Pooja Loftus

Passionate about culture & data

[Pooja Loftus @PoojaLoftus]

The 'Life in the UK' test needs an upgrade.

Studying for it now for ILR, but the questions are like "Who won this Cricket match in 1928"? Who cares?

Instead, should ask: Rank the following grocery stores by poshness, or Rank the following lettings/estate agents by sketchiness.

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@joftius Finally, you do something useful 😜

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@FischerKing64 For every person getting things done, there were 6-10 people just hanging out. Not a lot of incentive to work hard, and it could be frustrating at times.

Still, he fired a lot of good people doing really cool projects which were stupidly close to launching.

[ky @kylefbutts]

Michal Kolesar's Advanced Applied Econometrics lecture notes are a delight https://t.co/pUV2U8bXMo

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@joftius By tweeting about it 😜

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@allanplaskett @joftius Yeah Josh, why are you posting just to disappoint @allanplaskett and ruin his day. Let him have a good day!

[Pooja Loftus @PoojaLoftus]

@ChaseSupport Sure.
The rep I spoke with yesterday was helpful and lifted the block. For reasons(?), Chase reinstated the block 5 mins after that and now it's unliftable without me giving the info in the blocked account. I've lost hours of my time on this.
You've lost me as a customer.

[Pooja Loftus @PoojaLoftus]

@Chase: We're locking down your online account because we suspect Fraud. Call us to unlock it.
(I call. I wait for hours to talk to a person.)
Chase: To verify it's you, tell us the information that is only in your online account. That is locked.
Me: ....

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@Andrew___Baker At the very least, he should have to give up the matching white fedora

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Literally no one understands something more completely than a woman in a meeting who starts a question with “Just so I understand…”

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@binchcity @_pem_pem Poland (specifically, Krakow's old Jewish district that's slowly being revitalized) has bagels- they originated from there

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@statsepi This is the real reason I changed my career- got real tired of being asked to run stats for studies with tiny little sample sizes that we all knew were completely useless. Nonparametric methods will only get you so far.

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@SejalSukhadwala There's a pub near there called The Pineapple that's also secretly(?) a Thai Restaurant and it's very good

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@WillKremer is the stick bc Teddy Roosevelt said ""speak softly and carry a big stick"

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worked at Twitter, doing 2022 taxes, and need forms from HR 🤡

[Pooja Loftus @PoojaLoftus]

From PDPs to CDP (Causal Dependence Plots) for interpretable ML - nice job @joftius and team

[Joshua Loftus @joftius]

Excited to share this new work about 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘀 with students @luciusbynum and Sakina Hansen

𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘀
𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻�� 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 (and explainable AI)

Preprint: https://t.co/dx2jaj1z0H

[Pooja Loftus @PoojaLoftus]

Why does @Google limit data storage on Gmail while simultaneously flooding us with promo/ad emails, which also count against our storage allowance? They profit from those ads and profit from forcing us to pay for extra storage to store those ads.

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@minjinlee11 I think a good collection of short stories has: a mix of open ended and complete stories, varying emotions from story to story, and each has a sense of poetry and economy with language.

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@emilynussbaum It was a weird time. Netflix mailed us DVDs, Jon Stewart was god, online message boards / forums ruled, 'Flight of the Conchords' was cool, and fashion had a mini-70s revival.

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@VeryBadLlama my 'big' TV cost less than the storage boxes/containers in my TV stand, and also less than the TV stand