Adam Lauretig

@lauretig
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Data Scientist, Cyclist (road + gravel), Poli Sci PhD. Fan of cats, puns, and good food. Likes Bayesian stats, causal inference, and latent-variable models.

All opinions my own; not investment advice.

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I meant to be finishing a post about books I'm reading but I got distracted and wrote ~2500 words about Mastodon and Bluesky and the related things (welcoming design, insular culture) I've been stewing on for a few months

And also about vegetarian meat substitutes in the 1980s, which were *really something*

https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

I've been thinking again about why spam emails have errors in them. Here's one story I find appealing, realized as a fun combination of instrumental variables, one-sided non-compliance, and the pursuit of the biggest LATE.
Working on a Friday night, playing music from 2012. It's like college all over again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxTBtHsh408
Some Nights

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Happy Friday
Someone should really write an "applied partial identification" book, with code. #econ #econometrics #econtwitter #statistics
Eternal optimism that the cats are hopping in bed to snuggle with me in the morning and not doing what they are actually doing which is “conscientious nonviolent protest to me being asleep”
Kitty likes the Pogues
Kitty likes the Pogues

(For those outside #Minnesota: Buttigieg apparently praised several "cities" with zero pedestrian deaths last year. The short list earning his commendation included several legit cities, like Hoboken, and -- incongruously -- a small, tony suburb of #Minneapolis, called #Edina.

A Twitter commentator said it best:

"I recall the last pedestrian I saw in Edina, at the opening of Southdale Center in 1956."

Or as #demographers would have it: #PayAttentionToTheDenominator )

Efforts to prevent gentrification by graffiti tagging buildings in gentrifying neighborhoods with edgy political slogans seems to badly misunderstand which kind of people are first-wave gentrifiers and what their aesthetic preferences are.