I never got around to a formal review: this is a good book! I'm a bad judge of good intro textbooks for undergrads, but this integrates DS-relevant material very well (and circles back to connect concepts, eg, regularization) R code is compact but clear matloff.github.io/WackyLinearA... #rstats

Some under-the-blanket ribbon tug of war #Caturday

🎇 Tiddlydump's Candy Corner 🎇 This is a weird one. I actually *really* like these, but the product features make eating them worse The firm outer/soft inner gummy dynamic is very pleasurable. Taste is good if you like pseudo-watermelon 9/10 HOWEVER: peeling these is, to put it delicately, ... +

"Even I, a veteran actor and ofttimes waiter, do not know how to fix this." If there was a Grover show, I would watch it religiously. He never misses. youtu.be/qh_dYPR3rW0

This outs me every time, but I also don't try to hide that I'm originally from SE Wisconsin. That and my general insistence that people aren't putting enough cheese on my food...

How dare we use a century of policy failures to discredit a failed policy

My kids have started watching Pokemon (starting from '97), & even picked up Let's Go Pikachu! They think I'm some sort of Pokemon Professor bc my brain refused to drop the accumulated knowledge of Gen I/II Things get fuzzy in Gen III, though, so it's a matter of time before I'm exposed as a fraud

Finished 'Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown' It's good! It has issues that can be entirely boiled down to "Ubisoft made it", but it's worth a play if you like MetroidVanias. It's a little too "wait, wtf am I going?" in a few spots (bad design, imo). Good movement, decent combat, fun tools.

After a few listens, I can confirm: this is Muse's best work since BH&R (2006!) It's so so so much better than everything they've done in between, it's sort of baffling. Whatever triggered the return to form, I'm here for it. It's artistic space rock weirdness in the best way. +

#machinelearning people: What's the current best practice for predicting w/ longitudinal data when you've prior evidence of multilevel effects like random slopes and intercepts? An R implementation would be ideal! I dislike having to trade off testing possible interactions with ignoring slopes 🤔

5 (!?!) baby bunnies -- the size of your fist -- have decided that sheltering by our playset is a good idea. I discovered this when my 6 yo screamed "I caught a baby bunny!" (I stood up so fast from my lawn chair my body created new muscles so I could hurt them.) Hooray for soap, though.

I'd happily join the War on Stupidly Declaring Wars on Everything, but sweet sassy molasses -- we have notched so many victories against cancer!

With all the SCOTUS rulings denigrating court-made causes of action, I’m briefly reiterating something I’ve written on before: The HISTORY & TRADITION from the Founding was that courts COULD create causes of action when the legislature had not. 1/ www.arcdigital.media/p/where-does...

The insanity continues! My first ever sequel review (*confetti cannons*)! Pretty middling. The entire bag gets that vague tropical taste even when you're eating something *not* tropical. Drier than the Raspberry ones first reviewed, but maybe that's batch variability. Not a dealbreaker. 7/10

Take your pick folks: * Regulatory capture * Concentrated benefits, diffuse costs Etc etc

Womp womp

The writing here is sublime. Excellent science writing for the masses carries you along from new concept to new concept, and you never feel lost. At the same time, when you're done you are aware that you learned and also that you know almost nothing! Great stuff, take the time to read it

Got to hang out with my brother's (family and their) Bernese mountain dog, and they are just the best Look at this gigantic lovable beast. 10/10, would pet and thump again

As a Packers fan born in '89, I love Antonio Freeman. His name never struck me as the least bit interesting (being a child and all that) until he was near the end of his career. Glad to have the occasion to revisit the happy memories (even if I'm not into soccer at all.)

Was busy today so didn't see a lot of SCOTUS talk. If you ever make the mistake of thinking Gorsuch & Kav are carbon copies on everything, give the concurrence in Hunter (joined by Jackson, Sotomayor) on the absurd state of plea bargains & appeals waivers. + www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

can't argue with this.

25 years ago, Origin of Symmetry was released. One of the best albums of the 2000s, certainly. I have the boring (correct) opinion that Citizen Erased is the best track, but it's over 7 minutes long. Micro Cuts is a hidden gem, but the whole album is bangers so you can't really go wrong.

He keeps alternating between sitting and perching like a weasel. I don't understand his plan, but I'll observe and report.

Ah, the old municipal government trick "we didn't raise your taxes, we just tripled your garbage collection fee".

You lunatics need to make up your minds. Either 16 and 17 year olds have special insight on public policy (such that I should give a shit what they think), to the point that they should get to vote, but they can't be trusted to decide to.... * Be out at night * Smoke/vape * Use the Internet

"Do you really need another piece of cheese?" #Caturday

I'll take that block from you now, lad.

It turns out when you give government agents access to incredibly powerful surveillance tools and put no real safeguards in place, bad things happen. www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

My court-ordered community service is back on, so without further ado: It's another round of 🎉 Tiddlydump's Candy Corner! 🎉 The strips are good, but messy. Bring a towel, sugar gets everywhere. Good texture / thickness. Appropriately sour. Strips are maybe an inch too long. 8/10

We should normalize mocking and ridiculing people who believe in homeopathy, that air conditioners cause illness (via magic, I guess?), chiropractors, alkaline water (do NOT drink this, guys), etc.

When you pour that last handful of flavored sunflower seeds directly into your mouth, straight from the bag, and you almost die.

Everything on TikTok hits so hard if you have literally never thought about the topic before and will never think about it again.

I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

What is the charge? Customer service? Providing succulent customer service?

#rstats * Interesting!

{echarts4r} or {plotly}? #rstats

Birth announcement: I clicked SEND to forward Vis-MLM to my editor. Couldn't resist the temptation to make a #rstats #stats #meme 👀https://friendly.github.io/Vis-MLM-book/

The forensic report is available here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Incredible stuff

You don't 'need therapy', you need to use parquet file format. The arrow package would fix you.

Chvrches' Cry Little Sister (originally from The Lost Boys soundtrack) is very high on my list youtu.be/mDqJIBvcuUw

today in "base R functions I didn't know about after 20 years": modifyList() (it was added in 2006 github.com/r-devel/r-sv... )

McDonald's couldn't stop Ozempic. Even if you're a wild-eyed lunatic, at some point you're arguing with yourself about whether Big Sandwich and Big Shoe Insole are working together to undermine Big Blanket or whatever. This is a disgrace. Shame on Wired.

Update What a weirdo

New toy day!

Remember when cosmetic companies were all "Yo, heard you want exfoliants, so we put ground up plastic in your face scrub. Thank us later" -- this was 10 years ago btw -- and now they just use ground up shells and seed pits and sand and shit? That was wild, huh.

Update: I'm concluding that this game is just not good. I very rarely put a game down without beating it, but I will probably never pick this up again.

Time is a liquid 🤷🏻‍♀️

Happy #Caturday

I really wanted to like Mina the Hollower (I loved Shovel Knight so much I bought it on multiple consoles!) It feels... Unpolished. Everything is awkward, combat is a chore, etc. I'll give it a few more hours, but my main feeling after about 3 hours is "disappointment". Damn.