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Zak Varty
@zakvarty.bsky.social

👨‍🏫 Statistics, Data Science and Ethical ML

📍 Oxford // London

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You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.
December 31, 2024 at 4:54 AM
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You will be visited by three ghosts
December 25, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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I’m having a conversation with my mom about something I want for Christmas and a week later Santa gives it to me.

When will we pass privacy regulations
December 25, 2024 at 2:48 PM
This post from @vickiboykis.com really resonated with me.

It's packed with insightful views on LLMs for code, being better than the average of the internet and learning from the amazing humans around you.

vickiboykis.com/2024/12/16/w...
Write code with your Alphabet Radio on
We can only write good code together
vickiboykis.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access.

Causal inference is hard:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Causal inference on human behaviour - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Review, Drew Bailey et al. present an accessible, non-technical overview of key challenges for causal inference in studies of human behaviour as well as methodological solutions to these chall...
www.nature.com
December 17, 2024 at 1:28 AM
So satisfying.

If we could immediately agree to all be done with email for the year that would be amazing, please and thank you.
December 16, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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We now have a BlueSky account dedicated to UKCOTS. The call for abstracts will be open on Monday, so follow the account if you're interested! www.ukcots.org
November 27, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Migrated to where the friendly stats nerds are hanging out now. After a first few days of skulking, my initial impressions of this place are very positive.

Q: How do folks flag things for future reference on here? Is there a bookmark equivalent that I'm missing?
November 26, 2024 at 2:09 PM