Arnav Das
@arnav7.bsky.social
I try to "Observe, Reflect and Explore around" in different ways
My posts here will be a mishmash of personal opinions and smol curious excursions..
My posts here will be a mishmash of personal opinions and smol curious excursions..
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Arnav Das
@arnav7.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Ok since pinning has finally been added to this place,
This is a reference post of all my excursions I try around..
This is a reference post of all my excursions I try around..
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New essay from @nathanlents.bsky.social and me in This View of Life prosocial.world -- “Beyond the Binary: The Compounding Complexity of Biological Sex” a mini 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
New essay from @nathanlents.bsky.social and me in This View of Life prosocial.world -- “Beyond the Binary: The Compounding Complexity of Biological Sex” a mini 🧵
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Announcement: I am excited to be co-editing (with Li Cai) an upcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Mathematical Psychology on "Advances in Statistical Model Evaluation." Proposals due Feb 1. Details: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Please repost!
#quantpsych #mathpsych #philsci #statsky
Please repost!
#quantpsych #mathpsych #philsci #statsky
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Announcement: I am excited to be co-editing (with Li Cai) an upcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Mathematical Psychology on "Advances in Statistical Model Evaluation." Proposals due Feb 1. Details: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Please repost!
#quantpsych #mathpsych #philsci #statsky
Please repost!
#quantpsych #mathpsych #philsci #statsky
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From today’s Sydney Morning Herald
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
From today’s Sydney Morning Herald
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As much as I'm loathe to enter into "language wars" style commentary, I think I agree with @clauswilke.com here. The lack of NSE and native missing values is really bad for Python as a data science language (as, in fairness, is the unhinged OOP situation in R)
Python is not a great language for data science. Part 2: Language features
It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
As much as I'm loathe to enter into "language wars" style commentary, I think I agree with @clauswilke.com here. The lack of NSE and native missing values is really bad for Python as a data science language (as, in fairness, is the unhinged OOP situation in R)
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"More recently, arguments that egalitarian societies are both crucibles and exemplars of human-typical, other-regarding, equality preferences perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that traditional-subsistence populations are somehow more noble."
Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation
www.cambridge.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"More recently, arguments that egalitarian societies are both crucibles and exemplars of human-typical, other-regarding, equality preferences perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that traditional-subsistence populations are somehow more noble."
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"Kierkegaard held that love was normatively justified by the intrinsic value of being human, but not motivated by perception of this value"
Kierkegaard on the Reasons for Neighborly Love
Some Kierkegaard scholars view him as endorsing a bestowal account of neighborly love. In this view, love is not grounded in the lovability of the neighbor but freely bestows value on the neighbor. O...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"Kierkegaard held that love was normatively justified by the intrinsic value of being human, but not motivated by perception of this value"
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“Ordinary dreams are, perhaps, the clearest articulation of what it is like to be.”
@drrachelbarr.bsky.social describes how sleep is a natural experiment in consciousness that can give us insights in its enduring mystery:
buff.ly/NbksCUp
@drrachelbarr.bsky.social describes how sleep is a natural experiment in consciousness that can give us insights in its enduring mystery:
buff.ly/NbksCUp
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“Ordinary dreams are, perhaps, the clearest articulation of what it is like to be.”
@drrachelbarr.bsky.social describes how sleep is a natural experiment in consciousness that can give us insights in its enduring mystery:
buff.ly/NbksCUp
@drrachelbarr.bsky.social describes how sleep is a natural experiment in consciousness that can give us insights in its enduring mystery:
buff.ly/NbksCUp
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Begun, the Butlerian Jihad has.
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Begun, the Butlerian Jihad has.
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Next: Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social with 'Statistical significance and p values: The researcher’s heroin'
* p values are highly unrealiable - don't trust them, don't use them!
www.thenewstatistics.com
tiny.cc/osfsigroulette
#IRICSydney
* p values are highly unrealiable - don't trust them, don't use them!
www.thenewstatistics.com
tiny.cc/osfsigroulette
#IRICSydney
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Next: Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social with 'Statistical significance and p values: The researcher’s heroin'
* p values are highly unrealiable - don't trust them, don't use them!
www.thenewstatistics.com
tiny.cc/osfsigroulette
#IRICSydney
* p values are highly unrealiable - don't trust them, don't use them!
www.thenewstatistics.com
tiny.cc/osfsigroulette
#IRICSydney
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10 years after transition and i still smile happily every time i'm included in the "hi ladies" greeting in the work chat
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 AM
10 years after transition and i still smile happily every time i'm included in the "hi ladies" greeting in the work chat
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Did I tweak nearly every slide of my regression deck in preparation for next month’s charity course? Only one way to find out!
Join us by dropping a 50 USD donation to World Central Kitchen or United Farm Workers. A few sponsored spots available. Details at betanalpha.github.io/courses/.
Join us by dropping a 50 USD donation to World Central Kitchen or United Farm Workers. A few sponsored spots available. Details at betanalpha.github.io/courses/.
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Did I tweak nearly every slide of my regression deck in preparation for next month’s charity course? Only one way to find out!
Join us by dropping a 50 USD donation to World Central Kitchen or United Farm Workers. A few sponsored spots available. Details at betanalpha.github.io/courses/.
Join us by dropping a 50 USD donation to World Central Kitchen or United Farm Workers. A few sponsored spots available. Details at betanalpha.github.io/courses/.
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The secret social life of spiders
PhD student uses machine learning program to isolate the micro-vibrations of spiders dancing (through which they communicate with each other), captured on tiny contact microphones, from the cacophony of woodland sounds:
buff.ly/3XnFA4D
PhD student uses machine learning program to isolate the micro-vibrations of spiders dancing (through which they communicate with each other), captured on tiny contact microphones, from the cacophony of woodland sounds:
buff.ly/3XnFA4D
November 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The secret social life of spiders
PhD student uses machine learning program to isolate the micro-vibrations of spiders dancing (through which they communicate with each other), captured on tiny contact microphones, from the cacophony of woodland sounds:
buff.ly/3XnFA4D
PhD student uses machine learning program to isolate the micro-vibrations of spiders dancing (through which they communicate with each other), captured on tiny contact microphones, from the cacophony of woodland sounds:
buff.ly/3XnFA4D
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Not all that is coherent is true.
But coherence feels comfortable, and we tend to accept it as evidence for truth.
LLMs are good at producing coherent output without any comprehension, which may trap us into taking it for truth, writes @johnnosta:
buff.ly/9AZIVFD
But coherence feels comfortable, and we tend to accept it as evidence for truth.
LLMs are good at producing coherent output without any comprehension, which may trap us into taking it for truth, writes @johnnosta:
buff.ly/9AZIVFD
November 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Not all that is coherent is true.
But coherence feels comfortable, and we tend to accept it as evidence for truth.
LLMs are good at producing coherent output without any comprehension, which may trap us into taking it for truth, writes @johnnosta:
buff.ly/9AZIVFD
But coherence feels comfortable, and we tend to accept it as evidence for truth.
LLMs are good at producing coherent output without any comprehension, which may trap us into taking it for truth, writes @johnnosta:
buff.ly/9AZIVFD
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Big celebration moment! 🎉✨ Today I was honoured with the Excellence in Research Supervision Award, plus Commendations for Research Innovation & Impact (for my AI literacy work) and Equity & Inclusion (for my academic language and literacy work). Thanks everyone - this means the world! 🌟
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Big celebration moment! 🎉✨ Today I was honoured with the Excellence in Research Supervision Award, plus Commendations for Research Innovation & Impact (for my AI literacy work) and Equity & Inclusion (for my academic language and literacy work). Thanks everyone - this means the world! 🌟
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November 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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#statstab #461 Interpreting Ordinal and Disordinal interactions
Thoughts: Interactions are not simple things. Their shape can determine many things (including sample size and effect size)
#design #ANOVA #interaction #effectsize #ordinal #crossover
www.jolley-mitchell.com/Appendix/Web...
Thoughts: Interactions are not simple things. Their shape can determine many things (including sample size and effect size)
#design #ANOVA #interaction #effectsize #ordinal #crossover
www.jolley-mitchell.com/Appendix/Web...
RDE Ordinal Interactions
www.jolley-mitchell.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#statstab #461 Interpreting Ordinal and Disordinal interactions
Thoughts: Interactions are not simple things. Their shape can determine many things (including sample size and effect size)
#design #ANOVA #interaction #effectsize #ordinal #crossover
www.jolley-mitchell.com/Appendix/Web...
Thoughts: Interactions are not simple things. Their shape can determine many things (including sample size and effect size)
#design #ANOVA #interaction #effectsize #ordinal #crossover
www.jolley-mitchell.com/Appendix/Web...
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The strongest opponents to expert consensus on controversial scientific issues (eg homeopathy) are those with the lowest levels of actual knowledge and the highest levels of subjective knowledge (what they think they know), research by Light et al finds:
buff.ly/HmqKs5R
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November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The strongest opponents to expert consensus on controversial scientific issues (eg homeopathy) are those with the lowest levels of actual knowledge and the highest levels of subjective knowledge (what they think they know), research by Light et al finds:
buff.ly/HmqKs5R
buff.ly/HmqKs5R
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@skrub-data.bsky.social: better data-science primitives for clean code on dataframes
Watch my dotAI talk, it's fun (live coding)!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQS4...
skrub really makes it easy to do machine learning with dataframes
Watch my dotAI talk, it's fun (live coding)!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQS4...
skrub really makes it easy to do machine learning with dataframes
Clean code in Data Science - Gael Varoquaux - Skrub DataOps, Probabl:
YouTube video by dotconferences
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
@skrub-data.bsky.social: better data-science primitives for clean code on dataframes
Watch my dotAI talk, it's fun (live coding)!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQS4...
skrub really makes it easy to do machine learning with dataframes
Watch my dotAI talk, it's fun (live coding)!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQS4...
skrub really makes it easy to do machine learning with dataframes
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Summers and the other Harvard friends of a pedophile must go.
It’s sort of clarifying to see him describe this dynamic so directly www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Summers and the other Harvard friends of a pedophile must go.
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How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs www.nature.com/articles/d41... - I'm so glad to see these studies. It never made sense to me that all dog breed diversity supposedly came from Victorian England...
How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs
Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have traded them around the world.
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs www.nature.com/articles/d41... - I'm so glad to see these studies. It never made sense to me that all dog breed diversity supposedly came from Victorian England...
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New blog by Data Colada on the ResearchBox platform, which has excellent improvements (I love the Zenodo back-up!). I will focus more on the platform in my educational material. And we should be very grateful to everyone who makes data sharing platforms!
datacolada.org/130
datacolada.org/130
[130] ResearchBox: Even Easier to Use and More Transparently Permanent than Before - Data Colada
Over the past 10 years or so, posting data, code, and materials for published papers has gone from eccentric to mundane. There are a few platforms that enable sharing research files, including…
datacolada.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
New blog by Data Colada on the ResearchBox platform, which has excellent improvements (I love the Zenodo back-up!). I will focus more on the platform in my educational material. And we should be very grateful to everyone who makes data sharing platforms!
datacolada.org/130
datacolada.org/130
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❤️ Love this ❤️
@mathforge.org has done what I’ve never been organised enough to do myself, and catalogued every #geometrypuzzle I’ve ever posted on social media. It looks amazing!
@mathforge.org has done what I’ve never been organised enough to do myself, and catalogued every #geometrypuzzle I’ve ever posted on social media. It looks amazing!
November 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
❤️ Love this ❤️
@mathforge.org has done what I’ve never been organised enough to do myself, and catalogued every #geometrypuzzle I’ve ever posted on social media. It looks amazing!
@mathforge.org has done what I’ve never been organised enough to do myself, and catalogued every #geometrypuzzle I’ve ever posted on social media. It looks amazing!
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More people need to read "Why does he do that?" because a great deal of people are bullied and we don't turn into abusers. The narrative these people are victims is perverse to the goal of stopping abuse because it's not only false but contributes the cycle.
dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/Lund...
dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/Lund...
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
More people need to read "Why does he do that?" because a great deal of people are bullied and we don't turn into abusers. The narrative these people are victims is perverse to the goal of stopping abuse because it's not only false but contributes the cycle.
dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/Lund...
dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/Lund...
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"The four policemen, who all have daughters, also described the toll the case had taken on their own lives."
The police who saved Gisèle Pelicot, then broke the news to her
Free to speak about the mass rape case for the first time, four smalltown officers reveal how they uncovered Dominique Pelicot’s crimes
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"The four policemen, who all have daughters, also described the toll the case had taken on their own lives."