Nelson Amaya Durán
@nelsonamayad.bsky.social
The academic-entrepreneur is a dangerous animal. If the academic is not good to begin with, the combo of lack of scruples and high ambition crates professional thieves or fraudsters.
February 3, 2026 at 8:55 AM
The academic-entrepreneur is a dangerous animal. If the academic is not good to begin with, the combo of lack of scruples and high ambition crates professional thieves or fraudsters.
Claude Code:
- Hey, make a plan to fix this document
- Execute the plan
- Hey, reverse all changes, you screwed this up massively
- Hey, make a plan to fix this document
- Execute the plan
- Hey, reverse all changes, you screwed this up massively
February 2, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Claude Code:
- Hey, make a plan to fix this document
- Execute the plan
- Hey, reverse all changes, you screwed this up massively
- Hey, make a plan to fix this document
- Execute the plan
- Hey, reverse all changes, you screwed this up massively
What book collaboration that never happened but could, would have been GOAT? Hume & Smith
January 30, 2026 at 6:43 PM
What book collaboration that never happened but could, would have been GOAT? Hume & Smith
Catherine O’Hara 😔
January 30, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Catherine O’Hara 😔
Dream book collaboration: Kushan Basu and Jame Robinson write about the law and behavior in India and Colombia.
January 30, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Dream book collaboration: Kushan Basu and Jame Robinson write about the law and behavior in India and Colombia.
Which R package handles cmdstanr_summary() for HTML?
January 27, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Which R package handles cmdstanr_summary() for HTML?
Such beautiful calligraphy in the 16th century
January 18, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Such beautiful calligraphy in the 16th century
This dude, thank you.
January 17, 2026 at 12:27 PM
This dude, thank you.
Statistical Rethinking 2026 simultaneous beginner + experienced
January 9, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Statistical Rethinking 2026 simultaneous beginner + experienced
Is there something like langextract but for R? langextract.com
LangExtract - Official LangExtract Python Library for Information Extraction
LangExtract is a powerful Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text. Download LangExtract and experience Gemini-powered LangExtract features with precise source groun...
langextract.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Is there something like langextract but for R? langextract.com
Cool book to be released in 2026:
January 5, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Cool book to be released in 2026:
You have a problem. You ask a consultant for a solution. He gives you one. You pay him. He leaves. The problem is solved.
Why do people believe this fiction?
Why do people believe this fiction?
December 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
You have a problem. You ask a consultant for a solution. He gives you one. You pay him. He leaves. The problem is solved.
Why do people believe this fiction?
Why do people believe this fiction?
Best album of 2025: Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE
Best book I read in 2025: The proof by Frederick Schauer (from 2022)
Best book I read in 2025: The proof by Frederick Schauer (from 2022)
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Best album of 2025: Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE
Best book I read in 2025: The proof by Frederick Schauer (from 2022)
Best book I read in 2025: The proof by Frederick Schauer (from 2022)
The day retraction watch looks at the “research” produced by international organizations, the reckoning will be bigger than for social psychology.
Exclusive: A World Bank report on obesity trends with at least 14 fake references in the text has been removed from the website and is being reviewed by the organization following a Retraction Watch inquiry.
World Bank report ‘removed for review’ of nonexistent references after Retraction Watch inquiry
A World Bank report on obesity trends with at least 14 fake references in the text has been removed from the website and is being reviewed by the organization following a Retraction Watch inquiry.&…
retractionwatch.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The day retraction watch looks at the “research” produced by international organizations, the reckoning will be bigger than for social psychology.
This is the most important/poorest maintained page in the Stan bayesverse github.com/stan-dev/sta...
Prior Choice Recommendations
Stan development repository. The master branch contains the current release. The develop branch contains the latest stable development. See the Developer Process Wiki for details. - stan-dev/stan
github.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is the most important/poorest maintained page in the Stan bayesverse github.com/stan-dev/sta...
I’ve also been having fun teaching a bunch of non profit donors to work with ellmer, rangar, shinychat and querychat. These tools are amazing tbh.
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I’ve also been having fun teaching a bunch of non profit donors to work with ellmer, rangar, shinychat and querychat. These tools are amazing tbh.
I'm having fun with an experiment using ellmer and ollamar: an open-source LLM committee. Maybe the ensemble works where each model fails.
December 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I'm having fun with an experiment using ellmer and ollamar: an open-source LLM committee. Maybe the ensemble works where each model fails.
Looks very good
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Looks very good
Bravo Brazil!
September 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Bravo Brazil!
Awesome forthcoming 2026, not sold on the cover.
September 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Awesome forthcoming 2026, not sold on the cover.
I've been waiting years for somebody to put this together, all the pieces were already there.
This is amazing and this team deserves an applause.
This is amazing and this team deserves an applause.
Excited to announce that our paper with @pingfanhu.bsky.social and Bogdan Bunea on our #rstats package {surveydown} is now published in @plosone.org
The paper compares the benefits of using a code-based approach to survey design, leveraging #quarto and #shiny
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
The paper compares the benefits of using a code-based approach to survey design, leveraging #quarto and #shiny
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
surveydown: An open-source, markdown-based platform for programmable and reproducible surveys
This paper introduces the surveydown survey platform. With surveydown, researchers can create surveys that are programmable and reproducible using markdown and R code, leveraging the Quarto publicatio...
journals.plos.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I've been waiting years for somebody to put this together, all the pieces were already there.
This is amazing and this team deserves an applause.
This is amazing and this team deserves an applause.
LLMs are killing the consulting industry, which should tell you everything you need to know about both.
August 18, 2025 at 5:56 AM
LLMs are killing the consulting industry, which should tell you everything you need to know about both.
I love how junior psychologists are not even trained on simple logistic regression but are expected to analyse multiple ordinal variables at once.
August 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I love how junior psychologists are not even trained on simple logistic regression but are expected to analyse multiple ordinal variables at once.