Norm Matloff (你有冇諗清楚呀?)
@matloff.bsky.social
Em. Prof., UC Davis. Many awards, incl. book, teaching, public service. Many books, latest The Art of Machine Learning (uses qeML pkg). Former Editor in Chief, the R Journal. Views mine. heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/matloff.html
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A friend of mine was hired at a company which uses their own self-hosted AI tools a few weeks ago.
Just today they've told me: "Dude, I think I'm only gonna last 2 months here. Their energy bills make it financially insolvent."
Just today they've told me: "Dude, I think I'm only gonna last 2 months here. Their energy bills make it financially insolvent."
October 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A friend of mine was hired at a company which uses their own self-hosted AI tools a few weeks ago.
Just today they've told me: "Dude, I think I'm only gonna last 2 months here. Their energy bills make it financially insolvent."
Just today they've told me: "Dude, I think I'm only gonna last 2 months here. Their energy bills make it financially insolvent."
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Just published my new R article: 'Mapply: When You Need to Iterate Over Multiple Inputs'! 🚀 If `sapply` doesn't quite cut it for your multi-variable iterations, `mapply` is your friend. Learn to pair inputs beautifully. #RStats #Mapply
https://drmo.site/bhXeDb
https://drmo.site/bhXeDb
October 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Just published my new R article: 'Mapply: When You Need to Iterate Over Multiple Inputs'! 🚀 If `sapply` doesn't quite cut it for your multi-variable iterations, `mapply` is your friend. Learn to pair inputs beautifully. #RStats #Mapply
https://drmo.site/bhXeDb
https://drmo.site/bhXeDb
This really is an excellent book.
Modern Statistics for Modern Biology by Susan Holmes and Wolfgang Huber
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/life%20sciences.html#modern-statistics-for-modern-biology
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/life%20sciences.html#modern-statistics-for-modern-biology
October 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This really is an excellent book.
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Time Series Analysis and Its Applications by Robert H. Shumway and David S. Stoffer
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/time%20series%20analysis%20and%20forecasting.html#time-series-analysis-and-its-applications
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/time%20series%20analysis%20and%20forecasting.html#time-series-analysis-and-its-applications
October 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Time Series Analysis and Its Applications by Robert H. Shumway and David S. Stoffer
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/time%20series%20analysis%20and%20forecasting.html#time-series-analysis-and-its-applications
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/time%20series%20analysis%20and%20forecasting.html#time-series-analysis-and-its-applications
Excellent app!
Dr. Who solves the
"should we lump or should we split"
dilemma.
Compare lots of stat methods in this interactive app.
#rshiny #rstats #statistics #rstudio #bayesian #medical #treatment
Lumping&splitting.
Bias&variance.
Individuals&groups.
Borrowing strength
🧪
trials.shinyapps.io/Bias-varianc...
"should we lump or should we split"
dilemma.
Compare lots of stat methods in this interactive app.
#rshiny #rstats #statistics #rstudio #bayesian #medical #treatment
Lumping&splitting.
Bias&variance.
Individuals&groups.
Borrowing strength
🧪
trials.shinyapps.io/Bias-varianc...
September 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Excellent app!
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Hey
Bike lights
It's fall now
Bike lights
It's fall now
September 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Hey
Bike lights
It's fall now
Bike lights
It's fall now
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Uranus and the Pleiades. 22 September 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
September 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Uranus and the Pleiades. 22 September 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
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I tell students: You don’t need to memorize every ML algorithm. But you do need to understand:
— loss functions
— overfitting
— regularization
Master the “why,” not just the “how.”
#DataScience #MachineLearning #Statistics #AI #RStats
— loss functions
— overfitting
— regularization
Master the “why,” not just the “how.”
#DataScience #MachineLearning #Statistics #AI #RStats
September 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I tell students: You don’t need to memorize every ML algorithm. But you do need to understand:
— loss functions
— overfitting
— regularization
Master the “why,” not just the “how.”
#DataScience #MachineLearning #Statistics #AI #RStats
— loss functions
— overfitting
— regularization
Master the “why,” not just the “how.”
#DataScience #MachineLearning #Statistics #AI #RStats
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Most companies don’t need deep learning. They need clean joins, honest metrics, and interpretable results.
Startups often chase GPU clusters before fixing their CSVs.
#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats
Startups often chase GPU clusters before fixing their CSVs.
#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats
September 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Most companies don’t need deep learning. They need clean joins, honest metrics, and interpretable results.
Startups often chase GPU clusters before fixing their CSVs.
#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats
Startups often chase GPU clusters before fixing their CSVs.
#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats
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It’s neat to discover that all these #rstats pocket friends and zoom friends I’ve known for years actually *do* exist in real life #PositConf2025
September 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It’s neat to discover that all these #rstats pocket friends and zoom friends I’ve known for years actually *do* exist in real life #PositConf2025
A reminder: When debugging some code and it finally runs and produces output, that doesn't mean the code is now debugged. I myself fell victim to this thinking last week.
I am updating my qeML package, with one change involving a nice aspect of k-Nearest Neighbors: 🧵 1/
I am updating my qeML package, with one change involving a nice aspect of k-Nearest Neighbors: 🧵 1/
September 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A reminder: When debugging some code and it finally runs and produces output, that doesn't mean the code is now debugged. I myself fell victim to this thinking last week.
I am updating my qeML package, with one change involving a nice aspect of k-Nearest Neighbors: 🧵 1/
I am updating my qeML package, with one change involving a nice aspect of k-Nearest Neighbors: 🧵 1/
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You can learn more about this project here, only the second of its kind in the United States.
grist.org/energy/calif...
How this is not being done with much more frequency — in light of our fresh water and drought challenges — is baffling.
#energysky #greensky #energytransition
grist.org/energy/calif...
How this is not being done with much more frequency — in light of our fresh water and drought challenges — is baffling.
#energysky #greensky #energytransition
California’s first solar-covered canal is now fully online
The 1.6-megawatt pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.
grist.org
September 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
You can learn more about this project here, only the second of its kind in the United States.
grist.org/energy/calif...
How this is not being done with much more frequency — in light of our fresh water and drought challenges — is baffling.
#energysky #greensky #energytransition
grist.org/energy/calif...
How this is not being done with much more frequency — in light of our fresh water and drought challenges — is baffling.
#energysky #greensky #energytransition
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So, April of 2024, i gave keynotes at two separate business and data science industry conferences, and told them exactly this was going to happen:
That fixing "AI" mistakes was going to lead to hiring more people to do more work, or paying the original employees to spend time doing it themselves.
That fixing "AI" mistakes was going to lead to hiring more people to do more work, or paying the original employees to spend time doing it themselves.
being a “vibe coding cleanup specialist” is increasingly a real job www.404media.co/the-software...
The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes
Linkedin has been joking about “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” but it’s actually a growing profession.
www.404media.co
September 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So, April of 2024, i gave keynotes at two separate business and data science industry conferences, and told them exactly this was going to happen:
That fixing "AI" mistakes was going to lead to hiring more people to do more work, or paying the original employees to spend time doing it themselves.
That fixing "AI" mistakes was going to lead to hiring more people to do more work, or paying the original employees to spend time doing it themselves.
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Modern Statistics for Modern Biology by Susan Holmes and Wolfgang Huber
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/life%20sciences.html#modern-statistics-for-modern-biology
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/life%20sciences.html#modern-statistics-for-modern-biology
September 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Modern Statistics for Modern Biology by Susan Holmes and Wolfgang Huber
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/life%20sciences.html#modern-statistics-for-modern-biology
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/life%20sciences.html#modern-statistics-for-modern-biology
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I will reveal some secrets during this webinar. Come join us if interested in statistics education research. #statsed
There's still time to join us for a new webinar on Statistics Education Research on the 11th! Register here iase-web.org/Webinars.php and join in on the conversation #StatsEd #EduSky #research
September 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I will reveal some secrets during this webinar. Come join us if interested in statistics education research. #statsed
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i feel so good rn my history teacher told us to use ai to generate an about me image but instead i spent the whole period doing one myself on canva and i got an a+. she said it was so cool and she didn't even know it was my own work. i will always be better than ai
September 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
i feel so good rn my history teacher told us to use ai to generate an about me image but instead i spent the whole period doing one myself on canva and i got an a+. she said it was so cool and she didn't even know it was my own work. i will always be better than ai
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I use #Rstats or #Python as a calculator a lot, since I always have them up and it's nice to just type numbers in so I don't forget them, but today I didn't realize where my cursor was, and I accidentally typed into chrome without realizing it. Apparently still works as a calculator! 😂 #databs
September 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A referee for a paper that my student and I submitted asked that we do some kind of multiple inference analysis of the simulation output. In teaching my student how to do this, I thought I might as well write it up as a web tutorial. I've now done so, at
matloff.github.io/MultCIs/Mult...
matloff.github.io/MultCIs/Mult...
matloff.github.io
September 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
A referee for a paper that my student and I submitted asked that we do some kind of multiple inference analysis of the simulation output. In teaching my student how to do this, I thought I might as well write it up as a web tutorial. I've now done so, at
matloff.github.io/MultCIs/Mult...
matloff.github.io/MultCIs/Mult...
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Gonna start asking university admin what “AI skills” are, like specific examples
“Oh, we need to teach ‘AI skills’ to prepare students for the workplace? Like what. Describe an ‘AI Skill’ to me in detail. What’s involved?”
“Oh, we need to teach ‘AI skills’ to prepare students for the workplace? Like what. Describe an ‘AI Skill’ to me in detail. What’s involved?”
August 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Gonna start asking university admin what “AI skills” are, like specific examples
“Oh, we need to teach ‘AI skills’ to prepare students for the workplace? Like what. Describe an ‘AI Skill’ to me in detail. What’s involved?”
“Oh, we need to teach ‘AI skills’ to prepare students for the workplace? Like what. Describe an ‘AI Skill’ to me in detail. What’s involved?”
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Noor Shaker is a computer scientist and biotech entrepreneur who aims to make drug discovery faster and more effective by blending experts’ chemistry knowledge with advanced machine learning techniques.
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Dr Noor Shaker, Computer Scientist
Noor Shaker is a computer scientist and biotech entrepreneur who uses machine learning to discover new drugs.
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August 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Noor Shaker is a computer scientist and biotech entrepreneur who aims to make drug discovery faster and more effective by blending experts’ chemistry knowledge with advanced machine learning techniques.
adalovelaceday.subst...
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I’ve been gradually leaning into “biostatistician” as my identity, rather than just generalist statistician. While I’m always happy to work on any kind of statistical or data problem, my way of thinking is strongly influenced now by epidemiology, clinical trials & other health research
I deleted "data scientist" from my LinkedIn profile and replaced it with "statistician". Data scientist somehow feels very 2010s, and whatever it "really" means, it is certain to cause more confusion about what I do and my skillset than does the older word.
August 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I’ve been gradually leaning into “biostatistician” as my identity, rather than just generalist statistician. While I’m always happy to work on any kind of statistical or data problem, my way of thinking is strongly influenced now by epidemiology, clinical trials & other health research
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I know the issue of routine covid-19 vaccination for children without a particular need has become entrenched in the culture war in USA, but in other countries it is quite mainstream for experts to recommend against it. Eg Australia: immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au/contents/vac...
immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au
August 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I know the issue of routine covid-19 vaccination for children without a particular need has become entrenched in the culture war in USA, but in other countries it is quite mainstream for experts to recommend against it. Eg Australia: immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au/contents/vac...
Issues of typical interest are all ideological, don't you agree? Say climate change, abortion, trans rights etc.
Among my interests is immigration policy, esp. economic aspects. I can tell from just looking at the authorship of a paper whether the content is pro or con. Both sides are ideologues.
Among my interests is immigration policy, esp. economic aspects. I can tell from just looking at the authorship of a paper whether the content is pro or con. Both sides are ideologues.
That is true for some things but not all and critically evaluating conflicting evidence is part of our job. We should also be more forceful and clear in pointing out when “conflicting experts” are motivated by ideology
August 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Issues of typical interest are all ideological, don't you agree? Say climate change, abortion, trans rights etc.
Among my interests is immigration policy, esp. economic aspects. I can tell from just looking at the authorship of a paper whether the content is pro or con. Both sides are ideologues.
Among my interests is immigration policy, esp. economic aspects. I can tell from just looking at the authorship of a paper whether the content is pro or con. Both sides are ideologues.