D. Hicks
@danhicks.bsky.social
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philosopher turned data scientist turned philosopher. enviro policy, data science, phil sci/STS, lefty stuff. UC Merced. they/them. Signal: danhicks.50
philosopher turned data scientist turned philosopher. enviro policy, data science, phil sci/STS, lefty stuff. UC Merced. they/them. Signal: danhicks.50
![Some values are more likely than others. If you'll recall from basic algebra, when we can assign one value in y for every value in a we get a function: [nothing but a paragraph break in the original]
You'll notice something important here; namely that our data (D) has jumped to the other side of the conditional probability (|). One of the most important things in all of statistics is that you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r52ch4ne2a7kryhyu56wfibz/bafkreicxfkmhkas56qd7nlizbl7xes2z4qeabkuvndguegxsocnxkghy7y)
![Screenshot text:
[Michael Stryker, a UCSF physiology professor and BOARS member] argued the now-abandoned study was structurally incapable of producing useful evidence.
Because UC largely stopped collecting test scores after 2020, he wrote in a message to fellow board members that he shared with The Times, there is no comparable applicant group on which to validate today’s tests.
“In the absence of sound data,” Stryker wrote, the testing work group “will have little to do but debate the politics of testing.” He said the board should recommend restoring standardized testing for fall 2027 admissions and study its effects over four years, using methods UC used when it last evaluated testing in 2020.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r52ch4ne2a7kryhyu56wfibz/bafkreidkasv7js2ebjlv7m3lxhlaxxpyakievbyaygdhfaukdrfb3k3ruu)
![Screenshot of a lecture slide. The title is "Code Style," and it's follows by a sentence that is technically English but, among other things, most of the spaces have been replaced with é and the last letter of every word is in uppercase. After a minute or so, a sighted reader can figure it out says "In written language, conventions for punctuation & capitalization aid comprehension by indicating structure." Then the bullet points of the slide:
- This is what it's like to read poorly-styled code
- Conventions only work if they're <em>shared</em> conventions
- Style guides provide shared conventions for readable code
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- In-line spacing makes it easier to pick out distinguish [sic] functions, operators, and variables in a line
- Returns distinguish arguments in a function call
- Identation corresponds to structure of complex expressions
- Common conventions for naming, assignment reduce cognitive load
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- Tidyverse style guide: (url)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r52ch4ne2a7kryhyu56wfibz/bafkreidq4t2fegdyyvff2fydf4m5jgqrzqdd2e6zkvfqhgajmdwpyjfo2m)
![Wikipedia screenshot: Ali Hazelwood
Italian author and neuroscientist
Ali Hazelwood is an Italian romance novelist and neuroscience professor based in the United States.[1][2][3] Many of her works center on women in STEM fields and academia. Her debut novel, The Love Hypothesis, was a New York Times best seller and was adapted into a feature film.[4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r52ch4ne2a7kryhyu56wfibz/bafkreibyrkcbfxby2fzjcr3ocnfijvdetwud3tazocjodwkccklggma5ye)
