Jared Huling

“But Frog,” said Toad, “if I write my referee report now, then I will not have to write it tomorrow, will I?” “No,” said Frog, “You will not have to.”

OpenAI's practices in general seem to be almost opulently careless. No thought at all went into this, otherwise they would have caught that this result was less than useless

Whitewater State Park in southeast MN. One of my favorites, as it really highlights the features of the Driftless Region

I have no idea if this one is true, but all this result proves is the absurdity of big-O notation.

I hope I'm not the only one who thinks the AP stuff has gone way too far. No one actually believes most of this stuff is genuinely at a college level. I don't see how it actually helps students except pad credit hours

Congress was not a fan of the reports circulating this weekend that Vought is pushing for a commission to review all NIH grants www.statnews.com/2026/09/21/t...

At conf I saw so many humans sharing ideas, showing each other how to write and use new tools, new packages, new #RStats and #Python code. We may not be writing or reading code in the same way, but we're still out there building tools for each other, trying to solve big and important problems.

"The University is not here to teach you how to make a shiny, well-polished report. It’s to teach you how to think, how to learn, how to communicate...if you start relying on GenAI to replace the work of learning, or use it as a crutch, ... you’ll stop doing the hard work of learning."

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

I participated in a reading group of Asymptotic Statistics this summer (thanks @bobbygulotty.bsky.social!). The text is very dense and there is not a lot of hand-holding, so I used an AI assistant to write up notes informed by our discussions mollyow.github.io/bloomsday/

okay this is very good! please read this

Frog tied some string around the box. “There,” he said. “Now our manuscript is completed.” “But we can do lots more robustness checks,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

I'm now at the point where I'm not even sure peer review is doing anything at all. I don't think people in our field understand how prevalent copy-pasting AI output into peer reviews is. It genuinely makes me question what we're all even trying to do anymore. Our field needs to decide what it values

entirely unsurprising, but still interesting to see quantitatively

I appreciate this video, not just because it's complimentary towards the work that we're doing in Minneapolis, but because it reflects the same sense that I have about our *momentum* towards building a better city. I think we've got something special here and I'm glad people are noticing.

Nice post from @eytan.adar.prof on the cargo cult science of "AI-native" PhD students, who come in super productive because they perform all major parts of research with genAI. No one needs all these quick papers, and they can really hurt students down the road. eytanadar.medium.com/ai-native-ph...

cycling gives you more freedom to control your own schedule. it's also just so much more enjoyable than any alternative mode of transportation. and the more, the merrier!

Today I won the Minnesota Cat 4 State Cycling Road Race championship. A hot and hard day -- over 105F at points according to my Garmin device

I'll never forget coming across this part of his book, it really left an impression on me. Teaching is not only such an important part of what we do as academics, but also truly does have benefits for our own work!

Another important thread from @jeremymberg.bsky.social , this time on data showing nih programs to improve minority access to research careers worked.

Martha Barnard, Jared D. Huling, Julian Wolfson Causal Inference for Functional Treatments with Stochastic Policies https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27518

@natecohn.bsky.social (the author of this post) reached out to me for some help with it. Energy balancing is a weighting method (similar to entropy balancing) that balances the entire covariate distribution, not just the means. It's described here by @jaredhuling.bsky.social:

I find this fascinating because my reaction to Dutch suburbs was how wonderful, sane, and livable they are in comparison to suburbs in the US

Academic freedom assessment across the world. The US is on a steep decline, below >120 countries www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

With the latest update on CRAN, I've made additional changes to fastglm, including Firth bias correction for all standard GLMs. If you need to fit negative binomial models, try fastglm, as it's much more likely to converge than MASS::glm.nb(), see cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

“You were respectfully informed that distribution of materials [critical of the Trump administration] was not permitted and given the opportunity to remain in the meeting if you stopped handing out the materials. When you continued the behavior, we had no choice but to remove you from the meeting.”

This is huge. You could have perfectly good cholesterol, do all the right things in terms of diet, exercise and sleep and yet still be at major risk of CVD due to high LP(a). Lots of promising therapies and we'll get to hear whether one of them works this year

Always found this type of trick very cute (I guess an instance of 'lifting?):

I've made some big changes to the fastglm package with version 0.1.0 on cran: cran.r-project.org/package=fast... - updates that further improve speed - three new models for more complex outcome (neg binom, hurdle, zero infl) - First bias correction - big data support ** Details outlined below:

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Paris reduced the number of on-street parking spaces from 140,000 to 70,000 - that is how to enable people-centric neighbourhoods 👍

I've now in the past two weeks received multiple paper reviews for papers I've submitted that were very obviously written by AI. As a field I think we need to re-assess the role of editors and associate editors in the review process

Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3

#OTD 1878 Kirstine Smith b (d 11 Nov 1939) inventor of optimal designs; her 1918 PhD thesis at UCL described G-optimal designs for polynomial regression. Her work was virtually unnoticed for almost a half-century until its rediscovery by Jack Kiefer in 1959. 1/4 🧵