i'm forever obsessed with the stylized badges and decals from this era playing up what is today standard equipment on all vehicles
Stephen Sutton-Brown
@srbrown70.bsky.social
Braves, heat maps, cars, tractors, and music Creator of StuffPro and Arsenal Metrics at Baseball Prospectus He / him
everything about this design is so pleasant and tasteful. perfect execution www.classicdriver.com/en/car/ford/...
Auto recommending, I can hardly imagine a better group to listen to talk about Bayesian statistics
Pierre-Simon Laplace@learnbayesstats.bsky.social · last wk.In this special episode of Learning Bayesian Statistics, @alex-andorra.bsky.social is joined by Andrew Gelman, Aki Vehtari, and Richard McElreath to discuss Bayesian Workflow. From simulation and hierarchical pooling to causal inference, there’s a lot to unpack 🎧 lnkd.in/geX2QkxV #Bayesian
if you are interested in working in baseball analytics, go to saberseminar. it's by far the most bang for your buck in terms of access to smart people and great presentations and it's all for a great cause too. i can't recommend it enough
@saberseminar.bsky.social was incredible as always, maybe the biggest and best ever. major kudos to dan, chuck, katie, rob, and the countless others who made it possible that i'm not mentioning for the highest quality baseball nerd convention possible
i would happily include this in a list of the ten greatest human achievements in any field
One of the best regular season series I can remember
i rang charley crockett last week to try and cut through the noise and figure out what went left with jack white and twin temple www.vulture.com/article/char...
Charley Crockett Thinks Jack White Missed the Point
The country singer says the established rocker and liberal fans maligned him over a misunderstanding of his politics.
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"Maybe anyone could write something like: 'I don’t love you/and the grass is blue.' But anyone didn’t, and you didn’t either. Because you can’t." tressie.substack.com/p/the-dolly-...
The Dolly Moment
Why We Stan A Post-Racism Queen. A new essay on my new project, essaying. Live now. If you are an OG tressiemc.com subscriber - you got this delivered to your inbox along with a free Substack subscrip...
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Two thoughts on the Paw Patrol movie: 1) I think we can all agree none of this would have happened had the Paw Patrol crew not made people aware of the island. 2) The entirety of the Marshall storyline is problematic. Their sentimentality is putting real lives at risk.
when Augie sees the cover of Abbey Road she says “that’s the Octopus album”
this album is stacked with talent. Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson all involved plus others
feels like one of those album where everyone from a certain generation knows it while nobody from the generation before or after does
The old internet@theoldinternet.bsky.social · 4w ago44 years ago today, the first CD was produced. What is the first CD you owned?
I am now "reading Patrick O'Brian novels and listening to Donald Fagen's solo work" years into fatherhood
Georgia’s build a bear. His name, according to Georgia, is “Happy Tolly.” She’s who set up and took this picture of him
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All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)
Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book
Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.
avehtari.github.io
Aki Vehtari@avehtari.bsky.social · 2y agoAll three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - #Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ - #Regression and Other Stories at avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/ - Active Statistics at avehtari.github.io/ActiveStatis...
i don't see anything inherently wrong with using some resource to help read something. maybe if used as a crutch there's downsides for your thinking capacity, but not all reading needs to be some cognitive exercise?
hotel is booked for saberseminar, ready to see the nerds and their presentations
Shelby: “There’s a car coming, y’all” Georgia, angrily, after turning around and seeing it was a truck: “STOP SAYING ‘CAR’ EVERY SINGLE TIME BECAUSE SOME CARS ARE TRUCKS”
@mossymanse.bsky.social this a good one? bringatrailer.com/listing/pinb...
No Reserve: Williams High Speed Pinball Machine
Bid for the chance to own a No Reserve: Williams High Speed Pinball Machine at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #0.
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neighbor is having a tree cut down, and August said she wants to take her Groot toy and go watch. dark stuff
every morning after the trade deadline i take some extended time to read all the articles and overviews and pretend i know all 30 rosters and each of their full farm systems and nod along as i pretend to evaluate it all on the fly
“Pterodactyl fell into the mashed potatoes because he couldn’t fly because he had a bandaid on his hand” - Augie’s description to me of what she was drawing