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Postbac at NIMH Machine Learning, comms assistant at CCDD. Previously TA at Harvard Stats.

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Me, a utilitarian: making it morally necessary to give me all the pizza at the function by willing myself to be way happier than anyone else if I receive pizza and way sadder if I don't

07.09.2025 05:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So far, I've got

St Petersburg's paradox
Gambler's fallacy vs regression to the mean
X vs Y and Y vs X having the same slope in lr (equivariant)
Zero probability in continuous random variables

28.07.2025 18:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

StatsSky professors and teachers, what problems do students find intuitively difficult to grasp? I.e., problems or concepts that are mathematically well-defined but often stump students because the answers "feel wrong".

28.07.2025 18:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Though I'm surprised nobody's really put together a take on US-China trade war. But I'm also unclear what radicalizing means in this context haha

09.04.2025 21:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To me, it seems EAF/LW writers lag behind the most recent current events unless they already have a preset take. Considering most of the tariffs were walked back today, I wouldn't be surprised if stuff is now stuck in drafts for 90 days until the pause expires

09.04.2025 21:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Quote dunking = using the quote repost for snide remarks against the original poster.

21.03.2025 13:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately, the closest label we got is trans rat murder cult πŸ˜”

17.03.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Truly bizarre to see the term "neo-Marxist" on a government document

28.01.2025 23:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for the link! Still a bit of a headscratcher though because it's pretty unclear how they go from their buzzwords to their totals. I was curious about studies that control for confounders, for instance, which aren't in the examples but would likely contain some mix of "DEI" terms

28.01.2025 22:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Local testing of GitHub Pages on MacOS I can’t believe this took me so long to debug.

Wrote it down for funsies

07.01.2025 03:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Alison (Al/aL) W. Xin Alison (Al/aL) W. Xin’s site

It took me 4 hours to update my personal site. Updated the CV, removed some pages I didn't like so much, etc.

Unfortunately, a bug chunk of time was my insistence on testing changes in a local Jekyll server and the subsequent debugging

07.01.2025 03:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! My bad for not thinking to check Dec 2024.

Yeah, I figured, considering "corr" and "causal" didn't bring up anything useful in these articles haha

07.01.2025 02:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Coffee and pure juice is vegan and good, apparently

07.01.2025 02:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ages-specific beverage consumption and its association with depression and anxiety disorders: A prospective cohort study in 188,355 participants Diet habit is associated with mental health which has been suggested to be an independent risk factor. Nevertheless, evidence concerning the associati…

It might be me, but it seems every news article about this doesn't link the original study. The closest thing I could find is this (based on Google Scholar results for "uk biobank milk depression" from 2025) which has its own incredibly detailed infographic to speculate over

07.01.2025 02:17 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The article even points out "idiosyncratic weaknesses" like hallucination, brittleness, letter counting, and tic-tac-toe.

But (my reading is) betting on these known weaknesses shouldn't underpin regulatory strategy. E.g., we can't assume logic puzzles can be the new CAPTCHA

06.01.2025 23:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This claim is disputable, but valid concerns about OOB performance, generalizability, multimodality, etc. aren't super relevant for this piece's purpose.

It's mostly a rhetorical transition to saying "assuming AI can't equals won't is risky and baseless thinking in regulation".

06.01.2025 23:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I may be misremembering this, but back when Harvard was scouting for Presidents (pre-Claudine Gay), the search committee took recommendations from students.

There was some whispers to get a group push for Avi Loeb, in no small part because it would be really funny.

01.01.2025 23:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(Should have linked this first, whoops)

30.12.2024 21:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

FOMO from NYU faculty is referring to a "Reply All-pocalypse" where it seems that an email somehow hit a mass mailing list that looped in all the faculty into a gigantic email chain.

30.12.2024 21:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Loki, our American Crow, painting.
Loki, our American Crow, painting. YouTube video by Schlitz Audubon Nature Center

Would a crow be close enough?

30.12.2024 20:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am a tireless messenger pigeon delivering memes between group chats of people who will never know each other (while taking credit of discovery by omission)

22.12.2024 05:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

NIH Biowulf and HPC team my fate is in your hands

> pushes 10000 swarm jobs

22.12.2024 05:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Top 3 games by playtime. Number 1: Hollow Knight. 41% Play Time, 142 Sessions Played. 2: Animal Well: 11% Play Time, 33 Sessions Played. 3: Rain World: 8% Play Time, 32 Sessions Played.

Top 3 games by playtime. Number 1: Hollow Knight. 41% Play Time, 142 Sessions Played. 2: Animal Well: 11% Play Time, 33 Sessions Played. 3: Rain World: 8% Play Time, 32 Sessions Played.

Shoutout to voiceless wanderers in a beautiful and unsettling world gotta be one of my favorite genders fr fr

21.12.2024 23:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from the Steam Yearly Review page of my most played game, reading "Hollow Knight. We get it, we want to play Silk Song too. 41% of Total Playtime. 142 Sessions played. 10 Day Streak." Background is cover art of Hollow Knight."

Screenshot from the Steam Yearly Review page of my most played game, reading "Hollow Knight. We get it, we want to play Silk Song too. 41% of Total Playtime. 142 Sessions played. 10 Day Streak." Background is cover art of Hollow Knight."

bro we're gonna have the singularity before sillk song

21.12.2024 23:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The original post is rage bait based on a bad machine translation of Chinese. An alternative reading is that the CEO had no idea what the GotY standards were (in a lighthearted "I'm new to this" way) and the acceptance speech was a team pep talk.

16.12.2024 04:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I see the reasoning here to make a concise, direct essay. However, I also appreciate the links and discussion in this thread, as the observation that demand-side and supply-side need to work together is not common (probably because the former is usually morally opposed to animal farming).

15.12.2024 16:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They also perch on top of the 24-hour library and swoop down on the dazed students (not frequently, but it happens)

15.12.2024 02:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Site of the Day Β· Typewolf An archive of all the sites featured on Typewolf as site of the day.

Typewolf has a good archive of well-designed reference sites for font/color combos. These are often bespoke sites whose template can't be purchased directly, but having a visual reference might be helpful for fine-tuning the final look.

14.12.2024 17:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are those finger tattoos shark teeth? Very on brand

14.12.2024 16:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Blocks go both ways. You can test this on any random account, and when you refresh their feed, their posts will all be hidden. Blocks don't remove your replies or quotes, but you won't be able to see what you're replying to or quoting.

10.12.2024 22:48 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0