Adam L
@adam-lg.bsky.social
Data Scientist. Poli sci PhD. Cyclist (Gravel, MTB, road). Bayes, causal inference, etc. Also: cats, food opinions. Views & opinions my own. Not investment advice. He/him
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 30th 2025 (Evil), in 04:37
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 30th 2025 (Evil), in 04:37
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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December 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
via @hmason.bsky.social, this was fun:
I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 30th 2025 (Evil), in 04:37
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 30th 2025 (Evil), in 04:37
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Scorsese hot take: I think CASINO is a better movie than GOODFELLAS. Ace Rothstein is a more interesting character, and the merging of the "legal" and "illegal" businesses of Vegas create a more colorful world.
November 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Scorsese hot take: I think CASINO is a better movie than GOODFELLAS. Ace Rothstein is a more interesting character, and the merging of the "legal" and "illegal" businesses of Vegas create a more colorful world.
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This is what almost every one of my colleagues worries about. You can do everything right. Every bit. And if someone wants to end your career, they likely can. Evidence doesn’t matter. Empty rage fuels them and will keep doing so. As long as admins cower before the wolves, it’s the dark times.
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is what almost every one of my colleagues worries about. You can do everything right. Every bit. And if someone wants to end your career, they likely can. Evidence doesn’t matter. Empty rage fuels them and will keep doing so. As long as admins cower before the wolves, it’s the dark times.
"'On a pedal bike, the chance of dying from an injury is about three-tenths of 1 percent,' Alfrey says. On an e-bike, the data indicated, it was 11 percent."
E-bikes break the historic correlation btwn strength & skill much of cycling depends on; you can now put out pro-level watts w/no experience
E-bikes break the historic correlation btwn strength & skill much of cycling depends on; you can now put out pro-level watts w/no experience
The Shocking Crash That Led One County to Reckon With the Dangers of E-Bikes
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"'On a pedal bike, the chance of dying from an injury is about three-tenths of 1 percent,' Alfrey says. On an e-bike, the data indicated, it was 11 percent."
E-bikes break the historic correlation btwn strength & skill much of cycling depends on; you can now put out pro-level watts w/no experience
E-bikes break the historic correlation btwn strength & skill much of cycling depends on; you can now put out pro-level watts w/no experience
Not to knock a family tradition, but corned beef|tongue >>> pastrami
My fiancée’s family has the most wonderful post-Thanksgiving tradition I lovingly refer to as the pastrami pile
November 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Not to knock a family tradition, but corned beef|tongue >>> pastrami
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Volume up if you want to hear cat snores
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Volume up if you want to hear cat snores
Went down a Fred rabbit hole, and it looks like, as a % of population, we have more people employed in "Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping, and Payroll Services" now (sept 2025) than we did in 1990 (link: fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1OjRj)
(spreadsheets didn't "kill" accounting)
(spreadsheets didn't "kill" accounting)
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Went down a Fred rabbit hole, and it looks like, as a % of population, we have more people employed in "Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping, and Payroll Services" now (sept 2025) than we did in 1990 (link: fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1OjRj)
(spreadsheets didn't "kill" accounting)
(spreadsheets didn't "kill" accounting)
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Bob Crumb coming out of retirement just to say "RFK Jr. is right about vaccines and my ex-wife should've taken more advice from me" is such a fitting end to Boomer Americana and everything the "alt-comix" movement claimed to stand for
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Bob Crumb coming out of retirement just to say "RFK Jr. is right about vaccines and my ex-wife should've taken more advice from me" is such a fitting end to Boomer Americana and everything the "alt-comix" movement claimed to stand for
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Dien Bien Phu (1954)
Khe Sanh (1968)
we built the airfield to supply the base. we built the base to guard the airfield.
November 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Dien Bien Phu (1954)
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Otoh frequentism is no use at all in a minefield, unless you have enough legs to approximate a normal distribution.
It is difficult to practice Bayesianism in a minefield.
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Otoh frequentism is no use at all in a minefield, unless you have enough legs to approximate a normal distribution.
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Thanksgiving is the sole Food Oriented Holiday for which I have no interest in culinary creativity or novelty. I want turkey and stuffing and potatoes and green bean casserole and I want gravy on all of it.
“Liven up your stuffing with persimmons” no, fuck that, I will liven it up with gravy.
“Liven up your stuffing with persimmons” no, fuck that, I will liven it up with gravy.
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Thanksgiving is the sole Food Oriented Holiday for which I have no interest in culinary creativity or novelty. I want turkey and stuffing and potatoes and green bean casserole and I want gravy on all of it.
“Liven up your stuffing with persimmons” no, fuck that, I will liven it up with gravy.
“Liven up your stuffing with persimmons” no, fuck that, I will liven it up with gravy.
Curious if you’ll see all the dEfEnD sCiEnCe people talk about this, or if that’s reserved for the hard sciences
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Curious if you’ll see all the dEfEnD sCiEnCe people talk about this, or if that’s reserved for the hard sciences
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Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
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My take on Graeber is he’s great if he’s making an argument you agree with, about a subject you’re uninformed on, and don’t care if the details are wrong. He’s basically lefty Malcolm Gladwell.
Anyways, read the thread
Anyways, read the thread
Graver loves to make tangential claims that are whoppingly false and easily fact checked but his fans always read them maximally charitably and then go “well you know it doesn’t really matter to his core argument so this is just an oopsie and not a systematic problem”
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My take on Graeber is he’s great if he’s making an argument you agree with, about a subject you’re uninformed on, and don’t care if the details are wrong. He’s basically lefty Malcolm Gladwell.
Anyways, read the thread
Anyways, read the thread
Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky
Stravinsky Conducts The Firebird Suite, Japan 1959
YouTube video by John Randolph
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November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky
I think the only bad pies are those that try to be "healthy."
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November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I think the only bad pies are those that try to be "healthy."
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Or have blueberries
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#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
“There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history” is a banger of a line, and I’m going to use it in the future (full credit to @bretdevereaux.bsky.social)
At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history” is a banger of a line, and I’m going to use it in the future (full credit to @bretdevereaux.bsky.social)
Introduce yourself with four spaceships:
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships:
The Banana Wars
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The Banana Wars
lol, lmao
"pedalers?" I think you mean "cyclists"
"pedalers?" I think you mean "cyclists"
Some of the most alarmist takes on Rad's limited battery recall are coming from pedalers who have never liked that Rad (or anyone) sells bikes with throttles. They would rather see 1% of the population pedaling than 100% of the population using throttle-powered bikes to get where they want to go.
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
lol, lmao
"pedalers?" I think you mean "cyclists"
"pedalers?" I think you mean "cyclists"
Many are saying! www.theverge.com/tech/823337/...
Screw it, I’m installing Linux
It’s the year of Linux on my desktop.
www.theverge.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Many are saying! www.theverge.com/tech/823337/...