Profile avatar
jackmitcham.bsky.social
🚀 Sci-fi writer working to become a sci-fi *author* 📖 Writing a novel set on a tidally-locked iceball planet, where wealth inequality follows the temperature gradient 👨‍💼 Management scientist 👱‍♂️ Dad to the sweetest boy in the world
724 posts 247 followers 222 following
Getting Started
Active Commenter
Posts 5 Comments 45

This is the text of the bullshit email all federal government employees just received from the Office of Personnel Management (or are about to receive).

submitted 1 hour ago • 165 comments

Week 7 of my Bayes stats course, now deep in multilevel models, correlated effects, centered and non-centered parameterizations, diag(σ)LZ ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn (link to lectures: github.com/rmcelreath/s...)

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Also, they're objectively not running government like a business. I've never seen a business operate this chaotically, firing people based on time in position rather than any metrics. Thats the height of bureaucracy. Also, firing critical people and trying to hire them back is sloppy.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

. @crampell.bsky.social is exactly right: Defending the status quo isn't a viable option for DOGE critics. They need to stay laser-focused on one thing: actually fixing things. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Changing conspiracy theory beliefs is very hard, but a replicated finding shows a short chat with GPT-4 changes people’s belief in conspiracy theories for the long term. Why? It isn’t rhetorical tricks, it's that AI provides relevant facts and evidence tailored to each person's specific beliefs.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments