go home, sheet music, you're drunk

1. ICE will kill you. 2. Trumpists will lie to justify it. 3. Because they are all thug trash.

i have a generalized sense of ennui and anxiety maybe overcommitting to new years resolutions will help

lukewarm take, but plotly is uggy and ggplotly should generally be avoided for disrespecting your static ggplot2 formatting (use ggiraph instead)

Happy Back-To-Work Day!!

in the northeast united states, they do `git merge maine` instead

someone who is good at music theory help what in the world is this chord and why is it so juicy (when playing in Eb)

These are not serious people

what

just did a word count on my dnd campaign's ongoing summary and we're almost at 10,000 words

Bari Weiss just going all in with these CBS News statements of policy

This is a really good point that I had not run into before: these "creators" have no further insight into their alleged creation than the average audience member and that is why it cannot be called art (besides all the other obvious reasons).

doing it because I simply love suffering

"I should learn cpp" <- statements by the utterly deranged (me, maybe, idk)

There *are* legitimate use cases for this kind of stuff! Simulation studies! Synthetic data for a preregistered analysis plan prior to an actual study! But this isn't being marketed as that. It's advertised as a cheaper, faster alternative to humans. Temu we-have-results-at-home survey results.

New Research Paper Shows 90% of US Adults Don't Know How Many R's Are In The Word "Strawberry"

found an etsy shop that's doing a tremendous bit

phrases I have come to be negatively polarized against: - actionable insights - democratizing data - <idk, probably others>

this is a once-in-a-generation game whose laser-focused artistic vision was luckily fully realized --- such a well deserved win and I hope it gives publishers the confidence to fund ambitious stories

StanCon 2026 registration and abstract submission is now open! Please spread the word! discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stancon-20...

I have a friend also named Eric Adams who also lives in New York and every so often I see (mayor) Eric Adams make the news for some new insane thing and wonder if it's thrown a wrench into (regular guy) Eric Adams' day

I accidentally wrote an Actually Good™ melody last night instead of what I normally play: miscellaneous ragtime bullshit

so some google dev just closed all the issues I had opened in an open source repo as "completed" when what they really meant is "won't do". it's fine to not add, but like, don't mark it as completed if it wasn't completed lol

the dopamine rush of figuring out a teeny bug in a new paradigm is just *chef's kiss*

tulsa women's volleyball ! very fun !

this household is filled with survey experiment results appreciators

I've listened to the Clair Obscur soundtrack almost nonstop for the past several months so this tracks

BEHOLD

very important dnd development: I gotta make a mini for the giant library bird from avatar the last airbender

I believe eigen fly. I believe eigen touch the sky.

i have used this image like 15 times in slack this week thank fucking god i can finally stop staring at medium screen and start staring at small screen for the next 48 hours

Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist? Mamdani: I've spoken about -- Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.

i can't stop writing music now this was a good purchase

BDSM: Bayesian Data Science Methodologies (gem from one of my coworkers who has taken the crown for funniest person in the office)

workspace folders in vscode are the work of the devil (microsoft)

gui-based interfaces for manipulating data are an asinine piece of obfuscation that shouldn't exist --- the hard part of writing code isn't typing, it's thinking through the logic of what you want to accomplish

buying a midi -> usb-c cable is possibly the greatest gift you can give yourself

new hyper-fixation acquired

just one more notebook bro just one more don't make me write a python script just one more notebook I promise this one's different just one more notebook

I have just discovered tqdm and it make my reptile brain go brrrr

dawg that other ending for Clair Obscur --- I am shattered into one million pieces

no surprise, but we also found this to be true in a predictive capacity as well: www.gelliottmorris.com/i/170693120/...

I’ve beaten Clair Obscur. What a magnificent, tragic experience

I h a concurrency t e

Tapping the sign:

with large number of n’s you don’t need randomization

behold, a gaussian mixture of poisson and normally distributed variables

seems good