You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.

A log likelihood is shown. The quantities for the score, wald, and likelihood tests are illustrated with respect to the log likelihood.

You will be visited by three ghosts

I’m having a conversation with my mom about something I want for Christmas and a week later Santa gives it to me.

When will we pass privacy regulations

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This post from @vickiboykis.com really resonated with me.

It's packed with insightful views on LLMs for code, being better than the average of the internet and learning from the amazing humans around you.

vickiboykis.com/2024/12/16/w...

Ahhhhh okay, yeah that makes sense. Thanks! 🙏

Causal inference on human behaviour - Nature Human Behaviour In this Review, Drew Bailey et al. present an accessible, non-technical overview of key challenges for causal inference in studies of human behaviour as well as methodological solutions to these chall...

A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access.

Causal inference is hard:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This also sent me down a rabbit hole of investigating how testing (in)equality fits into the order of operations in various programming languages. Excellent stuff!👏

Interesting, can you explain in what sense the second one is safer?

I guess it depends on the kind of objects A and B are... I'm thinking about B or (some it's elements) being negative which would (partially) flip the inequality we're testing.

An empty Outlook inbox

So satisfying.

If we could immediately agree to all be done with email for the year that would be amazing, please and thank you.

We now have a BlueSky account dedicated to UKCOTS. The call for abstracts will be open on Monday, so follow the account if you're interested! www.ukcots.org

Migrated to where the friendly stats nerds are hanging out now. After a first few days of skulking, my initial impressions of this place are very positive.

Q: How do folks flag things for future reference on here? Is there a bookmark equivalent that I'm missing?