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Can you move to a city? This is what most people I know in this situation do. Though I had a great time getting a car and taking myself out for hikes, sauna / spa days, activities …

Came here to say this. Pure slop, wtf is everyone going on about? Are they all LLMs too?

Very true, but it seems like you may not have seen the expose on this field in Science https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...

I appreciate your commitment to modernist capital-S Science here :) I'm familiar with how the field ought to work but after working in Andrew Gelman's lab for some years, also with…

The last thing I read about the link between amyloid-β accumulation and Alzheimer's was that the entire field was full of fake data ( https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fake…

The current law is more general; it’s the current policy’s consumer price heuristic that has become a bad approximation to the law. I like “The Economists’ Hour” on the topic.

Statistical Rethinking is the first book that helped me make sense of statistical modeling (and probability as applied to modeling): https://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/ H…

I will say up front that I don't think the social good is worth what we are collectively paying for it, but I do think the market hours are a reasonable device. This is basically b…

I like "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." -Keynes

> Unfortunately, the rethinking package which is a major component of the book itself depends on the V8 engine for some reason. This is my fault, in a sense. In order to get the ne…

This is weirdly deliberately misquoted, maybe as a joke? full: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2013/07/21/bayes-rela...

I'm surprised to see this argument. Tooling and infrastructure are only as clean as the services they support. I don't think you get to wash your hands because all you did was buil…

This did not hold up well, imo. Not sure how to count it but by some lists this is stuff like: Tencent, Alibaba, Amazon, Netflix, Priceline, Baidu, Salesforce.com, JD.com. Others w…

How do you feel about Alberto Balsam? :)

Thanks! The new .messages error message mechanism is great, though we'll see if it supports the full brunt of user needs soon enough.

Curious if the author could comment on what Menhir is lacking, my estimation is possibly just the concrete syntax trees, though you could definitely emit an AST that has as much of…

Be cautious using this article to try to learn anything. Differentiable programming is not actually related to deep learning; it's another word for automatic differentiation, a tec…

Gentle plug for my literate Haskell implementation that aims to teach the concepts as they are defined: https://github.com/seantalts/hasktrip/blob/master/doc/MicroK...

GPU and MPI support in Stan coming hopefully this summer!

Bob Carpenter did a great case study on the this topic, for anyone new to it: http://mc-stan.org/users/documentation/case-studies/curse-di... Check out the graphs, especially of th…

If you care about quantifying uncertainty, knowing about Bayesian methods is a good idea I don't see represented here yet. I care so much about uncertainty quantification and propa…

Stan (mc-stan.org, Columbia University) | New York City | Full-time, ONSITE | $80-$100k Stan ( http://mc-stan.org ) is an open source probabilistic programming language and Bayesia…