my worry is that this is good armor against slop only to the extent that people have collective energy to join hands and hate it together, which is a shaky foundation

the work is never done, matt

this has been a very nice trick so far actually. it's way easier to set prior expectations when the scale is like, multiples of the mean vs. the number of nanoseconds between things

does it help in another way besides the prior for the mean e.g. better sampling or something? assuming you are doing a log link then it sounds like you can get the same algebra by centering the intercept on log of the mean right?

anything helps me absorb little intuitions, thanks

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I really like riding a bike but sometimes it would be great if it could have four wheels so I could lug more stuff, an engine so I wouldn't have to pedal it all by myself myself, climate control because sometimes the weather is bad, and safety features to protect me in an accident

mhm yeah I mean, watch a youtube video of people in amsterdam. it's pretty slow. can't safely go much faster

will anybody ever want this? idk. a cheaper / better way might be to just define the fns with lambdas

you really think someone would do that? go on linkedin and tell lies!?!?