Alchemize: PyMC’s model to replace Stan/PyMC, etc. with an LLM

2026-05-14

This post is from Bob I’ll let Thomas Wiecki, who is one of the core PyMC devs and one of the partners at PyMC Labs, speak for himself here: Thomas Wiecki. 2026. Alchemize: Transpile PyMC to Rust for 3-7x speed-up. … Continue reading → …

“As our daily lives involve ever more sophisticated computers, we will find that ascribing little thoughts to machines will be increasingly useful in understanding how to get the most good out of them” but “we must be careful not to ascribe properties to a machine that the particular machine doesn’t have”

2026-05-14

This is Jessica. Maybe one of the biggest crimes of academic computer science (besides routinely ignoring prior work and making up social science to suit our needs) is our tolerance for abuse of language. We take technical things and inject … Continue reading → …

“DC Conventional Wisdom Goes Down to Defeat in State after State”

2026-05-14

Josh Marshall writes: Elections are hard to predict. But even with that, some of the notional “surprises” we’re seeing [on Election Day, 2025] are less surprises than a measure of GOP dominance over current press narratives. People were looking for … Continue reading → …

Is logistic regression regression?

2026-05-14

I came across a post recently by a machine learning engineer who made the bold claim that logistic regression is the worst name for an algorithm ever, or something along those lines1. Many statisticians of the more old-school type seemed to disagree. T…

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