Dan Kleinman

@dankleinman.bsky.social

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Research scientist at Yale Child Study Center (formerly Haskins Labs). PhD. Interested in language, dyslexia, bilingualism, EEG, stats. Proponent of summary limericks. I probably drink more tea than you. Posts are ~50% science; opinions are 100% my own.

A highlighted excerpt from The Andromeda Strain: “He explained [his ideas] in a short paper entitled “Sterilization of Spacecraft”, printed in Science and later reprinted in the British journal Nature.”
A screenshot from an iPhone text conversation. Another texter wrote “Apple stop censoring me!!” That message has been highlighted for a tapback response. Within the set of options, the user has searched for “duck”. Apple suggestions 5 options: A baby duck, a baby duck hatching, a mallard, a bird face, and a censored swearing face.
A view from a park on a hill. A few people are lying on towels or blankets on a grassy hill. Below, in the distance, you can see the neighborhood of Pacific Beach and Mission Bay; farther out, the Pacific Ocean. Above, a blue sky with fluffy white clouds.
An R plot gone badly wrong. It looks like a toddler took a blue marker and drew all over a figure of black points against a white background. There are strange wavy grey lines in the background.
From last November to March, the court papers say, Mr. Rush asked for, and received, “a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses.”
From Justice Alito's dissent: "Second—and most critically—the Eleventh Circuit’s sole reliance on the lower bound of Smith’s lowest score reflects a basic misunderstanding of statistics. When clinicians construct a confidence interval using the standard error of measurement, their calculations rely on the assumption that a defendant’s test scores are normally distributed around his “true” IQ—i.e., if a defendant took a large number of IQ tests, the scores would form a bell curve centered on his “true” IQ. Cohen 176; K. Widaman, Concepts of Measurement, in The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability 68 (E. Polloway ed. 2015). Under that assumption, an individual’s score on any given test is more likely to be close to his “true” IQ than far away from it. This fact, in turn, means that the values near the center of a confidence interval are more likely estimates of the defendant’s “true” IQ than the values at the interval’s upper and lower bounds. See G. Cumming & F. Fidler, Confidence Intervals Give Better Answers, 217 J. Psychology 18 (2009); G. Cumming, Inference by Eye: Pictures of Confidence Intervals and Thinking About Levels of Confidence, 29 Teaching Statistics 90–91 (2007). The Eleventh Circuit’s analysis ignored this attribute of confidence intervals. It concluded that Smith’s IQ was 70 or below because the lower bound of the interval for one score was 69. But the fact that 69 marked the lower limit of the interval meant that this value was less likely to reflect Smith’s “true” IQ than other, higher values in the..."
My Art Will Go On: Titanic Artifacts May Soon Be Auctioned The last time a sale was proposed, the idea drew objections from the U.S. and French governments, and from UNESCO and other cultural institutions. By Marc Davis [There is a picture to the right of a statue recovered from the Titanic.]
In the AskReddit subreddit, user “sparrrrrt” asks: “What secret can you reveal now that your nda has expired?” The top-voted response with 25,000 upvotes, by user “Temporary-Zebra97”, is: “Elsevier, the company that makes a lot of the compulsory textbooks for University, commissioned scientists to develop a new book binding glue designed to fail after 3 years, as they hated that there was a second hand market.” Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1rqk6m8/what_secret_can_you_reveal_now_that_your_nda_has/
A CAPTCHA image with a picture of a birdhouse at the top, accompanied by the text "Pick all creatures that could shelter in the item shown in the example". Below it is a 3x3 array of images of animals: 3 each show 2-4 cats, 3 each show 4 puppies, and 3 each show 1 bird.
A 5-second video taken from the front of a house. Snow is piled up in large drifts and is blowing in huge sheets.
A notification on MacOS: "zoom.us" Is Accessing Your Screen. "zoom.us" has accessed your screen and system audio 4417 times in the past 90 days
An excerpt from kareemcarr.substack.com: “Learning the content itself This is what people usually imagine when they think of “learning statistics,” but it is only the fourth step. In my view, real skill in statistics rests on five interconnected competencies: Data sense. The ability to tell when data “looks right” or “looks wrong” after a transformation or analysis. You develop an eye for the patterns that should be there, and a nose for the ones that signal trouble.”
# set up JuliaCall, specifying Julia dir library(JuliaCall) julia <- julia_setup(JULIA_HOME='/Applications/Julia-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/') # install and load relevant package to open JMP files julia_install_package_if_needed("JMPReader") julia_library("JMPReader") # read in data julia_assign("filepath", "~/Desktop/mydata.jmp") julia_command("df = readjmp(filepath)") # transfer to R df <- julia_eval("df")
A text thread between two people. First text: "I JUST SUCCESSFULLY READ A JMP DATA FILE INTO R". Response: "WHAT"
A picture of a person standing in front of two similar-looking gates, accompanied by this description of an Indiegogo perk: "A Fateful Choice. $150,000 USD. Guarantee our future, if you dare! For this (admittedly unlikely) gift, we’ll record *two* new full-length albums, send them both to you, and let you choose which one will follow The New World & New World Vultures. The other will be yours exclusively, so long as you don’t make it publicly available. Plus—of course—Immortality."
Google Maps screenshot of roads next to the UC San Diego campus: Villa La Jolla Dr. to the west, La Jolla Village Dr. to the north, Lebon Dr. to the east, Nobel Dr. to the south.
Aiello’s Ristorante, a restaurant in Whitney Point, NY. Known in the social psych world as the place where, contrary to the findings in now-retracted papers by Brian Wansink, all-you-can-eat buffet pricing does not influence regret. I happened to drive past it and, because I am a nerd, nearly caused an accident when I slammed on the brakes to pull over and take this photo.
An email with some names redacted. Subject line: “Shower us with your precious article”. Body: “Hi [redacted], To support [redacted], we kindly request you to submit your article within the next 24 hours. Your prompt submission will also contribute to my ranking this month.”
A picture of three people standing in the James Turrell piece “Aftershock”. The room is an equiluminant red, with a pink oval in the distance. The hazily colored light and the lack of visual boundaries is very disorienting.
"6.1. The Ferven Scale. If s is the Scoville rating of a capsicum sample, then the Ferven scale rating of the sample is f(s) = (5/3)*log10(s/16 + 1). In Table 2, we compare the Scoville and Ferven scale ratings of the items from Table 1."
Two questions from the survey: "What impact does this project have in increasing American influence, trust and reputation within foreign governments?" and "What impact does this project have in increasing American influence, trust and reputation among foreign publics?"
An adult eagle of unspecified sex feeding their three adorable baby eaglets.
Figure 4 from Bortolotti (1984). Caption: "Fig. 4. Relationship between bill depth and length of hallux claw (mm) for all ages of bald eagles. The line illustrates the plane which separates males from females." The scatterplot shows a cluster of points which score lower on Hallux Claw (X-axis) and Bill Depth (Y-axis) identified by a male symbol, a cluster of points which score higher on both measures identified by a female symbol, and a diagonal line which almost perfectly separates the two clusters.
Clue: “Funding source for many labs” Answer: “Federal grants”
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A 6-panel Achewood comic by Chris Onstad featuring two cats, Ray and Roast Beef. Ray: “Roast Beef! Why are you programming that computer?” / Roast Beef: “I guess it’s the only thing that I’m really good at” / Ray: “What are you programming it to do?” Roast Beef: “This spreadsheet would tell a person when they needed to buy eggs or milk” / Roast Beef: “Based on how much eggs or milk they started with” / [A light bulb goes off above Ray’s head] / SOON: Ray, on a call center headset: “That’s right, sir. Based on how much eggs or milk you started with. Could I interest you in a trial version?” Roast Beef, to Ray: “I also wrote a function that calculates how much hash browns to make”
There are also intranational differences: In the United States, the pronunciation of the *a* in the V|CV *ato* in *potato* and *tomato* has been apparently so contentious that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers could only agree to "call the whole thing off", apparently without resolution in *Shall We Dance* (Gershwin & Gershwin, 1937).
A Highlights section with 5 bullet points: "Structure planning employs comprehension: / Speech of others affects what we mention. / This alignment's still found / When there's no one around, / Though a partner sustains our attention."
An image from an Amazon product page for "Lingo Leap" by Joyspring Vitamins: "Protection against the substances that are slowing down your child's speech development"; "Loved by 800k+ families, and counting". The central image shows a smiling parent holding up a bottle of Lingo Leap, and a laughing child.
A list of 17 beers on draft.