john mitchell 
@daeyoung@qoto.org
Digital nomad | Statistics | Clean energy | Politically homeless 🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇰🇷
I'm a statistician specializing in Bayesian inference and statistical computing. I like to keep my professional life separate from my online activities, so that's pretty much all you're gonna get from me.
All views are my own
Joined Nov 2022
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“If Florida truly believes we live in a post-racial society, then let it make its case,” the judge wrote. “But it cannot win the argument by muzzling its opponents.”
Of all possible candidates, THIS is the person that Musk asserts values freedom of speech.
In #1899, no one cared whether you spoke their language. They just started talking to you in theirs
You know the world has gone to shit when the #Cornell law website, an #IvyLeague school, asks for donations as if it’s fucking #Wikipedia. Oh, and their website has ads too
Give credit where credit is due. The U.S. should do the same
https://www.reuters.com/technology/jdcom-cut-senior-executives-salaries-by-10-20-2022-11-22/
@dan_p_simpson why did you say ewwwwww at Fisher lol?
meta, instance blocking
@alis idk. You can block an instance as an individual user if you feel like a particular instance has accumulated too many people you don’t want to engage. Why delegate it to the admin who’s already piled up in maintenance work? And I certainly wouldn’t want someone else to block an entire instance on my behalf
Rewatching Harry Potter and wondering how Hermione has any friends at all. She’s so annoying lol
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So it seems joinmastodon removed QOTO from their directory without cause, without contacting us, and without any discussion or due diligence.
Since this is the only way to actually find QOTO for new users if it isnt reversed soon it could mean the end for our wonderful community.
If you care about this place remaining fair, respectful, and inclusive environment I highly suggest everyone reach out to them annd voice your objecttion and your disapointment and having no procedure to keep this fair and inclusive.
If you want to see QOTO stick around you can email your objecttion here:
hello@joinmastodon.org
Feel free to CC me here: jeffrey.freeman@qoto.org
Please be respectful, we want to show them we are the good guys and not give them any reason to object.
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I tested galactica.org with prompt "Bayesian cross-validation". Not good
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Shitpost/queer theory
Short course: Queering #datascience
Week 1: Abandoning the binary: classification in the 21sr century
Week 2: Decentralising the tendencies
Week 3: Destroying the Cannon: from canonical correlation to latent variables
Week 4: Week 4: I’m a lonesome cowboy: the lasso and the performance of heterosexuality and hyper-masculinity in a variable selection context
@dan_p_simpson this was probably the funniest blog post I’ve read in my life. Love the dig on Harold Jeffreys lol
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I've written a blog on an old Bayesian counter-example from Robins and Ritov (greatly popularized by Larry Wasserman). It argues that it's not possible to find a "true" Bayesian solution to a particular problem that looks like survey sampling.
https://dansblog.netlify.app/posts/2022-11-12-robins-ritov/robins-ritov.html
I would love to downplay the significance of the errant #Russian missile that killed 2 #Polish people—as it’s clearly not an “attack” on a #NATO member state—but remember the world went to war over a Prince dude getting shot by a Serbian nationalist. That’s how easy things can escalate. I pray the U.S. plays a role of de-escalation, despite its bellicosity. We cannot let this suck the world into #WWIII
@joshbrownneuro I love the “write like you speak” format
@johnabs I think that distinction is meaningless here. That's like "oh cow technically can mean any female of a large animal, like the hippo, rhino, whale, or elephant". The scientific name of corn is Zea mays, so maize isn't really more specific or technical than corn.
Re: PETROLeum jelly 😂😂
@Pat @mohtashimnizamani anything that has four limbs—whether quadrupedal or bipedal—is descended from that thing tikka masala or whatever lol. And yes it’s us. We are the problem 🫠
@mohtashimnizamani That creature shouldn't have crept out of water because now quadrupedals are ruining the earth
@LouisIngenthron Libertarians were more than ready to fully embrace crypto and abolish fiat currency all together. I was loosely referring to what happened to #FTX.
Digital nomad | Statistics | Clean energy | Politically homeless 🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇰🇷
I'm a statistician specializing in Bayesian inference and statistical computing. I like to keep my professional life separate from my online activities, so that's pretty much all you're gonna get from me.
All views are my own
Joined Nov 2022
