Elena Badillo Goicoechea
@ebago.bsky.social
Senior Data Scientist @ UChicago Biostats Lab & Neuro Dept | prev @ JHU & ITAM | Music & Philosophy Lover | Building musicosphères @ http://stell-r.com & http://synff.co
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Modeling Artist Influence for Music Selection and Recommendation: A Purely Network-Based Approach
Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu
Super happy that my paper on modeling artist networks is out on Harvard Data Science Review. Writing it was such a fun journey (and still so much to be done, which is the best part!) hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/t4txmd81...
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I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
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This is important. People still do this a lot, and it ends up being a back-door method of inferring an interaction (e.g., “effect was significant in women but not men”)
“changes in statistical significance are often not themselves statistically significant. … even large changes in significance levels can correspond to small, nonsignificant changes in the underlying quantities.”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#Statistics
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#Statistics
The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant
It is common to summarize statistical comparisons by declarations of statistical significance or nonsignificance. Here we discuss one problem with such declarations, namely that changes in statisti...
www.tandfonline.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This is important. People still do this a lot, and it ends up being a back-door method of inferring an interaction (e.g., “effect was significant in women but not men”)
So important to notice that we are able to think without words
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
So important to notice that we are able to think without words
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New on the Archive:
Hernández-Conde, José and Caamaño-Alegre, María (2025) Models of data and the representation of phenomena. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 40 (2). pp. 172-186. ISSN 2171-679X
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27074/
Hernández-Conde, José and Caamaño-Alegre, María (2025) Models of data and the representation of phenomena. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 40 (2). pp. 172-186. ISSN 2171-679X
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27074/
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New on the Archive:
Hernández-Conde, José and Caamaño-Alegre, María (2025) Models of data and the representation of phenomena. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 40 (2). pp. 172-186. ISSN 2171-679X
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27074/
Hernández-Conde, José and Caamaño-Alegre, María (2025) Models of data and the representation of phenomena. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 40 (2). pp. 172-186. ISSN 2171-679X
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27074/
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It’s interesting that LLM slop has been proliferating in legal circles and science academic publishing - but not so far in the humanities. I assume it’s because fewer people use it, but also because the close-reading ethos of the humanities makes it unthinkable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
Vigilante Lawyers Expose the Rising Tide of A.I. Slop in Court Filings
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It’s interesting that LLM slop has been proliferating in legal circles and science academic publishing - but not so far in the humanities. I assume it’s because fewer people use it, but also because the close-reading ethos of the humanities makes it unthinkable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
do leaves have a life of their own or is the living thing is technically the tree? sorry
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
do leaves have a life of their own or is the living thing is technically the tree? sorry
Indeed <3
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Indeed <3
no, this is TV show material
Free talk idea: a lineup of math faculty take turns standing at a microphone and confidently saying outrageous but true things about concepts in introductory math classes until they're heckled off stage, when it becomes the next person's turn.
Called, "Sure, but You Can't Just SAY That!"
Called, "Sure, but You Can't Just SAY That!"
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
no, this is TV show material
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The editors of Neurology have allowed the authors of this paper to make a "correction", stating: "there were errors in the CIs for some estimates presented in the article".
How many CIs must be wrong before a journal loses confidence in a paper?
(Answer: more than 73, apparently!)
How many CIs must be wrong before a journal loses confidence in a paper?
(Answer: more than 73, apparently!)
Fun fact: it has been 56 days since I notified the editors of Neurology about glaring statistical errors in this peer-reviewed study on sweeteners and cognitive health.
No expression of concern, no correction, no retraction.
No expression of concern, no correction, no retraction.
"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The editors of Neurology have allowed the authors of this paper to make a "correction", stating: "there were errors in the CIs for some estimates presented in the article".
How many CIs must be wrong before a journal loses confidence in a paper?
(Answer: more than 73, apparently!)
How many CIs must be wrong before a journal loses confidence in a paper?
(Answer: more than 73, apparently!)
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November 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
One of the beauties of not driving is regularly listening to what Uber drivers have to say
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
One of the beauties of not driving is regularly listening to what Uber drivers have to say
- Radiohead
- Arvo Pärt
- Cocteau Twins
- This Heat
- Joni Mitchell
- Nirvana
- Talking Heads
- The Chameleons
- Arvo Pärt
- Cocteau Twins
- This Heat
- Joni Mitchell
- Nirvana
- Talking Heads
- The Chameleons
Define your music taste with 8 artists (only 8!! sighs...):
-Placebo
-Metallica
-George Michael
-Sade
-Guns n' Roses
-George Brassens
-Jacques Brel
-Madonna
-Placebo
-Metallica
-George Michael
-Sade
-Guns n' Roses
-George Brassens
-Jacques Brel
-Madonna
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
• Pomme
• Chris aka Redcar aka Christine and the Queens
• LEJ
• Clara Luciani
• Georges Brassens
• Alex Montembault
• Zaho de Sagazan
• Youssoupha
(yes they’re all French sue me)
• Pomme
• Chris aka Redcar aka Christine and the Queens
• LEJ
• Clara Luciani
• Georges Brassens
• Alex Montembault
• Zaho de Sagazan
• Youssoupha
(yes they’re all French sue me)
November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
- Radiohead
- Arvo Pärt
- Cocteau Twins
- This Heat
- Joni Mitchell
- Nirvana
- Talking Heads
- The Chameleons
- Arvo Pärt
- Cocteau Twins
- This Heat
- Joni Mitchell
- Nirvana
- Talking Heads
- The Chameleons
New Juana Molina album just out today 🖤
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
New Juana Molina album just out today 🖤
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too much late 1600's baroque is more hyper than psytrance
November 4, 2025 at 4:34 AM
too much late 1600's baroque is more hyper than psytrance
not to be this p(erson)oster but "👀"
Google issued bonds with fifty year maturities (yes, 50!), with yields 1.07 percentage points more than Treasuries (a very tight spread for such long duration, even AA corporates bonds often trade in the 120–180 bps range). Basically signals viewing Alphabet as a sovereign borrower
Alphabet Sells $25 Billion of Corporate Bonds in US, Europe
Technology companies are betting on a future powered by gigantic data centers filled with humming servers, which has supercharged spending on AI. Morgan Stanley expects big firms known as hyperscaler...
finance.yahoo.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
not to be this p(erson)oster but "👀"
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
I've ruined the most precious sourdough breads because I don't know how to slice and I keep trying
November 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I've ruined the most precious sourdough breads because I don't know how to slice and I keep trying
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As I promised, here's my new Harvard Data Science Review commentary (on Leonelli's 'Environmental Intelligence'). It summarises my Royal Society argument that AGI is a confused concept with no demonstrable scientific merit and needs to be tossed in the bin if we want to get our heads straight again:
November 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
As I promised, here's my new Harvard Data Science Review commentary (on Leonelli's 'Environmental Intelligence'). It summarises my Royal Society argument that AGI is a confused concept with no demonstrable scientific merit and needs to be tossed in the bin if we want to get our heads straight again:
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Thank you.
Jakub, the fact that most people have incredibly bad taste does not make me think for an instant that I should stop criticizing stuff for being in incredibly bad taste. It only underlines the urgency of decrying incredibly bad taste.
November 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Thank you.
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
no no what if I get killed . expensive
-- me rationalizing doing uber instead of an extremely easy subway ride
-- me rationalizing doing uber instead of an extremely easy subway ride
November 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
no no what if I get killed . expensive
-- me rationalizing doing uber instead of an extremely easy subway ride
-- me rationalizing doing uber instead of an extremely easy subway ride
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But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
November 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
i thought it was a myth that it was still under actual construction
The tallest church in the world: Barcelona’s Sagrada Família reaches new heights
Video. The tallest church in the world: Barcelona’s Sagrada Família reaches
Video. Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia has overtaken Germany’s Ulmer Münster to become the world’s tallest church after part of its central tower was lifted into place, rising to 162.91 meters.
www.euronews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
i thought it was a myth that it was still under actual construction