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What’s the best artistic/literary format for conveying the feel of the slacker lifestyle? Two slacker stories by Lucy Sante and Matt Madden.
Published: March 16, 2025 13:48
I just happened to read two different stories about slackers, set about 20 years apart: I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante and Odds Off by Matt Madden. Sante’s book ranges over the decades but the part that’s … Continue reading →
Elections for the Stan Governing Body 2025
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/15/elections-for-the-stan-governing-body-2025/
Published: March 15, 2025 23:06
(this post is by Charles) Calling all members of the Stan community to action! We’re renewing the Stan Governing Body. The SGB co-organizes StanCon and related events (such as StanConnect!), works on initiatives to fund developers, and more generally helps…
Double Feature: Revolutionary Road and That Darned Chatbot
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/15/revolutionary-road/
Published: March 15, 2025 13:15
Revolutionary Road I recently read Richard Yates’s above-titled novel, which is considered a modern classic. And “modern classic” would be a good description. In its clarity of characters, themes, and writing, it reminds me of the fiction of F. Scott ……
Debate about “quantum supremacy” . . . whatever that is!
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/14/debate-about-quantum-supremacy-whatever-that-is/
Published: March 14, 2025 13:38
Combinatorist Gil Kalai points to these papers where he and his colleagues cast doubt on claims of “quantum supremacy” by some Google researchers: Y. Rinott, T. Shoham, and G. Kalai, Statistical Aspects of the Quantum Supremacy Demonstration, Statistical…
Is conceptual purity the defining aesthetic in academic computer science?
Published: March 13, 2025 19:18
This is Jessica. Last week the 2024 Turing award winners were announced. It went to pioneers in reinforcement learning Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton. Academic computer scientists get excited about Turing awards. On the positive side, people like to see…
Intelligence as a personal attribute or as a way of being (a reflection on when intelligent people say stupid things)
Published: March 13, 2025 13:58
After sharing this amusing/horrifying social media post, Paul Campos offers this “preliminary typology” of stupidity: Natural stupidity. This just means low cognitive ability in the most straightforward least mysterious way. What people usually mean by…
Those youth sports travel teams
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/12/those-youth-sports-travel-teams/
Published: March 12, 2025 13:46
I was on the Freaknomics page and . . . they’re not all bad—they have lots of good stuff too! Here’s a transcript of a podcast about Little League: Youth baseball — long a widely accessible American pastime — has … Continue reading →
StanBio Connect 2025
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/11/stanbio-connect-2025/
Published: March 11, 2025 20:01
This is Eric. It’s hard to follow Jesus, but here we are. Vianey Leos Barajas and I are organizing StanBio Connect 2025 conference: https://stanbio.org StanBio is a free, one-day online conference that will take place on Friday, 30 May 2025 … Continue…
What does Jesus have to do with linear regression?
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/11/what-does-jesus-have-to-do-with-linear-regression/
Published: March 11, 2025 13:19
The above graph shows for the world record times in the mile run from 1913 through 1999, along with a fitted regression line (in blue), and 10 draws from the posterior distribution of the line (in red). Here’s the fitted … Continue reading →
Contestants and AI competitor predict cherry blossoms this month!
Published: March 11, 2025 03:39
This post is by Lizzie. This year’s International Cherry Blossom Prediction Competition has closed and we can now wait to see how contestants’ and the bot’s predictions fare. Results are up on the website, with average predictions around late this ……
The value of remembering past failures: the example of Mars One
Published: March 10, 2025 13:34
Palko writes: It has largely been shoved down the memory hole, but in 2014 and 2015, virtually every major news organization was credulously reporting on a laughably obvious scam project that claimed it was on the verge of setting up … Continue reading →