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spootze··on Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures
Regarding the frequentist vs bayesian debates, my slightly provocative take on these three cultures is

- subjective Bayes is the strawman that frequentist academics like to attack

- objective Bayes is a naive self-image that many Bayesian academics tend to possess

- pragmatic Bayes is the approach taken by practitioners that actually apply statistics to something (or in Gelman’s terms, do science)

spootze··on Are we at peak vector database?
pgvector has you covered: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector
spootze··on Zuckerberg: advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'
Facebook is actually one of the few platforms (if not the only platform?) that allows running self-serve RCTs (conversion lift tests in their lingo): https://www.facebook.com/business/help/688346554927374

Conditional on them honestly reporting numbers, it's a pretty credible way to measure effectiveness in terms of incremental conversions you get by showing ads on FB/IG