Adam L
@adam-lg.bsky.social
Data Scientist. Poli sci PhD. Cyclist (Gravel, MTB, road). Bayes, causal inference, etc. Also: cats, food opinions. Views & opinions my own. Not investment advice. He/him
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Otoh frequentism is no use at all in a minefield, unless you have enough legs to approximate a normal distribution.
It is difficult to practice Bayesianism in a minefield.
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Otoh frequentism is no use at all in a minefield, unless you have enough legs to approximate a normal distribution.
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Thanksgiving is the sole Food Oriented Holiday for which I have no interest in culinary creativity or novelty. I want turkey and stuffing and potatoes and green bean casserole and I want gravy on all of it.
“Liven up your stuffing with persimmons” no, fuck that, I will liven it up with gravy.
“Liven up your stuffing with persimmons” no, fuck that, I will liven it up with gravy.
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Thanksgiving is the sole Food Oriented Holiday for which I have no interest in culinary creativity or novelty. I want turkey and stuffing and potatoes and green bean casserole and I want gravy on all of it.
“Liven up your stuffing with persimmons” no, fuck that, I will liven it up with gravy.
“Liven up your stuffing with persimmons” no, fuck that, I will liven it up with gravy.
Curious if you’ll see all the dEfEnD sCiEnCe people talk about this, or if that’s reserved for the hard sciences
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Curious if you’ll see all the dEfEnD sCiEnCe people talk about this, or if that’s reserved for the hard sciences
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Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
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My take on Graeber is he’s great if he’s making an argument you agree with, about a subject you’re uninformed on, and don’t care if the details are wrong. He’s basically lefty Malcolm Gladwell.
Anyways, read the thread
Anyways, read the thread
Graver loves to make tangential claims that are whoppingly false and easily fact checked but his fans always read them maximally charitably and then go “well you know it doesn’t really matter to his core argument so this is just an oopsie and not a systematic problem”
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My take on Graeber is he’s great if he’s making an argument you agree with, about a subject you’re uninformed on, and don’t care if the details are wrong. He’s basically lefty Malcolm Gladwell.
Anyways, read the thread
Anyways, read the thread
Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky
Stravinsky Conducts The Firebird Suite, Japan 1959
YouTube video by John Randolph
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky
I think the only bad pies are those that try to be "healthy."
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Or have blueberries
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Or have blueberries
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I think the only bad pies are those that try to be "healthy."
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Or have blueberries
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Or have blueberries
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#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
“There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history” is a banger of a line, and I’m going to use it in the future (full credit to @bretdevereaux.bsky.social)
At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history” is a banger of a line, and I’m going to use it in the future (full credit to @bretdevereaux.bsky.social)
Introduce yourself with four spaceships:
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships:
The Banana Wars
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The Banana Wars
lol, lmao
"pedalers?" I think you mean "cyclists"
"pedalers?" I think you mean "cyclists"
Some of the most alarmist takes on Rad's limited battery recall are coming from pedalers who have never liked that Rad (or anyone) sells bikes with throttles. They would rather see 1% of the population pedaling than 100% of the population using throttle-powered bikes to get where they want to go.
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
lol, lmao
"pedalers?" I think you mean "cyclists"
"pedalers?" I think you mean "cyclists"
Many are saying! www.theverge.com/tech/823337/...
Screw it, I’m installing Linux
It’s the year of Linux on my desktop.
www.theverge.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Many are saying! www.theverge.com/tech/823337/...
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The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food
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An underrated Futurama character is Joey Mousepad, which is just a great name for a robot who is in the mafia.
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
An underrated Futurama character is Joey Mousepad, which is just a great name for a robot who is in the mafia.
*Offer not valid in Central Asia or Azerbaijan
“Oppressed colonial nations shall rise up against Imperialism under the banner of the Proletarian Revolution.”, Soviet poster, 1920s
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
*Offer not valid in Central Asia or Azerbaijan
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Going on any other social media site makes me realize that bluesky isn’t so bad
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Going on any other social media site makes me realize that bluesky isn’t so bad
My take on Graeber is he’s great if he’s making an argument you agree with, about a subject you’re uninformed on, and don’t care if the details are wrong. He’s basically lefty Malcolm Gladwell.
Anyways, read the thread
Anyways, read the thread
Graver loves to make tangential claims that are whoppingly false and easily fact checked but his fans always read them maximally charitably and then go “well you know it doesn’t really matter to his core argument so this is just an oopsie and not a systematic problem”
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My take on Graeber is he’s great if he’s making an argument you agree with, about a subject you’re uninformed on, and don’t care if the details are wrong. He’s basically lefty Malcolm Gladwell.
Anyways, read the thread
Anyways, read the thread
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Dunkin’s main crime is not actually its coffee but the fact that it has either eliminated or prevented the flourishing of any actually good donuts in my area
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Dunkin’s main crime is not actually its coffee but the fact that it has either eliminated or prevented the flourishing of any actually good donuts in my area
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If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
I think this is especially the case when 1) we know the broad outlines of the scandal, and 2) when each revelation is more of the same.
It’s not *good*, it’s just no longer shocking.
It’s not *good*, it’s just no longer shocking.
There comes a point with someone’s scandalous personal life where it’s like late 1990’s Dennis Rodman — we know you’re weird, it’s just not interesting anymore.
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I think this is especially the case when 1) we know the broad outlines of the scandal, and 2) when each revelation is more of the same.
It’s not *good*, it’s just no longer shocking.
It’s not *good*, it’s just no longer shocking.
All you need is a sous vide, and a 5 gallon bucket. Ask the butcher to break the turkey down into white and dark meat, cook the dark meat for ~12-15 hrs at 165, the white meat for 2.5-3 hours at 145, and it'll be fork tender.
I'm sick of this psyop that turkey sucks. I can only assume it derives from Big Ham. Oh, turkey is too dry? Learn how to brine properly, put some gravy on it, go for the dark meat. BuT iT's ToO bLaNd! Any protein can be too bland if you're balls at cooking it!
One side effect of half the world being in the throes of a fascist takeover is that comments like "turkey sucks" that used to lead to a 4 hour slapfight and approximately 135 blocks are now met with "well thats just like your opinion man" and thats progress
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
All you need is a sous vide, and a 5 gallon bucket. Ask the butcher to break the turkey down into white and dark meat, cook the dark meat for ~12-15 hrs at 165, the white meat for 2.5-3 hours at 145, and it'll be fork tender.