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minedogucu.com • teaching stats & data science by day • reading and writing stories by night • she/they/o/او • views my own • datapedagogy.com • bayesrulesbook.com • posts mostly about data science and education but also life things • 📍 Los Angeles
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Today I paid for a time machine to take me to my teen years 🥹
Vinyl of The Cranberries called Stars the best of 1992-2002
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Lucky day

Wordle 1,602 2/6

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November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Know an early-career statistician who shows potential for great leadership and shaping the future of statistics? COPSS is accepting nominations for the Emerging Leader Award: stattrak.amstat.org/...
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Tbh I'm not even mad about 'On Your Marx, get set, Zo!'
This is the front page of the New York Post from Wednesday, November 5, 2025. The main headline reads "THE RED APPLE" in large white and red letters. Above the headline, smaller text states: "On your Marx, get set, Zo! Socialist Mamdani wins race for mayor" The image features a Soviet-style propaganda design with a large hammer and sickle symbol in orange/red, with a photo of Zohran Mamdani positioned within it, raising his fist triumphantly against a backdrop of stylized city buildings and red stars. At the top of the page: "NEW YORK POST" with "Page SIX" logo Header bar text: "WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2025 / Partly sunny, 64° / Weather: P. 36 ★★ LATE CITY FINAL nypost.com $2.00" A text box in the lower right states: "After a campaign that promised high taxes, free stuff, hating Israel and vibes, socialist Zohran Mamdani romped to victory last night and will become the 111th mayor of New York City." Below this: "PAGES 4-11" Photo credit at bottom: "NY Post: Peter LaVigna"
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Kim Kardashian Says ChatGPT Made Her Fail Law Exams: “They’re Always Wrong”
The reality star and business mogul has been studying law for the past six years.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
@aoc.bsky.social says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody."

"We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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What is the German word for the feeling you get after closing GitHub issue #1 of a repo that has 100+ issues?
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Coco deserved more than an airplane screen. Thank you @vidiots.bsky.social for showing it on the big screen!
minedogucu.com Mine Doğucu @minedogucu.com · Jul 14
1000th movie gets to be Coco on a tiny airplane screen.
November 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
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November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I have lived in many places and have experienced many different traditions. The most meaningful for me has definitely been The Day of The Day. Thank you LA for bringing this tradition to our lives. Thinking of my mother, aunt, grandparents - today and always. Siempre en mi corazón 🫀
The Day of the Dead offerings decorated on the floor of a park. A painting with La Catrina (skeleton) on the backdrop. A large skull in the center on the floor with marigolds around it.
November 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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I know I am late to watching The Big Bang Theory but if anybody had told me that Sheldon Cooper is a Bayesian I might have done it sooner.
A projected scene that shows a man in front of a whiteboard which has the Bayes’ rule on it. The scene is paused and the information reads The Big Bang Theory S4 E2: The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification.
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Please support our trans siblings in Jamaica. #HurricaneMelissa
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TransWave Jamaica has been supporting the trans community in JA since 2015. Please donate to them now as they'll be able to help some of the most vulnerable folks post #Melissa transwaveja.org
Home - Transwave Jamaica
We are a non-governmental organization working to advance the health, welfare, and well-being of the transgender community...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Mamdani lied when he said he wrote right_join(y, x) in dplyr when he actually wrote left_join(x, y). Or perhaps he did the joins in SQL and he lied about that too.
October 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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avehtari.bsky.social
I'm now also looking for a postdoc with strong Bayesian background and interest in developing Bayesian cross-validation theory, methods and software. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact information at users.aalto.fi/~ave/).

Others, please share
avehtari.bsky.social Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · Oct 6
I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.

Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025
The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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lataco.bsky.social
Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos.

By @eltragon.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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nowcowan.bsky.social
Went to see about signing up as a poll worker for the Nov election & LA county only needs bilingual poll workers

So, if you’re fluent in English & Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Tagalog/Filipino, Thai, or Vietnamese pls consider
October 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I think many folks are aware of the impact of budget cuts on higher ed institutions, especially on research. Fewer people are aware, how the budget cuts are impacting non-academic staff, cleaning, dining, gardening staff...
October 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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If you are interested in #dataviz you might possibly like the winners of the @amstatnews.bsky.social K-12 poster competition. Some posters are so adorable!!!

🥇 K-3 winner!
📊 Screen Time Fun: Are Your Eyes Happy Too?
🔗 magazine.amstat.org/wp-content/u...

🏆: magazine.amstat.org/blog/2025/08...
October 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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#datascience folks might find this podcast episode interesting.

BBC Witness History episodes are also quite short!
September 29 The birth of the Excel spreadsheet Witness History
October 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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We got to listen to Mahler’s “Resurrection“ performed by LA Phil tonight. Mahler is one thing, Symphony No 2 is another thing, and LA Phil conducted by Dudamel is yet another thing. I will leave this quote by Mahler here for the night 🖤
"Why have you lived? Why have you suffered? Is it all some huge, awful joke? We have to answer these questions somehow if we are to go on living-indeed, even if we are only to go on dying!" These are the questions Mahler said were posed in the first movement of his Symphony No. 2, questions that he promised would be answered in the finale.
October 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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My institution forces us to install some "security" software. The software works on my computer occasionally so I can't log on to university websites half of the day and IT cannot fix my problem.

One good thing is that I've my own course website! Happy not to be using LMS.
October 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Our manuscript "A Systematic Literature Review of Undergraduate Data Science Education Research" is now officially published in the latest issue of the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#datascience #datascienceeducation #statsed
A Systematic Literature Review of Undergraduate Data Science Education Research
The presence of data science has been profound in the scientific community in almost every discipline. An important part of the data science education expansion has been at the undergraduate level....
www.tandfonline.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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extremetemps.bsky.social
Exceptional contrasts in the Mediterranean
with persistent cold in Italy and frost near sea level and summer in Spain,North Africa and Turkey (every day >35C).

Exceptional hot night in ALGERIA
with Minimum temperatures up to 28.5C and even 25.3C at Tamanrasset at 1300m asl.
October 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM