and drink themed) urbanism event 🙈🙊 Really taking advantage of that canva pro subscription

All I’m saying is that if I built my own AI Boyfriend, I would probably make him be nice to me

Should I get a whiteboard for the background of my home office? I feel like that’s what people do to look “smart” and “technical”🤔

“linear in the log-odds space”

There’s a lot of great reasons to use Bayesian methods (especially in industry) but none of them are the ones data influencers claim on LinkedIn 💀

Another day another post about confidence interval interpretations 🫩

Should show this to my therapist

I should start an educational series about “AI” targeted towards non-tech people who date men in cities that have high concentrations of “tech-bros” so that they’re unimpressed with the ones that don’t actually know what they’re talking about 😒

Look all I’m saying is that Cursor has access to a million lifetimes of knowledge, so the fact that *I* had to tell it how to incrementally try my code piece by piece to figure out where the error is coming from after it went in circles for 20 minutes trying to debug on its own….😒

god, you people will put a hyperparameter on just about anything, won’t you?

I’m very anti-statisticians-naming-things in general but I will admit, I often use the phrase “as the name implies” when explaining things in statistics 🤔🤔 so it can’t be all bad E.g. “in MLE, as the name implies, we choose values for our parameters that maximize the likelihood of the data”

me when they ask how I know the fit of my clusters is good:

Good book so far but very misleading title😤😉

The countdown begins. What unhinged data set would you like Hadley Wickham to analyze live next week on Tuesday at the Data Science Lab? pos.it/dslab

“Vibrations are everywhere and so too are the eigenvalues associated with them” My grandfather (and prolific mathematician), Beresford Parlett, passed away at age 93 last week.

I need excel/Google Sheets to come out with a feature where you can easily indicate which cells have been checked/QA’d and then when the value of the cell changes it moves it to unchecked. And you can see who checked which cells when along with the regular edit history.

With non-data stakeholders, minimum detectable effects are easier to communicate than actual power %s, and are often more useful to empowering them to make decisions.

All the animal, marine animal, and even botany people get “museums” (zoo, aquarium, botanical gardens) that cater to their interests, why not statisticians?!?😤

“Nobody is talking about this” and then it’s the most basic LLM use case you’ve ever seen 🫩

Plz @hadley.nz 💀

How it feels the few months after your defense