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As others have pointed out, it is a good idea to encode domain knowledge in your time series model through specification and priors. Prophet rarely beats a well specified GLM or SA…

The biggest mistake engineers make is determining sample sizes. It is not trivial to determine the sample size for a trial without prior knowledge of effect sizes. Instead of waiti…

I had a similar experience. I took psylocibin a few times, but after the last one I started getting panic attacks and feeling derealization quite often. This led to negative recurr…

I have a similar setup with Emacs + Evil + Poly + Quarto Modes. Evil for vim keybindings, Poly to read cells as buffers and Quarto as a superior alternative to Jupytext [1]. [1] ht…

This. Multilevel models relax the assumption of independent observations by specifying that the measures of repeated experimental units are dependent on each other. It's a way of t…

This. Copilot enables bad programming practices imo, especially through clunky APIs like pandas.

RMarkdown has neither of these issues, and it supports Python. It is baffling to me that most data scientists use Jupyter, since its diffs are meaningless. Its export options are v…

I strongly agree with this. Not to mention parameter interpretability and, in the case of Bayesian models, uncertainty estimates and convergence diagnostics. Such things are very i…