# plotting draws vs data-generating parameters ref_values <- c( b_tPOST = sim$args$beta_y_post, b_x_pre = sim$args$beta_y_within, b_x_post = sim$args$beta_y_within, b_x_true = sim$args$beta_y_within ) instadens(draws, ref_values)

Part 2 of my shrinkage estimator series is out! Part 1 covered the univariate case, but now we dive into multivariate shrinkage 🤓 We cover Spearman's classic correlation disattenuation formula, multivariate James-Stein estimators, and hierarchical methods too haines-lab.com/post/how-to-...

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

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just observing that the x axis here only marks two dates because the focus is very specific for the “point” of the plot

This ruling, supported even by liberal justices, betrays a fundamental misunderstanding: Therapy is not the expression of a personal opinion - it's medical care. There is no first amendment right to medical malpractice.

I love that AI levels the playing field, by which I mean a billion-dollar company can now debase itself with YouTube-thumbnail quality promotional art

trans rights is a "wedge" issue in the sense that if you have an issue with trans rights I will "wedge" you into a crevasse in a mountain and leave you there

Hospital Decides Cancer-Sniffing Leopard More Trouble Than It’s Worth https://theonion.com/hospital-decides-cancer-sniffing-leopard-more-trouble-than-its-worth/

for ASHA convention abstracts, we have to write learning outcomes and select a verb from a dropdown box and i don't know what it says about me but i dont like how "identify" shows up twice in the list

writing in my new boxing boots to break them in

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Design document growing larger. I need to code some more core functions, like type checking and test coverage. But I'll get this bird online.

I hate when this context loss happens

feed/fed/food. we need more ablauts. they’re fun

slay the spire relic that makes you remove a card after defeating an elite (thinking of how good trading card was from balatro)

pretty ahead of the curve for 1992 tbh open.spotify.com/track/6ZIjne...

i don't understand how people go through the world having interactions like this. 1: you're wrong i have old info 2: this is new info 1: well i still think you're wrong

there’s a comment here that’s just the word “slipdot” and I like that youtu.be/91QWp6Ygx7c?...

I don’t like the necrobinder in slay the spire 2 because to compute health loss from an attack, you have to read your block (left), osty’s health (right), and your health (left). too many eye movements

Nothing I hate more than a plumbing project and nothing wants to turn and you’re in this horrible contorted position

I like that we have popular weird bands and that we can joke about their weirdness and have fun about it (geese, angine de poitrine)

I'm kind of loving the idea of a centrifugal process that sharpens group differences competing with a shrinkage process that drags them back towards each other. Social theory as classical mechanics.

Bluesky still never beating the allegations.

people who write columns about word choices are unserious people

fir a growth curve model yesterday with a mix of 2-10 year olds and adults that basically was: score ~ 1 + is_child + is_child:splines(age_months) where is_child is a 0/1 indicator variable. I like the elegance of turning on age as a variable

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First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.

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I watched Project Hail Mary completely ignorant about the book or movie and it was very enjoyable.

"it is not complex or overengineered just because i don't understand it yet" i remind myself again and again

"I'm doing my part!"

really digging this Loop song open.spotify.com/track/2u4mFl...

You pronounce it "An" 😉

we're in this funny spot where the documentation you give an LLM is like the "true" readme for a piece of software posit-dev.github.io/great-docs/s...

I think this is a good overview of (part of) what we do? cc @bapalmer.bsky.social

My favorite Slay The Spire 2 synergy space I’ve stumbled onto is Regent’s “be gone” / “tyranny” / that uncommon one self-exhaust card plus “bombardment” (expensive card that plays itself once exhausted)

whoa just felt some micronostalgia for this song

Modest Mouse lyric

As I progressed (hopefully) from data novice to data competent, one of the most impactful practices I adopted was to never* rely on saved intermediate datasets (etc) in my workflow. All projects are designed so that ["raw" data -> analysis data -> analysis] is 100% reproduced in every session.

“if it hurts, do it more often” i say to my child, knowing that this is really a line that software developers say to hype themselves up about things like testing and version control

it would be funny to go back to 4:3 video because it looks tolerable in vertical or horizontal orientations

ahem yankee hotel foxtrot is a 2002 album

29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it. Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data. r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com

This is awesome! Somehow my life is enriched knowing that @hadley.nz ‘s first ever post from 2002 was about improving base R plotting aesthetics *including* the now famous light grey background There’s an Easter egg if I ever saw one!

How can this go on for another 3 years?

Happy ten year anniversary to the npm left-pad incident to those who celebrate 🥂