g z thompson @gzt@scholar.social
- Institution
- Iowa State University
- Field
- Statistics
- XMPP
- gzt@xmpp.is
- Dissertation?
- Not done yet
he's a PhD candidate in statistics at iastate focusing on statistical computing, specifically clustering and other unsupervised or semi-supervised problems.
Joined Apr 2018
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looking at lapack routines, tag yourself, i'm dpotrf
we are, by administrative decision, using WebEx. But WebEx really does not do well with bandwidth limitations. so that kind of sucks!
why do we have to FIND jobs and APPLY to them
jorb stuff
ok... really got to figure out how to get some instruction through to this student who really wants to learn but my instructional style just does not penetrate at all
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Article about 
journals
don't worry, I'll read their questions and see if there's anything missing and address it.
1. have a review document prepared
2. have an "in-class quiz" where i ask students to write one question they have about the material we've covered that they would like to review
3. probably not make any changes to the review document
4. release review document and students think it's responsive to their questions! (it probably is, frankly)
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Happy, Horny, Gay and Sassy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%2C_Horny%2C_Gay_and_Sassy
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uspol
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The EARN IT Act: How to Ban End-to-End Encryption Without Actually Banning It | Center for Internet and Society
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-ban-end-end-encryption-without-actually-banning-it
Observations:
1. Of *course* this is from my senator, Lindsey Graham, who is a rat.
2. Of *course* this has bipartisan sponsorship.
3. This *could* affect the fediverse, depending on the "best practices" that end up being required, even without end-to-end encryption.
This is a better version IMO but still I want to consider something besides a heatmap and of course the colors on this aren't the best.
trying a heatmap for visualizing this clustering of a similarity matrix but there's got to be a better way, because in reality i have more than there 14 groups of 7, I have like over 100 groups of 7. The labels on this example aren't great, but the graph gives you an idea of what you're looking at. #rstats #dataviz
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RStudio's apparently going nonprofit and open source.
Ryokan on not p-hacking, being content with a null result:
I have nothing to report, my friends.
If you want to find the meaning,
Stop chasing after so many things.
fellow scholars in america, beware: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mit-warns-foreign-students-possible-visits-ice-n1113736
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Don't you hate it when words mix Greek and Latin roots?!
looking for stats jokes that fit in pun dog meme format
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re steven pinker and sexism, NeurIPS, Damore
- Institution
- Iowa State University
- Field
- Statistics
- XMPP
- gzt@xmpp.is
- Dissertation?
- Not done yet
he's a PhD candidate in statistics at iastate focusing on statistical computing, specifically clustering and other unsupervised or semi-supervised problems.
Joined Apr 2018
