I'm always driven a little crazy by discussions of this which assume form letters and mail merge and decades of procedurally generated spam didn't exist.

The distributions here are fascinating

The post is worth for what the author has to say about his experiences working on open source. I'm sure some of you package developers have had similar experiences :( I have sadly not had much of chance to use Julia recently, but I enjoyed it when I did.

I mean, technically it's true: Messi is Messi.

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Smog and the battle against smog was a big deal in the 80s and 90s

Holy &#>!

Super interesting read.

Or you read something and say "it depends" or "that can't be right" and down the rabbit hole you go.

This is pretty cool (also disturbing)

Interesting piece. I'm not entirely sure I agree with it, but I definitely don't disagree.

Show me a comic page you love; no explanation needed.

Show me a comic page you love; no explanation needed.

The things you learn on this website

You should see how adults operate them

Is it methodologically sound to use a child's birthday date as a proxy for social gatherings to estimate risk of covid transition in older adults? Why or why not? (I am looking for arguments on either side)

Man, I should put "numbers" in quotations more often. That hurts like a knife in the chest

You just need a tough nurse to ensure compliance (IYKYK)

econometrics books should have a big *WARNING: YOUR DATA WILL NOT ARRIVE IN A FORM THAT ALLOWS THIS ANALYSIS. IT MAY TAKE WEEKS TO GET IT THERE * sticker at the top of every section introducing a a new quasi-experimental method.

Bring back art

The problem with this video is now I want that jacket.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER Bluesky gadfly SJW

This one is a challenge. Everyone help Paolo find the citation that will save the day* *the day may be beyond saving at this point. But let us try.

Everyone is saying he's best known for Jurassic Park, but "I would like to have seen Montana" will live rent free in my brain forever. RIP Sam Neil 💔

Both of which are indistinguishable from data falsification, or so I've heard 😉

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO 😭

😬

I wrote a framework paper with @anthrocypher.bsky.social that incorporated her foundational experience driving community design at stack overflow btw 😇 on what gets people to talk to each other in tech! osf.io/preprints/ps...

This actually doesn't seem as bad as I thought. The number of questions was clearly dropping before chatGPT was released, and at best I think ChatGPT probably accelerated the decline a bit

Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.

This is the episode that made the first season worth watching. I don't think "The Day" would be as great if you were to watch it without seeing the previous episodes, so be warned if you want to watch it as a standalone episode.

The cult of the operator is strong

Typical day on Bluesky, tbh

There's always an Ian Malcolm quote (laudatory)

There is a solution to all this

This is how you dress when you go fishing.

I think one challenge that makes some claims hard to accept it that the claims are often banal platitudes (eg, "students don't read anymore," to use an example from Paul's follow-up tweet). Unfortunately there's sometimes not a smoldering city to point to.

My copy finally arrived!

Looks like some good stuff a comin'

Is this a reference to the Fable thing? Or am I missing something? I'm not sure I would be giving them credit for something that was not going to happen anyway. blog.aifutures.org/p/ai-2040-pl...

Oof www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

It was worth it

I feel seen

I originally read this as "MCU" and honestly it still makes sense.

It was a simpler time. Look what GPS took from us.

Cold fusion will solve this*

I want to see someone model "greatness" as a latent variable, not because I think the data in the article is wrong, but because I think it would be interesting to see how everything loads.

Using this as an excuse to share one of my favorite Mr. Rogers memes.

No, no it is not. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/ef6dee7...