Dustin Stansbury

dat scientist

[Dustin Stansbury @corrcoef]

Huzzah! Finally finished @rlmcelreath's excellent Statistical Rethinking lecture series on #causalinference. Had a lot of fun implementing the lecture demos in python/PyMC5 too 🤓

- lecture series (YouTube): https://t.co/bVbWKziAXw
- demos: https://t.co/3eL2tAstpd

[François Chollet @fchollet]

I kinda miss when "AI Twitter" was folks doing AI research or app development, posting under their own identities. Slightly more intellectual depth than anime avatars whose main AI-related qualification is paying for a ChatGPT subscription.

[Deedy @deedydas]

The most bizarre coding interview I've ever done was at Facebook when as usual I asked a candidate to write in any language of their choice..

And they nonchalantly said "I'll write it in SQL", to which I almost let loose a chuckle until...

[Dustin Stansbury @corrcoef]

@randomguy_26 @Gladiatorszonee Uhm, that's pretty fucked

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Perennial.

[Itai Sher @itaisher]

What scares me:

What constraints can there be if you can run a campaign like that and win? If you can do Jan 6 and win? Not to mention the Supreme Court immunity decision.

Not much about our society and freedoms we’ve become accustomed to we can take for granted going forward.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

While we may have gotten an extra hour of sleep this morning, it's not worth the hour of sunlight we're losing for the next 6 months.

Let's stop changing the clocks and finally make Daylight Saving Time permanent.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

We ran the numbers. Even if all 7 swing states are actually tied, there's only a ~1 in 9.5 trillion chance~ that so many polls would show such a close race. 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[ₕₐₘₚₜ��ₙ @hamptonism]

The universe is quite literally a song

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?

And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.

A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

[Matt George @MattGeorgeSAC]

Tonight on @ABC10, I shared my final thoughts on the A's leaving Oakland and heading to Sacramento.

I wish I could be excited. But I can't. My heart is with Oakland this week.

[Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor]

I haven't had a chance to read yet, but looks like @StefanWager wrote the causal inference book I've always wanted! https://t.co/8rMD4Z9vVF

[Sander Dieleman @sedielem]

New blog post: https://t.co/ZMcWRLHB9h

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthletic: Cole Hocker of the U.S. scored one of the biggest upsets in Olympic running, outrunning Jakob Ingebrigtsen and outkicking Josh Kerr, and everyone else, down the stretch to win the men’s 1500-meter. https://t.co/oFLHGQyEkW

[Dustin Stansbury @corrcoef]

COLE HOCKER!!!!!!

[Cycling out of context @OutOfCycling]

Be afraid, Tadej. The fight is on.

[Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone]

You can see where you are looking! This image by @AkiyoshiKitaoka lets you see your own eye movements, which create a little light-gray 'spotlight' wherever you point your eyes. The spotlight isn't really there; your mind is making it!

[Dustin Stansbury @corrcoef]

@ajordannafa Immediate follow

[Dustin Stansbury @corrcoef]

@kron4news ...and Shooty Babitt for Chief of Staff!