hot take: if people think they can only fit straight lines with linear regression, they should stay yards away from something more complex than linear regression

lets gooooo! Do some math with me

hot take: if people think they can only fit straight lines with linear regression, they should stay yards away from something more complex than linear regression

Research funding organizations would get so much more bang for their buck if they would collectively bargain a better deal with major publishers, or simply forbid the use of grant money for publishing fees

We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers. "Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."

Nice one, from @drg.bsky.social and @jamesheathers.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Any #rstats advice for writing mathematical expressions in ggplot2 axis labels? Dying not to have to use the insanity that is bquote()

Omstreden zou zijn om te beweren dat Yesilgöz *geen* leugenaar is www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Dilan sluit PVV nu uit, maar FvD niet. Op de foto met Zelenskiy, het hele tijd hebben over onze veiligheid maar in love zijn met de lange arm van Poetin in ons land. GL-PvdA uitsluiten om de NAVO-norm, maar bereid zijn tot coalitie met een partij die NAVO helemaal wil opdoeken💩

Je bent natuurlijk ook pas een bezorgde burger wanneer je met een tractor het stadhuis binnen rijdt, vuurwerk naar ambtenaren gooit of een brandende fakkel in een politievoertuig joekelt. Blijf je fatsoenlijk, wordt je weggezet als schattig en aandoenlijk.

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Ik neem aan dat Chris vanavond wordt uitgenodigd bij een talkshow om dit splijtende, tegendraadse en genuanceerde verhaal te vertellen. Toch? Oh nee wacht liever meer feitenvrije onderbuikdiarree natuurlijk. (cynismeknopje uit)

One of my favourite charts (my only contribution was the annotation)

Do these people feel like you should only pay for insurances if you actually need health care?

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

D66 kan en mag niet (!) haar sociaal-liberale waarden verliezen aan een inmiddels geradicaliseerde VVD.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?” Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

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Een kabinet kan alléén gevormd worden met democratische partijen die de rechtsstaat respecteren. De VVD doet dat niet. Ik heb tegen de verkenner gezegd dat daar eerst maar eens de schijnwerpers op moeten worden gezet. Laten we ophouden met doen alsof het normaal is dat de VVD allerlei eisen stelt.

Misschien moet de T eens al die PVV’ers die niets doen vragen of ze salaris krijgen?

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Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Een demissionair kabinet wordt geacht zich te gedragen als een huismeester die de boel beheert en schoon houdt, maar geen grote verbouwingen start, tenzij de bewoners (de Tweede Kamer) hiervoor expliciet toestemming geven. Minister Paul handelt tegenstrijdig. De Kamer komt hopelijk snel in actie.

fml

Anarchy! (for a presentation, having to set "print = FALSE" all the time is annoying)

Joyscrolling

Anarchy! (for a presentation, having to set "print = FALSE" all the time is annoying)

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

I'm super happy to receive the very first Open Science Award of Oddisei for the work on CPF Open Harmonization www.cpfdata.com!

happy 11th anniversary to this email sent to all staff at the School of Mathematics and Statistics

once again seeking others' opinions to guide my life choices: of those who dropped out of a PhD or converted to Masters, did anyone subsequently complete a PhD with a different topic and supervisors? thoughts for or against this path?

I am quite convinced he'll be less than grateful once I give him a stern lecture titled "we don't hardcode secrets into code we share with others"

Alle media zijn geert wilders na gaan praten. 'over links' is #centrumrechts #groenlinkspvda is centrumlinks #d66 is rechts liberaal #cda is conservatief rechts #vvd is populistisch rechts - tot en met afgezakt naar onrechtsstatelijk, extreemrechts. De combi is niet links. Verre van.

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >

Ik zou als ik D66 en CDA was als de sodemieter JA21 terug in het extreemrechtse kamp duwen, waar het thuis hoort, en deze partij keihard uitsluiten. Zolang de VVD merkt dat hier wat te halen is, draaien alle mediakanalen overuren om Nederland een volgend wankelend rechts kabinet in te rommelen.

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Als ik de verkiezingsuitslagen van de afgelopen jaren zo eens bekijk, gaat het nog niet super lekker met die linkse indoctrinatie in het onderwijs.