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I have not written blog posts for quite a while. It is not because I don’t have anything to write. On the contrary, I have a huge amount of things that I could have written about, e.g., how I collect and manage GIFs, and some stories behind the publication of the bookdown book. A lot of things have happened since the last time I wrote a post here. I’ll explain them later this year.
Today I started this post only because I love memes and rumors (with no bad intentions), especially those about the guys behind Simply Statistics. These guys are a lot of fun. So Jeff Leek asked on Twitter the other day about an R interface to Alexa Skills (Cc’ed me probably because of my Shiny Voice app).
I don’t know anything about Alexa, but the funny thing was that rumors quickly emerged in the replies.
And I just wanted to collect these unknown “facts” about Jeff A-leek-sa:
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@DrJWolfson: Jeff Leek smooths densities with his bare hands.
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@tslumley: Jeff Leek can do zero-fold crossvalidation.
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@xieyihui: Jeff Leek supports both vector and matrix machines.
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@TrestleJeff:
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@rdpeng: Jeff can convert data frames to matrices with his mind.
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@drob: Jeff Leek’s error messages contain the cure for cancer. Unfortunately, he’s never seen one.
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@drob: Any statistic is a sufficient statistic when it’s Jeff Leek using it.
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@seankross: Jeff Leek has no need for the Tidyverse. Any data he touches tidies itself out of a combination of respect and fear.
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@joranelias: All Jeff Leek sequences of random variables converge surely in probability.
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@kennyshirley: Correlation implies whatever Jeff Leek tells it to imply.
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@just_add_data: Jeff Leek doesn’t trade off bias and variance.
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@bcaffo: Jeff Leek counted to infinity. Twice.
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@DrJWolfson: Using only the irrationals.
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@bcaffo: Which reminds me that Jeff Leek can make square root of 2 rational.
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@bcaffo: Jeff Leek can fit a regression line with one point. And get a variance.
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@mjfrigaard0: Jeff Leek once won a Kaggle competition, but was disqualified for using his abacus.
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@mjfrigaard: Git commits to Jeff Leek.
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@mjfrigaard: Jeff Leek can lift the curse of dimensionality by merely glancing at your data.
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@clarkfitzg: All P-values computed by Jeff Leek are significant.
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@jrnld: Singular matrices are so named because Jeff Leek is the only one who can invert them.
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@rikturr: Jeff Leek’s cubic splines are all linear.
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@butterflyology: Jeef Leek supports S3 and S4 classes, at the same time.
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@tpoi: When Jeff Leek uses
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@Miao_Cai_SLU: Jeff build regression models without endogeneity.
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@brandenco: CRAN checks itself before it submits to Jeff Leek.
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@BeEngelhardt: When Jeff Leek inverts a matrix, time actually reverses
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@michaelhoffman: Jeff Leek is the Uniformly Most Powerful Jeff.
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@pachamaltese: Jeff Leek always obtains unbiased estimators.
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@rdpeng (a few days later): Ok, who knew that Slack was an acronym?
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@sherrirose: Jeff Leek knew that Slack was an acronym.
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@rdpeng: Nice. I deserved that.
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@EamonCaddigan: Jeff Leek can quickly process several yottabytes of data in memory. HIS memory.
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@butterflyology: If you install Jeff Leek, there are no dependencies. Because Jeff Leek depends on nothing.
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@DrJWolfson: Jeff Leek cannot be replicated, but he is fully reproducible.
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@pdalgd: Jeff Leek can make code work just by waiting for it!
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@TrestleJeff: R Core was founded as a Jeff Leek tribute band.
I’m looking forward to yet more facts.
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