David Hugh-Jones
@hughjonesd.bsky.social
Social scientist. Newsletter at wyclif.substack.com.
Macs have a GPU to do fast matrix operations.
Statistics involves lots of matrix operations.
R is a language for statistics...
hughjonesd.github.io/Rmlx
#Rstats #mlx @rstats.bsky.social
Statistics involves lots of matrix operations.
R is a language for statistics...
hughjonesd.github.io/Rmlx
#Rstats #mlx @rstats.bsky.social
R Interface to Apple's MLX library for GPU-accelerated arrays
An R interface to Apple's MLX library, allowing array operations on Apple Silicon GPUs and CPUs. Features include shared memory between the chips, CUDA support, lazy evaluation and automatic different...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Macs have a GPU to do fast matrix operations.
Statistics involves lots of matrix operations.
R is a language for statistics...
hughjonesd.github.io/Rmlx
#Rstats #mlx @rstats.bsky.social
Statistics involves lots of matrix operations.
R is a language for statistics...
hughjonesd.github.io/Rmlx
#Rstats #mlx @rstats.bsky.social
What we talk about when we talk about "ancestry"
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What we talk about when we talk about "ancestry"
Political decisions versus scientific descriptions; ancestry versus ethnicity; ancestry proportions versus individual variants
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October 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
What we talk about when we talk about "ancestry"
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Adam Smith’s second big idea
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Adam Smith’s second big idea
Liberalism is challenged by gains from scale
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September 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Adam Smith’s second big idea
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A way to think about scientism
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A way to think about scientism
All just data journalists with pretensions
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June 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A way to think about scientism
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100% this. Citation farming, like most forms of academic careerism, is a degrading game played for absurd and/or tiny rewards.
Don't let this keep you from following your interests. If your goal is anything else than enjoying to study the things you are curious about, science may not be the best field for you anyways
The further a scientist moves away from the topic of their previous work, the fewer citations their new work will receive, according to an analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents published in Nature. go.nature.com/43i9dKX #Academicsky 🧪
May 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
100% this. Citation farming, like most forms of academic careerism, is a degrading game played for absurd and/or tiny rewards.
Behavioral economics
Also: no political Coase Theorem
Also: my entire life
Also: no political Coase Theorem
Also: my entire life
May 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Behavioral economics
Also: no political Coase Theorem
Also: my entire life
Also: no political Coase Theorem
Also: my entire life
Featuring Ain't Going to Goa (Alabama 3)
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Cultural surrender: a comment from a reader
Why the negativity?
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May 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Featuring Ain't Going to Goa (Alabama 3)
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Reflections on Britain's triage-ward state
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Reflections on Britain's triage-ward state
But first, a detour about a dog
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May 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Reflections on Britain's triage-ward state
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Quite interesting to hear what would, a few years ago, have been a very conventional argument. Now it reads as almost contrarian.
Power corrupts. It’s time for Singapore to become a democracy.
Opinion | My Father Founded Singapore. He Would Be Troubled by What It’s Become. (Gift Article)
The nation’s current leaders are not living up to my father’s high standards of governance, and Singapore is suffering as a result.
www.nytimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Quite interesting to hear what would, a few years ago, have been a very conventional argument. Now it reads as almost contrarian.
A little post with some data
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The cultural surrender of the European middle class: part 1
Data on marriage and family
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April 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A little post with some data
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A lot of people talk about it but when they start doing it…
30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house.
We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.
We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.
April 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A lot of people talk about it but when they start doing it…
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Top-5 journals in economics (#econsky) desk-reject half of submissions. Your globally-impactful paper is a diamond in the rough – how to get it taken seriously?
Submit it to unjournal.org (bit.ly/UJsubmit) for public evaluation & rating. -->
Submit it to unjournal.org (bit.ly/UJsubmit) for public evaluation & rating. -->
The Unjournal
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April 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Top-5 journals in economics (#econsky) desk-reject half of submissions. Your globally-impactful paper is a diamond in the rough – how to get it taken seriously?
Submit it to unjournal.org (bit.ly/UJsubmit) for public evaluation & rating. -->
Submit it to unjournal.org (bit.ly/UJsubmit) for public evaluation & rating. -->
bit of nostalgiaposting
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London in the 2000s
Shouldn't more have come out of that scene?
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April 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
bit of nostalgiaposting
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The graduate visa route needs tightening, because it is very obviously being used as a migration back door. I mean, if you want more migration, then argue for it, but be frank about it.
The UK government is proposing to finally finish off its universities by further tightening the terms of the graduate visa route. The stupid fools. Playing with dangers they don't even understand. www.ft.com/content/f441...
UK Home Office’s reform of graduate visas runs into opposition
[FREE TO READ] Education department at odds with plan to curb number of overseas students allowed to stay in Britain
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April 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The graduate visa route needs tightening, because it is very obviously being used as a migration back door. I mean, if you want more migration, then argue for it, but be frank about it.
So if you get tariffed 10% but your competitors get tariffed 20% or more, you may gain market share or even increase total sales. I wonder which industries this might apply to.
April 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
So if you get tariffed 10% but your competitors get tariffed 20% or more, you may gain market share or even increase total sales. I wonder which industries this might apply to.
Whilst markets are crashing, let's not forget the Ukrainian madlad who posted his underwear on the camp flagpole
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The Ukrainian teens who took on Putin’s gulag archipelago — and won
When Vlad and his friends realized the Kremlin would not return them home, they staged an open revolt.
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April 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Whilst markets are crashing, let's not forget the Ukrainian madlad who posted his underwear on the camp flagpole
www.politico.eu/article/save...
www.politico.eu/article/save...
This deserves to be a meme
April 3, 2025 at 5:27 AM
This deserves to be a meme
I like everything about this paper except for the venue...
How do genetics relate to socioeconomic status? A study in Nature Human Behviour explains how historical social stratification is visible in the genetics of populations today, and what this means for our understanding of social inequality. https://go.nature.com/42k0xTM 🧪
April 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I like everything about this paper except for the venue...
Reposted by David Hugh-Jones
How do genetics relate to socioeconomic status? A study in Nature Human Behviour explains how historical social stratification is visible in the genetics of populations today, and what this means for our understanding of social inequality. https://go.nature.com/42k0xTM 🧪
March 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
How do genetics relate to socioeconomic status? A study in Nature Human Behviour explains how historical social stratification is visible in the genetics of populations today, and what this means for our understanding of social inequality. https://go.nature.com/42k0xTM 🧪
Shocking lack of opsec. Everyone knows you should use Facebook Messenger 😭
March 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Shocking lack of opsec. Everyone knows you should use Facebook Messenger 😭