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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

someone who is good at sports please explain

Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

after using them in other languages, I really find myself wanting python to add compositional-style interfaces (if for no other reason than to force the lsp to provide code completion for subclasses)

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For no real reason, I was looking up something about the ancestry of causal DAGs in path diagrams and came across this picture. I got to see it so you do to. HT to Sewall Wright who both set the course for a very useful analytical tool but also took the time to include cute drawings of guinea pigs

Sketch of Wright's path diagram showing the influence of heredity and environment on the inheritance of color of guinea pigs. Drawing is mostly a directed acyclic graph but includes four cute sideways drawings of guinea pigs.

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

team retro today. the _future improvements_ board was basically various iterations of “don’t trust claude”

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Josiah @josiah.rs · 02/09/2026

here's the thing: stacked PRs only work if you don't plan on actually reviewing / changing them. Otherwise they're just a nightmare

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do you love providing useful outputs, or do you love building things? In an era of DS absolutely SATURATED with AI use, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I actually liked about being a data scientist. Especially as someone who’s purposefully stayed on the IC track.

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

community pool is showing the 1993 Mario movie. Mario hatches from an egg in the first 5 minutes. This is gonna be rad as hell

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Dr. Jorts, MD @alexandrajordanmd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I do not use the term “y’all” to sound folksy. I use it to honor the Beastie Boys constantly in my daily life.

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

L take, midwestern hegemony / cultural ascendency is inevitable, y’all rules (just wait till you encounter y’all’ld’ve itll break your brain)

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

used knee bracers during a workout for the first time today and ohmygod it’s a night and day difference (I am now accepted as one of the olds)

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarise yourself with the following to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to hold.

cover of Bayesian Data Analysis (Third Edition)

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:

data4democracy.substack.com

The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side

This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

good write up, quick read! an even short answer is that if you believe that user behavior interacts meaningfully with time (e.g. weekend users != weekday users), you cannot sample size your way out of a bare minimum of a week runtime, regardless of framework

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

next game will either be animal well or tethergeist and it’ll be a game time decision

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

just gonna keep getting absolutely bodied by this for 40 hours a week nonstop until I retire I guess

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

nier automata is so good (actually beat it for real this time)

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

you get into one lil side discussion and all of a sudden the urge to investigate Monte Carlo tree search takes over

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

giving everyone full access to a database via an agent interface is a lot like giving every toddler a drivers license and a ford f150. yes they’re now technically more self sufficient. but the adults in the room now have to keep the toddlers from injuring themselves/others while driving the trucks

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

the thing I love most about playing bluesy/jazzy/whatever piano is that there is no such thing as a wrong note if you can justify your screw ups after the fact

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 21/08/2026

Hail, tornado, yearning

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

if Microsoft slops their ide to the point where I start learning vim someone is going to pay dearly

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

ohmygod I had to open a link to a chart on twitter and they’re doing the mobile slop game really obvious tap here floating hand thing

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

software vendor that by default overrides your config settings from “only run in dev/stage” to “run in all envs”, why are you like this

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Bridget is my aunt (she’s been cut out of the family for a very long time and wasn’t invited to my wedding). I hope she loses the runoff the other republican. It doesn’t undo the years of hurt she’s caused our family/her community, but maybe will get her to see that she’s been living in crazyville.

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

actually, given what they’re advertising, it technically _is_ a shitpost

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I thought this was a shitpost at first but it’s a real ad for a real product that you can buy with real money

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.

data4democracy.substack.com

With Fear and Favor

Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

data4democracy.substack.com

Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Constitutional amendment NOW

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

College kids should be able vote where they actually live most of the time, which is where they go to school

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)

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Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book

Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I regret to inform you that some poasts on L*nkedIn bang

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

public! changelog! and! corrections! are! good! practice! and! should! be! the! standard!

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

someone on L*nkedIn: “The LLM deleted my production database” “Also it was honest about it, pretty cool 👍”

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

good read. AI cannot save you from the dollar cost of poor management

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