@[email protected]

Chasing stars.

[Tomás Capretto @tomicapretto]

I've been wanting to blog for a while. Today I finished this post about data simulation and parameter recovery with PyMC. It covers the do and observe operators, as well as the classic coords, dims, etc.

https://t.co/D4q0IuIyVM

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

Sports betting legalization reduces net investments of households by nearly 14% overall.

$1 of sports betting reduces net investment
by over $2, increases credit card debt, but has no effect on participation in lotteries or other online gambling
outlets.
https://t.co/k8JRSvj6Da

[Spencer Greenberg 🔍 @SpencrGreenberg]

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill.

Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me):

🧵

[NBA @NBA]

A skill not all possess… Who on the #USABMNT can spin a ball on their finger? 🤔👀🏀

[FIBA Basketball World Cup 🏆 @FIBAWC]

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[Dan Nouement @nomanautomata]

They need to create a job that's 4 hours of programming in the morning and 4 hours of mindlessly loading boxes onto a truck in the afternoon.

[we're done here @monkchips]

this from @forrestbrazeal is just wonderful. i properly laughed out loud

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

The best take on Pride Month:

[@[email protected] @Aurimas]

Wrote a blog post on estimating A/B test win rates. It all started as a way to complain about fiddling with MDE to pretend you have higher stat power, but in the end turned into something quite interesting, I think 🤔

https://t.co/kFHaLmcT5F

[Bijan Salehizadeh @bijans]

Ok this clip about navigating the American Healthcare System from the recent South Park ozempic special (which was brilliant) needs to be the opening of every healthcare conference panel

[henry @arithmoquine]

WAKE UP BABE NEW ANTHROPIC BANGER MECHINTERP PAPER JUST DROPPED

[@[email protected] @Aurimas]

I haven't thought of it that way 🤔. It definitely makes sense, but also raises an important point: building a (corporate) culture where people _care_ about craft is important.

[Matthew Rocklin @mrocklin]

New Post: How GitHub taught me to Micromanage

The comedy and tragedy of detailed feedback

https://t.co/ZrU9gX0mdv

[DuckDB @duckdb]

New blog post by @hfmuehleisen

duckplyr: dplyr powered by DuckDB

The post describes the new R package duckplyr, which translates the dplyr API to DuckDB’s execution engine.

Read more at https://t.co/bCR560DySL

[Colin Carroll @colindcarroll]

Thanks to @__gsteck__ for getting this into bambi (and @tomicapretto for the help)!

Now you can use bambi's modelling syntax for constructing mixed effect models on Pandas dataframes, but fit the model with, say, SNAPER-HMC on GPUs.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Lithuanian composer and conductor Mindaugas Piečaitis, directs his orchestra on the notes of Nora the cat playing the piano. She earns a standing ovation.

[Johanna Rickne @johannarickne]

Banning the purchase of sex 🚨DOES NOT🚨increase cases of reported rape.

A re-analysis of Ciacci (2024) shows that the paper's headline result comes from an erroneous use of Stata's regression command.

A thread from @Jopieboy, @OlleFolke, and me 1/11

[Lluís Josep Martínez 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @lluismf]

@ohmypy https://t.co/lUejI0UInQ

[PyMC Developers https://bayes.club/@pymc @pymc_devs]

📢 Hello PyMC users! 🚀
Wondering how to simplify sampling with discrete variables in PyMC? 🤔

We're thrilled to announce the release of our latest notebook on PyMC: "Automatic marginalization of discrete variables," authored by @zaxtax

Check it out: https://t.co/EDQKENB0zH

[Mark Davyd @markdavyd]

Don’t you listen to them @RouReynolds

[@[email protected] @Aurimas]

@_data_dispatch_ thanks for the shout out! The post is slowly becoming out of date given everything that has happened in the space in the last 1.5 years, but happy to hear it still seems useful!