Speak at posit::conf(2025)!
posit::conf(2025) is coming to Atlanta, GA on Sept 16-18, and we're looking for talks on data science with R and Python. What would the data science and open-source software community love to hear?
Accepted speakers receive travel assistance, free tickets, coaching, and more assistance. Submit your proposal at pos.it/conf-talk-2025.
Deadline Feb 3!
Learn more at: posit.co/blog/speak-at-posit-conf-2025/
PSA: #Patreon just announced they're changing their privacy policy to default all of your account info, who you support, etc. to public. You need to go into the settings and disable that. (Check the two toggles at the bottom of the Settings page to off.)
And then send Patreon a nasty letter, because default-open is just a stupid model to begin with, period.
The dog park conversation today was about how in certain Catholic temples in downtown Toronto the priest is not giving the waffle on the hand, as modern protocol dictates. Only directly to the mouth, Medieval style.
This happens apparently for fear of possible desecration and misuse by Satanists and Cultists, who would then pocket it and later make it part of arcane rituals intended to bring back The Old Ones sleeping in the depths of time.
Everybody should have access to the waffle.
Probably super naive multilevel modeling question that I'm way overthinking (https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/does-this-hierarchical-brms-formula-correctly-link-covariates-across-the-multiple-nested-levels/32410):
I have data like this, with variables measured at different levels. In raw Stan, this can be estimated w/2 diff datasets.
Does this brms formula do the same thing? #rstats #bayesian #statsodon
This may be a naively obvious question, but I figured I’d ask. Is there a way to use {brms} to fit a multilevel/hierarchical model with substantial numbers of predictors at different levels in the model? (e.g. if modeling students nested inside schools, use a model with many student-level and school-level covariates) Here’s a pseudo example using data from this conjoint choice model written in raw Stan. Respondents completed 8 separate tasks where they had to choose between four different opti...
A #Utah Therapist Built a Reputation for Helping Gay Latter-day Saints.
These Men Say He Sexually Abused Them.
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Several #patients complained to the #church or the state licensing board about inappropriate touching during #therapy sessions.
It was years before the #therapist gave up his license.
Because propaganda is a thing that exists, obviously.
Majority of Republicans Now Call Same-Sex Relations Immoral: Gallup
It's not religion that is driving the resurgent moral panic about LBGTQ people in the USA. You don't get a 15% shift beliefs in a year due to growing religious sentiment.
It's cynical opportunists trying to ride to power on populist sentiment by delegating and demonizing an outgroup.
Fuck every one of them.
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