There once was a model, ANOVA, who along with their cousin ANCOVA, made a great big confession: “We’re the same as regression, but we’ve established a separate persona.”

If you see the Greek letter ξ, you’re in for a bad time

If anyone can make Quaternions feel intuitive it's Grant Sanderson and Ben Eater 👑 There's always been something...fuzzy to me about how quaternions work (probably that pesky 4th dimension...) and this is the best intuition building explainer I've seen youtube.com/watch?v=zjMuIx…

The second edition of The Effect is now available for preorder! This version has a whole new chapter on Partial Identification, a considerable update on staggered treatment and control variables in DID, and zillions of other little updates throughout. routledge.com/The-Effect-An-…

Got new posters for the office! One for my life’s obsession (math/stats) and one for Tony’s (public transportation) AND THEIR COLOR PALETTES MATCH🥳 Streets For All DFTBA Records

Check out the cool demo Delavande Julien made in honor of Earth Day! 💚 Check it out to see estimates of how much ⚡ energy⚡ your favorite LLMs use

Error Report #4: matthewbjane.quarto.pub/meta-analysis-… The meta-analysis on Fluoride and IQ by Taylor et al. (2025) is methodologically flawed and has serious data integrity issues. The full detailed report co-authored by me, James Heathers, and David Robert Grimes is available as a pre-print

If you don’t incentivize good code hygiene, organization, and documentation (through recognition, and KPIs), people are not going to do it, and everyone will suffer.

If you want to support local bookstores but also love audio books Libro.fm is having a sale today 🥳 I picked up a few books on my to-read list like Piranesi, and The House in the Cerulean Sea for ~ $5 each 😱 📚libro.fm

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I am pleased to announce a new version of my RL tutorial. Major update to the LLM chapter (eg DPO, GRPO, thinking), minor updates to the MARL and MBRL chapters and various sections (eg offline RL, DPG, etc). Enjoy! arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265

What are some of the unwritten rules of the academe? [Motivation: I recently spoke with a grad student who expressed being jarred by all the academic social norms that aren't taught in grad training.]

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REGRESSOR? I hardly know ‘er

There's definitely variation across our episodes. We haven't deeply analyzed it, though. If we did, would we use ANOVA? Maybe. Chelsea Parlett joined us for a bit of stats talk on our latest episode. analyticshour.io/2025/08/05/277…