West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)

Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

The Growth Fetish -- twelve years ago at the blog (SVB edition)

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Linette Lopez (someone you should definitely be following) did perhaps the best deep dive on the collapse of SVB and on the culture that ca...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Godzilla vs. Rodan

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You can't really root for either, but it's still fun to sit back and enjoy the spectacle. 2022 was a remarkably bad year for conve...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Revisiting the cutting edge world of Tesla

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A couple of months ago, the NYT argued that Elon Musk's long history of cutting corners with respect to ethics and safety was simply th...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Charging for a feature, then charging more to remove that feature... Where have I heard that before?

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Elon Musk literally reinvented the wheel, and it's so popular he is charging his brilliant, tech-savvy customers $700 to go back to the ...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Thursday Tweets -- "Residents hope the next sister city comes with a Google search"

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I hesitate to say that Democrats should learn anything from Trump, but FL Dems at the very least should take a few notes on the torture c...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

"Everything you need to know about the wild world of heat pumps" is nowhere near everything you need to know about heat pumps

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  I had such high hopes for this MIT Technology Review article by Casey Crownhart . Finally, someone was talking about an important, ready-...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Housing starts and neighborhood character

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This is Joseph. Mike Moffatt is at it again . He looks at the growth in non-permanent residents in Canada from 2014 to 2022 and it has incre...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Your Silicon Valley Bank Primer

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 As is often the case, the best thumbnail comes from Matt Levine. And so if you were the Bank of Startups, just like if you were the Bank o...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Deferred Thursday Tweets -- Dems in Disarray and other favorites

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We've been talking about consistently this here at the blog since 2015. All Trump has to say is "don't vote" and the GOP i...
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