@beenwrekt.bsky.social brilliant as usual: "Indeed, the language of mathematical rationality is a Bayesian language game, always working to box out the unmeasurable and unquantifiable. It demands language without ambiguity, but of course, language is always ambiguous, fluid, and evolving."

arXiv📈🤖 Predicting missing values: A good idea? By Buuren

Is this where all the Bayesians tell researchers to stop using p-values?

This is cool. A modified Bayesian linear regression can outperform Gaussian processes for Bayesian optimization Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.00170 Github: github.com/colmont/line... #statssky #mathsky

Why on earth would you make a sleeper train with lights that cannot be turned off

And we’re off! My first night train experience

There are only a few spots left in our Missing Data Summer School, so be quick if you want to participate! Feel free to reach out if you want any additional information on the content or the programme. If you want to sign up, you can do so here: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...

Heading to Zürich tomorrow to give presentations at UZH and ETH. I'll be around for 9 days, so if you happen to be close to Zürich and want to meet, let me know! I'll be happy to talk about data privacy, synthetic data, missing data and statistics/machine learning in general!

Heading to Zürich tomorrow to give presentations at UZH and ETH. I'll be around for 9 days, so if you happen to be close to Zürich and want to meet, let me know! I'll be happy to talk about data privacy, synthetic data, missing data and statistics/machine learning in general!

If you're a faculty, research scientist, postdoc, or senior PhD in any area of science, select your top 6 virtues at this link: shorturl.at/bV2lF You can also tell us if you think we missed any. We want broad participation, so pls RT! 🙏 In collab w/@devezer.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social

Hitler's NSDAP never gained the support of more than one-third of voters in free and fair elections! Just like far-right leaders today, Hitler came to power because of the collaboration of right-wing elites, who either wanted to "fight off the left" or thought they could play the far right.

What’s this thing that people pretend to be married to academia after getting enrolled in a PhD programme? Like, you can change professions halfway in your PhD, and 10+ years after finishing it. It’s just a job man

De ambulance die onderweg was naar de gedode journalisten werd ook aangevallen.

Geen enkele Israëliër die dit decennium een Palestijn vermoordde op Westelijke Jordaanoever is daarvoor vervolgd

Meet Mr. MICE himself! This summer, Stef van Buuren teaches 'Solving Missing Data Problems in R' at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Learn cutting-edge techniques for addressing missing data problems in statistics and modern machine learning workflows. utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...

ok hive mind, give me holiday inspiration: I'm heading to England in November for a friend's wedding, seems ridiculous to fly all that way just for a couple of days, so where else is good to visit that time of year? I figure it'll be cold... ("meet your bsky mutuals irl" suggestions also considered)

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

I don’t know man, I think he was well underway defining his legacy already before starting all this.

Maybe I screaming into the void, but you shouldn't be using funnel plots to detect publication bias.

I have a joke about p-values but nobody gets it

Hey #rstats & #econsky: fixest v0.14.0 is out! In particular, it fixes a very annoying, false positive, warning message regarding the positive definiteness of the VCOV (when clustered). Please update! github.com/lrberge/fixest cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

I’m convinced some professors do get paid per article. Why on earth would you otherwise crank out 200 papers per year?

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

Do you struggle with missing data in your statistical analyses? Come join our Summer School "Solving Missing Data Problems in R"! We will tell you when you can safely use complete case analysis, and when more dedicated strategies are required! utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...

Is ChatGPT trained on Hegseth, or is Hegseth trained on ChaptGPT?

The people with the strapped cameras be like: (it's in Dutch, but I promise you don't need to understand the language)

I went to LinkedIn to promote this, but holy moly, is there any human-written content there still? Literally every post is overloaded with unnecessary contrasts and an emoji before every paragraph

The course is offered by the mice development team in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and will cover how to deal with imputation in classical inference settings as well as prediction modelling. Housing can be provided as well!

Do you struggle with missing data in your statistical analyses? Come join our Summer School "Solving Missing Data Problems in R"! We will tell you when you can safely use complete case analysis, and when more dedicated strategies are required! utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...

what function is the biggest jumpscare to you. i'll go first, clear choice for me at least it's obviously the gamma function.

Some people are still debating whether or not LLMs are "useful," so let's stake out one clear use case: LLMs are useful for translating between languages. That includes translating between natural languages (e.g. Spanish to English) and, more recently, to formal languages (e.g. English to Python).

phd students hungry for those rare candies to finally level up

Oh and reviewer 2 is the personification of Team Rocket

Doing a PhD is like playing Pokémon: sure, you want to beat the final gym leader, but the sidequests are what make it fun.

I want an app that turns every instance of "utilize" into "use"

1. Iran had en heeft geen kernwapens maar heeft nu duizend redenen om ze nu wel te hebben. 2. Spanje? Je bedoelt het land dat de genocide in Gaza wilde stoppen? The audacity.

In any case, all author proceeds go to the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal and Against Malaria Foundation. First two receipts below. If you use the website or software, please consider donating. And let me know if you do; it'll make my day. Links below. 🙏 7/9

“KID, WE NEED YOUR GAS”

Suddenly the Bayesians don't like using prior information no more

"We are going to get a gun. Not one of the woke guns but one of the VERY powerful guns. And we are going to shoot in our own foot very strongly. Frankly, we are going to shoot in our own foot stronger than ANY OTHER COUNTRY ever did before."

Literally no one: Scientific reports: "... warm from move make more hot"

If you refuse to share your code, I refuse to take your results seriously.

Most men who changed history also had women who enabled them.

I’m reminded of this comic almost every time I check LinkedIn

Should I offer Kristi Noem asylum?

Which, I think, is a very fair point of view, given that anyone can make their package available via GitHub. So, if you want to enjoy the benefits CRAN offers, you must put in some work to accommodate the end-user.

DDoSing openai but then with queries it is, people