Elena Badillo Goicoechea
@ebago.bsky.social
Senior Data Scientist @ UChicago Biostats Lab & Neuro Dept | prev @ JHU & ITAM | Music & Philosophy Lover | Building musicosphères @ http://stell-r.com & http://synff.co
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Modeling Artist Influence for Music Selection and Recommendation: A Purely Network-Based Approach
Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu
Super happy that my paper on modeling artist networks is out on Harvard Data Science Review. Writing it was such a fun journey (and still so much to be done, which is the best part!) hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/t4txmd81...
I spat my wine
Free speech is more than me being allowed to say what I want. Everyone also has to like it and tell me I'm a smart and handsome boy
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I spat my wine
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Reposted by Elena Badillo Goicoechea
He's a 10 but his life, his love, and his lady is the sea
November 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
He's a 10 but his life, his love, and his lady is the sea
nothing
Complete this statement: "When I listen to the 'Grease' Soundtrack (1978), I feel __________." | Rediscover the album here: album.ink/GreaseSndtrck
November 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
nothing
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Musk is a parasite on the future; he preys upon the imagination of others, taking any vision of a better world and depreciating it by hawking options on a transparently fake facsimile.
He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.
He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Musk is a parasite on the future; he preys upon the imagination of others, taking any vision of a better world and depreciating it by hawking options on a transparently fake facsimile.
He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.
He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.
Absolutely outrageous that Malina (1990) is impossible to stream in the U.S.
November 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Absolutely outrageous that Malina (1990) is impossible to stream in the U.S.
-Do you know the laws of thermodynamics?
- of course
* proceeds with sauna related business idea*
- of course
* proceeds with sauna related business idea*
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
-Do you know the laws of thermodynamics?
- of course
* proceeds with sauna related business idea*
- of course
* proceeds with sauna related business idea*
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Ok, but how are the robots going to feel when they find out ‘robot’ comes from the Czech word ‘robota’ which means “forced labor”??
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Ok, but how are the robots going to feel when they find out ‘robot’ comes from the Czech word ‘robota’ which means “forced labor”??
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When you're not "allowed" to question constructs, you're no longer being invited to actually help understand the world. You're just being told what you're allowed to ask about and think about. You're trapped downstream of the most interesting questions.
November 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
When you're not "allowed" to question constructs, you're no longer being invited to actually help understand the world. You're just being told what you're allowed to ask about and think about. You're trapped downstream of the most interesting questions.
Reposted by Elena Badillo Goicoechea
I have no intention of ever thriving again.
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I have no intention of ever thriving again.
+1
I've come to realize in recent times that while I do love a good slab of vinyl, I'm not a vinyl junkie, I'm a song junkie. I'll take it on any format I can get it.
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
+1
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On 3/1/33, Frida Kahlo wrote Georgia O'Keefe an incredible letter that I held in my hands at @yale.edu Beinecke Library in 2019.
This brought me to tears: "If you [are] still in the hospital when I come back, I will bring you flowers, but it is so difficult to find the ones I would like for you."
This brought me to tears: "If you [are] still in the hospital when I come back, I will bring you flowers, but it is so difficult to find the ones I would like for you."
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
On 3/1/33, Frida Kahlo wrote Georgia O'Keefe an incredible letter that I held in my hands at @yale.edu Beinecke Library in 2019.
This brought me to tears: "If you [are] still in the hospital when I come back, I will bring you flowers, but it is so difficult to find the ones I would like for you."
This brought me to tears: "If you [are] still in the hospital when I come back, I will bring you flowers, but it is so difficult to find the ones I would like for you."
Reposted by Elena Badillo Goicoechea
“What was needed, Dr. Camp realized, was a simple pharmaceutical product… Companies feared liability and boycotts… Dr. Camp felt that the pharmaceutical industry, as she put it, “demonstrated the political instincts of celery.”
“Damn it,” she said, “if they won’t do it, we’ll do it ourselves.”
“Damn it,” she said, “if they won’t do it, we’ll do it ourselves.”
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“What was needed, Dr. Camp realized, was a simple pharmaceutical product… Companies feared liability and boycotts… Dr. Camp felt that the pharmaceutical industry, as she put it, “demonstrated the political instincts of celery.”
“Damn it,” she said, “if they won’t do it, we’ll do it ourselves.”
“Damn it,” she said, “if they won’t do it, we’ll do it ourselves.”
Nunca imaginé vivir en un mundo donde te piden el RFC para mandar un paquete de ropa de bebé por envío internacional . tmdr
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Nunca imaginé vivir en un mundo donde te piden el RFC para mandar un paquete de ropa de bebé por envío internacional . tmdr
Reposted by Elena Badillo Goicoechea
The story of Jesus driving the moneylenders out of the temple is such a slay and that’s before you realise he braided his own whip
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The story of Jesus driving the moneylenders out of the temple is such a slay and that’s before you realise he braided his own whip
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It should be acceptable to interrupt the other person in a conversation if what you have to say is more interesting
November 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
It should be acceptable to interrupt the other person in a conversation if what you have to say is more interesting
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This is important. People still do this a lot, and it ends up being a back-door method of inferring an interaction (e.g., “effect was significant in women but not men”)
“changes in statistical significance are often not themselves statistically significant. … even large changes in significance levels can correspond to small, nonsignificant changes in the underlying quantities.”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#Statistics
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#Statistics
The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant
It is common to summarize statistical comparisons by declarations of statistical significance or nonsignificance. Here we discuss one problem with such declarations, namely that changes in statisti...
www.tandfonline.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This is important. People still do this a lot, and it ends up being a back-door method of inferring an interaction (e.g., “effect was significant in women but not men”)
Reposted by Elena Badillo Goicoechea
New on the Archive:
Hernández-Conde, José and Caamaño-Alegre, María (2025) Models of data and the representation of phenomena. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 40 (2). pp. 172-186. ISSN 2171-679X
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27074/
Hernández-Conde, José and Caamaño-Alegre, María (2025) Models of data and the representation of phenomena. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 40 (2). pp. 172-186. ISSN 2171-679X
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27074/
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New on the Archive:
Hernández-Conde, José and Caamaño-Alegre, María (2025) Models of data and the representation of phenomena. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 40 (2). pp. 172-186. ISSN 2171-679X
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27074/
Hernández-Conde, José and Caamaño-Alegre, María (2025) Models of data and the representation of phenomena. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 40 (2). pp. 172-186. ISSN 2171-679X
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27074/
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It’s interesting that LLM slop has been proliferating in legal circles and science academic publishing - but not so far in the humanities. I assume it’s because fewer people use it, but also because the close-reading ethos of the humanities makes it unthinkable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
Vigilante Lawyers Expose the Rising Tide of A.I. Slop in Court Filings
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It’s interesting that LLM slop has been proliferating in legal circles and science academic publishing - but not so far in the humanities. I assume it’s because fewer people use it, but also because the close-reading ethos of the humanities makes it unthinkable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
Indeed <3
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Indeed <3
no, this is TV show material
Free talk idea: a lineup of math faculty take turns standing at a microphone and confidently saying outrageous but true things about concepts in introductory math classes until they're heckled off stage, when it becomes the next person's turn.
Called, "Sure, but You Can't Just SAY That!"
Called, "Sure, but You Can't Just SAY That!"
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
no, this is TV show material
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The editors of Neurology have allowed the authors of this paper to make a "correction", stating: "there were errors in the CIs for some estimates presented in the article".
How many CIs must be wrong before a journal loses confidence in a paper?
(Answer: more than 73, apparently!)
How many CIs must be wrong before a journal loses confidence in a paper?
(Answer: more than 73, apparently!)
Fun fact: it has been 56 days since I notified the editors of Neurology about glaring statistical errors in this peer-reviewed study on sweeteners and cognitive health.
No expression of concern, no correction, no retraction.
No expression of concern, no correction, no retraction.
"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The editors of Neurology have allowed the authors of this paper to make a "correction", stating: "there were errors in the CIs for some estimates presented in the article".
How many CIs must be wrong before a journal loses confidence in a paper?
(Answer: more than 73, apparently!)
How many CIs must be wrong before a journal loses confidence in a paper?
(Answer: more than 73, apparently!)
Reposted by Elena Badillo Goicoechea
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
One of the beauties of not driving is regularly listening to what Uber drivers have to say
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
One of the beauties of not driving is regularly listening to what Uber drivers have to say
- Radiohead
- Arvo Pärt
- Cocteau Twins
- This Heat
- Joni Mitchell
- Nirvana
- Talking Heads
- The Chameleons
- Arvo Pärt
- Cocteau Twins
- This Heat
- Joni Mitchell
- Nirvana
- Talking Heads
- The Chameleons
Define your music taste with 8 artists (only 8!! sighs...):
-Placebo
-Metallica
-George Michael
-Sade
-Guns n' Roses
-George Brassens
-Jacques Brel
-Madonna
-Placebo
-Metallica
-George Michael
-Sade
-Guns n' Roses
-George Brassens
-Jacques Brel
-Madonna
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
• Pomme
• Chris aka Redcar aka Christine and the Queens
• LEJ
• Clara Luciani
• Georges Brassens
• Alex Montembault
• Zaho de Sagazan
• Youssoupha
(yes they’re all French sue me)
• Pomme
• Chris aka Redcar aka Christine and the Queens
• LEJ
• Clara Luciani
• Georges Brassens
• Alex Montembault
• Zaho de Sagazan
• Youssoupha
(yes they’re all French sue me)
November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
- Radiohead
- Arvo Pärt
- Cocteau Twins
- This Heat
- Joni Mitchell
- Nirvana
- Talking Heads
- The Chameleons
- Arvo Pärt
- Cocteau Twins
- This Heat
- Joni Mitchell
- Nirvana
- Talking Heads
- The Chameleons