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Published: October 12, 2026 08:04

I was traveling and conferencing last week, so naturally the amount of email and DMs I have this Monday morning is truly impossible to conquer. Please be patient as I spend the next few days digging

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Published: October 12, 2026 07:41

"In a just world, every article about GPT-4 would nod toward Barthes and Foucault." Downing spoonfuls of mayonnaise as I read Ted's essay, because it is too spicy (link in quote below) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 12, 2026 06:49

An extraordinary example of a paper that cannot logically address its estimand: effect of restricting under-18 playtime. But sample has no age data, and most of the sample is adults. Reviewer #3 even noted this, and authors agreed. See link in quoted for…

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Published: October 11, 2026 06:38

We really need to make Meng's Big Data Paradox central to teaching, don't we? Researchers don't know this stuff bc they have never been exposed to it. But it is fundamental. (Link to paper PDF…

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Published: October 10, 2026 10:16

Mischka is planning some mischief this #caturday

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Published: October 10, 2026 06:40

Christian Robert reviews Bayesian Workflow, suggests the abbreviation BaWoFlow. https://xianblog.fr/2026/10/08/bayesian-workflow-book-review/

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Published: October 9, 2026 14:18

super green [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 9, 2026 13:45

Lichtfest is a Leipzig tradition commemorating the 1989 demonstrations that eventually lead to the fall of the Wall. It mainly involves walking in the rain trying to keep a candle lit womp womp

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Published: October 8, 2026 10:48

I haven't taught a survey course in human evolution in the last decade, but starting next week (!!) I will try again. I plan to record the lectures. But the lab practicals can't be shared online, unfortunately. Currently deciding how much math I…

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Published: October 7, 2026 08:12

two small children on the train arguing back and forth about how the Luftballon sticks to the seat: it’s MAGIC, no SCIENCE, MAGIC, SCIENCE they laugh though as if they’re agreeing

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Published: October 5, 2026 13:22

Once again grateful that one can get TeX source from arXiv papers, so that I didn't have to typeset Ramanujan's mad formula for pi myself (just an intro slide in a talk I am giving tomorrow)

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Published: October 5, 2026 08:04

It can be hard to define anthropology, because of the field's empirical and theoretical breadth. But an anthropologist is just someone who reads the headline below and yells SHERDS NOT SHARDS [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 3, 2026 06:22

Not the topic of the retracted paper, but it seems to claim that Neanderthals went extinct at the end of the Bronze Age, which is a marvelous idea for a new Christopher Nolan movie [contains quote post or other embedded content]