Christopher Peters

@statwonk.bsky.social

840 followers 1.2K following 460 posts

Dad, Partner. Statistician-Econometrician-Engineer. AI Developer. Decision theory. Game theory. #autisticpride #9 at Zapier, first DS

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Engineering 18%

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David Laufman @davidlaufman.bsky.social · 4d

Once upon a time — and when it really counted — CBS News stood up to power. Now, it is an accomplice to censorship.

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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations

CBS News postponed a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about El Salvador’s CECOT prison one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 17d

> A 30-year-old sea level rise projection has basically come true

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/a-30...

A 30-year-old sea level rise projection has basically come true » Yale Climate Connections

Even without today’s advanced modeling tools, scientists made a ‘remarkably’ accurate estimate.

yaleclimateconnections.org

Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 18d

Have you tried GPT5.1? It’s amazing. Gemini free “thinking” is really good, gemini.google.com/app

‎Google Gemini

Meet Gemini, Google’s AI assistant. Get help with writing, planning, brainstorming, and more. Experience the power of generative AI.

gemini.google.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21d

The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.

Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 21d

Latest PBS Terra - Weathered episode is absolutely a must watch - extremely fast sea level rises are likely very soon!

You’re Not Worried Enough About Sea Level Rise

YouTube video by PBS Terra

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 21d

> However, 4 years after the intervention, the differences between the intervention and control groups were negligible.

Four years is a lot of time for the parents of the untreated kids to increase their own intensity of intervention (in a reactive manner).

Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 22d

I wonder if it could be that untreated students react and increase their learning (and then mask the persistent benefit)? ie- social-reactive catch up effect

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Ziti @zeetee.bsky.social · 22d

I need a quote from Billie Jean King and I need her to take these people over the coals for being cowards.

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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 22d

My new video:
Nanoplastics in the Brain: Humanities Ticking Time Bomb

Our brains are now 99.5% brain and 0.5% plastic, by weight. That’s one plastic fork.

Demented brains are 2 forks and higher.

How long will it be before half population is demented?

youtu.be/bVAZUm68OY8?...

Nanoplastics in the Brain: Humanities Ticking Time Bomb

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith

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Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 22d

Remember when Hassett offered a cubic model that suggested covid would be over by mid-May 2020?

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 22d

My message to Trump: Your message of bigotry won’t work. Somali Americans are here to stay. 💅🏾

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 26d

We could save soooo many lives but people are so caught up in their reactionary moral panic nonsense

Someone saying we shouldn't use AI to help detect breast cancer because it uses "3 quadrillion gallons of water"

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27d

"If you look at job growth between January and September ... for the past 15 years, it's only been worse once, and that was during the pandemic ... It is the worst first nine months for the labor market in 15 years."

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 29d

Trump’s immigration detention camps exist to drive profits for the prison companies giving him money.

The more profit they make, the more money they’ll give him, and the more people he’ll find to fill up those prisons — it’s not about crime and it won’t stop with immigrants.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29d

Last week Trump called a female reporter a “piggy” on Air Force One.

Today he’s attacking Katie Rogers of the New York Times

He called her “ugly both inside and out”

His misogyny knows no bounds

Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 29d

For advanced questions, I think you've got to go with the paid models. They're so much better.

Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · 29d

Granted, the search-user-facing one leaves a lot to be desired. Gemini is amazing at probabilistic programming, tough. GPT5.1, too.

Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Nov 25

Yes, but treatment effect heterogeneity determines how well we can learn an average effect (so it seems worthy of thinking of and perhaps modeling).

Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Nov 25

What models are you using? Gemini is extremely good at advanced statistics (let alone simpler things).

Christopher Peters @statwonk.bsky.social · Nov 25

So depraved that China supports the Russian genocide of Ukraine.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · Nov 23

Holy shit.

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Ron @caribbeanbasin.bsky.social · Nov 23

Six American Heroes! Who agrees? 👋🏾

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · Nov 23

I know there is lot going on but Witkoff got rolled by the Russians again. A bunch of R Senators said hold up today (including Graham) and Rubio just threw the clown car in reverse. Total shit show.

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · Nov 22

Two billion kids would REALLY appreciate it if we did more about this than just make a few non-binding promises every year & then instantly forget about them.
#COP30

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · Nov 22

What is legacy (=I can buy it for less than $100 on eBay) GPU with good performance of integer operations ?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 20

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Nov 20

This is nuts.

Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.

Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.