Dan Simpson
@danpsimpson.bsky.social
I don’t know man, I just don’t know.
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
This is an extremely nice puzzle that becomes EXTREMELY difficult if you don’t read the last rule logic-masters.de/Raetselporta...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This is an extremely nice puzzle that becomes EXTREMELY difficult if you don’t read the last rule logic-masters.de/Raetselporta...
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My spiciest office opinion is that lots of bad meetings happen because no one wants to meeting top
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
My spiciest office opinion is that lots of bad meetings happen because no one wants to meeting top
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would you still love me if I wrote C++?
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C++ is for little worms
November 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
would you still love me if I wrote C++?
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Gotta love Harvard. The Harvard that keeps on Harvarding.
In between things I've been checking in on the emails that mention "university" and uhh did we all know about this connection?
![Screenshot from the Epstein Document Search which reads: House_Oversight_029401
From: Donald Rubin
Sent: 1/22/2017 7:31:32 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Republican health care experts dismiss Donald Trump's ideas
Importance: High
https://www.statnews.com/20 1 6/03/04/trump -repub cans-health-care/? s camp aign=trendmd
Jeffrey,
This cannot be true, can it? This guy must be as dumb about this stuff as a tampon laced with arsenic!!
HELP!
Great meeting yesterday — really enjoyed it.
And happy birthday again, Don
Donald B. Rubin
John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics, Harvard University
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge MA 02138
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 029401](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ozma3timm5c32fa7bimb4zaj/bafkreiezajc6f2rgwxrdx2242izbelpumkgdruc52pzu236rhovlcyfmde@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Gotta love Harvard. The Harvard that keeps on Harvarding.
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My friend just revealed that he thought INDECENT PROPOSAL (1993) was a reality TV show with the same premise as the actual movie ("couple gets $1M if the wife sleeps with a stranger").
November 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
My friend just revealed that he thought INDECENT PROPOSAL (1993) was a reality TV show with the same premise as the actual movie ("couple gets $1M if the wife sleeps with a stranger").
Drag name: Debra B Messing.
Drag name: Debra Missing-Heart
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Drag name: Debra B Messing.
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Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
I’ve always thought of this as altitude aware distance. If KL(x|y) is finite but KL(y|x) is not, just imagine you get from x to y by jumping off a cliff. And if you don’t like that the other direction is infinite, tell me: how exactly did you learn to fly?
A bit random, but I find that whenever the 'critique' is raised that the KL divergence is not a distance, it is pretty rare that there is a strong case given for why this is actually a problem.
(It's of course reasonable to mention such things as a warning, etc.; this is not my concern)
(It's of course reasonable to mention such things as a warning, etc.; this is not my concern)
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I’ve always thought of this as altitude aware distance. If KL(x|y) is finite but KL(y|x) is not, just imagine you get from x to y by jumping off a cliff. And if you don’t like that the other direction is infinite, tell me: how exactly did you learn to fly?
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Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)
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
Others, please share
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...
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)
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My theory is that for practitioners, regression models should be like pocket money: you get a fixed number per week to do whatever you like with until we're sure you won't blow the whole lot on silly stuff, get caught up in a get-rich-quick scheme, or accidentally leave them in a drawer somewhere.
This paper’s been popping as “evidence” that you can’t do real #causalinference w/ obs data. To me it shows you need rigorous pre-specified design (in addition to the willingness to fold when your hypothesis is not possible to answer with the data at hand). #EpiSky, #CausalSky, #AcademicSky
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My theory is that for practitioners, regression models should be like pocket money: you get a fixed number per week to do whatever you like with until we're sure you won't blow the whole lot on silly stuff, get caught up in a get-rich-quick scheme, or accidentally leave them in a drawer somewhere.
Sometimes you dress as a cat who has done a bad job dressing as a miner (and who is wearing a dagger as a fascinator). (Aka Aloysius, my dnd character.)
November 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Sometimes you dress as a cat who has done a bad job dressing as a miner (and who is wearing a dagger as a fascinator). (Aka Aloysius, my dnd character.)
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This same friend went as Divine Miss Piggy one year and then ATE KERMIT'S SHIT ON STAGE (chocolate) and somehow only placed second
So yeah, he'd better fucking win this year, because he's been robbed three times already.
bsky.app/profile/felo...
So yeah, he'd better fucking win this year, because he's been robbed three times already.
bsky.app/profile/felo...
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This same friend went as Divine Miss Piggy one year and then ATE KERMIT'S SHIT ON STAGE (chocolate) and somehow only placed second
So yeah, he'd better fucking win this year, because he's been robbed three times already.
bsky.app/profile/felo...
So yeah, he'd better fucking win this year, because he's been robbed three times already.
bsky.app/profile/felo...
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The Bayes/Frequentist wars are not about resolving anything smh
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Bayes/Frequentist wars are not about resolving anything smh
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It seems like the only way tech companies are able to compel AI usage is by coercion in performance review processes?
(via The Information "AI Agenda" newsletter)
(via The Information "AI Agenda" newsletter)
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It seems like the only way tech companies are able to compel AI usage is by coercion in performance review processes?
(via The Information "AI Agenda" newsletter)
(via The Information "AI Agenda" newsletter)
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New Soft Pink Truth music by yours truly! Behold the video for "Time Inside the Violet", directed by hourglass animator Matthew Murray Sullivan and panic attack collagist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us). New album on @thrilljockey.bsky.social comes out Jan 30th!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhEt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhEt...
The Soft Pink Truth - Time Inside the Violet (official music video)
YouTube video by Thrill Jockey Records
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October 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New Soft Pink Truth music by yours truly! Behold the video for "Time Inside the Violet", directed by hourglass animator Matthew Murray Sullivan and panic attack collagist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us). New album on @thrilljockey.bsky.social comes out Jan 30th!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhEt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhEt...
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
TIL Binace is not a bisexual dating app.
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
TIL Binace is not a bisexual dating app.
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oh my God apparently he blocked me and then went and immediately deleted the racist comment he made to me 💀
siri show me "white fragility"
siri show me "white fragility"
October 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
oh my God apparently he blocked me and then went and immediately deleted the racist comment he made to me 💀
siri show me "white fragility"
siri show me "white fragility"
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I've always thought that the most important feature of Australian democracy is that it's so boring. Everyone votes, everyone gets a preferential vote, and the AEC is a trusted neutral arbiter. It makes the whole exercise terribly dull: you vote, eat a sausage, go to the beach, and the world goes on
October 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I've always thought that the most important feature of Australian democracy is that it's so boring. Everyone votes, everyone gets a preferential vote, and the AEC is a trusted neutral arbiter. It makes the whole exercise terribly dull: you vote, eat a sausage, go to the beach, and the world goes on
I accidentally took a perfect photo at the Jim E Brown gig*
* Squeezed between two goth bands playing to an all ages audience several of whom were in full white pancake. Never have I seen a performer more in sync with his audience as when he closed with “How do I stop crying when I masturbate?”
* Squeezed between two goth bands playing to an all ages audience several of whom were in full white pancake. Never have I seen a performer more in sync with his audience as when he closed with “How do I stop crying when I masturbate?”
October 21, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I accidentally took a perfect photo at the Jim E Brown gig*
* Squeezed between two goth bands playing to an all ages audience several of whom were in full white pancake. Never have I seen a performer more in sync with his audience as when he closed with “How do I stop crying when I masturbate?”
* Squeezed between two goth bands playing to an all ages audience several of whom were in full white pancake. Never have I seen a performer more in sync with his audience as when he closed with “How do I stop crying when I masturbate?”
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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
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Slightly better than the paper where they did asshole recognition
“At toilet time, you sign in via a fingerprint sensor so that the device knows who's using the facilities. (Please wash your hands before signing out or tracking your progress.) Then, check in with the app for the day's analysis and trends over time.”
Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents
The company's new Dekoda toilet accessory is like a little bathroom detective.
www.cnet.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Slightly better than the paper where they did asshole recognition
I’ll take “Things not to say while giving a handjob” for 400
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I’ll take “Things not to say while giving a handjob” for 400