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This is the personal site of Dominic Ricottone.
You can also find me on GitHub, GitLab, Tangled, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.
Here are my most recent blog posts.
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Halfway Exploring a City (or two), posted on 2026-07-07
Progress on my series of posts about Midwestern cities has been severely delayed. The reason is that, after reflecting on the visits I had in the latter half of 2025, I don’t believe I saw enough.
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A Series on SEM - Part 5, posted on 2026-03-19
This is the final part of a series on structural equation modeling (SEM). Previously I came to the conclusion that replicating my reference model in lavaan will require declaring some covariances to be zero. This is essentially an inappropriate assumption that the variables are independent. There had already been some suspicion that Stata was making assumptions like this implicitly.
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LinkedIn Project URLs, posted on 2026-02-05
LinkedIn has removed the ability to associate a ‘project’ with a URL. It seems the new flow that they want users to adopt is to associate ‘media’ with projects. These media items can have a URL or a static file.
I occasionally post on Bluesky, mostly about concerts and music.
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My most listened to music of the last 30 days. See more on LastFM.
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Articles from around the internet I would recommend reading.
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From: Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Date: September 14, 2026
Subject: New York City Psychometrics Group
Betsy McCoach and her colleagues and students at Fordham University do a great job at organizing talks, socials, and conferences around psychometrics, extending more generally to sociometric and econometrics. They organize these events through the New Yor…
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From: Drezner’s World
Date: September 14, 2026
Subject: The Dollar Will Be the Last Pillar To Fall
The Trump administration is gutting the pillars of U.S. hegemony one by one.
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From: Xe Iaso's blog
Date: September 12, 2026
Subject: Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
The power of science is staggering! Every day we're making new advancements in the field of generative artificial intelligence via judicious application of large language model inference technology. However, as we approach the next critical th…
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