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[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

grumpy old man Matt columns are the best Matt columns

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

If you’re young, one of the main ways you can add value at work is by taking advantage of a lack of family responsibilities to just take annoying shit on and be helpful.

https://t.co/DvJstZ7Xru

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

Dear algorithm,

More of this please.

Sincerely,
Brendan

[Arthur Spirling @arthur_spirling]

what about Bayesian IRT?

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

@ahall_research @BradSpahn Gotta get Rivers 2003 in the weights!

[Cate Hall 🔸 @catehall]

At @AsteraInstitute, we've adopted a strong stance against journal publishing: We don't do it, or fund projects that contribute to it. In today's Human Readable, our cofounder @seemaychou talks about why the journal system is so broken, and why half-measures can't fix it.

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

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[Normal Computing 🧠🌡️ @NormalComputing]

𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙧𝙨 is a new open source Python library from Normal Computing that provides tools for uncertainty quantification and Bayesian computation.

Here's how to train a simple model with variational inference ⬇

𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙧𝙨 supports a variety of methods for uncertainty quantification, including:

- Extended Kalman filter
- Laplace approximation
- Stochastic gradient MCMC
- Variational inference

𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙧𝙨 is designed to be easily extensible. If your favorite method is not listed above, raise an issue and we'll see what we can do!

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

Or just switch to @marimo_io!

[Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar]

This is a game changer https://t.co/fjvTa5k3Nj

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

Where would we all be without Gilbert Strang?

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

@akshaykagrawal @marimo_io "finally" is right! great work.

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

❤️Been searching for this for years. Reactive python in the browser, easy to share, looks great out of the box. Go @marimo_io go!

[marimo @marimo_io]

New feature! Create and present interactive slides with mo.carousel.

Available in the latest version of marimo: try it today!

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

Love when @mattyglesias does local politics. Co-sign this. Build the bridge to Loudoun @Marc_Elrich! Reston <-> Gaithersburg connection would let tech people live in MD and biotech people live in VA. With no Legion Bridge standing in the way. Win-win! https://t.co/I5OnzNEJWu

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

Learn something new every day from @matt_levine 🪨

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

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[NBER @nberpubs]

How geography shapes nations: a quantitative framework based on minimizing transportation costs and fitting European borders over the past 1000 years, from @treballen https://t.co/LEUoRNDZN7

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

@joshmccrain Quarto! https://t.co/NX6okJOpiq @quarto_pub

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

A safe, reliable car that drives itself would be convenient and save lives.

But whether it works as a true economic game-changer depends on whether land use changes with transportation.

https://t.co/1lmZ1YHDYa

[Adam Mastroianni @a_m_mastroianni]

The fundamental problem with most attempts to reform science is that they want to turn the Big Ship. Instead, we should be launching lots of Little Ships. https://t.co/FCKzeLgrbo

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

@AaronDrol @daniel_marcin @UrbanEconomist @georgeleventhal @pmeyer19 Also just to be clear, pretty sure that @daniel_marcin intends to congestion price *the entire* highway, not just the lexus lanes :)

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

@AaronDrol @daniel_marcin @UrbanEconomist @georgeleventhal @pmeyer19 This piece by @mattyglesias is one of the best defenses of the idea: https://t.co/L1wLwAqq4I

Agree entirely the overall tax burden should not go up and that the policy should be married with tax reform elsewhere.

Happy to send a copy your way if you don't have a subscription

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

Maybe @tylercowen knows somebody working on this problem https://t.co/ZFPt0qrLZ7

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

Count me in! But adding infrastructure for carpool/vanpool and buses, public and private, to run down 270 and around the beltway in nova would be a big deal. People need to be able to imagine how an affordable/reliable commute would work. @iamwesmoore @GovernorVA

[Brendan Cooley @brendanmcooley]

If the region really went all in on congestion pricing its highways then all of the sudden "making slugging work at scale" becomes a potentially hugely profitable business opportunity. Uber/lyft or others work to solve and commutes become better for everybody.