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mathfrak{Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt}

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I know it makes me unlikeable and no fun to be around but I just can't find humor in most of these statistics humor memes that go around applied communities.

1. Model configurations yielding equivalent likelihoods will generally not yield equivalent decisions. Robust decision making requires quantifying _all_ of the model configurations consistent with the data, which is really hard

I just finished Box, Hunter, and Hunter and I cannot praise it enough. There were multiple passages where I literally giggled. In fact I may have been a bit _too_

I was just in a conversation where someone pointed out that a community, like the Stan community, can be intimidating for newcomers because the most visible members are portrayed by