"lad regression is computationally expensive!" mf my laptop has 8 cores i think we're past that

statistics hot take: the model sum of squares should be calculated against a measure that is also square-pilled, the point of least squares (a point for which the squared distance to all measurements is lowest). either go full square or get lost

Happy lesbian visibility week ive just found out

Yes ive just watched portrait of a lady on fire again why do you ask

When a person looks at another and the other looks like theyve been hit by a truck, thats art

I am cited in The American Journal of Medicine in a piece about a woman experiencing “skibidi chest pain.”

i hear the new season is pretty bad

For like the first time in years(?) i have just seen a yellow taxi again, is nature... healing?

Other people remember their school years so much more than me?

I think this is a great piece on a hot-button topic but I did a triple-take when I saw the sponsor

You and me both jeeves

blasting my favourite hungarian artist in celebration and hoping they're not a chud (it's metal so big coinflip)

I havent managed to form strong thoughts on any of them but buttondown doesn't have a crypto angle?

i feel like someone needs to make this decade's cursed hoodie by shopping a thousand yt thumbnail faces together

we live in the future but my phone is convinced my bluetooth speaker is headphones, so it fucks up every time i get a call, and i can't change it, and even if i could, i have to reset too often for that to theoretically matter

The Verge did a lot of section 230 coverage recently, in the wake of the meta / youtube decision, and I think I'm landing on some notion that if you're infrastructure, you should not be allowed to make algorithmic decisions, and if you make moderation decisions, you should be liable

App stores should be illegal

Am i the only one who struggles with greek letters when they are presented as symbols without a name???

Pro tip: if you do some of your reading for the day in the morning, you don't have to get out of bed for a while. Doesnt apply to social media ofc, under no circumstances should you read social media in bed

Genuinely wondering if just hard embracing many worlds logic wouldnt make the mental models of frequentist stats way easier

maybe just doesn't want the traffic from a big account, hard to say

on the one hand, point of pride for the discipline
on the other, much larger hand... 😬😬😬

Breaking the bayesian frequentist divide by forming beliefs based on frequentist analysis

This op-ed is going the distance

hmmm ill have to see if my machine can hack the graphics

taking recommendations for games to play that are a) good b) going to help me learn to use a controller

funny looking cow with bottom text "Perhaps"

wes anderson adaptation of v for vendetta called the fantastic mr. fawkes

Ok I have seen a GOOD APRIL FOOLS JOKE in the wild.

My kids comic (Phoenix - home if @jamiesmart.bsky.social) comes in an envelope every week, we open it, had a fake cover for a soup review mag like we’d been sent the wrong thing.

Genius!

whatsapp and adobe schedule(?) spam notifications on windows to bug you when they're not running. everything is a virus now i hate it here