Thom Volker
@thomvolker
PhD Candidate in Statistics, Utrecht University Creates fake data for a living. thomvolker.github.io
The PI presenting the paper written entirely by the rest of their research team
After mocking business schools yesterday, I have to face the uncomfortable fact that researchers in my university also produce junk science. If you compare your anti-hangover drug to a placebo and you restrict the analysis to subjects who report a hangover when on the placebo, that's not good.
I knew that quarto and revealjs slides allow you to incorporate .html webpages directly in your slides, but I did not realize that this allows you to embed interactive games directly in your slides!
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Ik vraag me toch ook sterk af of de mensen van de reclassering enig idee hebben van de aannames van zulke predictiemodellen. Als je wil weten of zulke modellen doen wat ze moeten doen zal je ze op zijn minst ook hier moeten evalueren.
Went to see One Battle After Another this evening, and it is one of the better movies I’ve seen in a while. The setting is very serious and contemporary, but the mild absurdity also makes it really funny, even though the realism of the caricatures is quite striking. Oh and the music is good!
It seems quite naive to believe that the current president of the United States has the best interests of most US citizens in mind. And also, he’s YOUR president, do something about it.
Why fitting very complex models is often useless as the residual error increases. So, we can use interpretable models at minimum cost. Sounds like free lunch to me. arxiv.org/pdf/2407.04846?
In response to an AI-generated reaction, this statement by Gelman is quite a banger
Winter Wonderland in the Ardens: first three days of the year, one hike per day. I think I want to come back every weekend!
Sure people on here might trash AI rather extremely, but if this is your take on AI, it’s probably better to get off the Internet for a while
Anarchy! (for a presentation, having to set "print = FALSE" all the time is annoying)
“Have you thought about including…” Sir, may I first introduce my team and myself?