tj mahr 🤘
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data scientist studying how kids learn to speak, dad, jump roper, bayesian, husband to @amandawalrus.bsky.social, tjmahr.com, Madison, WI
kids listening to merzbow www.instagram.com/reel/DbmN10t...
Sam Underscore on Instagram: "Listening to a Merzbow album every day, day 94: Merzbow Plays Smegma Plays Merzbow"
7,056 likes, 127 comments - sam__underscore on August 3, 2026: "Listening to a Merzbow album every day, day 94: Merzbow Plays Smegma Plays Merzbow".
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who up bagging their posteriors arxiv.org/abs/1912.07104
Robust Inference and Model Criticism Using Bagged Posteriors
Standard Bayesian inference is known to be sensitive to model misspecification, leading to unreliable uncertainty quantification and poor predictive performance. However, finding generally applicable ...
arxiv.org
same with Miyazaki's love of planes *and* hatred of bombing.
Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Hard to find a better way to show your skill level is very likely/actually low and you fundamentally misunderstand martial arts than Jonah Hill has.
Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d agoHe will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"
I'm so happy to announce version 2.0.0 of my #Rstats package WeightIt is out on CRAN! New features: censoring weights, multilevel propensity scores, improved weights for continuous treatments, bias-reduced ordinal and multinomial models, M-estimation in subgroups Check out the website below!
Weighting for Covariate Balance in Observational Studies
Generates balancing weights for causal effect estimation in observational studies with binary, multi-category, or continuous point or longitudinal treatments by easing and extending the functionality ...
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one of my most played albums and yet i could only tell you three of songs’ names youtu.be/Xw5AiRVqfqk
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
YouTube video by Hi, I'm Ben.
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I’m starting in earnest to do kettlebell work (swings and Romanian deadlifts) and despite my best efforts, I only ever feel it my lower back and it’s disheartening
Kanye sucked and everyone raving about “Runaway” in 2010 was out of their minds. Yeezus gets a pass.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.
last two minutes are straight up 90s Modest Mouse open.spotify.com/track/7a6NGT...
Two Lefts
Medieval Found Footage · Abagnale · Song · 2026
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Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished.
as a straight dude I agree too. it's evidence of a weak will and/or poor attachment to good values, and we've all got LGBT friends or family. more practically I've seen way too many people go batshit fucking crazy down the transphobia waterslide
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 7d agoSquishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.
i would love for the rstudio command palette to let me find .R files in the project and open them or jump to them if they are open
the brilliantly cutting, disparaging term "AI slop" is what we all arrived at informally, and now actual corporations are adopting it themselves. I love this for us
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d agoNew: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...
Michael McAuliffe, Kaylynn Gunter, Michael Wagner, Morgan Sonderegger: Montreal Forced Aligner and the state of speech-to-text alignment in 2026 https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.18466 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.18466
i remember really liking "time was GIGANTIC when we were kids" by durutti column 20 years ago but it just too unobtrusive today. this track on the reissue is funny tho open.spotify.com/track/1XpS8e...
New Order Tribute
The Durutti Column · Time Was GIGANTIC... When We Were Kids (Remastered and Expanded) · Song · 2023
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i enjoy these so much d$`native language` |> unique() [1] "English" "english" "Engish" "englush" "Eng" "ENGLISH" "Enlgish" "Chinese"
Excellent….and, more than a little exciting. By independent journalist @kenklippenstein.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...
Establishment Extinction Event Reaches Wisconsin
Francesca Hong and the death of old school politics
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at least one of the blippis needs to step up at this point
kerry ✨@kschwenky.bsky.social · last wk.Ms Rachel says say no to Haley Stevens
making a dataframe by extracting a sublist from each list, featuring a double lapply yaml::read_yaml("_data/exclusions.yaml") |> lapply(getElement, "control_files") |> lapply(lapply, as.data.frame) |> dplyr::bind_rows()
the in-house grapheme-to-phoneme conversion tool (circa 2005) relies on a dictionary building program from 1996
