This meme template perfectly describes my relationship with R.

The Pre-Application Review Service (PARS) deadline is coming up in three days (Nov. 7)! If you are a prospective PhD student and would like to participate, see details here: bit.ly/3AN5jJy

This diagram is absolutely perfect for a tiny slice I inhabit in the interest Venn diagram. instagram.com/p/CV6L30MBFy8/

And if you use Bayes’ rule, you’ll find that the probability of next week being better converges quickly to 0.

As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career. How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader. 🧵 1/

I'm teaching "Networks" at Stanford again this quarter, my 7th run of the course with 100+ students, following the excellent Easley & Kleinberg textbook (and mega-class at Cornell!). Always a thrill. If you teach a related class, here's an awesome lecture trick… 🧵 1/

Howie Hua Oh yeah, you’re smooth, about as smooth as a Weierstrass function

In the last few days, I have seen some discussions on Twitter of mathematical notation. As a service to the mathematics community, I have decided to propose some new notation, which I am sure that we will all be happy to adopt.

Eventually, you get a compressed folder containing files with suffixes like _v1, each with >5k lines, little comments/documentation, poor variable names, and bugs because it was never tested. Writing good reusable code is an essential but untaught skill in academia.

Where on the map are you today?😂 #AcademicTwitter

1/ New paper! nature.com/articles/s4158… with Sam Zhang is logged off @aaronclauset.bsky.social @DanLarremore. 🎓 We analyzed all 295K tenure-track faculty at US PhD-granting universities in 10,612 departments over 10 years to quantify hierarchy and dynamics in US faculty hiring and retention. 🦥 A summary:

We are offering pre-application review service (PARS) again this year for Statistics PhD applicants! Get your application materials reviewed by our PhD students and post-docs before applications are due. Please retweet! #statistics #PhD #PhDapplications

If you're a prospective statistics PhD student, join us for the third annual virtual panel with current statistics PhD students from UW Statistics, Berkeley Statistics, and Statistics on Thurs Nov 3 at 5:00PM (PDT). Register and learn more at StatsPhD.com.

Here's the published version! "Evaluation of Model-Based PM2.5 Estimates for Exposure Assessment during Wildfire Smoke Episodes in the Western U.S." See synopsis below and main takeaways in🧵 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to share our recent paper + python package for partitioning prestige hierarchies, hyperbolic embeddings, and other networks embedded in one dimension arxiv.org/abs/2301.10403

One of my favourite long jokes: An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first mathematician orders a beer The second orders half a beer. The third orders a quarter of a beer. "I don't serve quarter pints" the bartender replies "Excuse me?" Asks

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Somewhere in this roomful of interns are the future leaders of Xbox. It's always great to spend time listening to and learning from the next generation.