Peter Hull Always plot the vibes first

US statistical agencies are probably the most impressive in the world. The fact that they schedule and perform so many data revisions, in a transparent manner, furthers my confidence that they strive to produce accurate information.

michelle has definitely told him to stop ranting about zoning, been there brother

A common misconceptions is that a theory is ‘debunked’ once we find it isn’t fundamental Newton was right at v<<c, the geocentric model is but a bad coordinate choice, even the earth is locally flat Any successor of the Big Bang model will look very much like the Big Bang

Superyacht Bayesian sunk by Black Swan weather event is too on the nose

Perfect encapsulation of Trump’s “pro-Israel but in an antisemitic way” approach to politics — zero regard for Jewish Americans as *Americans* who live in the United States and have a strong practical stake in American pluralism.

the fact that students routinely give worse ratings to “tougher” teachers while “tougher” teachers routinely improve student learning outcomes more is a good example of how the “customer knows best” aspect of capitalism isn’t universally applicable

The vast majority of fossil fuel infrastructure that will ever be built has already been. A small percent of the clean energy infrastructure that must be built has. Environmental orgs fighting permitting reform bc of the oil & gas provisions are just supporting the status quo.

Due to lack of vegetables in the winter, many Americans suffered from "spring sickness" or pellagra (look it up, it's terrible) before the arrival of refrigerated railcars. (From Robert Gordon's "Rise and Fall of American Economic Growth")

'There's verifiable evidence that the campaign was allowed to <do thing that is illegal as a matter of black-letter law, which the Arlington National Cemetery staff attempted to stop>' Something something 'protects but does not bind / binds but does not protect.'

This is exactly what I do as well. Works well, with much better engagement and outcomes in the classroom.

Trudeau is toast

common knowledge doesn't mean "things everyone knows," it's sets that are contained in the meet of all agents information partitions at some state...i feel like this is common knowledge?

Twitter has turned on by default now a setting that allows them to use our tweets to train grok. Turn it off by going to settings and searching grok, there’s only 2 results and they seem to both be the toggle anyway.

The worst thing that Musk has done to this site is the reversion to the pre-hypertext era. Penalizing links, and doubly so for links to the site with some of the best contemporary medium-form writing, makes Twitter (and the whole internet) smaller, not an “everything app”.

Florida has banned 23 pf my books. What the fuck?

Modern econometrics

r/im14andthisisdeep

Three toddlers in a trench coat: