early modern boy-actress (they/them) This. In my anthro/bio work, the debates and confusion are about new things. In my stats work, the debates are about wtf probability means. Stats is like an inverted field, in which everyone uses linear regression but no one agrees what it means.

"Cross-validation: what does it estimate and how well does it do it?" now available on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2104.00673

It blows my mind (in a good way!) that we're just getting our heads around something as basic as what cross validation really means. Reminds me of one of my favorite University of Chicago t-shirts: "That's all well and good in practice... but how does it work in theory?"

I’ve asked my 3rd year illustration students at just be. to come up with a post-pandemic New Yorker magazine cover. Here is what they sent in:

Signal tried to use Instagram ads to display the data Facebook collects about you and sells access to. Facebook wasn't into the idea, and shut down our account instead: signal.org/blog/the-insta…

👓Warby Parker job alert!👓 We’re looking for someone to lead our Data Engineering team, which owns BI tools for 100+ analysts. Our goal is to grow in sophistication without loosing our startup flavor. Know anybody who might be interested? Send ‘em this! boards.greenhouse.io/warbyparker/jo…

Mythbusters but for rich people who think they work harder than the poor and that's the only reason disparity exists.

The best thing millennials killed was jokes about hating your spouse.

The 60 Minutes interview with @FrancesHaugen_ is just absolutely brutal. Incredible fortitude for her to so scrupulously leak this research. Let’s hope she becomes a model for all data scientists: rigorous, brilliant and relentlessly principled. x.com/60minutes/stat…

ao3 writers are a whole other bread. i feel so bad for laughing but this is dedication

Person 1: The glass is 1/2 full Person 2: The glass is 1/2 empty Excel: The glass is the 1st of February

Peter was a member of what I call the Class of 1993 -- the hackers who came of age as the first web browsers created the modern Internet. We found each other in those early online spaces, and built out this new digital world together. We never lost the optimism or the work ethic.

Watching this video of Peter Eckersley eulogizing Aaron Swartz, and thought I'd share for anyone who feels the need to hear him speak: youtube.com/watch?v=ztMGZl… Please send any other videos or content by Peter you recommend reading/watching/revisiting.

So happy to have worked on this project with @winclimate!