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.

Friday, March 7, 2025

XKCD on DST

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From XKCD Monroe also suggests an alternate solution in the title text, averaging out the spring and fall changes and setting clocks 3...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Have we mentioned how unfair it is to single out Arthur Conan Doyle?

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Yes, I'll admit that falling for those fairy pictures was pretty embarrassing, but Doyle had lots of company in his belief in the parano...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Clive James's example may be god-awful, but what about the point he was trying to make?

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 Picking up on our discussion of this claim: The best Hitchcock film was directed by someone else. Charade would not be as good as it is i...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

A Blacker Black Box

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From Matt Levine's newsletter: There are two basic ways to use artificial intelligence to predict stock prices: You build a deep learn...
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Monday, March 3, 2025

The Grandiosity/Contribution Ratio -- another newly relevant repost

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One of the recurring threads at the blog for years now has been the Lords of Ithuvania , the way we have collectively treated people who stu...
Friday, February 28, 2025

More thoughts on criticism -- critics and reviewers

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 Both reviewer and critic are honorable professions, with, if anything, the former being more valuable. The best reviewers by a wide margin ...
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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Two completely unrelated news stories

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From the Arkansas Times: Bill deregulating raw dairy products passes Senate, heads to governor’s desk  by Phillip Powell A bill to deregulat...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

"There seems to be a plague of jellyfish and really a plague of anything is usually not considered good."

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As previously mentioned ( "The city would naturally form a line as it tried to get away from itself." ), Patrick Boyle is one of t...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Thiel is Dr. Mabuse. Musk is Cobra Commander.

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From Josh Marshall: Against the backdrop of a month of chaos and destruction, something began to shift more or less in the middle of this w...
Monday, February 24, 2025

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the LLM part 2 -- a proof-reader, not an editor

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I have two dictation options which, being a horrible typist, I use frequently. The first is Dragon NaturallySpeaking on my laptop, which wor...
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Friday, February 21, 2025

"What was Clive James thinking?" Maybe the question is when was he thinking it?

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From Andrew Gelman : From The Dreaming Swimmer (1992), one of Clive James’s classic essay collections:     The best Hitchcock film was direc...
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Thursday, February 20, 2025

In the cold war, all the cool kids had toys with nuclear warheads

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 And yes, the M65 atomic cannon was real. "Ideal Atomic Cannon" - 1958 Most people blame boomer cynicism and distrust of auth...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

A tale of two tweets

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 This is Joseph. There is a new claim that the US is filled with vampires by Elon Musk, who is concerned about a database query of social se...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Fifteen years ago at the blog (does anyone else feel old?)

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My first degree was a BFA in creative writing. When asked why I was switching to statistics, I said I thought it would be easier to find mat...
Monday, February 17, 2025

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the LLM part 1-- coding

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I used to ask, only half-jokingly, how any of us learned to code before Google.  I went to grad school in the mid-90s, so I'm old enough...
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