Elena Badillo Goicoechea
@ebago.bsky.social
Senior Data Scientist @ UChicago Biostats Lab & Neuro Dept | prev @ JHU & ITAM | Music & Philosophy Lover | Building musicosphères @ http://stell-r.com & http://synff.co
Pinned
Modeling Artist Influence for Music Selection and Recommendation: A Purely Network-Based Approach
Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu
Super happy that my paper on modeling artist networks is out on Harvard Data Science Review. Writing it was such a fun journey (and still so much to be done, which is the best part!) hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/t4txmd81...
i am 99% likely quitting Bluesky just because of all these war-related spam accounts . simply annoying that something so trivial to prevent has not been taken care of. a low quality product
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
i am 99% likely quitting Bluesky just because of all these war-related spam accounts . simply annoying that something so trivial to prevent has not been taken care of. a low quality product
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And let's not forget his mother, Molly Drake, who never officially published her poetry or music during her lifetime but strongly influenced Nick's musical style. Her husband, Rodney, a reel-to-reel recording enthusiast, made some home recordings during the 1950s.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQW5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQW5...
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
And let's not forget his mother, Molly Drake, who never officially published her poetry or music during her lifetime but strongly influenced Nick's musical style. Her husband, Rodney, a reel-to-reel recording enthusiast, made some home recordings during the 1950s.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQW5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQW5...
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Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
no, I won't pardon your "French"
November 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
no, I won't pardon your "French"
Miraculously indulging on Kanye's glorious Yeezus (2013) after Uber driver (correctly) spotted Berghain's last pounding beats remind of 'I Am a God' after I recommended LUX after he asked "What music in Spanish would you recommend?"
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Miraculously indulging on Kanye's glorious Yeezus (2013) after Uber driver (correctly) spotted Berghain's last pounding beats remind of 'I Am a God' after I recommended LUX after he asked "What music in Spanish would you recommend?"
do people still say "Mr. DJ"?
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
do people still say "Mr. DJ"?
draw the DAG girl
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.
Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions
The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.
www.politico.eu
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
draw the DAG girl
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Oíche mhaith.
“You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.”
― Samuel Beckett
“You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.”
― Samuel Beckett
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Oíche mhaith.
“You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.”
― Samuel Beckett
“You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.”
― Samuel Beckett
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Now Playing: Björk's 'Homogenic' (1997), as we celebrate the musical visionary's 60th birthday today (born November 21, 1965)
Rediscover the album here: album.ink/Homogenic
Rediscover the album here: album.ink/Homogenic
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Now Playing: Björk's 'Homogenic' (1997), as we celebrate the musical visionary's 60th birthday today (born November 21, 1965)
Rediscover the album here: album.ink/Homogenic
Rediscover the album here: album.ink/Homogenic
I block people who post barnacles. I block them before I'd block Satan
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I block people who post barnacles. I block them before I'd block Satan
Hopefully i get to Berkeley on time to catch one of those last INNA jam jars 😢
November 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Hopefully i get to Berkeley on time to catch one of those last INNA jam jars 😢
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Happy World Philosophy Day!
Robert Brandom - What is Philosophy?
YouTube video by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Happy World Philosophy Day!
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one of the wildest interactions on the internet (OP was not a reply or quote)
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
one of the wildest interactions on the internet (OP was not a reply or quote)
cómo reconciliar que odio Berghain y que LUX es la joya más joya que ha parido esta década !
November 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
cómo reconciliar que odio Berghain y que LUX es la joya más joya que ha parido esta década !
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
I noticed that no French in this new ROSALÍA album but it's OK because she references Simone Weil
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I noticed that no French in this new ROSALÍA album but it's OK because she references Simone Weil
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This is an education problem, not a tool problem; and we don't want people simply moving from thinking p-values are magic to thinking confidence intervals are.
Next: Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social with 'Statistical significance and p values: The researcher’s heroin'
* p values are highly unrealiable - don't trust them, don't use them!
www.thenewstatistics.com
tiny.cc/osfsigroulette
#IRICSydney
* p values are highly unrealiable - don't trust them, don't use them!
www.thenewstatistics.com
tiny.cc/osfsigroulette
#IRICSydney
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This is an education problem, not a tool problem; and we don't want people simply moving from thinking p-values are magic to thinking confidence intervals are.
I spat my wine
Free speech is more than me being allowed to say what I want. Everyone also has to like it and tell me I'm a smart and handsome boy
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I spat my wine
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He's a 10 but his life, his love, and his lady is the sea
November 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
He's a 10 but his life, his love, and his lady is the sea
nothing
Complete this statement: "When I listen to the 'Grease' Soundtrack (1978), I feel __________." | Rediscover the album here: album.ink/GreaseSndtrck
November 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
nothing
Absolutely outrageous that Malina (1990) is impossible to stream in the U.S.
November 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Absolutely outrageous that Malina (1990) is impossible to stream in the U.S.
-Do you know the laws of thermodynamics?
- of course
* proceeds with sauna related business idea*
- of course
* proceeds with sauna related business idea*
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
-Do you know the laws of thermodynamics?
- of course
* proceeds with sauna related business idea*
- of course
* proceeds with sauna related business idea*
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Ok, but how are the robots going to feel when they find out ‘robot’ comes from the Czech word ‘robota’ which means “forced labor”??
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Ok, but how are the robots going to feel when they find out ‘robot’ comes from the Czech word ‘robota’ which means “forced labor”??
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When you're not "allowed" to question constructs, you're no longer being invited to actually help understand the world. You're just being told what you're allowed to ask about and think about. You're trapped downstream of the most interesting questions.
November 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
When you're not "allowed" to question constructs, you're no longer being invited to actually help understand the world. You're just being told what you're allowed to ask about and think about. You're trapped downstream of the most interesting questions.