The masses just want to automate everything that takes effort to master: law, medicine, research…(the list goes on). And do what?? (Doomscrolling & infinite shopping, I guess)

It was painful to see the news of Dept. Of Stats being shutdown at University of Nebraska.

(2/2) Ppl with adversarial mindset are just waiting to ask questions and tear down ideas even without first trying to understand what the other person is saying or have the patience to listen to the response that’s addressing the question they raised.

(1/2) What I have noticed is Constructive vs Adversarial isn’t just with paper reviewing, it’s someone’s basic mindset. And it’s almost impossible to collaborate with a peer with adversarial mindset.

If experimenters regularly thought like modelers and actually did use synthetic data to vet their designs, they'd be running orders of magnitudes fewer experiments and the literature wouldn't be so saturated with empirical garbage.

This is my go to https://app.diagrams.net

Regurgitation, get it published and call it a day..🤡

Despite this great advise, as a newbie I have gone with high risk high reward stocks and got burnt badly. But I don’t regret because I learned a lot! That was my burn-in period (MCMC analogy).

The advice I got from my PhD advisor when I started the program was: consider your research career like a stock portfolio. Have a healthy mix of high risk high reward stocks along with some mutual fund stocks that are low risk, low reward.

💯 agree! You need to be really strong from within to be vulnerable. But the people who just focus on showing “strength” doesn’t seem to understand this. Sometimes those are the people who are the most insecure inside.