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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They have always been, just nobody wanted to admit it. There is no inference without a model, period.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I still can’t believe growth mindset is reported in PISA.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The absolute imbecility of whoever thought it was a good idea to send a QR code through an SMS that the recipient is supposed to scan with its phone camera.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The tragedy of the commons in meta analysis is massive

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The real reason the consultancy sector is dead because of LLMs is that the work was mostly confabulatory sycophantic story-building. Now the marginal cost for that is zero.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"Don't commission that, it is claudizable" has become a day to day warning.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hey @posit.co team, is there a plan to make Posit Assistant easier to configure with Ollama-run local models?

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Is the US Trump administration pushing scientists towards industry by making their academic lives unbearable?

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My newborn daughter only sleeps if I play her Nick Drake tunes. How proud and lucky and I.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Really enjoying C. Thi Nguyen’s book on the philosophy of games “The Score”. Resonates with my own philosophy of turning problems into games to get enjoyment into solving them, instead of stress to sort them out.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Loving the workshops @paulgp.com is making on Claude (Code and Cowork)

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Man, the content at Vox is really bad, when did this happen?

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The Thom Yorke concert in the Sydney Opera House is sublime, mesmerizing. Rabbit in your headlights solo version is beyond words.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

You should all cancel your subscriptions to expensive online survey systems and build your own with surveydown, supabase and bslib.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Let me get this straight. You can have Posit AI in RStudio for 20 bucks a month or Claude Code in Positron for 20 bucks a month. Why on earth would you pick the former? Weird move by Posit.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Music journalism should be a bigger thing. Like a magazine that hosts Rick Beato interviews, what Vox used to do called Earworm and stuff like that. I would subscribe in a heartbeat.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A few months ago I started experimenting with having multiple open source LLMs interact with each others’ inputs-outputs. One would produce a prompt that another would use, and another one still would review. I guess that is called agentic coding.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Oh the joy, Scrubs season 10 is very good.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Why did I just discover that in Markdown [] creates a clickable box on HTML.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Hi @vincentab.bsky.social is there a plan for marginaleffects to support CmdStanMCMC class objects?

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Obsessed with that recent lecture by James Robison about cultural syncretism and how the real and the absurd lives together in Latin America.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Eveything has a chatbot and nothing works better because if it.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Happy day, baggr quietly released an update

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

How do we call this phase in social science where all large effects were found and now everyone is bickering infinitely on small effects seen through underpowered studies? Tinycene? Minicene?

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The querychat_app function is one of the most powerful things I have ever seen. What that team is doing is awesome.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Qué lindo, p-hacking en la junta directiva del BanRep.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The academic-entrepreneur is a dangerous animal. If the academic is not good to begin with, the combo of lack of scruples and high ambition crates professional thieves or fraudsters.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Claude Code: - Hey, make a plan to fix this document - Execute the plan - Hey, reverse all changes, you screwed this up massively

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

What book collaboration that never happened but could, would have been GOAT? Hume & Smith

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Dream book collaboration: Kushan Basu and Jame Robinson write about the law and behavior in India and Colombia.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Which R package handles cmdstanr_summary() for HTML?

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Such beautiful calligraphy in the 16th century

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Statistical Rethinking 2026 simultaneous beginner + experienced

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

You have a problem. You ask a consultant for a solution. He gives you one. You pay him. He leaves. The problem is solved. Why do people believe this fiction?

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Best album of 2025: Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE Best book I read in 2025: The proof by Frederick Schauer (from 2022)

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The day retraction watch looks at the “research” produced by international organizations, the reckoning will be bigger than for social psychology.

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