Data vis, data science, statistics, and occasional snark that I can't completely suppress. she/her.
Lincoln, NE
Joined October 2010
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The #statistics department at #UNL is proposed to be eliminated. Chancellor's recs in 2 weeks, then it goes to the #Regents.
I just wrote a letter: One Faculty, One #Nebraska: Stop the Harmful Budget Cuts!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/on…
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One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the lie that that single mom on welfare or the kid getting free food at school is the problem instead of the ultra rich hoarding more wealth than billions of people have combined and getting tax breaks for doing so.
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Tim Walz: "If we win Georgia by just a single vote, I will go away happy knowing that was Jimmy Carter's vote that put us over the line."
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i cant explain it with science but this is what writers block feels like
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here is Bad Witch Praxis, a one page rpg about being the kind of witch we try not to tell stories about because it lacks nuance, but it does let you kill a bunch of people and thats real community imo
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BREAKING NEWS: Jimmy Carter has achieved his goal of living long enough to vote for Kamala Harris.
God Bless you, President Carter.
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Academia isn’t about fame, or money, or approval. It’s about downloading as many pdfs as you can before you die
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taking children away from families that can’t afford to care for them…..placing them in foster homes that receive aid from the city to care for them…..instead of giving the said aid to the struggling family!!
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I am fascinated by the “if I simply wave the correct magical wand of inputs at the algorithm it will be a trusted ally to me” vision of profit-driven recommendation systems…
People will trust a computer program built to manipulate them more than a human who cares about them.