Enshitification begins.

I am more than what products I ship. Got keep telling myself that

I would like to buy a house so I can place a large shed in the back yard and have a standing structure I can use to escape from my main standing structure

I'm sorry Zotero, but this pricing is laughable.

There are things in this world younger academics will just never have to deal with.

Today I asked myself if I would make a good physiotherapist. Dear reader, I should not be a clinician of any kind

I suspect the fact that I don’t find coding fun anymore means I never really enjoyed it. That being said, math is still fun.

I have just a few things I want to automate, mostly emails based on existence of calendar events and dates. Zapier is amazing but I’m not paying $40 per month for a cron job. Apple’s shortcuts is promising but is a pain because of the manual effort no observability. Any other solutions?

My 'puter feels messy

*Looking at ~/* Who the fuck put all these dot files here?

This is pretty cool

A Painstakingly long post on covariance and how projection matrices are ESSENTIAL for understanding these things. And look! Interactivity!

Ok, not doing a 3 day trip to the UK again. The plane ride is just too much for me.

Paying CAD to GBP is a real fucking kick in the balls, especially after declining a US offer.

UK timezone means I can shitpost before a whole bunch of you.

This sounds really dumb, but little children remind me of my dog (in so far as they experience pure joy and have insatiable curiosity). Being a parent to those young children must be awesome (and exhausting)

The absolute worst part of vacation is dropping the dog off at the kennel. I’m honestly floored I can’t buy him a ticket and dress him like a human to fool the airline in some sort of 80s style hijinx

I'm not so afraid of flying as I am afraid of airports? Airports are minefields of underpaid and pissed off people who also happen to control if I can get into their country or not.

I hate travelling I hate travelling I hate travelling I hate travelling

Much of the statistics I do day to day can be learned in a sophomore probability class. Interesting

Shrinkflation on deodorant of all things?

Ok fuck open claw. I'm not installing this on my machine, hostinger's service keeps crashing, and installing this on docker seems safe but just isn't working and I don't have the time (or interest) to debug it.

Wait, how outdated am I?

I have 0 sense for problem complexity now that AI is as good as it is. Before, I could push for simplicity b/c the effort required was too great given the use case. Now, marginal cost of code/complexity has decreased. Maybe I need to push on marginal cost of maintaining complex solutions.

Wait, something cool happened. We're so back

Doing “data science” today and wow this shit sucks

When you get tenure, they tell you if the Reimann hypothesis is true or false.

I don’t understand why companies advertise the monthly cost of something I am required to pay upfront for. It may be $4 a month but I would need to pay $48 dollars today.

Ah, worktrees really are useful

Applied Statisticians, (violently)

existence of dedekind cuts implies existence of dedekind bulks

Y'all, chatgpt's new image stuff is WILDLY good

*googling* Job for guy who likes to tell stories and is good at stats but is not data scientist

A new blog post in which I wax poetic about the decline in regressions I need to run. TL;DR I think this is fine. dpananos.github.io/posts/2026-0...

Notably fewer consulting requests coming through the pipeline. My hypothesis is that med students and residents are AI savvy enough now to just download Rstudio and do the stuff they need. The impact on the "expert" economy (e.g. consultants) is interesting to me, if it were to be real.

I wonder what it would be like to do a PhD now that LLMs are good. I spent hours, days, weeks reading blog posts and documentation to write stan models. The average student in my cohort didn't care about stata and might have struggled as much to pivot data from wide to long.

Y’all I’m sorry. I shipped a Bayesian model fit via maximum a posteriori. Forgive me.

Statisticians will spend their entire careers studying how to make a safe generalization to a population while acknowledging variation exists at the individual level and then be a total fucking pedant about how you phrase a generalization, akin to saying "Not All XYZ!"

Medical school in town no longer has course requirements. Dr. Dr. Demetri? LMAO yea right.

Some may say that of all the potential outcomes of getting a PhD, working outside academia is the dopest.

Bending notes is a lot easier when you have man hands

Cursor is now just a regular IDE to me. Its how I look at code, and bat is making it easier than ever to just...avoid an IDE all together

Imagine if we didn't live in a surveillance state and we had smart fridges that could just order your groceries for you instead of selling the fact I let my box of mixed greens go bad for the third week in a raw to the highest seller.

"Reduced by X%" is a bad way to talk about a relative change in my opinion. It requires me to do two steps: 1) Compute 1-X%, 2) multiply Instead, I think "Reduced to Y%" is more natural. That is a single step.

I loved reading this. It’s so well written!

Fucking 9K in taxes. I should have just not accepted the acquisition offer wow

Can I somehow get quarto but like in a small lightweight notes app like antinote? Sometimes you gotta write down a few things, but also sometimes those things need just a little mid of computation

To fans of The Constantines: CAN I GET A WITNESS? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw9v...

Is there a name for the phenomenon of moving away from UI and preferring minimal interfaces (e.g. markdown notes via obsidian or similar, CLI)?