Lateralus turned 25 on Friday! It's in my Top 5 Greatest Albums Ever™ list, and has something for everyone (if the "something" you're looking for is "prog metal"). For a song you can accidentally hit "repeat" on and listen to for 3 hours straight, see Reflection. youtu.be/4MzVuHqsNoM

I've definitely shared with the GAM curious because it's (a) clearly written and (b) has code examples. This type of paper can fail spectacularly to have an actual audience, but when the approach succeeds (as here!) it's worth sharing far and wide.

Long long ago I took a year of New Testament Greek, and all instances of "you [plural]" my *very Northern* Prof insisted on translating as "y'all". ὑμεῖς, ὑμᾶς, ὑμῖν, ὑμῶν I remember ~ NOTHING from these classes, though. Like, zero things. If I had a vote, I would bring back "ye". It's useful!

If I catch any of you being condescending (that means "talking down"), you're getting muted!

My ASD 6 year old's bedtime is packed to the gills with dilly-dallying, to the point where we've had to institute a "one last question" rule. That's usually silly things like "how do you spell Timbuktu?" or its about Paw Patrol or ostriches or something. Tonight's was "what's the last number?"

Somewhat suspicious that the entire ocean is assigned the No Data color. What don't they want us to know?

I def first saw this as the crane facing me, in a B-Boy stance youtube.com/shorts/3Dt69...

R-folks, is the RTMB package the go-to autodiff package in R now? Limitations? Fast? Alternatives? #RStats #r4ds

Is the Macarena absolutely dreadful? Yes. But I also associate it with my Packers winning a Super Bowl in the first year I can fully remember, like, being a sentient human and stuff (remembering not just that events occurred but that I had an inner life).

Faux indie slop one hit wonder feels quintessentially millennial in a way I can’t quite explain.

"Greetings, traveler" energy #Caturday

The Internet is a wonderful place

The flowchart is very long, but it's fun to go up and down if you like a programming challenge. The {moder} package lets you find the first mode or all modes: lhdjung.github.io/moder/ Many people rely on table(), but this treats NAs like known and equal values: lhdjung.github.io/moder/articl...

Yes yes I know Ian McDiarmid plays a banger, but you are not gonna convince me that the Street Fighter film is good on the back of Raul Julia's performance and its the same principle here.

The administration was always going to lose this, by their own admission last year.

The water cat, intently watching Octonauts. I presume she's jealous they're all swimming in the ocean and she's stuck in the Midwest.

I haven't rix-posted in a while Use `rix`. It's easy. It just works. You add the smallest bit of overhead so your project environments break *never*. It feels like cheating! Use Nix on it's own, cram it into a Docker container, whatever. Check it out. docs.ropensci.org/rix/index.html #rstats

For #2, #Nix basically wins outright. For #1… nothing really existed that felt right. That’s why I started building **T**, an experimental functional, immutable domain-specific language for polyglot orchestration. 5/10

Normal person, when seeing this: "Wow, what a smart bird!" B.F. Skinner, when seeing this: "... imma turn that bird into a missile" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...

You all laugh, but my Math Blaster high scores are full of lies.

Clearing out some bookmarks, gave this a go. It's good! Go read or listen to it or whatever. (It's a short story) For a story that's literally "two people stand and talk to each other" it's an emotional rollercoaster.

If you need to refluff your cat, tumble dry low or extra low. Remember to clean your lint trap! #Caturday

You might not know it, but he doesn't like laying here. It's actually among his least favorite places to lay in the entire house. It is, however, where my wife sits at night. He pretends he's cozy so she has to move him and he can complain about it. #Caturday

Found a three-dandelion fusion thing and I assume there's a vial of ooze somewhere nearby. #TMNT

The European mind cannot comprehend

Graphite dust floating around your spacecraft is bad and stuff. Read the history of this myth here! www.nasa.gov/technology/t...

Advertise your account with a Simpsons image

Film you've watched more than six times with gif hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli (The first TMNT movie absolutely holds up. It's fantastic)

Adam Smith is widely associated with the ‘invisible hand’ and free market operation, with all the connotations these carry. Does that do justice to his deep suspicions about monopolies and abuse of power? buff.ly/YN5pl1a

Look at this ball of owl.

@norvid-studies.bsky.social Water cat

what in the everloving

Pictured: a cat that loves playing with water. (The youngest is playing with a new Bluey water set and it's a rather splashy affair). Now the cat is running around the house cracked out because her paws are wet.

`detach("package:datasets", unload = TRUE)` IYKYK #rstats

I'll keep reposting this until I no longer find it funny

I implemented a fork of {targets} which provides the necessary changes to support {mori} shared memory regions! Check out the discussion thread below to learn more about the implementation: github.com/ropensci/tar... And try out the primary fork here: github.com/tylermorganw... #RStats

Bell curves.

I strongly hold the belief that this stuff should be started in secondary/high school, as early as trigonometry or even geometry. Interpreting probabilities and rates is essential for functioning in modern society.

I just recalled the time I fell asleep listening to Tool and was awoken by this absurdity slowly pounding its way into my dreams. It's rather silly, if you can get over the NEVER ENDING POUNDING. (Press 9 for information in Pig Latin!) youtu.be/k_dv-uOFYTA

Guess who discovered that Velcro shoes are the best face scratchers in the universe? #Caturday

So many things are remarkable about Prince (the amount of composition, arrangement, production, performance that was *him* is crazy). The most remarkable to me is that he just made whatever music he wanted. He could have pulled a Pearl Jam or AC/DC and made the same album 15 times but he didn't!

Cockroaches Logistic regression SQL When the world is plunged into nuclear winter, these will be the survivors.

Wait... There are people who argue we were too hard on *Japan*?! War crime trials hit a snag and we all just... shrugged and gave up? Is the author of the manifesto an imperial Japanese time traveler?

Scrubbed through to check the sections and I'm 99% sure this is where I learned about MoH recipient James Hendrix www.cmohs.org/recipients/j...

may also enjoy this 3 hour youtube documentary, very granular and detailed but still manages to be dramatic for that www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJmh...

Discovered in a very confusing Abbott and Costello routine that my girls named these bears "Yep" and "Nope".

Did I just trick myself into watching Band of Brothers again? I think I did.

In a weird way, the rise of those plastic-voiced AI ads (primarily video, but not exclusively) has rendered them supremely ignorable. Has anyone else found that adapting to no longer see/hear them has been trivial? I both hope you aren't all suffering, but I also hope my peace endures...

I'm looking for applied tutorials on sensitivity analyses for NMAR outcome variables. Any favorite resources #rstats and #stata crowd?