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I need a free (or very cheap) online survey creator for ranked choice voting that's more flexible than Google Forms. Any suggestions?

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A four-year old dips his toe into the continuum: "A line is just a bunch of dots squished together."

Now that Atom is on its way out, it's worth remembering that the old tools had some advantages.

This has surely been said before, but I'll say it again: "almost surely" does not sound sure enough.

h/t early modern boy-actress (they/them) for Basu's elephant: umass.edu/cluster/ed/unp…

I have never written a VB paper using SGD --- instead, I have always fixed the draws in advance and optimized the deterministic objective. Thanks in part to amazing co-first-author Martin Ingram, there is finally a paper about it! arxiv.org/abs/2304.05527

RIP the mighty Ian Hacking, who completely transformed and rejuvenated my idea of what philosophy can be.

So exciting to see MIT news featuring our work (accepted at ICML) on how to better predict currents and identify divergences in the ocean from sparse buoy data 🌊 Tamara Broderick Brian L Trippe Ryan Giordano 471TO David Burt, Kaushik Srinivasan & Junfei Xia news.mit.edu/2023/new-machi…

Berkeley forms a college of data science. "Colleges can hire their own faculty, for example, and award degrees to students." data.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkel…

We're happy to announce a major new version of nimble. It includes Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (package nimbleHMC, configurable with other MCMC samplers), Laplace approximation, and automatic differentiation for algorithm programmers: r-nimble.org/version-1-0-0-…. CRAN.R-project.org/package=nimble

Best poster award

Is there an easy-to-use and safer alternative to pickle for serializing PyTrees (specifically blackjax samples, but also in general)?

In statistics we sure make a big deal about data exchangeability. But once we've established it, we /never actually exchange it/. I'm concerned that people will notice and stop taking us seriously.

So annoying that Brahms Lullaby + Carmen + Hall of the Mountain King type stuff is the stationary point of Spofity autoplay starting from absolutely any classical music