Maximilian Scholz
@scholzmx.bsky.social
PhD researcher, building infrastructure (and pokemon) for Bayesian workflows, simulating everything.
Music, cooking, exercise enthusiast. http://fediscience.org/@scholzmx
Music, cooking, exercise enthusiast. http://fediscience.org/@scholzmx
We gotta discuss my salary, but I'd buy myself. What a steal.
January 27, 2026 at 9:49 PM
We gotta discuss my salary, but I'd buy myself. What a steal.
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January 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Being told that we do statistics, not software, a week after being approached about selling the internal tools we built to customers was... confusing...
Afaik I'm still the only person in the entire place with a SE background, which makes it even more fun.
Afaik I'm still the only person in the entire place with a SE background, which makes it even more fun.
January 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Being told that we do statistics, not software, a week after being approached about selling the internal tools we built to customers was... confusing...
Afaik I'm still the only person in the entire place with a SE background, which makes it even more fun.
Afaik I'm still the only person in the entire place with a SE background, which makes it even more fun.
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And here is the update: scholz.quarto.pub/cmdstan-bina...
It looks like running your own binary format wins. The only drawback compared to csv is that it is no longer human-readable. The other options have dependencies and don’t offer benefits for writing and reading the draws to and from the disk.
It looks like running your own binary format wins. The only drawback compared to csv is that it is no longer human-readable. The other options have dependencies and don’t offer benefits for writing and reading the draws to and from the disk.
January 22, 2026 at 11:35 PM
And here is the update: scholz.quarto.pub/cmdstan-bina...
It looks like running your own binary format wins. The only drawback compared to csv is that it is no longer human-readable. The other options have dependencies and don’t offer benefits for writing and reading the draws to and from the disk.
It looks like running your own binary format wins. The only drawback compared to csv is that it is no longer human-readable. The other options have dependencies and don’t offer benefits for writing and reading the draws to and from the disk.
I think I have everything I wanted to include done. Comparing csv to 2 custom binary formats, parquet, feather, arrow and beve. Looks like custom binary will be the clear winner currently.
discourse.mc-stan.org/t/using-cmds...
scholz.quarto.pub/cmdstan-bina...
Binary output format for cmdstan
#rstan
scholz.quarto.pub/cmdstan-bina...
Binary output format for cmdstan
#rstan
a man in a black shirt is dancing in front of a green background that says just do it .
ALT: a man in a black shirt is dancing in front of a green background that says just do it .
media.tenor.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:18 PM
I think I have everything I wanted to include done. Comparing csv to 2 custom binary formats, parquet, feather, arrow and beve. Looks like custom binary will be the clear winner currently.
discourse.mc-stan.org/t/using-cmds...
scholz.quarto.pub/cmdstan-bina...
Binary output format for cmdstan
#rstan
scholz.quarto.pub/cmdstan-bina...
Binary output format for cmdstan
#rstan
a man in a black shirt is dancing in front of a green background that says just do it .
ALT: a man in a black shirt is dancing in front of a green background that says just do it .
media.tenor.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:18 PM
discourse.mc-stan.org/t/using-cmds...
scholz.quarto.pub/cmdstan-bina...
Binary output format for cmdstan
#rstan
scholz.quarto.pub/cmdstan-bina...
Binary output format for cmdstan
#rstan
Hamburg just now.
January 19, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Hamburg just now.
I've added R support to my fork of llm-tldr github.com/sims1253/llm... very neat tool to help your agents make sense of large projects #rstats
GitHub - sims1253/llm-tldr at dev
95% token savings. 155x faster queries. 16 languages. LLMs can't read your entire codebase. TLDR extracts structure, traces dependencies, and gives them exactly what they need. - GitHub - sims...
github.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:42 AM
I've added R support to my fork of llm-tldr github.com/sims1253/llm... very neat tool to help your agents make sense of large projects #rstats
3 Songs that got me into deathcore:
Oceano - Wounds Never Healed
Humanitys Last Breath - Anthracite
Darko Ist - Rampage
Oceano - Wounds Never Healed
Humanitys Last Breath - Anthracite
Darko Ist - Rampage
January 13, 2026 at 7:52 AM
3 Songs that got me into deathcore:
Oceano - Wounds Never Healed
Humanitys Last Breath - Anthracite
Darko Ist - Rampage
Oceano - Wounds Never Healed
Humanitys Last Breath - Anthracite
Darko Ist - Rampage
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If the old robber barons like Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan had a stock ticker showing them nonstop insults from the hoi polloi they too would send the Pinkertons into random Midwestern cities to get into fights with locals.
January 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
If the old robber barons like Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan had a stock ticker showing them nonstop insults from the hoi polloi they too would send the Pinkertons into random Midwestern cities to get into fights with locals.
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January 10, 2026 at 7:56 AM
A bayesian t-test is like cutting a birthday cake with a chainsaw. It works, but it's extra power. But trying to fit multilevel models without Bayes is like trying to cut down a tree with a pocket knife. You can do it, but it's the wrong way to it. It's worse in every way. #rstats #StatsSky
January 9, 2026 at 9:41 PM
In case you haven't seen this yet and for some reason haven't had the chance to enjoy @rmcelreath.bsky.social 's teaching, now is your chance. #rstats #StatsSky
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
January 8, 2026 at 11:45 AM
In case you haven't seen this yet and for some reason haven't had the chance to enjoy @rmcelreath.bsky.social 's teaching, now is your chance. #rstats #StatsSky
It. Is. Always. Statistical. Rethinking.
And we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...
January 6, 2026 at 4:58 PM
It. Is. Always. Statistical. Rethinking.
I should stop writing drafts of blog posts and start finishing them for once... Have 5 open drafts at this point. Or maybe I should open a new section on my homepage for a living notebook where those things can live
January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
I should stop writing drafts of blog posts and start finishing them for once... Have 5 open drafts at this point. Or maybe I should open a new section on my homepage for a living notebook where those things can live
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Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - the third in my annual series of reviews of the past twelve months
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...
This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...
This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:
December 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - the third in my annual series of reviews of the past twelve months
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...
This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...
This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents:
Reposted by Maximilian Scholz
New post!
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
Medical breakthroughs in 2025
... and a happy new year.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev
December 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
New post!
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
I am the space between.
Shedding free from skin and bone.
Humanitys Last Breath - Anthracite
Shedding free from skin and bone.
Humanitys Last Breath - Anthracite
December 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I am the space between.
Shedding free from skin and bone.
Humanitys Last Breath - Anthracite
Shedding free from skin and bone.
Humanitys Last Breath - Anthracite
I think my 2025 wrap up will simply be that this year has been too interesting. I hope 2026 will be less interesting.
December 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I think my 2025 wrap up will simply be that this year has been too interesting. I hope 2026 will be less interesting.
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Not sure about you but I don't see myself running out of ideas like ever. There's so much cool stuff to do and to discover.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Not sure about you but I don't see myself running out of ideas like ever. There's so much cool stuff to do and to discover.
Merry Christmas from Kira wo doesn't understand why the treats stopped spawning under the tree.
December 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Merry Christmas from Kira wo doesn't understand why the treats stopped spawning under the tree.
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New Allt, Humanity's Last Breath and Vildhjarta in 2026? I am ready :³
December 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
New Allt, Humanity's Last Breath and Vildhjarta in 2026? I am ready :³