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benradford.bsky.social
Asst. Professor @ UNCC. Computational social science, machine learning, Bayesian stats, political conflict, forecasting, cybersecurity, international relations. Signal: brr.37 https://www.pandas-lab.com www.benradford.com
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We're now at like 180 to 360 really solid NSF grants sitting at the bottom of the ocean 🤷

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

OMG if you'd just fucking tied down your fighter jets you could have saved enough money to not shut down the NSF

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Statistics is 🔥

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you for inviting me to collaborate on the ideas and writing of the brief wit your great students! For anyone curious about the arguments but short on time, their Harvard Cyber clinic blog post condensed our contributions to the Massachusetts court.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Meet `azllm` by our team – an easier way to run multiple LLMs: - Many prompts on one model (batch) - One prompt on many models (parallel) - Custom settings per run - Supports propietary + local models (@ollama) - Parses responses (structured outputs) pypi.org/project/azllm/

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

100%

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think we have to concede the premise: there ARE conservative professors. They just also believe in science, which means modern MAGA conservatives don't consider them pure

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

If there's one thing voters just don't have any real world sensitivity to, it's prices

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I see a lot of confusion about what it means for Republicans to "own" immigration. Does this mean increasing immigration salience helps Rs on average? Yes. But does that mean anything Rs do on immigration is popular? Absolutely not. Folks should remember: issue ownership can be lost.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

This story is utterly nuts, and gets more so with each paragraph. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Even college students, much less regular folk, don't understand that professors are _the_ scientists. They think these are two different professions with different populations. We've got to communicate the research part of our jobs better

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

two months in and the US has already decisively lost the trade war

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Competition is fierce these days but Bill Ackman is my front runner for Dumbest Fuck on the Planet right now

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

submitted 30 days ago • 314 comments

With alt text

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

Oopsies. "The formula for the tariffs ...does not make economic sense. ... But even if one were to take the Trump Administration’s tariff formula seriously, it makes an error that inflates the tariffs assumed to be levied by foreign countries four-fold." www.aei.org/economics/pr...

submitted 33 days ago • 19 comments

"basic approach" yeah no shit

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments