Uffe Heide-Jørgensen
@uffeheide.bsky.social
mathematician posing as a statistician - I also like board games
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"Normalized incompetence" seems to sum up my day-to-day!
This was a great read. No idea how to get on top of this, perhaps pulling random people away from keyboards? Who knows!
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The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.
techtrenches.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
"Normalized incompetence" seems to sum up my day-to-day!
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phdd level intelligencee
August 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
phdd level intelligencee
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Putting myself out there a bit. Honest request from an open-source developer:
Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit.
I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/
Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit.
I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/
June 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Putting myself out there a bit. Honest request from an open-source developer:
Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit.
I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/
Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit.
I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/
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We should introduce the term “real human researchers” (RHR) to go with other nonsense phrases like “real world evidence”
June 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
We should introduce the term “real human researchers” (RHR) to go with other nonsense phrases like “real world evidence”
today's useful tip
Adding the word ‘fucking’ to your Google search query disables the unwanted AI summary at the top of the results page.
June 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
today's useful tip
yep - often mentioned in the stats group I work in. We don't get it, and seeing it has been a long time we have not got it, I start to think it is simply because we are not very smart when everyone else apparently gets it
It's bonkers that in academic science we spend hours obsessing over the wording of a paper, but often only one person has seen the code that produced the results! 2/N
May 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
yep - often mentioned in the stats group I work in. We don't get it, and seeing it has been a long time we have not got it, I start to think it is simply because we are not very smart when everyone else apparently gets it
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I’ve seen situations in which people try to correct the scientific record and then critics act like that was superfluous or just not the right way to use one’s energy because “science is self-correcting.”
This just came to my mind
This just came to my mind
May 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I’ve seen situations in which people try to correct the scientific record and then critics act like that was superfluous or just not the right way to use one’s energy because “science is self-correcting.”
This just came to my mind
This just came to my mind
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#uhoh Looks like OpenAI can take surveys for you… how are we going to stop this?? It’s currently only for “Pro Users” ($200/month) but eventually roll out.
Big threat to survey research
Big threat to survey research
March 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#uhoh Looks like OpenAI can take surveys for you… how are we going to stop this?? It’s currently only for “Pro Users” ($200/month) but eventually roll out.
Big threat to survey research
Big threat to survey research
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"why don't you leave academia then?"
March 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"why don't you leave academia then?"
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Ridiculous. The total is more than 400%. Everyone knows it should be 360% for a circle.
March 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Ridiculous. The total is more than 400%. Everyone knows it should be 360% for a circle.
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
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What is meant by a 'while on treatment' estimand? thestatsgeek.com/2025/03/03/w...
March 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What is meant by a 'while on treatment' estimand? thestatsgeek.com/2025/03/03/w...
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Scientific publishing cannot be free but an annual $2.5 billion seems excessive to me
January 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Scientific publishing cannot be free but an annual $2.5 billion seems excessive to me
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Spread some positivity today ✨ do something that somebody with your combination of covariates is extremely unlikely to do.
January 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Spread some positivity today ✨ do something that somebody with your combination of covariates is extremely unlikely to do.
To be honest I think the control group is so poorly defined here that I put next to no value into the results. Then again I am biased against Nature as a journal going more for wow than quality. No serious journal puts the methods section at the end of a manuscript
Every week, I see a new study talking about this or that effect of GLP-1 receptor agonists like #ozempic. FINALLY, we have a study evaluating all the outcomes (good and bad) in one dataset. There are some... surprises. 🧵
January 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
To be honest I think the control group is so poorly defined here that I put next to no value into the results. Then again I am biased against Nature as a journal going more for wow than quality. No serious journal puts the methods section at the end of a manuscript
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On this day in 1862 in the city of Königsberg (now Kalinigrad, Russia) was born David Hilbert, most important mathematician of his generation. Panel below from Logicomix (www.logicomix.com), which remains one of my favorite books. Team Hilbert forever.
January 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
On this day in 1862 in the city of Königsberg (now Kalinigrad, Russia) was born David Hilbert, most important mathematician of his generation. Panel below from Logicomix (www.logicomix.com), which remains one of my favorite books. Team Hilbert forever.
great post - the final twist reminds me of this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/552/)
January 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
great post - the final twist reminds me of this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/552/)
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Cross-validation identifies disasters but doesn't rescue you from them.
January 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Cross-validation identifies disasters but doesn't rescue you from them.
If only more researchers realized that sometimes the right thing to do is to abandon an infeasible study, we could do things that are feasible, instead of wasting our (and reviewers'/readers') time trying to make sense of the senseless
Finally, another real advantage of causal inference is that you will better recognise situations where you cannot actually estimate the causal effect you are interested in, in any reliable way. So it is a good way to avoid doing things that are hopeless
December 5, 2024 at 9:41 AM
If only more researchers realized that sometimes the right thing to do is to abandon an infeasible study, we could do things that are feasible, instead of wasting our (and reviewers'/readers') time trying to make sense of the senseless
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New blogpost:
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
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November 25, 2024 at 7:49 AM
New blogpost:
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have not had time to appreciate this in detail, but I love the colour scheme
𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out!
It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG.
And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG.
And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
November 22, 2024 at 1:08 AM
have not had time to appreciate this in detail, but I love the colour scheme
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While we’re all putting #rstats opinions out there: base plot is better than ggplot because it’s default is so rubbish it forces people to think about design, whereas ggplot default is just about OK enough (but still far from good) to make people not bother.
November 15, 2024 at 4:39 AM
While we’re all putting #rstats opinions out there: base plot is better than ggplot because it’s default is so rubbish it forces people to think about design, whereas ggplot default is just about OK enough (but still far from good) to make people not bother.