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  1. Hey, here’s $100,000 down the drain! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  2. TWiV 1294: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  3. The Real Winner of TrumpRx (www.theatlantic.com)
  4. The anti-Bayesian is standing at the back window with a shotgun, scanning for priors coming over the hill, while a million assumptions just walk right into his house through the front door. (also, an interesting point by Yann LeCun in 2012 about human language) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  5. Sunstein on Kissinger: No opinion on the whole war criminal thing, but the generosity that he showed when talking about Star Wars [the movie, not the weapons program] was “incomparable” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  6. The Only Thing That Will Turn Measles Back (www.theatlantic.com)
  7. Softly, effectively, in the age of genAI (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  8. “Statistics is widely understood to provide a body of techniques for ‘modeling data.'” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  9. Survey Statistics: 5 flavors of calibration (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  10. The Logical End Point of ‘America First’ Foreign Aid (www.theatlantic.com)
  11. “Parallelizing MCMC Across the Sequence Length”: This one is really cool. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  12. The Longevity Influencer Who Went Into ‘Withdrawal’ Without Jeffrey Epstein (www.theatlantic.com)
  13. Postdoc in Milan on scalability for high-dimensional Bayesian learning (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  14. A counterintuitive example where a strong prior pulls an estimate in the wrong direction–and how to see the problem (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  15. For God’s sake, don’t donate to the “International Peace Institute”! (unless you want to pay for corrupt assholes to fly first class around the world to give speeches about how everyone needs to tighten their belts) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  16. TWiV 1293: The enemy of your parasite is your friend (www.microbe.tv)
  17. From the Mixed-Up Files of Jeffrey E. Epstein (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  18. The pantheon of celebrity billionaires (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  19. TWiV 1292: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  20. A Stan transpiler in Julia! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  21. T-Maxxing Has Gone Too Far (www.theatlantic.com)
  22. We’re looking for nominations for the American Statistical Association’s Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  23. Not quite adversarial collaboration (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  24. Polio Was That Bad (www.theatlantic.com)
  25. America’s Convenience-Store Conundrum (www.theatlantic.com)
  26. OK, I reread that classic paper by Paul Meehl, and . . . (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  27. Postdoctoral position at the University of Pennsylvania on the study of political information (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  28. Survey Statistics: Total Margin of Error II (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  29. Immune 100: Immune turns 100! (www.microbe.tv)
  30. How the new era of CEO supervillains are trapped in their own ideology (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  31. South Carolina Is America’s New Measles Norm (www.theatlantic.com)
  32. Machine learning research is not serious research and therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees a prestigious group of machine learning researchers (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  33. Science vs. superstition and the pluralist’s dilemma (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  34. Post-doc positions in Finland (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  35. The myth of wage compensation for hazardous work rears its ugly head: This NYT article has been engineered to annoy economist Peter Dorman. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  36. TWiV 1291: A foot in the door for cytomegalovirus (www.microbe.tv)
  37. “Harvard dean made $150,000 as witness in Tylenol suits” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  38. TWiV 1290: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  39. What’s the gender gap? Concerns about analyses using the Cooperative Election Study (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  40. America’s Real ‘Secretary of War’ (www.theatlantic.com)
  41. A decision theorist walks into a seminar (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  42. This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anything about it. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  43. What, a coincidence? What a coincidence! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  44. 200,000 comments (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  45. Survey Statistics: Total Margin of Error (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  46. Once more about the z-curve method (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  47. America’s Would-Be Surgeon General Says to Trust Your ‘Heart Intelligence’ (www.theatlantic.com)
  48. Two workflow challenges from 2012 that were solved as a byproduct of something else (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  49. Seeking feedback from clinicians on AI as diagnostic decision support (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  50. Noem’s Razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  51. Retroactively Validated Hype (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  52. Why the Trump Administration Is Obsessed With Whole Milk (www.theatlantic.com)
  53. TWiV 1289: Building a better hepatitis B trap (www.microbe.tv)
  54. “Coding for humans: Best practices for writing software people can read” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  55. TWiV 1288: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  56. Don’t get any on you (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  57. More concerns about the z-curve method (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  58. Some questions and ideas about initialization for ADVI (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  59. High January Was Bound to Happen (www.theatlantic.com)
  60. The New Food-Stamp Rules Will Make Your Head Spin (www.theatlantic.com)
  61. FDA guidance on Bayesian clinical trials (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  62. Horseshoe theory meets cost-benefit analysis. Horseshoe wins. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  63. 1 quick tip to improving student participation in your class (motivated by a principle in poker) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  64. A Different Type of ‘Muscle Memory’ (www.theatlantic.com)
  65. Survey Statistics: Margin of Error (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  66. A better way to fill in those missing bubbles in the standardized test (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  67. Immune Booster 21: Origins of antigen receptors with David Schatz (www.microbe.tv)
  68. The Best Flu Drug Americans Aren’t Taking (www.theatlantic.com)
  69. What’s the essence of blogging? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  70. The Mets are hiring (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  71. “The Great Believers” by Rebecca Makkai (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  72. TWiV 1287: Ancient herpesviruses and modern dementia (www.microbe.tv)
  73. Concerns about the z-curve method (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  74. My general advice if you’re stuck on a problem understanding a model you’ve fit to data (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  75. The Flu Really Is That Bad (www.theatlantic.com)
  76. America Has Entered Late-Stage Protein (www.theatlantic.com)
  77. TWiV 1286: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  78. This one’s for the blimp (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  79. The Bones of Children’s Mouths Are Being Wrenched Apart (www.theatlantic.com)
  80. Eat More Deer (www.theatlantic.com)
  81. What Having a Fake Disease Taught Me About Health Care (www.theatlantic.com)
  82. An Underappreciated Variable in Sports Success (www.theatlantic.com)
  83. The Two Sides of America’s Health Secretary (www.theatlantic.com)
  84. RFK Jr.’s Next Move Is What Anti-Vaxxers Have Been Waiting For (www.theatlantic.com)
  85. Rotavirus Could Come Roaring Back—Very Soon (www.theatlantic.com)
  86. TWiV 1285: Encapsidating viruses 2025 (www.microbe.tv)
  87. TWiV 1284: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  88. Just Break Your New Year’s Resolution Now (www.theatlantic.com)
  89. New Caledonia's nickel exports (freerangestats.info)
  90. Immune 99: A Nobel for immune tolerance (www.microbe.tv)
  91. TWiV 1273: Myocarditis and mimicry (www.microbe.tv)
  92. TWiV 1282: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  93. TWiV 1281: Sex, herpes, and plankton (www.microbe.tv)
  94. TWiV 1280: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  95. Immune Booster 20: Lipid GPS for T cells with Susan Schwab (www.microbe.tv)
  96. TWiV 1279: Let hepatitis b (www.microbe.tv)
  97. TWiV 1278: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)