Octavio Medina
@octaviomedina.bsky.social
Quant UX Research @Google’s Choice Lab. Previously @ideas42, @WorldBankAfrica. #Rstats, #JuliaLang, Bayes and other things. 🏳️🌈
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Lanzamos el @labdeoportunidades.bsky.social , un centro de investigación dedicado al estudio de la movilidad social y desigualdad en España usando big data
Este Lab es fruto de una colaboración única entre el @oppinsights.bsky.social de Harvard, @wid.world,la FFG y @futurepolicylab.bsky.social
Este Lab es fruto de una colaboración única entre el @oppinsights.bsky.social de Harvard, @wid.world,la FFG y @futurepolicylab.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Shoulda picked chaos with Ed Miliband
April 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Shoulda picked chaos with Ed Miliband
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[Reposting oldies from the bird site]
The Computational Boundary of a “Self” by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social is one of the most amazingly interesting articles I've read in years Every goddamn sentence is insightful. Masterfully written and deeply thought-provoking.
The Computational Boundary of a “Self” by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social is one of the most amazingly interesting articles I've read in years Every goddamn sentence is insightful. Masterfully written and deeply thought-provoking.
Frontiers | The Computational Boundary of a “Self”: Developmental Bioelectricity Drives Multicellularity and Scale-Free Cognition
All epistemic agents physically consist of parts that must somehow comprise an integrated cognitive self. Biological individuals consist of subunits (organs,...
www.frontiersin.org
March 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
[Reposting oldies from the bird site]
The Computational Boundary of a “Self” by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social is one of the most amazingly interesting articles I've read in years Every goddamn sentence is insightful. Masterfully written and deeply thought-provoking.
The Computational Boundary of a “Self” by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social is one of the most amazingly interesting articles I've read in years Every goddamn sentence is insightful. Masterfully written and deeply thought-provoking.
Musk hasn't succeeded in rooting out wokeness, the entire government is still celebrating North Korean History Month
March 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Musk hasn't succeeded in rooting out wokeness, the entire government is still celebrating North Korean History Month
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I think you would have to search long & hard to find a more invertebrate figure than Lindsey Graham today. Zelensky "needs to resign" ... "I have never been more proud of the president. I was very proud of JD Vance standing up for our country" www.foxnews.com/politics/utt...
'Utter disaster': Lindsey Graham calls for Zelenskyy resignation after White House throwdown
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Zelenskyy needs to either resign or change because Americans may not be willing to do business with him.
www.foxnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I think you would have to search long & hard to find a more invertebrate figure than Lindsey Graham today. Zelensky "needs to resign" ... "I have never been more proud of the president. I was very proud of JD Vance standing up for our country" www.foxnews.com/politics/utt...
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Any remaining arguments against the rearmament of Europe just evaporated in front of the eyes of every single European head of state this evening.
February 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Any remaining arguments against the rearmament of Europe just evaporated in front of the eyes of every single European head of state this evening.
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Drafts of the first chapters of my brms Book: Applied Bayesian Regression Modelling Using R and Stan are online: paulbuerkner.com/software/brm... Check it out and let me know what you think!
Paul Bürkner - The brms Book
paulbuerkner.com
October 1, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Drafts of the first chapters of my brms Book: Applied Bayesian Regression Modelling Using R and Stan are online: paulbuerkner.com/software/brm... Check it out and let me know what you think!
For survey methodology folks: what are some ways to measure trade-offs between different options (beyond a discrete choice / conjoint design). What are other tools worth considering?
November 25, 2024 at 5:06 PM
For survey methodology folks: what are some ways to measure trade-offs between different options (beyond a discrete choice / conjoint design). What are other tools worth considering?
Bioelectricity as the cognitive glue of morphological architecture - yet another fascinating talk by Michael Levin. Make you hopeful about what's coming in medicine.
For example, changes in bioelectric patterns can be used to regenerate limbs in frogs!
thoughtforms.life/a-talk-on-bi...
For example, changes in bioelectric patterns can be used to regenerate limbs in frogs!
thoughtforms.life/a-talk-on-bi...
Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | A talk on Bioelectricity with a special slant tow...
This is a 1 hour talk on bioelectricity with a special slant toward microbiology/immunology/parasitology, both the video and the Q&A afterward.
thoughtforms.life
November 5, 2023 at 3:23 PM
Bioelectricity as the cognitive glue of morphological architecture - yet another fascinating talk by Michael Levin. Make you hopeful about what's coming in medicine.
For example, changes in bioelectric patterns can be used to regenerate limbs in frogs!
thoughtforms.life/a-talk-on-bi...
For example, changes in bioelectric patterns can be used to regenerate limbs in frogs!
thoughtforms.life/a-talk-on-bi...
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Is this... generalizability?
Impressive: "meta-analysis of 1,506 studies of impersonal cooperation…across 70 societies" found "that cooperation did not differ much at all between regions, societies, & cultures…did not find any support for theories that explain variation in impersonal cooperation" psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
October 25, 2023 at 2:34 PM
Is this... generalizability?
I'm somewhat wary of articles that say "X place has the secret to good educational outcomes," but this is a good and interesting piece on Defense Department schools.
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/u...
Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department.
Schools for children of military members achieve results rarely seen in public education.
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2023 at 11:13 AM
I'm somewhat wary of articles that say "X place has the secret to good educational outcomes," but this is a good and interesting piece on Defense Department schools.
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/u...
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Alright, here we are. Let's start with some light content: 65% of U.S. adults say they always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
Americans’ Dismal Views of the Nation’s Politics
Americans’ views of politics and elected officials are unrelentingly negative, with little hope of improvement on the horizon. 65% of Americans say they always or often feel exhausted when thinking ...
www.pewresearch.org
September 20, 2023 at 1:56 PM
Alright, here we are. Let's start with some light content: 65% of U.S. adults say they always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
Great content + great memes all along
Science is great but academia not so much. Earlier this week I revised my talk "Science as Amateur Software Development". The unprofessional way that academics curate & process data would benefit from professional habits of software engineers and chefs too 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qzV...
Science as Amateur Software Development (2023 edition)
Software is both a cause of unreliable research and part of the solution. The bulk of scientific research relies upon specialized software for data managemen...
www.youtube.com
September 20, 2023 at 12:53 PM
Great content + great memes all along