Jordan Nafa

ajordannafa.com

15 October 2026 00:47

A tidbit of wisdom that it took me many years to come to terms with: The goal of private-sector experimentation isn't learning. Learning is a nice-to-have, but meaningless on its own. The goal of private-sector experimentation is, first and foremost, to maximize revenue or minimize loss.

Cleric of Blood Stanley

nurseboystanley.bsky.social

07 October 2026 21:43

Say what you will about the boys. I started with Jimmy dore and Citizen radio, then it was David Pakman and Best of the Left, then it was "Le Show" and The Young Turks. The only show that stuck around but didn't turn to shit or became insufferable and impossible to listen to was Chapo.

Crystal Lewis

cghlewis.bsky.social

01 October 2026 19:57

I'm not crying, you're crying. 🥹 So grateful to have received this from the POWER (Providing Opportunities for Women in Education Research) leadership team.

Thomas Lumley

tslumley.bsky.social

30 September 2026 23:31

'Statisticians learn hierarchical models as tools; nobody in a statistics seminar says, “This is a response to a 150-year-old problem in the foundations of probability.” And nobody in a philosophy seminar says, “The answer is lme4."' sudippaul.substack.com/p/partial-po...

Thomas Lin Pedersen

thomasp85.com

30 September 2026 23:30

We have been hard at work on ggvis2 but we will have to severely restrict access to it due to safety concerns. The visualisations are just too convincing