The Wizard of Winter Quarters

Honestly the only thing keeping me sane and not spiraling is @nathanevansfox.bsky.social’s music. His voice is how my whole rural town feels

Genuinely at a loss why my grad program insists that some classes are taught exclusively in SAS

This is the real downside to AI. It inconveniences me by making me show my work. Gonna go picket my local data center I guess

I’m begging my professors to let me just submit code instead of also submitting all of the equations typed in LaTeX.

This is true! I love a good Thai pepper pizza. People gotta be more open minded with their toppings and sauces. Pizza traditionalism deprives one of all the beautiful flavors that exist!

Anyway I keep making wicked pizzas

First survival analysis homework completed…

Idk how I’m gonna do the other three in the semester. HOWEVER - it did click right at the end, so maybe there’s hope

I thought I understood statistics. Then I took survival analysis

Thanks!!

Y’all mind if this white boy makes some butter chicken pizza?

Update: got a 100 on the assignment

Ssssshhhhhh let me live in my rigid world

I’ll take your word for it

Hot

I hate LaTeX with a fiery passion.

Anyway here’s my attempt at deriving the MLE value of mu from the normal distribution formula bc my professor hates us

This is what I look like pulling up to bishopric every week

He hates me, Thad

Hot 🥵

My statistical learning professor is insisting we use Python for all our homework and I am SEETHING

Hmmm perhaps I’ll spend some more time on this app again. @deaconblues1979.bsky.social is pretty persuasive

Tough but fair 🫡

Crashout has been postponed I forgot to use a vector instead of a single value - I can calculate it fine

This is coming on the heels of spending two days on a ridiculous multivariate optimization problem. My poor, smooth brain

The multivariate normal distribution is fun because I’m just gonna trust an R package to compute the PDF values for me - I’m not gonna spend the time to verify it’s correct or even that I’m using it right lmao

a man speaking in front of a crowd with a sign that says trusted leadership for a stronger america ALT: a man speaking in front of a crowd with a sign that says trusted leadership for a stronger america

Built a predictive model in one evening that has a ROC curve AUC of 0.998

Softly weeping on the couch as I listen to Joe Hisaishi’s greatest hits

General Conference over the weekend means mini painting!

Got this Hell Knight for trench crusade done :)

Didn’t realize you were over here :)

Wouldn’t be a Saturday if I didn’t spend an hour writing a proof for the take home section of my midterm.

At least there are no numbers involved..?

Missed two questions on one of my stats midterms. That’s decided my evening activity - hyperfixate on why I got those two questions wrong and come to the conclusion I’m a deeply flawed, stupid individual.