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Christopher Peters
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Dad, Partner. Statistician-Econometrician-Engineer. AI Developer. Decision theory. Game theory. #autisticpride #9 at Zapier, first DS

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 10h
> Citi Warns of Potential Economic Slowdown From Trump’s Credit Card Cap

Love having a president that doesn't understand economics. 🤡

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Citi Warns of Potential Economic Slowdown From Trump’s Credit Card Cap
Citigroup Inc. Chief Financial Officer Mark Mason said the lender wants to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s affordability push but doesn’t support his proposed cap on credit card fees.
www.bloomberg.com

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 14h
> Russia’s allies complain Putin was nowhere when it mattered most

Of course, he’s been weakened by all his bad and evil decisions.

He’s probably next.

www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
MSN
www.msn.com

Reposted by Robert C. Richards, Christopher Peters

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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 22h
Jeanine Pirro defends her decision to investigate the Federal Reserve during a return to her former network

www.foxnews.com/video/638769...
Jeanine Pirro addresses critics of Fed Reserve investigation | Fox News Video
U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro addresses what led to the investigation into the Federal Reserve on 'Hannity.'
www.foxnews.com

Reposted by Christopher Peters

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Vaishnavh Nagarajan @vaishnavh.bsky.social · 6d
1/ We found that deep sequence models memorize atomic facts "geometrically" -- not as an associative lookup table as often imagined.

This opens up practical questions on reasoning/memory/discovery, and also poses a theoretical "memorization puzzle."

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 6d
Good point. Well, I guess we’d be sold out to fascism less.

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 6d
> Google co-founder and second-richest man flees California over tax

He ain’t no Mackenzie Scott!

www.thetimes.com/us/business-...
Google co-founder and second-richest man flees California over tax
Billionaires are loosening their ties with the state over fears that they could face a one-off 5% tax on their assets
www.thetimes.com

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Christopher Peters

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6d
A bridge builder doesn’t need to denounce every evil in the world to be moral, but they better say something about the guy who keeps building bridges that topple over

Reposted by Christopher Peters

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 6d
Statistics rant follows - feel free to tune out.

The Vaccine Efficacy scale is one of the silliest scales in the whole epidemiology. Formally it is just 1 - RR (relative risk), and while the RR is a personal fav of mine when comparing event rates, the 1 - RR is an idiotic Frankestein:

Reposted by Christopher Peters

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Kaitlin Kal Lee💋 @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 8d
You are what you accept.

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 8d
> Alaska Airlines pilot says Boeing blamed him for door plug blowout

www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...
Alaska Airlines pilot says Boeing blamed him for door plug blowout
The Alaska Airlines pilot flying Boeing’s 737 MAX that lost a panel midflight has sued the aircraft manufacturer, accusing it of casting blame on him and other parties.
www.seattletimes.com

Reposted by Christopher Peters

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 8d
Here's a graph of monthly Arctic sea-ice *thickness* from January, 1979 through December, 2025, with the 12-month running average in black.

Note the record low monthly thickness set just this last October (in red).

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 14d
> Israel to bar 37 aid groups as UK and EU warn of severe impact in Gaza

More genocide by Israel.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israel to bar 37 aid groups as UK and EU warn of impact in Gaza - BBC News
Israel's move is criticised by 10 countries, which say the new registration rules for international NGOs are "restrictive" and "unacceptable".
www.bbc.com

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 16d
> Russia Claims Ukraine Tried to Strike Putin’s Residence

Would be justifiable to protect people. It’s not like Putin has any sense of care about people (besides himself).

www.newsweek.com/russia-ukrai...
Russia claims Ukraine tried to strike Putin's residence
The alleged attack comes at a key moment for the Donald Trump-brokered Russia-Ukraine peace process to end Moscow's war.
www.newsweek.com

Reposted by Christopher Peters

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David Laufman @davidlaufman.bsky.social · 23d
Once upon a time — and when it really counted — CBS News stood up to power. Now, it is an accomplice to censorship.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News postponed a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about El Salvador’s CECOT prison one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Christopher Peters

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Dec 9
> A 30-year-old sea level rise projection has basically come true

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/a-30...
A 30-year-old sea level rise projection has basically come true » Yale Climate Connections
Even without today’s advanced modeling tools, scientists made a ‘remarkably’ accurate estimate.
yaleclimateconnections.org

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Dec 8
Have you tried GPT5.1? It’s amazing. Gemini free “thinking” is really good, gemini.google.com/app
‎Google Gemini
Meet Gemini, Google’s AI assistant. Get help with writing, planning, brainstorming, and more. Experience the power of generative AI.
gemini.google.com

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce, David R. Miller , and 2 more

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Dec 5
The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.

Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.

Reposted by Christopher Peters

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · Dec 4
Latest PBS Terra - Weathered episode is absolutely a must watch - extremely fast sea level rises are likely very soon!
You’re Not Worried Enough About Sea Level Rise
YouTube video by PBS Terra
youtu.be

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Dec 4
> However, 4 years after the intervention, the differences between the intervention and control groups were negligible.

Four years is a lot of time for the parents of the untreated kids to increase their own intensity of intervention (in a reactive manner).

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Dec 4
I wonder if it could be that untreated students react and increase their learning (and then mask the persistent benefit)? ie- social-reactive catch up effect

Reposted by Christopher Peters

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Ziti @zeetee.bsky.social · Dec 4
I need a quote from Billie Jean King and I need her to take these people over the coals for being cowards.

Reposted by Christopher Peters

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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · Dec 4
My new video:
Nanoplastics in the Brain: Humanities Ticking Time Bomb

Our brains are now 99.5% brain and 0.5% plastic, by weight. That’s one plastic fork.

Demented brains are 2 forks and higher.

How long will it be before half population is demented?

youtu.be/bVAZUm68OY8?...
Nanoplastics in the Brain: Humanities Ticking Time Bomb
YouTube video by Paul Beckwith
youtu.be

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Dec 3
Remember when Hassett offered a cubic model that suggested covid would be over by mid-May 2020?

painepublishing.com/blog/kevin-h...

Reposted by Melissa Johnson, Christopher Peters, Lisa Diedrich

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · Dec 3
My message to Trump: Your message of bigotry won’t work. Somali Americans are here to stay. 💅🏾

Reposted by Rebecca Williams, Christopher Peters, David Stott

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · Nov 29
We could save soooo many lives but people are so caught up in their reactionary moral panic nonsense
Someone saying we shouldn't use AI to help detect breast cancer because it uses "3 quadrillion gallons of water"

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Christopher Peters, David Darmofal

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Nov 28
"If you look at job growth between January and September ... for the past 15 years, it's only been worse once, and that was during the pandemic ... It is the worst first nine months for the labor market in 15 years."

Reposted by Christopher Peters

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · Nov 26
Trump’s immigration detention camps exist to drive profits for the prison companies giving him money.

The more profit they make, the more money they’ll give him, and the more people he’ll find to fill up those prisons — it’s not about crime and it won’t stop with immigrants.

Reposted by Christopher Peters

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Nov 26
Last week Trump called a female reporter a “piggy” on Air Force One.

Today he’s attacking Katie Rogers of the New York Times

He called her “ugly both inside and out”

His misogyny knows no bounds

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Nov 26
For advanced questions, I think you've got to go with the paid models. They're so much better.