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- Uncanny academic valley: Brian Wansink as proto-chatbot (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1259: Capricious flu and a tickborne clue (www.microbe.tv)
- Unusual consulting request (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Mapping locations related to the Amelia Earhart disappearance (freerangestats.info)
- TWiV 1258: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- It’s a JAX, JAX, JAX, JAX World (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Pediatricians Can’t Bear These Costs (www.theatlantic.com)
- Adding noise to the data to reduce overfitting . . . How does that work? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Pfizer Finally Gave Trump What He Wanted (www.theatlantic.com)
- “It’s horrible that they’re sucking young researchers into this vortex. It’s Gigo and Gresham all the way down.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Yes, your single vote really can make a difference! (in Canada) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV Special: Searching plane poop for viruses (www.microbe.tv)
- Survey Statistics: beyond balancing (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- “Dangerous Fictions” and the norm of entertainment (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Immune 96: How to floss a mouse (www.microbe.tv)
- Behind-the-Scenes Seminar on social science this Fri 3 Oct (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Game theory corner: did Eric Adams play his hand well? (It’s a little like Murder on the Orient Express, it’s a little like The Sting.) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- “Veridical (truthful) Data Science”: Another way of looking at statistical workflow (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1257: Better cocktails and CRISPR chicken (www.microbe.tv)
- In music, literature, and technical writing, the relation of large-scale structure to the local action (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1256: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1256: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- A Selective History of Political Polling and Election Forecasting (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The Dodgers are hiring (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- “On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- More on the decline and fall of Steven Levitt (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Survey Statistics: Fat Bear Week (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Bridging prediction and intervention in social systems (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- World’s greatest 404 page (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Ten year anniversary of Free Range Statistics (freerangestats.info)
- Trump Tells Pregnant Women to ‘Fight Like Hell’ Not to Take Tylenol (www.theatlantic.com)
- Protecting data from the public and ourselves (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- It’s JAMA time, baby! Junk science presented as public health research (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- People Are Getting Tattoos Under Anesthesia (www.theatlantic.com)
- Who gets listed first on a collaborative article or book? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1255: Virologists in Greece (www.microbe.tv)
- Monty Hall and generative modeling: Drawing the tree is the most important step (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1254: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- America Is on the Cusp of a Two-Tier Vaccine System (www.theatlantic.com)
- When thinking about causal inference, mechanistic or process models are important. I think that the association of “causal” with black-box models leads to lots of problems. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Kennedy’s Handpicked Vaccine Committee Is a Mess (www.theatlantic.com)
- Condition numbers for HMC and the funnel (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- More Howl, after Allen Ginsberg for the AI-headed hipsters (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- How RFK Jr. Could Eliminate Vaccines Without Banning Them (www.theatlantic.com)
- “Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The Miami Marlins are hiring (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Who to Trust If You Can’t Trust the CDC (www.theatlantic.com)
- The Outbreaks That Could Rise on College Campuses (www.theatlantic.com)
- Hey, Nature magazine! Reputation is a two-way street. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- What It’s Like to Work Inside a Broken CDC (www.theatlantic.com)
- Survey Statistics: random sampling is not leaving (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- RFK Jr. Is Neglecting a Legitimate Autism Concern (www.theatlantic.com)
- The New War on Weed (www.theatlantic.com)
- Stats and ML postdoc and permanent hiring season officially open at Flatiron (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Moms Are Losing Options to Protect Newborns From COVID (www.theatlantic.com)
- Softverse: Auto-compute Citations to Software From Replication Files (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Immune Booster #16: Teaching and communicating immunology with Aimee Pugh Bernard (www.microbe.tv)
- The Desperation of Causal Inference in Ecology (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Princeton Consumer Research reports a 93.94% success rate . . . not quite as good as Harvard, which gets you to “statistically indistinguishable from 100%”! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The HHS Officials Being Paid Six Figures to Do Nothing (www.theatlantic.com)
- Helen DeWitt says, “programming occupies a place similar to that of literacy in mediaeval England.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- MAHA Is Complicating One of the Hardest Parts of Parenting (www.theatlantic.com)
- TWiV 1253: Harvard virology is not retreating (www.microbe.tv)
- BDA3 for free (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Draw it with your eyes closed: the art of the statistics assignment (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1252: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- That external validity question: How to think about a 3-year UBI study? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Now Comes the Hard Part for MAHA (www.theatlantic.com)
- Hot social science topics 20 years ago and hot social science topics now (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Howl, after Allen Ginsberg (for the AI-headed hipsters) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Going beyond naive individualistic models of social science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- RFK Jr.’s Calls With a Scientist Who Says Kids Get Autism From Tylenol (www.theatlantic.com)
- Survey Statistics: Imputation II (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Show, don’t tell: ChatGPT 5 marginalizing Gelman’s measurement error model in Stan (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV Special: David Baltimore, remembered (www.microbe.tv)
- Hypertext as constructed and hypertext as read (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- You learn about possible plagiarism in a literary work. How does that affect your view of it? (The A. J. Finn story) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- This post is not about Newt Gingrich and Fox news, nor is it about Michio Kaku and string theory. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1251: Swedish models and agent 007 (www.microbe.tv)
- Weighting of evidence and conflict of interest at the FDA and elsewhere (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Some Papua New Guinea data doodles (freerangestats.info)
- TWiV 1250: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Experimentation and thinking at the level of a program of experiments (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- A Massive Vaccine Experiment (www.theatlantic.com)
- Generate but verify: Reconciling the evidence utility of chatbots in many settings with chatbots’ evident lack of understanding (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Blogging’s a great way to express your ideas. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- A Different RFK Jr. Just Appeared Before Congress (www.theatlantic.com)
- RFK Jr.’s Victory Lap (www.theatlantic.com)
- Goodbye, FEMA. Hello, Disaster Consultants. (www.theatlantic.com)
- RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes (www.theatlantic.com)
- TWiV 1249: Demented and crAss (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1248: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- The Trump Administration Will Automate Health Inequities (www.theatlantic.com)
- A Terrible Week for Pumpkin Spice (www.theatlantic.com)
- ‘It Feels Like the CDC Is Over’ (www.theatlantic.com)
- Immune 95: Mitochondria for everyone (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1247: In the company of vaccines with Stanley Plotkin (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1246: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Men's domestic chores and fertility rates - Part II, technical notes (freerangestats.info)
- TWiV 1245: Grabbing herpesvirus with both arms (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1244: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Men's domestic chores and fertility rates - Part I (freerangestats.info)
- Immune Booster #15 Vaccine ground rules with Shane Crotty (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1243: Capitalism, COVID, and cancer (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1242: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)