Señor Research Scientist, NPC at the Hertie School in Berlin 🇩🇪 via Princeton, Mannheim, Edinburgh and a bunch of other ivory towers that will probably be billiard balls and decorative boxes by the end of the decade.
Rome Statute appreciator.
Will Lowe
"The one thing you can't experience in this perfect world of pure pleasure is the 10,000,001st inhabitant"
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Will Lowe
A new #bmm release is available on #CRAN. With this version, #bmm now covers basic response time models. This release contains three new models plus several usability features. Here's what's in it 🧵
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#rstats #bayes #openscience
Fit computational and measurement models using full Bayesian inference. The package provides a simple and accessible interface by translating complex domain-specific models into brms syntax, a powerfu...
This, from Alexander Franklin nicely picks out a feature of race (and related constructions) practically useful for thinking of it as a variable. Roughly, race is made like issues are politicized: political interests selectively hook onto locally available attributes whether social, material or both
Q: What is mu.social?
A: a member of the location-scale family. mu is a location parameter and the location is Europe. Scale is infra from @eurosky.social and @bsky.app
There's a lot going on here. All of it approximate.
I'm biased because I've been banging on about alignment as a principal-agent problem to students and anyone else who'll listen for years, but I really liked this book by @travislacroix.bsky.social and I just ordered a copy for the library. Give it a read.
Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone.
(Also perfect for a remake of Angel Heart)
Just as you can write C in any language, you can – and probably will – 'learn to code' in any field.
Fun mediation analysis thread here.
It reminds me of my favourite mediation analysis misapplication, in which you wonder if something mediates a relationship, fit a mediation model, then use it as evidence that there is a mediation relationship.
