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@statsinthewild @statsinthewild.bsky.social · Dec 26
This isn't gonna end well.
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donmoyn.bsky.social
What happens when you pick an American Pope: he builds an entire international trip around a Thanksgiving Turkey pun
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h
Pope Leo XIV embarked on his first international trip as pontiff on Thursday, traveling to Turkey to start a six-day tour that will also include Lebanon. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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jrssa.bsky.social
🆕A multilevel model with heterogeneous variances for snap timing in the National Football League

🏈Nguyen and Yurko snap into the passing lanes

doi.org/10.1093/jrss...
A multilevel model with heterogeneous variances for snap timing in the National Football League
Abstract. Player tracking data have provided great opportunities to generate insights into understudied areas of American football, such as pre-snap motion
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
statsinthewild.bsky.social
I don't think it gets said enough: fuck Ronald Reagan.
November 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
statsinthewild.bsky.social
What if we kept the agency, but they didn't violate humans rights and the constitution? Just a thought
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
statsinthewild.bsky.social
Happy Non-denominational Winter Holiday. #rstats #holidays #fashion #velvet
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
statsinthewild.bsky.social
The rapist withdrew his endorsement of an actual lunatic. Why do either of these morons have any power? Why is everything so stupid?
josephpolitano.bsky.social Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 13d
Trump says he’s withdrawing his endorsement of Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her a “ranting lunatic”
I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of “Congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia. Over the past few weeks, despite my creating Record Achievements for our Country including, a Total and Complete Victory on the Shutdown, Closed Borders, Low Taxes, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden’s Record Setting Inflation, Biggest Regulation Cuts in History, stopping EIGHT WARS, rebuilding our Military, being RESPECTED by every Country in the World (as opposed to being the laughingstock that we were just 12 months ago!), having Trillions of Dollars (Record Setting!) INVESTED in the U.S.A., and having created the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World from being a DEAD Country just 12 months ago (and so much more!), all I see “Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN! It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12%, and didn’t have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn’t about to get!). She has told many people that she is upset that I don’t return her phone calls anymore, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, almost 200 Countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day. I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support. She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of “Congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia. Over the past few weeks, despite my creating Record Achievements for our Country including, a Total and Complete Victory on the Shutdown, Closed Borders, Low Taxes, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden’s Record Setting Inflation, Biggest Regulation Cuts in History, stopping EIGHT WARS, rebuilding our Military, being RESPECTED by every Country in the World (as opposed to being the laughingstock that we were just 12 months ago!), having Trillions of Dollars (Record Setting!) INVESTED in the U.S.A., and having created the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World from being a DEAD Country just 12 months ago (and so much more!), all I see “Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN! It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12%, and didn’t have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn’t about to get!). She has told many people that she is upset that I don’t return her phone calls anymore, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, almost 200 Countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day. I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support. She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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hadley.nz
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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edsbs.bsky.social
a diagram demonstrating the lethal range of a projectile sandwich
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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andrewlpeterson.bsky.social
It takes being an expert in some area to get a sense of where LLMs fall tragically short there.

Unfortunately, they also have a habit of making everyone perceive themselves an expert without any expertise needed to discern the outputs. It’s easy for it to feel like magic in these circumstances.
November 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...
In the first week of class, I had you read an article about how ChatGPT is philosophical “bullshit”, as well as this other post about AI and LLMs in this class. I’ve seen a surprising increase in the amount of ChatGPT-based weekly check-ins and graph interpretations in the exercises. (In the past, I’ve even had students tell me they PDFs of the slides into ChatGPT to generate interesting and confusing things.) Don’t do this! LLMs cannot find three things that you personally found interesting from the readings. LLMs are not you. It’s a huge waste of time for all of us to for me to spend time evaluating and grading output from ChatGPT. I want to read what you think and do, not what a computer invents. NoteMy personal stance on AI and LLMs Many of you have asked about how I think about and use LLMs in my own work (and in the class materials). Please check this short little page where I explain what I do with text, images, code, research, and learning. In short, I do not use LLMs to create any of the materials for this class, and I do not use them to grade or evaluate any of your work. I’ve even had several students submit completely made up stuff for mini projects and final projects. In your final project, your job is to take a dataset, make three different plots with it, and combine the plots into one graphic that tells some sort of story. I’ve (really truly) received projects like this: (a ChatGPT-generated plot of completely made up data from gapminder) At a very quick glance, that looks like a plausible image. But holy crap it falls apart fast, both comically and tragically. Comically because, like, look at the y-axis in the scatterplot; or the x-axis ticks in the population grown chart that are sometimes spaced every 20 years, sometimes every 10 years, and has 1980 there twice; or the weird blobs in the map. Tragically—and most importantly—literally nothing in this image is real and none of the annotations make sense and none of the colors make sense and everything here is completely meaningless and devoid of any information. It’s pure philosophical bullshit—an image “produced without concern for its truth.” That’s what I mean when I say that it’s a forgetful and unreliable resource. Lots of that code is helpful as an illustration of what’s going on. Lots of the explanation is good and fine. But it subtly changed its mind halfway through and didn’t realize it (because it can’t realize it! it’s just a chain of statistically likely text!) Hopefully you can see where this is dangerous for learning. It can often “teach” you wrong, and you can only recognize that if you know stuff already. It’s extra dangerous if you then take that example output, paste it into your exercise, and submit it. I’m not even concerned about the plagiarism aspect of that—code is code and there are only a few ways to write {dplyr} code that will do this, and it’s easy to adapt from real human-based examples online, so I’m less worried about stealing other people’s work here. I’m concerned that it’s not real data. It made up values of 1, 2, 3, and 4 for some countries to illustrate grouping and summarizing. That’s good and normal. None of that is real. Don’t treat it as real.
November 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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rayherrondrums.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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ericstephen.bsky.social
Game 6: W, Yamamoto
Game 7: W, Yamamoto
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
statsinthewild.bsky.social
Literally a toddler could coach this Dodgers team to 90 regular season wins. And if they don't win that game, starting shogei goes from genius move to stupid, really quickly.
minakimes.bsky.social Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 26d
Dave Roberts is a great manager
November 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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ntd.bsky.social
The Democratic Party has many faults but alleging that the party’s declining popularity or success is rooted in some sort of global leftward ideological drift is pretty funny.
A pundit makes a claim about ideology divorced from what the data imply: democrats have objectively not become some bogeyman bunch of left wing loonies.
November 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This is such an incredible example of politicos making a hire thinking they know better than the people who work on that industry
dandrezner.bsky.social Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 26d
just catching up on Bill Belichick’s disastrous year as UNC coach and discovering the exact mechanics of how he secured the job. www.theringer.com/2025/10/31/c...
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Every time I try to explain to a normie why politicized hiring is bad for universities or government, will use Belichick as an example
dandrezner.bsky.social Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 26d
just catching up on Bill Belichick’s disastrous year as UNC coach and discovering the exact mechanics of how he secured the job. www.theringer.com/2025/10/31/c...
November 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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docrevan.bsky.social
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
After Game 5 vs. After Game 7

It's almost as if sports commentary is an exercise of post-facto rationalizations!
Los Angeles Times tweet on October 31: "The richest team in baseball is splitting apart at the seams, tearing under stress, fraying beyond recognition, collecting on the floor of the 2025 season in heaping piles of disappointment" Los Angeles Times tweet from last night: "New Times book "Dynasty" commemorating back-to-back Dodgers World Series wins is on sale now"
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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tommysiegel.bsky.social
as a bird artist, in honor of tonight’s game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
statsinthewild.bsky.social
See this doesn't bother me at all. If you really really believe your religion is correct, you should spend every waking moment trying to convince everyone to join your religion. Everything else is hypocrisy and half belief.
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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celebrityhottub.bsky.social
if I were LSU i would announce that Brian Kelly agreed his buyout should be donated to food banks and then make him refute it
October 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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kentremendous.bsky.social
It must be so fun to play with Aaron Rodgers. If you don't make literally every catch on every ball he throws to you no matter how inaccurate he puts his hands on his hips and curses at you like an alcoholic gym teacher and then after the game you have to hear about how 5G causes IBS
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
statsinthewild.bsky.social
I'm excited that now there is another social media platform where i can tell the @state-department.bsky.social to go fuck themselves.

Go fuck yourselves!
October 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM