I got an F on my midterm in Korean History taught by a Japanese history professor at Yale. He said Asians were Math and Science majors. I was majoring in History. I wrote a novel called “Pachinko” which is now taught in Japanese history classes, as well as other disciplines.

Min Jin Lee Reflecting back now in middle age, I see those types of profs had severely twisted self-identities and sold themselves out to agendas to secure their tenure track. And they always picked on those that threatened their big little plans.

ok #chemistry

hoIy fuck???

He tried to pull out scissors and got knocked out cold

Sometimes it pisses me off how well bootstrapping works. I tend to prefer analytic solutions for speed and to remove Monte Carlo error, but there is no denying the effectiveness and generality of the bootstrap for most statistical problems I encounter. It can feel like cheating.

i handed over my first big girl project in september; it was a 10/10 month tbh.

Dang lady

This Just Made My Day

Fact check—US manufacturing under Trump versus Biden. JD Vance is wrong (ie lying)

Vance is in large measure pretending that he is not running with Trump and just making up policies unrelated to Trump's own policies.

Longshoremen promise to fuck up your children’s Christmas if they don't get paid more than 2nd year physicians with 10+ years of college. I'm actually rooting for the robots.

🚨✨ Bukayo Saka on winning the Premier League title: "I don’t wanna put too much pressure on us… but I do think this is the year". "We’ve been close the last two years, we’re getting closer… I hope this will be the year", told CBS.

Boys, no matter how close you are never get to excited about a bag, till it is secured!!!

Don’t do drugs kids

Charlie Munger: Don’t be surprised when you lose to people like this

Flexible models are interpretable if we shift our target estimand from coefficients to conditional means (i.e., model predictions) and contrasts of those means.

Maybe she's under enormous pressure. And the mistake was due to a problematic work environment affecting her performance.