: Happy Halloween!

: In case you want to know what actual “cancel culture” is, I did indeed cancel my subscription today …

: Billionaire shenanigans yet again remind me it’s better not to rely on their platforms.

: 001 Not-so-random samples from the Stochastics Lab Means and medians are not thrilling to think about. Standard deviations are … well … standard. And …

: The Great Gatsby curve Lots of Econ people on Threads are sharing their favorite charts. I wouldn’t say this is my …

: When visualizing data tells the story better than words, but the words are pretty good too

: When I forget to mention that opinions expressed are purely my own

: Not seeing much of Academic Twitter on Threads yet. My guess is that it’s because we all studiously …

: Is anyone clear on how “fob” made it to standard usage? Is it just that we needed a synonym for …

: Outer space is inner space! A fun editorial from an astrophysicist on the recent gravitational waves …

: Nice NYT article on AI and mathematics. As impressive as natural language models are (ChatGPT, etc), …

: Saturday morning, Uptown

: Life in New Orleans, vignette 5836: Fueled up at a gas station where they hired a security guard due …

: Celebrating solstice ☀️

: Sliding into the driver’s seat of a rental car: step one, override the presets with NPR and …

: They need to change this from Andrew to Mahalia Jackson … but still it’s beautiful to see on the …

: Not so trusty after all!

: So, am I really supposed to believe that one of Trump’s lawyers is named James Trusty? (And …

: Well … in the post-Twitter era I’ve moved through Mastodon (with a server that shut …