I've never been so grateful for the invention of the printing press as in seeing the Japanese translation of #Bookofwhy and imagining how people across the ocean are learning Causal Inference in their own language. Thanks

This professor has no inkling that she is parroting vicious propaganda and harms her own colleagues. The Chair of UCLA economic department should attend to the climate that breeds such professors.

And I was fortunate to take his class on Queuing Theory in 1970, the first year I came to UCLA. Great teacher.

Congratulations are due to my UCLA colleague, Len Kleinrock, on his election to the National Academy of Sciences!
 Scientists are elected by their peers to membership in the NAS for outstanding contributions to research.
The full list of new members is here:…

Science goes on, bringing us another harvest of exciting papers in causal analysis: ucla.in/44pmJew
Among them my eyes fall on 'The development of human causal learning and reasoning' by Goddu and Gopnik, nature.com/articles/s4415…, which provides a comprehensive review of…

Modern days Molech

Interesting analogy. Some of these kids are swept away from their parents by the siren songs of 'look mom, I've got a cause'. Others, unfortunately, are sacrificed by their own parents to the Molech, to make the parents feel good.

Last week, the UCLA admin was priding itself of managing a relatively quiet campus by letting Kaffiyeh bearers vent their frustration in protest and encampment. Today, UCLA envies USC for having arrested a few thugs. Lesson: You can't let a bully smell weakness, they really…

'Synthetic victims' are synthesizing new definitions of 'humanitarian Aid'.

You are right. Most 'scholars' hide elephant #1 from their readers, for two reasons: (1) The elephant knows how to camouflage itself, even in the living room, and (2) You don't get media attention by talking about the elephant; American audience prefer easy fixes to complex…

Thank you, Dov. I am reposting because I think most of our readers have not had a chance to enjoy this enlightened list of demands.
Idea: Would the Nazarian Center join us in urging UCLA to counter these demands with a tenfold expansion of our collaborative programs with Israeli…

Our weekly harvest of papers in Causal Inference is before us: ucla.in/3xHAw3V I wanted to read: Handbook of Matching and Weighting Adjustments for Causal Inference, by AK Chowdhry, but I couldn't climb the RSS pay wall. Anyone has a ladder?

UCLA Professor Dov Waxman on the Pro-Hamas Campus Protests reason.com/volokh/2024/04… via reason

We are past the point where lawsuits can do any good; it's the days of the Jackals, and they eat horses.

Stephanie🕊 Shelley G UCLA

The philosophy of terrorism embodied on our campus: 'We have a grievance, therefore our tantrum reins.'

Bibi has ceased to represent Israeli society at least 3 years ago, if not earlier. His misfunctioning government and the two lunatic ministers are an embarrassment to everyone. They stay in power only because many Israelis do not wish to run an election in war time, when…

An interview with my UCLA colleague, Dr. Nir HOftman, regarding the philosophy of thuggery:
foxnews.com/video/63519885…

Tufts: Pro-Palestinian encampment ‘must end’
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This time, a school is calling on protesters to remove it 'peacefully and voluntarily', and explains why. Convincingly, I think.

I love it. Let's call it 'virtual encampment'. But I fear the UCLA admin will soon take it down for disturbing the sleep of the angelic pro-Hamas protestors. They need this sleep badly .