I recall reading a paper by Peter Whittle that talked about how intractable these problems were in WW2, to the extent that someone proposed dripping the problem over Germany to distract *their* engineers

My spiciest office opinion is that lots of bad meetings happen because no one wants to meeting top

Literally never. But also Jesus Christ guiding a museum tour of a Picasso exhibition not fucking him. I mean I guess there are people who hero worship Fisher so anything is possible

Don’t have heroes. Like work. Think critically about the sociology of binaries and distinctions made in the work. But like the work. The people will often let you down. (Not always. Some of my favourite people are statisticians but I cannot stress enough that that’s because they’re not strangers)

Also if you think Rubin being not the greatest guy is a new idea, honey buckle up. Many people (men?) who do really good statistical work are extensively documented to be not good guys.

It’s just a functional derivative explained poorly.

Distance uphill and a distance downhill should be measured in asymmetric effort.

This same friend went as Divine Miss Piggy one year and then ATE KERMIT'S SHIT ON STAGE (chocolate) and somehow only placed second

So yeah, he'd better fucking win this year, because he's been robbed three times already.

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The Bayes/Frequentist wars are not about resolving anything smh