The main discourse drivers on liberal twitter are media people because a lot of the normies are on blusky. The article's writing style is great if a bit navel-gazing, but there's not much to say about it except to announce to everyone that you are a reader of highfalutin culture pervert writing.

Yeah I'm trying to lower my bar a little bit for this one because the thoughts keep sticking around, and I still feel like they're useful enough even in an inchoate form.

I will once I figure out where gamma distributions come from!

(There will also be PCA!)

This is fueled a little bit by arrogance perhaps, or maybe because there's a soft ceiling to the audience I attract, but my general feeling is "if I don't understand this, I bet 95%+ of my audience won't," and it's not fair to pretend like I do understand it. It's tricky stuff!

The challenge for me is my thoughts are rather informal. There are some formal bits and pieces but I don't really feel fully comfortable with them. Mainly, I still don't feel in my bones a strong intuition of where the Gamma distribution as a prior for precision comes from.

So you're saying cultural appropriation is OK? Got it. 👍

I'm with you, Joe. Halloween is a holiday where people constantly culturally appropriate from marginalized communities, and women denigrate themselves to appeal to the male gaze. Far from being celebrated, the holiday should be actively shunned.

Alexis Trousset would have loved Valorant.

I have yet to have the mythical 95th ptile biryani so I guess I need to be on the lookout

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@grok is this real