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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@SchubertCalc @BigSnugALot My partner's thesis is on quantum theory and machine learning, still working on chewing over the subject enough to understand it...

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

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The washing machine was a massive labor-saving innovation that massively changed the way humans live. We need not to back to the days hand-wringing clothes to achieve climate goals — climate abundance (in infrastructure and technology) is both possible and better than austerity.

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I urge degrowth & other climate action researchers to keep in mind that all extraction adds damages to people & ecosystems somewhere, & challenge them to rise above techno-modernist ideology to envision radical alternative ways of organizing our lives & societies. 1/

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

7 months

@JonHaidt @heyjeffdavidson @jess_miers @senatorshoshana I'm gen Z (born 2000) and I'll happily defend the phone-based life. I was adopted in my teens to an abusive family in the deep South. Access to the Internet and social media allowed me, as a transgender queer woman, to find community when I had none around me.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@itis_dee @SchubertCalc @BigSnugALot It is! I don't know much about physics but I have a MS in data science/stats and I'm working part time on my second master's in mathematics. Just need to spend some time hitting the books on physics concepts😅

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@itis_dee @SchubertCalc @BigSnugALot And good luck on PhD admissions!

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

@economeager Having studied both stats and cooking, I can say over-reliance on cookbook methods leads to poor results. I was always rather inspired by Hirotugu Akaike's dictum to make "statistical thinking as the science of creative thinking."

Making statistical thinking more productive

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics - The use of the concept of plausibility is proposed for the comparison of psychological or physical images of an object with extremely complex...

link.springer.com

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager In the case of America, the rapper Ludacris already gave us an outline for places to connect with high-speed transcontinental rail:

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

20 days

Fun fact, Solomon Kullback and David Leibler referenced the idea of sufficient statistics ('the criterion of sufficiency') in their article introducing what is now known as KL Divergence, "On Information and Sufficiency" in the Annals of Mathematical Statistics.

Emmett Shear

@eshear

20 days

The idea of a sufficient statistic is one of the most powerful ideas that I somehow missed in my academic education even though I took a fair amount of statistics.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager Me: I'm gonna use this public-facing account to put my best foot forward Also me, at 3:45am: Ludacis's "Area Codes" is a YIMBY anthem and transcontinental rail would help me with the fact that I'm a long-distance yearning queer mess

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

You know, there's no greater indictment of The Atlantic than the fact that all its writers are like this. Elitely educated at some of the country's finest institutions, acting like sneering at 'liberals' and coastals makes them much different than the targets of their jeering.

Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper

2 months

Consider how many liberals of the family-having age view children in bars, restaurants, coffee shops, or public spaces as a gross imposition that detracts from their “freedom” to enjoy their espresso martinis. Many think of kids as a burden rather than the future of society. 4/

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

@economeager It's my understanding that Haidt declaring things as fact while making basic statistical errors is his entire oevure.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

@sempiternalsap Nah I'm proudly annoyingly nonbinary

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager "Before all this woke nonsense there was only one Sudan" /s

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt This is a map of all properties in Montgomery County, most of which are multifamily townhomes, duplexes, and condos. @alaina_pitt 's map is single family homes of the type that you were advocating.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

27 days

My experience emailing professors is that most would send back emails like: "from james.lastnane @university .edu Sent Saturday, 2:17AM ok sure lol - James Sent from Outlook for iPhone"

Chris Blattman

@cblatts

27 days

In the category of “I wish it didn’t have to be said but it does”, here are 10 pieces of advice for emailing your professor (or other professionals): 1. Kick the email address from high school It’s time for “hot_muffin92 @gmail .com” to RIP

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

@NM_Reid We've been told to discontinue use of anaconda in my work (federal natural resources management) because of this, yes.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

7 months

@JonHaidt @heyjeffdavidson @jess_miers @senatorshoshana You @jonhaidt have built your career on bad statistics, spurious correlations, and cherry-picked anecdotes. The solutions you propose are deeply misfounded and misinformed. I’m not surprised, given your previous work, that you continue chasing publicity with bad data.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

7 months

@inreGray @JonHaidt @heyjeffdavidson @jess_miers @senatorshoshana I was the full-time caregiver for my immunocompromised, disabled biological mother during COVID, while I was completing my master's degree at night remotely. Social media allowed me to socialize even when I couldn't travel or accept visitors because my mother was sick.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt No you didn't, you posted a map consisting almost entirely of multifamily housing. These "little houses" that you claim are "modest and cheaper" (i.e., <$400k) simply *don't exist* anywhere except your misconceptions.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

Any professor who bans laptops in their class inherently creates a problem for disabled students. Living with a paralytic condition, I often did take class notes with fountain pen and paper, but using a laptop with text completion software was helpful during paralytic episodes.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

7 months

@JonHaidt @heyjeffdavidson @jess_miers @senatorshoshana I used the resources on the Internet to get myself into college at 15, after being outed and disowned by my family. I found friends and supporters, taught myself mathematics and science, and used online resources to advance my current career in computing and data science.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

7 months

@JonHaidt @heyjeffdavidson @jess_miers @senatorshoshana My career is being a public sector technologist supporting first responders and firefighters in public natural resource management. I bought a home and rent out a room to a person I met over social media. I advance my knowledge using the R and math communities over social media.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@paternyao @LongFormMath I believe it's Mathematical Apocrypha by Steven Krantz.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager All this to say that RIP ET Jaynes you would have loved Brat summer

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt Supply in Montgomery County is massively constrained. These $400-600k homes already sell for $30-50k over listing. Even if — a big if — the new duplexes are marginally more expensive than older housing (doubtful), they provide some demand slack to new buyers of said SFHs.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager Probability Theory: The Logic of Science is a classic, love his writing. "[T]here is a very clever trick for handling a problem that becomes too difficult. We just solve it anyway by: making it still harder; redefining what we mean by ‘solving’ it, so that it becomes...

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

By creating such rules, professors inherently create the conditions where disabled students are singled out, forced to beg for their needs, and envied by other students for their devices. I refused to study under any professor who banned laptops, as did other disabled students.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt In region after region, we see arguments that removing single family homes will cause an onslaught of luxury developments that nobody can afford. And in region after region, this onslaught never actually occurs — it's just needless fearmongering from entrenched interests.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@bayesianboy Reminds me of Herbert Simon's account of trying to mathematize the social sciences, that when working with economists at the Cowles Commission he sought to use "physicists' mathematics or engineers' mathematics" as a "language of discovery" rather than a "language of proof."

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@jachiam0 Comment on statistics: for those with incomes, the median income is actually $47,960 for all workers and $60,070 for full-time, year-round workers as of 2022 in the Census Current Population Survey. In 2022 CPI-U-RS Adjusted Dollars, it's been above $34k for 15+ y/os since 2015.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt There are no $400k starter single family homes in Montgomery County — a fact I know intimately as a first-time homeowner here who bought my townhouse back in March.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt This plan provides the opportunity for neighborhoods to adapt to their constraints better than the current land use regime. Our current zoning does not allow for our communities to adapt and bolster their infrastructure, which is why changes like these are needed.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager True, I've known quite a few quant-inclined fruity trans folks go to the polytechnics (in CA and MA) My dear friend @GABAGOOLMODER among them.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt These are separate problems of education and transportation that have their own solutions. You want a zoning reform bill to address every issue, which is facially absurd. We can start by giving communities the tools to address those issues – this plan provides one such tool.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager That experience had many of its own downsides (tiger parenting is the worst). The one thing that always stuck with me is the idea that you have to ask the 'dumb' questions because the job is being good at the subject, not looking good in the eyes of others.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt New duplexes in the few areas they're allowed, leading to greater returns on luxury developments near some of the nation's highest income + wealth areas is not the argument you think it is.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

4 months

@__paleologo I did half-seriously tell my current partner "I don’t accept Zermelo-Frankel" on the first date! (I like von Neumann-Bernays-Godel because classes are fun and for elegance reasons) It did work, but it does help she's a theoretical physicist.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

26 days

The movement to eliminate algebra access for middle schoolers in California was based on a failed educational theory — thankfully the state has finally rejected this needless experiment driven by ideology and bad science.

CheesemonkeySF

@cheesemonkeysf

26 days

@GavinNewsom has just signed SB 1410, ensuring Algebra 1 access for all of California's 8th grade students!

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt This isn't eliminating single family homes, in fact, single family housing does and will continue to exist. But it will remove the needless supply constraints provided by single family only zoning by enabling greater choice for property owners and buyers.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

"Sadly, our present system of mathematics education is precisely this kind of nightmare. In fact, if I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child’s natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn’t possibly do as good a job as is currently...

Anthony Bonato

@Anthony_Bonato

3 months

Teacher: analyst Student: algebraist

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager Chicago is great and alumni of my alma mater (Northern Illinois) are active in the arts scene. The art itself is written into the skyline, with famous architects' work like Jeanne Gang, Helmut Jahn, Louis Sullivan. Go out further into Oak Park and you get Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

Also, the science behind such calls to ban laptops is incredibly mixed: "Overall, results do not support the idea that longhand note taking improves immediate learning via better encoding of information."

Don’t Ditch the Laptop Just Yet: A Direct Replication of Mueller and Oppenheimer’s (2014) Study 1...

In this direct replication of Mueller and Oppenheimer’s (2014) Study 1, participants watched a lecture while taking notes with a laptop (n = 74) or longhand (n ...

journals.sagepub.com

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt Supply and demand dynamics. New construction will have to compete with listings of single family homes, other new developments, and preexisting multifamily housing, a turbulent competitive process that will result in long-run market clearing prices near market leaders.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

Ouch.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt This isn't going to happen overnight - there will be cases that some luxury developments will pencil in better than other developments, I grant you. This won't solve every problem, but it does a heck of a lot more towards addressing the issue than your preference of scarcity.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt Well, I think that construction costs are hard to forecast over 20-50 year cycles. The 07-09 recession destroyed a lot of capacity for home builders, the question of costs you're asking about is for a market that doesn't even exist yet.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager I know of multiple Bayes Theorem tattoos, but as far as I know I have the only AIC tattoo I'm aware of

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

Aww this is so cute

Xe Iaso

@theprincessxena

3 months

Instead of using AI to roast people and tear them down, what if we used it to uplift instead? Introducing Praise my GitHub profile:

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt I agree, one size fits all is not appropriate! Which is why I support the expansion of the missing middle and reducing single-family only zoning, because neighborhoods will have the ability to adapt for "a community as big and diverse as MoCo."

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager Also professors could also tell you which books and articles to look it up in to get started on looking it up! Looking up the literature is 10x easier when you have someone who can tell you "Box et al wrote about that, you should look at Chapter 13* and see."

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

@mmaaz_98 However disorganized hospitals are, the pre hospital experience is even more chaotic and shockingly working.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager I came from a *very* academically oriented family that expected me to learn the material for a class before I took it. I was taught that the teacher is there to help gel whatever you haven't understood well enough, like a tutor.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

1 month

@BHarrap Elite PhD programs in the United States, especially in economics and computer science, have astoundingly high levels of competition to the point that holding a prior research job and having publications is viewed as necessary to stand out.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

@SandroAmbuehl @JonHaidt In writing popular books advocating massive public policy interventions based on behavioral principles while misrepresenting the evidence, Haidt abuses his career as a behavioral scientist for unearned credibility in areas where he has little experience and familiarity.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@isthisdata Social science is good prep for working in data if you don't drink the cool-aid because after enough time you realize just how bad the data generating processes are

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@isthisdata I feel like I got what I expected? I took a technical degree, get paid along the lines of IT personnel, make a decent salary cleaning CSVs and helping nontechnical folks with Excel/basic stats. A 9-5 job with medical and dental, that sure beats working outside in the heat.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

Best practices are organizing the mess of Excel spreadsheets that came before you, and building a SQL database. For most problems, people just want a readable Excel spreadsheet and linear regression is more than good enough. Fundamental stats, esp for surveys, is very helpful.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@DBum714 @vanessainstem Chicago tavern style! Born out of working-class bars and restaurants, it uses a dough that's generally over fermented, has less water, and a bit more oil resulting in a thinner, crunchier crust.

Kenji López-Alt Spent 5 Months Studying Chicago Thin-Crust Pizza. Here’s What He Learned. (Publis...

Among his many revelations: a game-changing technique for yielding that crisp crust at home.

www.nytimes.com

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

27 days

@BHarrap My understanding is that finance in general tends to select for personalities in the competition for clients and funding, and having been successful in one specialized form of quantitative finance he then tried to apply his insights in the more general case. With varied results.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

Not my idea, but Hirotugu Akaike's (of AIC fame).

Making statistical thinking more productive

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics - The use of the concept of plausibility is proposed for the comparison of psychological or physical images of an object with extremely complex...

link.springer.com

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

Reading Silvanus P. Thompson's Calculus Made Easy and Haskell Curry's Outlines of a Formalist Philosophy of Mathematics at 11, the former extremely intuitive to my young mind and the latter still challenging to me as an adult, prepared me for studying the higher mathematics.

Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D

@KwekuOA

3 months

A book written in 1910 could teach you calculus: Full text:

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager I wonder if this has changed with the advent of UpToDate and BMJ Best Practice for point-of-care best practices available to many clinicians at the bedside.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

"What is usually called statistical analysis is not an analysis of the meaning of a given set of data but simply a representation by some coordinate system arbitrarily chosen for the convenience of representation."

Matthew B Jané

@MatthewBJane

3 months

What controversial statistics take will have you like this?

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@shoecatladder @norvid_studies > I’m suggesting those are a sort of ubercompression Sounds rather like some of Chatin's work, or at least his whole aphorism that comprehension is compression of a sort.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

@MishaTeplitskiy Two comments: 1- Replications of Mueller and Oppenheimer have led to mixed results, and certainly less definitive conclusions than the original paper. 2- Banning laptops is a disability problem, students who rely on them for physical and cognitive disabilities are singled out.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

I'm a high school dropout who got my GED and did my bachelor's at a regional commuter university. Feels pretty bad seeing the unspoken assumptions behind concepts of 'merit' in the academy as discussed by some of its most prominent expositors, tbh

Bryan Caplan

@bryan_caplan

2 months

A modest proposal: To be eligible for the presidency, you should have 5s on all of the following: AP Microeconomics AP Macroeconomics AP Statistics AP US History AP European History AP World History

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

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@economeager I think most people think of ChatGPT and image generators when they say "AI" these days. Alternatively: AI is the stuff that seems like techno-wizardry, machine learning is the stuff that rocket scientists do, and statistics is a cookbook topic you had to take to graduate.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

20 days

On Information and Sufficiency

projecteuclid.org

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager "You don't truly love someone until you've hurt them or they hurt you, when your unit becomes invariant under transformation..." Weird way to introduce a concept in topology, but okay.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager something we can do; inventing a dignified and technical-sounding word to describe this procedure, which has the psychological effect of concealing the true nature of what we have done, and making it appear respectable."

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

7 months

@polapetit @JonHaidt @heyjeffdavidson @jess_miers @senatorshoshana I'm glad you were able to find those communities and networks that have allowed you to thrive!

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@isthisdata I might not use much of my politics/liberal arts and sciences degree day to day, but the lessons I learned are constantly applicable.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@taco_raccoon @mmaaz_98 I always think of the quote from Bill Thurston:

Winston Lin

@linstonwin

7 months

"Mathematics is a process of staring hard enough with enough perseverance at at the fog of muddle and confusion to eventually break through to improved clarity. I'm happy when I can admit, at least to myself, that my thinking is muddled ..."

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

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@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt Freeing land from needless single-family only zoning requirements inherently creates a greater market for new builders, contractors, suppliers to provide services. Like the ADU market for contractors in Northern California, demand resulted in additional supply.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

I took a couple ML courses in my MS can call TensorFlow/pyTorch as well as the next code monkey. I've rarely used those skills in practice. Knowing those things is mainly just useful to knowing when outside consultants are trying to out-jargon you.

Garett Jones

@GarettJones

3 months

How economist @steve_tadelis quickly saw through the bullshit of some marketing consultants, @Freakonomics edition:

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

4 months

@cameron_pfiffer @AvinnoFaruk Am colorblind, can confirm this chart is not easy on the eyes.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager Refining "trembling hands" into "perfect" is inherently suspect, what can I say /s

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager Dang I wish I had a mirror twin If you find a mathematical platonist who hates the Akaike Information Criterion lmk

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager For some reason reading this tweet reminded me of Stephen Senn's "You May Believe You Are a Bayesian But You Are Probably Wrong" paper that I read a while back while writing my thesis.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

@SandroAmbuehl @JonHaidt p-hacking and hiding failed studies are regrettably common tactics in behavioral science. While these statistical practices are unfortunate, the more egregious practices are recent works like this book where Haidt misrepresents the literature on topics he is not an expert on.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

4 months

@SchubertCalc @FluentInFinance I'm jealous, I've got a 6.3% mortgage...

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

24 days

@AaronDrol @alaina_pitt And the objective of this plan isn't to create affordable housing — we already have initiatives like the APAH developments in Silver Spring — it's to solve the missing middle of townhomes, condos, and duplexes that's desperately needed here.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

5 months

@ryxcommar Eventually every political-economic system of exchange can be abstracted down to some sort of spreadsheet-ing and linear programming, so Excel will always be desperately needed no matter what the political ordering of society is. Grand theory of politics a la Kantorovich

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

This failed meta-analysis and moving of goalposts, like much of Haidt's oeuvre, is described in two simple words: "statistical malpractice."

Jonathan Haidt

@JonHaidt

2 months

Defenders of social media say that there is no evidence that it CAUSES mental illness, there's only a small correlation. But in fact, experiments consistently show benefits from reducing social media use, IF they go long enough to get past withdrawal:

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@RyanRadia @inerati My intuition about international is tending towards large exchanges, and of those exchanges: UK has a passive forward p/e discount, the CAC40 might as well be used to teach Granger Causality against the S&P, and many internationals are seeking to list in the US anyhow.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

In the public sector, data science isn't dead. At least, whatever term you call equal parts data analyst, data engineer, database administrator, basic stats consultant, and IT support isn't dead. It's not the "sexiest job of the 21st century", it's an ordinary 9-5 office role.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

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@economeager I went to college to become a biomedical engineer, but colorblindness and general awkwardness in wet labs made that rather difficult. After an early childhood in Silicon Valley, I figured I could always use my programming skills to get a job, and studied the liberal arts.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

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In 2011, the US Department of Health and Human Services released guidelines to screen teenagers, especially teenage girls, annually for depression. You can't track what you can't measure, and when you start measuring, it looks like a major jump in the sporadic tracking.

Ted Gioia

@tedgioia

2 months

What happened in 2012?

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

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@economeager In listing Hacking there I don't mean to endorse The Emergence of Probability (a thesis I think that was wrong, but useful to spur further research in the field) but rather that I quite enjoyed devouring his work in my teens.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@cameron_pfiffer Everyone thinks they're the in the 5% of overperformers and not the 95% of underperformers as stock-pickers.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@economeager Trans(it) rights are integral to LGBTQ+ liberation

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

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Nature talking about the problems of scientific publishing:

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@Nature

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Peer review is known to be flawed. Now, one of its major weaknesses - sheer bad manners on the part of the reviewer - has been highlighted by a UK-based publisher

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

5 months

@isthisdata @b0rk Ooh! I might use this as a resource when I teach interns SQL.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

3 months

@isthisdata Well, the reality of government salaries running 20, 30k behind the private sector is that if you take a data role you often times have to do parts of the data governance and sys admin roles too. Just because of understaffing as a result of financial incentives.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

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@shoecatladder @norvid_studies A middle point between Kolmogorov's theory and Shannon's applications might be Solomonoff? "An Inductive Inference Machine" (1956) comes to mind.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

@yhdistyminen I was a public servant working at BART headquarters in the referenced "this city" (Oakland, CA), and I was priced out from it. When we refuse to build homes, lives, futures for people in our city countless people of all walks of life are affected.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

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@Econ_Marshall @economeager Having worked as a public servant in transit infrastructure in the SFBA, YIMBY seems more dominated by planners and engineers than economists. Off the top of my head, I think of Charles Marohn’s (engineer, planner) Strong Towns or M Nolan Gray (planner) of CA YIMBY.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

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@BHarrap Yeah, pretty much.

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Lucille E. Nguyen

@thelucenguyen

2 months

@SandroAmbuehl @JonHaidt Evident in his Twitter bio: "Social psychologist at NYU-Stern, working to roll back the phone-based childhood." This does a disservice to the careful work by actual experts in this area of public health; undermining science and health work done by real experts in this area.

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