Bits and pieces

This entry collects some quick quotes and links.

🦜 “(Recall the dictum that mixture models all have computational problems and that all computational problems are essentially mixture models.)” - Andrew Gelman commenting on a comment.

🦜 ‘Because this generation of symptoms entails a complex of “subject-internal” activities, we can never speak in the strictest sense in terms of simulator-centered “nocebo effects”, but only in terms of subject-centered “nocebo responses”.’ - Wikipedia being intriguingly pedantic insisting that there is no placebo “effect”, only placebo “responses”.

🔗 A treatment of NA values with wrapper functions with a comparison to monads.

I need to make a keyboard shortcut to extract Markdown [inline links](long-url) and convert them to [reference links][ref].