Eduardo Leoni

A minimum population size for local government in general would solve literally hundreds of problems. Lots of cities should be annexed or disincorporated.

Your weekly reminder that every single paid speech-to-text app on MacOS is a scam – they all cost $0 to run because they're using a free local model. Download the free handy.computer or any of the many open source alternatives and go get a coffee.

Lowkey excellent thing about Wikipedia: accurately describing the extremism and lies of right-wingers because its sole concern is provable truth, while the media tiptoes around accurately describing whats happening to avoid appearing “biased” against the extremists and liars

I’ve been told for years that it’s legally and ethically impossible to share medical RCT data. In 2024, the BMJ made sharing anonymised data mandatory, and now lots* of folk do it. Interesting how the barriers evaporated like that, isn’t it? *not everyone, compliance problems exist.

I just wrote to @gruber.foo . Expecting a reply? Not really. But I haven't felt this way since contacting professors about PhDs in the US at the turn of the century. It's about this snailapp.ink/manifesto.html

Nail this on the fucking doors of Those People. You know who they are.

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 04,1956

Make that a *knowledgeable* human.

This is not the prediction markets future any of us were hoping for. www.cnn.com/2026/06/21/b...?

Participated in “Perspectives on External Validity” workshop yesterday, organized by @melodyyhuang.bsky.social at @ispsyale.bsky.social isps.yale.edu/events/2026/...

📢 The call for submissions for #LatinR2026 has been extended! There’s still time to share your projects, experiences, and work with the R community in Latin America 💜 🗓️ New deadline: June 1 ✍️ openreview.net/group?id=LATIN-R.com/2026/Conference 🔗 latinr.org 📍 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

The R/Pharma Hangouts are about to get Nix-ified! We have the amazing @brodriguesco.bsky.social joining myself and Jared on May 19th to share not only the power of {rix} & {rixpress}, but also the brand-new T language for polygot data science workflows. As a Nix addict, I'm really excited 😀

This change went under my radar. Heads up for #rstats users: as of devtools 2.5.0 03/2026, install_github() and all other install_*() functions are deprecated in favour of pak. Full migration guide at: devtools.r-lib.org/reference/in... #github

Super excited to get this at my door today! Ursula Laa and my book on exploring high-d data and models is in print! Book website is www.routledge.com/Interactivel... if interested I think my 30% discount code might work for you - msg me. Time to update dicook.github.io/mulgar_book/ too! #rstats

When people are pressured to meet a target value there are three ways they can proceed: 1) They can work to improve the system 2) They can distort the system 3) Or they can distort the data — Donald Wheeler commoncog.com/goodharts-la...

The precursor of the programming language that fills me up with so much joy, and rage, and makes my work goes faster, while also being a f*ing time sink, is as old as I am. Feels fitting.

I want to talk to scientists that use Python for statistics, do I know anyone that organises talks at their labs or institutions where I could give a talk ? brodrigues.co/talks.html

spopt, an R package for spatial optimization, is now in general release on CRAN. spopt-r is inspired by the Python package of the same name. Features include: - Regionalization algorithms for building contiguous districts / territories; - Facility location solvers;

this is aaron swartz' opinion of lesswrong, by the way! from his lesswrong account, no less

Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

Just kidding. It was an enormous waste of time and I’m so happy no one has to go through that anymore.

Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive! If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email tuna@ourworldindata.org.

I would have preferred to have the "draw the rest of the owl" meme on the cover, but this will do. Seems like it is on schedule, and we'll leave some typos so you know we didn't write it with AI.

ha i think so too! my favorite is the CTT and ridge regression tie in I think most folks doing ridge/penalized regression have no idea they could do the same thing (yet get a more interpretable model) via hierarchical models

How good are you at predicting how well Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini will perform on simple tasks? Here’s a little weekend quiz. We set AI tools some simple tasks and gave them 10 attempts at each one. See if you can predict the results – and then how you compare with others: quiz.wholesum.tech

sent this to the team today everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that

Somehow some deep wisdom in Reddit post on confronting bad research:

According to official birth registry data, in 1981 Spain had the highest sex ratio in the world (109 boys per 100 girls). Prior work attributed this anomaly to demographic/behavioural patterns. In a new WP, we show the high ratio is due to data errors 🧵with Manuel Bagues 1/n

Me, to my 8 year old, desperately trying to get her to bed: – You talk too much! (not my proudest dad moment) She almost instantly replies: – Well, thank you! I think I am raising her well.

Idle thought: Is there already a Strava "clone" based on atproto?

Absolutely savage, I love it.

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TIL @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein's family (father's side) is Brazilian.

I can't stop reading the #databs tag as: #databs -> *data bs* -> *data bullshit*.

B-b-but Algorithms!!!!!???!!??!?!!

"I cancelled my #Claudecode subscription. I have a tendency to fixate on things and overdo it. Most of the time I can manage and keep things mostly under control, but this has the potential to do #realdamage. Worst of all, I wouldn't have anything to show for it at the end. #Codingagents have a […]

I merged a PR for mirai today (fixing an esoteric bug), that came with a performance boost that I'd never have thought existed. That means that on my laptop, the default (with dispatcher) round-trip performance now dips into sub-100 microseconds territory!! Get it now: `pak::pak("r-lib/mirai")`