The pain from a friendship breakup is real. It’s even worse if you don’t understand why it ended. People expect friendships to last forever. The ending is just as painful as romantic breakups— we just don’t talk about it.
The 2024 Candidates tournament is going to be held in Toronto. This is super exciting news. Toronto has an amazing chess culture and it is a wonderful city!
I’ve been job hunting since last summer, done four final round interviews and can’t tell you how many total interviews, and so far all I’ve managed to get hired for is a part time gig at a gelato shop… in case anyone was wondering where a STEM PhD will get ya
Let's talk about radiotrophic fungi.
I want to start with the most surprising fact about them: they don't just SURVIVE in high radiation environments, they grow at *FOUR TIMES* the rate they would in background radiation.
Our best guess is they're "eating" radiation.
Week 8 of Statistical Rethinking 2023 has ended. This week focused on applications of multilevel models: social networks & Gaussian processes. Next week is measurement error & missing data, aka the real world. Memes of the week below. Explanations in alt text.
The hardest part about numeric optimization is realizing when you, yourself, are trapped in a local minima with how you're expressing or implementing the statistical model.
Twitter - Rich people should help others with their money
Me - Okay, I’ll use my money to help people and I promise to give away all my money before I die. Every single penny.
Twitter - MrBeast bad
My hot take is that most of us have not adequately processed the trauma of the pandemic. And our sprawling, unprocessed trauma chews away at our brains in myriad ways that make us anxious about why we can’t seem to live our lives as instinctively or as joyously as we did in 2019.
i honestly think the biggest hack in life is finding a partner who’s default happy, positive and optimistic. if that’s the base you start with you’re in a very good position to have a happy life