As a PhD student between 2010-15, it was insane how ML-pilled or ML-adjacent every other department was, all the way from Philosophy to Public Policy.
The first ever stat course I took taught by Rob Kass mandated reading Breiman's two cultures paper 🫡
📢 Registration for #SRP2026 in Columbus is OPEN!
🗓️ Early bird deadline: August 23
🎤 Presenting? Register by August 3 (presenter deadline) to be included in the program.
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For those who teach intro to stats, I wrote up a series of ungraded assignments I've been doing for years in my class.
Students build a dataset of their favorite movies, and each assignment helps them develop a key skill. Hope you find it useful! 👇 https://t.co/tZLjzdi0oT
In one of those purposeless but entertaining exercises, the Guardian polled more than 170 novelists, critics, and academics to come up with a list of the best 100 novels of all time. Here's Salman Rushdie's top 10.
Rolf Zwaan is starting a new podcast 'As it Happens', following a large-scale psychology research project, where labs around the world collaborate to study human memory. (I am one of the collaborators). The first episode is out! https://t.co/RAMPHYqxZL
Obsidian Web Clipper now lets you manage highlights, and stays in Reader mode when you click links.
It's such a pleasant way to browse the web. You can control the colors, fonts, and easily copy anything to Markdown.
Thrilled to announce the publication of our non-conventional stats text, which takes a pure computer-intensive simulation and resampling approach to statistical tests, confidence intervals, power analyses, plus an intro to Bayesian methods at the end.
https://t.co/INR8cwWJze
HoPWaG Volume 8, on Philosophy in the Reformation, is out! Here it is with its happy author.
You can get it from Oxford University Press:
https://t.co/i2yimcz2zM
#philosophy#hopwag#reformation
i accidentally discovered one of the coolest features on the internet
the Wikipedia app has a "nearby" feature that shows wikipedia articles around your location!
i opened it and instantly fell into a rabbit hole of random places, local history and weird things around me
try it and tell me what shows up near you
¿Sabías que la Luna sí tiene color? 🌒 🎨
A simple vista la vemos gris, pero con la lente correcta aparece toda su paleta: azul por el titanio, naranja por rocas antiguas y más hierro en la cara oculta.
Esta imagen la tomó Orion, la nave de Artemis II, en una misión que además ya rompió récord de distancia humana desde la Tierra.
Y hay algo bonito en eso. Los colores siempre estuvieron ahí. Solo hacía falta la forma correcta de verlos. 🥹✨