Drag name: Debra B Messing.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

I’ve always thought of this as altitude aware distance. If KL(x|y) is finite but KL(y|x) is not, just imagine you get from x to y by jumping off a cliff. And if you don’t like that the other direction is infinite, tell me: how exactly did you learn to fly?

Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)

My theory is that for practitioners, regression models should be like pocket money: you get a fixed number per week to do whatever you like with until we're sure you won't blow the whole lot on silly stuff, get caught up in a get-rich-quick scheme, or accidentally leave them in a drawer somewhere.

Sometimes you dress as a cat who has done a bad job dressing as a miner (and who is wearing a dagger as a fascinator). (Aka Aloysius, my dnd character.)

This same friend went as Divine Miss Piggy one year and then ATE KERMIT'S SHIT ON STAGE (chocolate) and somehow only placed second So yeah, he'd better fucking win this year, because he's been robbed three times already. bsky.app/profile/felo...

The Bayes/Frequentist wars are not about resolving anything smh

It seems like the only way tech companies are able to compel AI usage is by coercion in performance review processes? (via The Information "AI Agenda" newsletter)

New Soft Pink Truth music by yours truly! Behold the video for "Time Inside the Violet", directed by hourglass animator Matthew Murray Sullivan and panic attack collagist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us). New album on @thrilljockey.bsky.social comes out Jan 30th! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhEt...

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

TIL Binace is not a bisexual dating app.

oh my God apparently he blocked me and then went and immediately deleted the racist comment he made to me 💀 siri show me "white fragility"

I've always thought that the most important feature of Australian democracy is that it's so boring. Everyone votes, everyone gets a preferential vote, and the AEC is a trusted neutral arbiter. It makes the whole exercise terribly dull: you vote, eat a sausage, go to the beach, and the world goes on

I accidentally took a perfect photo at the Jim E Brown gig* * Squeezed between two goth bands playing to an all ages audience several of whom were in full white pancake. Never have I seen a performer more in sync with his audience as when he closed with “How do I stop crying when I masturbate?”

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Slightly better than the paper where they did asshole recognition

I’ll take “Things not to say while giving a handjob” for 400

If you find yourself anywhere near MoMA PS1 in the next few months, the Vaginal Davis exhibition is truly wonderful.

The Electrician by Scott Walker is an _extremely_ strange song to come on while you’re brushing your teeth.

Ok this is the first time I’ve been tempted to work for OpenAI….

I couldn’t have fewer opinions about what 16-18 year olds like/relate to. But I remember - Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolfe - A Clockwork Orange - Macbeth as the three things I liked in high school which is probably telling of me at 40 and also me at 17 but in quite different ways.

I wrote a paper about "Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse" 📝 TL;DR to follow in future 😊 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10382

... since there is plenty of value in identifying subsets of the problem space for which better solutions are available, rather than complaining too much about the fact that these solutions aren't universal (which was anyways a big ask!).

Thankfully that's not the current approach! People (shout-out to them!) are working on automatic diffentiation of pre-existing low-level numerical code. github.com/EnzymeAD/Enz... Typically targets an intermediate representation that's universally used (incl Fortran) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM

I think what makes this different, usage-wise, from a lot of other GP regressions is that because it’s naturally online you can’t just think of it as a big multivariate Gaussian! (That said, 1D GPs are the least interesting GPs)

New reading of The Phantom of the Opera: Carlotta is simply asking for safe working conditions, and Christine is essentially a scab

NYC based instructors: we're looking for an adjunct for a graduate level Ethics of Data Science class this Spring. Please share widely apply.interfolio.com/175474

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University. Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

A blessing, I guess, of the chronological timeline is that I can see that something is happening but I truly have no idea what. And tbh I’m ok with that.

That's German for "The p-value, The The The"

This performance is stunning and like I can imagine people who didn’t know what an absolute fuck-knuckle Hinch infamously is would think it’s staged. It wasn’t. She’s just that good. youtu.be/Or-0aIHtD2Q?...

If you have Prime in the US (at least) Swallowed is a really excellent horror movie that’s on there now youtu.be/0WQ_2D-e7z8?...

Today in “Songs with unlikely lyrical conceits that somehow still low-key slap” youtu.be/SG3YIoW_2zs?...

Every now and again I remember that SQL is case insensitive and you people are choosing to make it look like that.

You know, not all the ones is bad www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just softly, old Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds clips slap and I kinda can’t believe how much is recorded youtu.be/lncYnkSeNFc?...

Someone in this meeting is talking about fuzz testing and all I can think of is that old Bette Midler Soph joke: “Hey Soph, you ever been pulled over by the fuzz? No. But I have been swung around by the tits a few times”

Now bring back Difficult People and we've got a stew going!

Yeah like straight up more than 1 in 5 people I voluntarily spend frequent time with are trans women and that’s a flex that has no relationship to the extremely correct point that Dani is making here. But I do recommend it. They’re quite fun.

Wild horses couldn’t drag this out of me.