wildly under-viewed interviews that rob tibshirani conducted over the past year for a reading course. really interesting discussions with Don Rubin, Jamie Robins, Jerry Friedman, Vladimir Vovk, and others www.youtube.com/@LedaLiang/v...
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Folks smarter than me will point you today to how to *listen* to Steve Albini's impact on the music Gen X grew up with. I want to encourage you to read him in his own words, with "The Problem with Music," a essay he wrote for The Baffler in 1993 warning rising bands about "music industry scum." RIP.
The Problem with Music | Steve Albini
Steve Albini’s iconic music industry takedown explains how record labels use A&R flaks and impenetrable contracts to screw artists while raking in millions
thebaffler.com
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2y agowhat the fuck pitchfork.com/news/steve-a...
Does sustained contact with migrants change locals' attitudes toward them in wartime? In a new AJPS article, Yang-Yang Zhou & me conduct a field experiment in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and find no evidence that locals' attitudes changed in any way Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings
Despite record numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) globally, we know little about the causal effects of intergroup contact between migrants and locals in active conflict settings. We condu...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Analysts spend countless hours and resources compiling the precinct-level election results they need for litigation and research. They want legislation to force states to make it all accessible. NEW in Bolts:
Election Data Is Vital to Voting Rights. So Why Is It So Hard to Track Down?
Analysts spend countless hours and resources compiling the precinct-level results they need for litigation and research. They want legislation to force states to make it all accessible.
boltsmag.org
gonna start using emacs+ess again www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL...
roses are red i’m facing an impediment covariance matrix of latent variables is not positive definite
primus + zappa + bigfoot algorithmic IG feed finally paid off open.spotify.com/track/1AGOkz...
buying steel wool to keep mice out of the basement, aka mouse nimby
Peng Ding's causal inference course book draft, this looks like a killer book to complement hernan and robins, imbens and rubin, etc
ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM)@paperposterbot.bsky.social · 3y agoA First Course in Causal Inference http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18793 I developed the lecture notes based on my ``Causal Inference'' course at the University of California Berkeley over the past seven years. Since half of the students were undergraduates, my lecture notes only required basic knowle 📈🤖
Thanks to Lawrence Lessig for the vivid lesson of how power and privilege work.
