From book reviews to zombies, with rock stars in between

Lots to read this week

Here’s what’s scheduled this week on the blog:

Mon 12 Aug 2024: What can aspiring political moderates learn from the example of Nelson Rockefeller?

Tues 13 Aug: The River, the Village, and the Fort: Nate Silver’s new book, “On the Edge”

Wed 14 Aug: Close reading in literary criticism and statistical analysis

Thurs 15 Aug: Sports media > Prestige media (space aliens edition)

Fri 16 Aug: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars

Sat 17 Aug: “The Secret Life of John Le Carré”

Sun 18 Aug: “Zombie Ideas” in psychology, from personality profiling to lucky golf balls

And here’s what came up in the past week:

11 Aug: My suggestion for the 2028 Olympics

11 Aug: Data issues in that paper that claims that TikTok and Instagram have consumption spillovers that lead to negative utility

10 Aug: Benefit of Stanford: Are there connections between unethical behavior in science promotion and cheating in private life?

9 Aug: NeurIPS 2024 workshop on Statistical Frontiers in LLMs and Foundation Models

9 Aug: Crap papers with crude political agendas published in scientific journals: A push-pull problem

9 Aug: StanCon 2024 is in 32 days!

8 Aug: Nicholas Carlini on LLMs and AI for research programmers

8 Aug: Free Book of Stories, Activities, Computer Demonstrations, and Problems in Applied Regression and Causal Inference

7 Aug: A welcome rant on betting, knowledge, belief, and the foundations of probability

6 Aug: Unsolicited feedback on your research from the LLMs at large

6 Aug: He wants to compute “the effect of a predictor” (that is, an average predictive comparison) for a hierarchical mixture model. You can do it in Stan!

5 Aug: Adverse Adult Research Outcomes Increased After Increased Willingness of Public Health Journals to Publish Absolute Crap

Enjoy.