Stephan Kolassa

To be honest, I do not understand your coauthor. Of course people can and will reuse your model, that is the entire point of publishing it. And in the present case, you write that you are "reusing the same model files", so you are explicitly reusing the code, but "They only agreed to share the code, not the model", so what are they complaining about? (And I'm not even going into what "reusing the code, but not the model" would even mean, which IMO quickly leads into absurdities.)

Can moderators please delete the profile of "Spammer", stats.stackexchange.com/users/489297/spammer? And exercise some judicious pest control on "Spark Pest Control", stats.stackexchange.com/users/489294/spark-pest-control? Thank you.

$\sigma_{23}(pnig)$

(like a "dichotomania" tag on CV)

@whuber actually, I do like to say that "need" is precisely not zero/one. I'm continuously amazed at how many things I need I can do without.

we need a dichotomania tag

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SYN-ACK

Anyone interested in Thai massage in Barcelona? stats.stackexchange.com/users/487362/song-thai-jintanat No? Me neither.

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I don't think I would retain the services of a neurosurgeon that resorts to SEO spam: stats.stackexchange.com/users/486479/…. Well, neither would I for industrial racking specialists, stats.stackexchange.com/users/486455/logiserv-inc.

@User1865345 Sometimes it seems like this "extended SE family" mainly consists of crazy uncles. (I nominate Academia.SE as another island of relative sanity.)

And today's PSA (Posted Spam Accounts): stats.stackexchange.com/users/485925/autohaus-avesta and stats.stackexchange.com/users/485886/… and stats.stackexchange.com/users/485943/…. If you want to buy cars in Germany, or electronics or toys in China, be fast before the accounts are (hopefully) burninated.

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@gung-ReinstateMonica Glad to do that if this recurs. I can't recall seeing this ever before in the >10 years I have been around. No need to open a big discussion over a once-a-decade issue.

I just VTC'ed a question that essentially announces a paper by the post author, followed by two questions about similar work, because it really feels like a press release with the two questions as a fig leaf: stats.stackexchange.com/questions/667964/… It's not like this happens every day here, but do y'all agree with my point of view that this is not appropriate for CV, or not?

Today's ping brought to you by NewStart Nutrition, stats.stackexchange.com/users/485182/newstart-nutrition, and by the aptly named Spammer, stats.stackexchange.com/users/485111/spammer, which a moderator apparently has already de-spammed (but why not simply delete the entire user?).

@User1865345 I'm sure the inner workings of spam farms are fascinating, and I assume there are economics papers describing them. I would assume there are ways of ordering "1000 profiles of my company somewhere Google will find them", and the spammer has tools to do so, which will automatically send back a list of links to the client as proof of work done. (Does anyone here need a boost to their CV threads?)

Some more SEO spam "users": stats.stackexchange.com/users/483408/… and stats.stackexchange.com/users/483388/the-junk-men and stats.stackexchange.com/users/483374/junkmd-inc and stackexchange.com/users/42357469/junk-spammer.

Here I was all excited about that new "Chat" button, which even came with a popup to draw my attention to it... and then it just drops me off in here again. Ah well. I guess more (new) users could profit from knowing about this place.

@Glen_b: take care, get better, and stop surfing CV...

Someone could pull the data and do a seasonal plot of average activity against day of week, one line per year, and heatmap color code by year, similar to this: stats.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3107/1352

It's still early on Monday, so I expect we are still seeing the Sunday slump. Conversely, 2016-05-26 was a Thursday. Nevertheless, I do believe we have seen quite a drop in activity.

@User1865345 Simple: go to "Users", then "New users", then "creation date", and all these were on the first two pages. Re "Rhino Investigation", their URL is especially reassuring (and no, I won't put it in here).

Today's ping sponsored by the following SEO spam "users": stats.stackexchange.com/users/481951/rhino-investigation and stats.stackexchange.com/users/481946/commercial-gates-company and stats.stackexchange.com/users/481939/mexico-city-private-driver and stats.stackexchange.com/users/481891/….

I think I can predict the next CV HNQ...

@User1865345 Good catch, he's shown as a mod to me too there.

We haven't seen much activity on our "spread the wealth" thread... does anyone have suggestions? stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2935/1352

@User1865345 I like to say I am sitting between all chairs: academia vs. (retail) industry; grocery vs. DIY (with differences that I could fill a whole seminar talk on, and that will break your supply chain if not addressed). No problem, the floor can be comfy.

@User1865345 Whereas here on CV I consistently advocate for simple methods (and assume that some people get heartburn from my cavalierly skipping over theory), at work I have a reputation of raising theoretical objections to approaches that "work". (Usually I point out that stuff works in very specific circumstances, but won't in others, so this should be done in customization, not in the standard product.) Recently, I was gently ribbed for being the mathematician by a customer...

Regarding the editing culture at other SE sites: I'm still traumatized by seeing a tag wiki for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at Music.SE which claimed that he was a "17th century composer". Since Mozart (1756-1791) lived squarely in the 18th century, I edited the wiki... and the edit was rejected, by a high-rep user. I have since refrained from correcting my better there.

@User1865345 This triggers me a bit. I already had a comment all typed out here and deleted it because... reasons.

What's with all the recent posts on A/B testing by new users (who also like to post "test questions for deletion", which they then never delete), stats.stackexchange.com/…? Is someone learning LLMs and how to spam us?

A few more SEO "users" for moderators to destroy: stats.stackexchange.com/users/478280/english-caffe and stats.stackexchange.com/users/478236/lassoandloadjunkremoval and stats.stackexchange.com/users/478195/user478195. Thank you!

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@Dave Ping!

@CowperKettle I believe I read in Kahneman's Noise about how abysmal judges are in predicting delinquent recidivism. And conversely, it's a standard finding in time series forecasting that standard statistical methods (not even ML) very often outperform judgmental forecasts.

Is spam the new ping?

The spam is flowing freely today. Like beer at a frat party. #DrinkingFromTheCrapHose

@Dave Would you be happier if I told you I have been LaTeXing for close on 30 years and hear of this for the first time? (Then again, I don't spend a lot of time in normed spaces.)

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It appears to be time for yet another

@User1865345 Agreed, I voted to close as off-topic. There is no statistical content here. Unfortunately, it has just gone HNQ and will attract upvotes. I guess I'll flag and ask the mods to look into it.

Is it already time for a ping?

@NickCox I see you spelled GenBalonAI wrong.

@J-J-J changing the tag description to "use this tag to indicate a poor grasp of statistics and no prior research" might be a good way to screen for people who engage with the system to the extent of actually reading the wikis. Reminiscent of "no brown M&Ms", smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/…

@SextusEmpiricus So, any particular reason why you deleted the answer? I can't say whether it's useful or not (though as a good Bayesian, I am prejudiced in favor of a high-rep CV user), but I hope you are not just turned off by random drive-by voters?

I am at a conference (linkedin.com/posts/…). Two people independently walked up to me and thanked me for helping them here on CV, one with his undergrad thesis back in 2021, four years ago. Gives me a warm glow.

@Philipp: then again, any example might be outdated before the ink is dry on this page, given the speed at which regulations are changed nowadays...

In principle, this is a good suggestion. However, especially in fields where women are underrepresented, making sure they are represented on decision making bodies where their voices need to be heard means that they get a lot more work of this kind. I know of one science/math department that had only one female professor, and she had to sit on all hiring committees for new professors.