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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 2h

That’s so good. Congrats!

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 2d

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.

Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

ellis.eu

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 5d

A blessing, I guess, of the chronological timeline is that I can see that something is happening but I truly have no idea what. And tbh I’m ok with that.

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Demetri @phdemetri.bsky.social · 6d

That's German for "The p-value, The The The"

Grumpy Old Health Stats Dude @healthstatsdude.bsky.social · 6d

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 6d

You look Australian (not derogatory but also derogatory).

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 10d

I told my dnd group this and they pointed out that I was playing an idiot cat in our campaign so I am my own fursona.

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 10d

Full disclosure. A couple of weeks ago, a gay I’d been hanging out with for a few hours said “so you know a bunch of furries, right?”. I may never recover.

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 10d

Lots of straight people go sight seeing

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 10d

Your weekend has clearly been too heterosexual. (Says the man who went to two tropical fuck storm concerts, which is approximately the straightest thing you can do in Bushwick)

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 10d

You say that but it immediately reads “lesbian visited by circuit gays on a bad trip” to me.

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 10d

Who you calling straight?

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 10d

This performance is stunning and like I can imagine people who didn’t know what an absolute fuck-knuckle Hinch infamously is would think it’s staged. It wasn’t. She’s just that good. youtu.be/Or-0aIHtD2Q?...

KD Lang performing 'Crying' on Australian TV 'the Midday Show' around 1993

YouTube video by tapesalvage

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 10d

But it’s the only language worth benchmarks 🤣

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 10d

Broke: computer science is a science
Woke: CS is an engineering discipline
Bespoke:

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 10d

Computer Science is in many ways applied philosophy of language and thus—like Mathematics—not a Science at all, but more properly a practically useful branch of the Humanities.

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 10d

The Passenger (also directed by @allthedeadboys.bsky.social, but less body horror more a straight thriller) is also excellent and you should watch it. Here’s the trailer, but also just watch the movie without the mild spoilers and enjoy it unfolding youtu.be/rBUYCbf3r4U?...

The Passenger | Official Trailer | Paramount Movies

YouTube video by Paramount Movies

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 10d

These models are very good at Python.

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 10d

If you have Prime in the US (at least) Swallowed is a really excellent horror movie that’s on there now youtu.be/0WQ_2D-e7z8?...

Swallowed - Exclusive Trailer (2023) Jena Malone, Mark Patton, Cooper Koch

YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 11d

If you designed your study aware of that confounded it would have, on average across realizations of the design, zero effect. So I’m not sure that’s a good rule of thumb

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah the explanation of 16a) here is more reasonable than the headline. Mostly because it explains what people should do with this information

journals.lww.com/epidem/fullt...

journals.lww.com

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah. It’s the only thing I can think of though. Unless the diff is somehow useful. I’d assume the report would have a “why” section for that rec, but it that’s because i still have hope in my heart

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 11d

If I was to guess, this would be to maybe aid meta-analysis down the road. But yeah. The implication that they should be headline numbers is … a choice.

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 13d

Today in “Songs with unlikely lyrical conceits that somehow still low-key slap” youtu.be/SG3YIoW_2zs?...

Famous Tracheotomies [Lyric Video]

YouTube video by Okkervil River

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 13d

Every now and again I remember that SQL is case insensitive and you people are choosing to make it look like that.

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 14d

You know, not all the ones is bad www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com

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