Zohran Mamdani and Afroman, that’s the whole post

The Cauchy distribution.

This is just tickets to a Punch Drunk soft open.

linear approximations ARE real and CAN hurt you

The truth can be harsh. That doesn’t mean that anything harsh is the truth.

My mother passed away on Monday. She was, amongst many other things, a prolific baker. These are very good; give them a try.

My mother passed away on Monday. She was, amongst many other things, a prolific baker. These are very good; give them a try.

in england they spell it lmaou

Earlier I implied that I escorted yo' momma through the Strait of Hormuz. I apologize for the misinformation. Yo' momma's too fat for such a narrow passageway and whatnot.

I am currently looking for work, so do not hesitate to reach out if this experience sounds interesting! You can find the rest of my portfolio at gennadygorin.github.io. 13/13

move slow and repair things

Perpetual reminder: one does not model a likelihood function, one derives a likelihood function from an observational model and a particular observation.

Perpetual reminder: one does not model a likelihood function, one derives a likelihood function from an observational model and a particular observation.

Why sample from a categorical pseudo-random number generator when you can be ridiculous? This is how I now draw contest winners over on patreon dot com, www.patreon.com/c/betanalpha.

Why sample from a categorical pseudo-random number generator when you can be ridiculous? This is how I now draw contest winners over on patreon dot com, www.patreon.com/c/betanalpha.

In the time before Noether's Theorem.

restaurant manager: hey so, sorry to bother you, but is that a service animal? it's just, we have a policy- jabba the hutt: je wonna wonga, bazda wahota shonga salacious b crumb: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA restaurant manager: ah. ok. cool

‘Waffle’ the noun and ‘waffle’ the verb are not etymologically related. The noun is related to the Old English ‘wefan,’ which means “to weave.” The verb is related to the English ‘woff,’ which means “to yelp.” FWIW: we never waffle on eating waffles.

Statistics is more than just choosing between black box models.

Statistics is more than just choosing between black box models.

I'm too depressed to dunk on the constant stream of bad statistics takes on the site. If, however, you're looking to lurk through or engage in productive discussions on (narratively generative) probabilistic modeling then drop by the Discord server I set up, www.patreon.com/posts/genera....

I'm too depressed to dunk on the constant stream of bad statistics takes on the site. If, however, you're looking to lurk through or engage in productive discussions on (narratively generative) probabilistic modeling then drop by the Discord server I set up, www.patreon.com/posts/genera....

The 'mediant' of two fractions a/b and c/d is (a+c)/(b+d). Beginners sometimes add fractions this way by mistake. But it's important in number theory... ... and I just learned it has a simple geometrical meaning, too!

don't even care

Today, in honour of WEB DuBois's birthday in 1868, the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social features the hand-drawn infographics DuBois made with his students to depict the conditions of African-American life in 1900. Arts-based pedagogy all those years ago! buff.ly/3kdWqRD

Happy 40th anniversary to "The Legend of Zelda" (released on February 21, 1986).

Give up all hope ye who model here…

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The _real_ cool kids aren’t -maxxing everything, they’re -uncertaintyquantifyying.

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Update from Tumblr: This close-up image of a tree core was captured using “TIM”, the lab’s homemade high-resolution… Click directly on the link in our Bluesky description, or copy and paste the below: https://temporalecology.tumblr.com/post/808864438750969856

The _real_ cool kids aren’t -maxxing everything, they’re -uncertaintyquantifyying.

Fun times: a paper of ours is finally "properly published" in AAP: 'Weak Poincaré inequalities for Markov chains: Theory and applications' - Christophe Andrieu, Anthony Lee, Sam Power, Andi Q. Wang This was the final part of a trilogy of joint works during Andi's and my postdoc.

We’ll be starting in just under an hour!

This book is positioned in my partner's section of bookshop right at my eye line. It taunts me every day.

We're pleased to have @betanalpha.bsky.social join us in Princeton tomorrow (Feb 17th) to talk about generative modeling! Talk: 11am Workshop (with Stan): 12:15pm The zoom is open to public (see flyer). @princeton.edu

Shout out to throngs. Don't just run around with a group and whatnot. Make sure that shit is a throng.

Do it for the (histo)gram:

Looks like I'll have some availability Tuesday afternoon. If anyone at Princeton wants to talk stats then don't hesitate to reach out.

Looks like I'll have some availability Tuesday afternoon. If anyone at Princeton wants to talk stats then don't hesitate to reach out.

Friendly reminder that on Tuesday February 17th I'll be in Jersey talking about (narratively) generative modeling, psychology.princeton.edu/news-events/..., and the talk (if not also the paired workshop) will be live-streamed for those interested in attending remotely.

Friendly reminder that on Tuesday February 17th I'll be in Jersey talking about (narratively) generative modeling, psychology.princeton.edu/news-events/..., and the talk (if not also the paired workshop) will be live-streamed for those interested in attending remotely.

Can I tell you something?

Linear algebra question: Let X be positive-definite, (J x J) matrix and Y a rectangular (I x J) matrix with I > J. Moreover, let rank(Y) < J and construct the matrix product Z = Y * X * Y^{T}. Because Y is rank-deficient Z will not be positive-definite, but we can isolate the non-singular part.