Big Muddy
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- transcribe.cpp: Local transcription library
- What happens inside an LLM?
- The telltale cliff
- tongfen: The least common geography
- Einstein and the magician
- Adam's rib
- Can Quebec and Alberta untangle their spaghetti code together?
- Prediction markets: You're always betting against the house
- Housing starts start too late
- Where I learned about lockdowns
- LinkedIn case
- Which date counts?
- The best feature in sports sims
- My most cancellable academic take
- What happens when the guy with 1% of the votes votes to give himself all the money?
- A picture worth nothing
- A Stake in the future
- The planter is on fire
- Yes, I'm still mad about <i>Time</i>'s Person of the Year for 2006
- Here we are
- Yotta is the 21<sup>st</sup> century in miniature
- Beliefs are not choices
- Am I a technocrat?
- Twitter discovers the Kelcey Rule
- Thermal shock
- China as Evil Empire
- The literary bots are winning
- Golden egg machine broke
- The (only) problem with soccer
- Hedge knights
- Yes, you can fill XFA PDFs on Linux
- Will the real `<user>` please stand up?
- Seed hacking
- Mapping the decline of local news
- Love in lockdown
- How a First Nation built what Vancouver wouldn't
- Quantifying the bias against null results in academic publishing
- Data aquarium
- GDP numbers in low-income countries are usually fake
- If you let AI do your writing for you...
- Simulate how populations will change in the 21st century
- The hallmarks of pseudoscience
- We need a better class of billionaire
- Has CRAN avoided malicious packages?
- The war on statistical noise
- LLMs are great at giving the expected shape of an answer
- Bananas are berries
- *Dragon Age: Origins* is still really good
- Snow in June
- Of course logistic regression is regression (and other fake categories)
- Remembering J. Craig Venter (1946–2026)
- AI love and *Good Will Hunting*
- Biosecurity in the land of Chinese peptides
- A wait time tracker for Canadian emergency rooms
- Who needs prompt injections when you can just say the magic word?
- The image is not the art
- Google AI Overviews is Reddit
- *Ginkgo biloba*: No girls allowed
- Supa Hot Fire: Still not a rapper
- How many Ps are in Google?
- A guide to dependency cooldowns
- Somebody saved the FiveThirtyEight archive
- Testing ZeroClaw, Part 3: Social noise no more
- The largest North American Bitcoin ATM operator goes bust
- Badger Badger is culturally, historically or aesthetically significant
- Why Bitcoin Pizza Day is crypto's longest-running joke
- Why did a heat wave kill nearly a hundred in Quebec and none in Ontario?
- Surveillance pricing roundup & a prediction market ban
- Most people who died of COVID-19 didn't have four chronic diseases
- The NHS declares war on open source
- Stylometric analysis of Satoshi Nakamoto
- It's weird that Canada never had a COVID-19 inquiry
- FiveThirtyEight is well and truly dead
- Why can't *The Boys* stop *Love Island*?
- How Big Muddy runs
- Hantavirus and the next pandemic
- Fun words: Chisme
- My recent essay on the state of the Internet got sucked into the AI slop machine
- Canada plans to ban crypto ATMs
- Canada to create specialized police force for financial crimes
- A few more prediction market stories
- New York Times correction: Pierre Poilievre not so fiesty as initially reported
- DAEMON Tools has been compromised for almost a month
- US FDA launches pilot of "real-time clinical trials"
- The best is over
- OpenAI announces subscriptions can be used for OpenClaw
- A hub for writing on prediction markets
- Dependency cooldowns are now supported in the latest version of pip
- Technology and the quaintification of politics
- Excalidraw Whiteboard
- New Zealand and Australia are really far apart
- How a nuclear power plant became a haven for wildlife
- Causation does not necessarily imply correlation
- Eroom's law
- Maduro raid soldier arrested for insider trading on Polymarket for $400,000 score
- Even the most expensive law firms are filing AI slop
- ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL
- Japan's Phillips curve looks like Japan
- Encouraging results for mRNA therapy for pancreatic cancer
- Is the pendulum swinging back on free-range childhood?
- The surprising origin of the citation system controlling academia
- Fake stars are rampant on GitHub
- Why you can't just subsidize demand to end Canada's housing crisis
- McDonald’s used to put the vaccine schedule on tray liners
- An example of vote (in)efficiency in Quebec
- Adjusting for recalled past vote in political polling
- How do pollsters get different results from the same data?
- Scientists invent a fake disease, AI picks it up, other scientists cite it
- A data point against the idea that AI will freeze/homogenize culture
- AI makes it easier to generate fake papers, too
- What is a public opinion poll without the public?
- Social media is a freak show
- How effective are Amber alerts?
- The definition of "agent"
- The triumph of the data raccoons
- Andrew Gelman's blog schedule
- Testing ZeroClaw, Part 2.5: ZeroClaw is alive!
- Testing ZeroClaw, Part 2: ZeroClaw is dead?
- One important fact about for-profit plasma donation
- How to avoid cognitive surrender to AI
- Opt out of very new Python package versions with uv
- Colorado advances ban on algorothmic price and wage discrimination
- How SARS-CoV-2 variants get named on GitHub
- Prediction markets are coming to Canada
- Will AI help Canadian police counter a tsunami of fraud?
- Vandalism of OpenStreetMap
- Properly the work of federal public health agencies
- For map nerds only: An atlas of world history
- Fight club at the bird feeder
- Make buses faster and more reliable by having fewer stops
- Manitoba introduces bill to ban algorithmic price discrimination
- Prediction markets incentivize bad behaviour
- Some insight into writing a book using Quarto
- Using Claude Claude for cross-package statistical audits
- Getting citizenship just got a lot harder for those of Italian descent
- geoBoundaries: An open database of political administrative boundaries
- Open banking comes to Canada
- The other half of the ATM–bank teller story
- What will the paper of the future look like?
- Changes in acetaminophen use after the White House Tylenol briefing
- Canada exports a lot of coal, but not for power generation
- Open By Default: A database of access to information requests to the Canadian government
- The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database
- Editors hate this one weird trick
- Homeownership rate doesn't mean what you think it does
- The productivity shock coming to academic publishing
- Testing ZeroClaw, Part 1: Setup
- Some examples of just-build-things-ism
- Will you peruse this post?
- Big Muddy turns one month old
- It's incredibly easy to game Twitter's trending news algorithm
- These academic journal AI policies aren't going to last
- Agentic engineering patterns
- Comparing the Claw-like agent ecosystem
- LLMs automate the erosion of online anonymity
- Oral texts
- Film recommendation: Bugonia
- The increasingly inevitable social media ban for kids
- A brief history of chocolate in the army
- Democratizing voice cloning scams
- Don't let AI do your thinking for you
- In the multiverse of forking paths
- Regulatory uncertainty threatens biotech innovation
- US Medicaid data gets DOGE'd
- More on vibe researching
- An end-to-end AI pipeline for policy evaluation papers
- There is only one statistical test
- The case for sharing clinical trial data
- Why a Canadian news site just launched an AI publishing tool
- A handful of composers created most classic RPG soundtracks
- How do you regain access to your computer if you lose your memory?
- Anthropic's statistical analysis skill doesn't get statistical significance quite right
- The CIA World Factbook has been memory holed
- Guinea worm one step closer to eradication
- msgvault: A personal email archive and search system to watch
- The Divergent Association Task, a measure for creativity
- A/B testing for advertising is not randomized
- Total electoral wipeout
- Twyman's law
- Remember that a lot of numbers are fake
- Welcome to Big Muddy