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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 5h

The pro data center elephant and piggie was pretty weird

An elephant and piggie book called “I really like slop”

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 10/09/2026

Listening to this Mingus classic on the importance of version control

Album artwork for Charles Mingus’s Mingus Ah Um, featuring an abstract geometric painting in muted red, blue, yellow, pink, and cream. Below the cover, the track “Better Git It in Your Soul” and artist Charles Mingus are displayed.

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 06/07/2026

further evidence that being healthy means that you are healthy

An NPR headline: Fast walkers in their 80s cut their risk of cognitive decline by half, a study finds

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 08/04/2026

point of discussion: have we considered perhaps that the markets are stupid

A news headline: "Oil prices plunge and stocks soar after U.S. and Iran agree on a ceasefire"

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 09/12/2025

Luckily, I’ve had a fever for two days. My brain is cooked, but I make a great heater

A brown tabby snuggling in bed with a sick human

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 02/11/2025

Oh shit I think the spam texters are pissed at me

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 29/09/2025

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and

a checkbox on a website that says "keep me logged in"

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 08/08/2025

GPT-5 is like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.” The Ph.D. level experts:

Marty Makary, RFK, and Jay Bhattacharya during a terrible press briefing

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 02/05/2025

Zuck: The average American has three friends

A movie poster of the movie Clueless with three woman

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 01/03/2025

That’s not what’s happening. We’re not talking about intellectually nuanced conversations with people of differing views. We’re talking about a Nazi platform full of fucking nazis. This is not hyperbole. Elon is a Nazi.

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 28/11/2024

It’s Thanksgiving in Detroit. Go Loins!!!

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 28/11/2024

A very whimsical Thanksgiving to you from Grinnin’ Barrett’s Bakery

Three loaves of homemade sourdough bread in a whisker basket

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 15/11/2024

#causalsky hell of a new new instrumental variable identified

A sign outside a liquor store that says “super liquor IV” with pictures of whiskey

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 30/10/2024

Learning about all the cool new diff-in-diff estimators from #econsky the past few years, but just thinking about one thing the whole time #causalsky #causalinference

A photo of a Yankees fan interfering with the World Series game. He is labeled "parallel trends assumption". A baseball player has a ball in his glove. He is labeled "ATT". The fan is trying to take the ball from the glove.

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 04/10/2024

All numbers are nerds but not all nerds are numbers.

A screenshot of Fox News on twitter. It says Jason Kelce blasts statistics in a wild rant: stats are numbers, numbers are nerds, nerds are losers

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 15/08/2024

Oh good I found a likely real causal effect here. Scam people into improving their grips -> make money

An article headline with a picture of someone hanging from a bar with both hands. It says:

If You Can Hang From a Bar For This Long, Scientists Say You're Likely to Live a Longer, Healthier Life And what simple tests like this one can mean for entrepreneurs hoping to serve on of the biggest addressable markets on the planet

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 04/04/2024

We are excited to be hosting Causal Inference in R Workshop at the 10th annual New York R Conference on May 15! Join us in NYC or virtually online! Get 20% off your ticket now with promo code NYR10 at rstats.ai/nyr #rstatsnyc | #rstats

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 29/11/2023

We've made a major update to the causal diagrams chapter of Causal Inference in R! Check it out to learn about DAGs! I think there's a lot in this chapter that is undercovered in other sources. #rstats #causalinference @lucystats.bsky.social @travisgerke.bsky.social www.r-causal.org/chapters/05-...

A screenshot of Causal Inference in R: Causal Diagrams

A screenshot of a DAG from Causal Inference in R showing two open pathways in an analysis a scientist must account for to get the correct answer

A screenshot of a DAG from Causal Inference in R showing how to describe feedback loops in causal diagrams

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 15/09/2023

We just overhauled the first chapter of our book, Causal Inference in R! Learn about causal questions, their structure, and the relationship between description, prediction, and causal inference. www.r-causal.org/chapters/cha... @lucystats.bsky.social @travisgerke.bsky.social #rstats

A screenshot of the first chapter of Causal Inference in R: What is a causal question?

A sentence diagram of a causal question showing it's essential components: exposure, outcome, eligibility criteria, time-zero, target population, and follow-up period

A visualisation of a descriptive question: what were the number of deaths in 2020 vs the expected deaths based on historical data (by country)? The figure shows the shocking toll of the early pandemic, with actual 2020 deaths far above expected deaths. This is a useful graph for understanding risk without making causal claims

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 06/09/2023

I was thinking about trebuchets and remembered this

Tweet from @malco_barrett: "Methods: We took covariates, such as age and sex, put them into a trebuchet, lit them on fire, and hurled them into our model from a distance of 200m."

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