Sameer Deshpande
@skdeshpande91.bsky.social
Assistant professor in Statistics at UW–Madison.
Interested in #Bayesian statistics, sports analytics, causal inference. Also cocktails and Dallas sports. #mffl
Interested in #Bayesian statistics, sports analytics, causal inference. Also cocktails and Dallas sports. #mffl
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NARRATOR: Roth quite clearly did not name call & we need our leaders to stop granting <every bad faith premise> of the far right authoritarians' lawless assault on higher education before we push back.
November 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
NARRATOR: Roth quite clearly did not name call & we need our leaders to stop granting <every bad faith premise> of the far right authoritarians' lawless assault on higher education before we push back.
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Btw, it does not matter if he’s smart or a good economist (if you think that). There are lots of people good at their jobs who do not harass and abuse other people!
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Btw, it does not matter if he’s smart or a good economist (if you think that). There are lots of people good at their jobs who do not harass and abuse other people!
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
One more week to submit a contributed talk proposal!
Looking forward to seeing everyone in Nagoya next summer
Looking forward to seeing everyone in Nagoya next summer
ISBA Community:
The deadline to propose a contributed talk for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting is next Friday, November 21. Proposals may be submitted using this form: forms.gle/dVTUrdEuVF6g...
See the call below for details 👇
The deadline to propose a contributed talk for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting is next Friday, November 21. Proposals may be submitted using this form: forms.gle/dVTUrdEuVF6g...
See the call below for details 👇
ISBA 2026: Call for Contributed Talks & Posters
The Scientific Committee invites the submission of proposals for Contributed Talks and Posters for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting, to be held in Nagoya, Japan from 28 June to 3 July, 2026. Contributed ta...
forms.gle
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
One more week to submit a contributed talk proposal!
Looking forward to seeing everyone in Nagoya next summer
Looking forward to seeing everyone in Nagoya next summer
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uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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Good riddance to Nico Harrison, the personification of everything that’s going on. Blew up something good because he didn’t understand it and it didn’t conform to his vision of toughness. One of the clearest pictures of Everyone Is 12 Now ever produced. Untold damage to my psyche. Enjoy podcasting.
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Good riddance to Nico Harrison, the personification of everything that’s going on. Blew up something good because he didn’t understand it and it didn’t conform to his vision of toughness. One of the clearest pictures of Everyone Is 12 Now ever produced. Untold damage to my psyche. Enjoy podcasting.
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This and the Adelsons sell.
The hope from me is that Nico gets blasted into the sun, dumont puts out a statement saying he should’ve fired him a long time ago (somewhere in here a rebrand), and I can feel happy buying my son a Cooper Flagg jersey.
June 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This and the Adelsons sell.
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This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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As recently as the late 1980s, tuition at @uwmadison.bsky.social was <$1000/semester. In current dollars, that's about $2500/semester. There is one central reason for that: the . This was a choice. Other choices remain readily available.
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
As recently as the late 1980s, tuition at @uwmadison.bsky.social was <$1000/semester. In current dollars, that's about $2500/semester. There is one central reason for that: the . This was a choice. Other choices remain readily available.
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"There's not enough upward mobility in society"
Yes. Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.
Yes. Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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/5….for the nation and the culture where economic and political corruption flourish. It’s not a good thing that so few good convictions came out of the 2008 crash. And if some tech fuckers don’t go to prison after AI collapses I am going to have to punch something.
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
/5….for the nation and the culture where economic and political corruption flourish. It’s not a good thing that so few good convictions came out of the 2008 crash. And if some tech fuckers don’t go to prison after AI collapses I am going to have to punch something.
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
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"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"
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If you're following the #UNL #statistics saga (proposed for elimination based on bad stats), you might find the seminar we gave yesterday interesting... youtu.be/fUk2R0UYWpA
It was weird to rail against someone for an hour, but strangely cathartic, and the #datavis seems to have been effective?
It was weird to rail against someone for an hour, but strangely cathartic, and the #datavis seems to have been effective?
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics seminar "The Metrics" on November 6, 2025
YouTube video by Chris Bilder
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November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
If you're following the #UNL #statistics saga (proposed for elimination based on bad stats), you might find the seminar we gave yesterday interesting... youtu.be/fUk2R0UYWpA
It was weird to rail against someone for an hour, but strangely cathartic, and the #datavis seems to have been effective?
It was weird to rail against someone for an hour, but strangely cathartic, and the #datavis seems to have been effective?
Dissolution is letting them off too lightly
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Dissolution is letting them off too lightly
It was fun chatting with @dailycardinal.bsky.social about sports and statistics and AI.
www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025...
www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025...
AI is changing sports statistics as we know it, but humans still call the plays
Even as AI changes the way people look at sports statistics, University of Wisconsin Professor Sameer Deshpande says human analysis hasn’t lost its relevance.
www.dailycardinal.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It was fun chatting with @dailycardinal.bsky.social about sports and statistics and AI.
www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025...
www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025...
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Only 24. I’m gutted for his family and teammates.
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Only 24. I’m gutted for his family and teammates.
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If anyone was looking for solid evidence that a crash is imminent, here it is:
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
If anyone was looking for solid evidence that a crash is imminent, here it is:
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FROM WAY DOWNTOWN
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
FROM WAY DOWNTOWN
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“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
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“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
Great presentation at #CMSAC by Paul Nguyen about our recent work on modeling decathlon performance with @jsmoliga.bsky.social & Ben Lindaman
October 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Great presentation at #CMSAC by Paul Nguyen about our recent work on modeling decathlon performance with @jsmoliga.bsky.social & Ben Lindaman