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This is the personal site of Dominic Ricottone.
You can also find me on GitHub, GitLab, SourceHut, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.
Here are my most recent blog posts.
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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.
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A Series on SEM - Part 4, posted on 2026-01-07
Building on the deep-dive into Stata’s structural equation modeling (SEM) facilities, I turn now to R.
There were a few hiccups to picking up lavaan. First and foremost, strictly exogenous latent variables (i.e., those on the right hand side only) are not supported. They all need to be defined by a measurement model. Somewhat annoying since
Alphais fundamentally an error term, but not really an issue since it is definitionally independent of all predictors. There’s really no difference between regressingAlphaonwagevs. regressingwageonAlpha. -
A Series on SEM - Part 3, posted on 2025-12-12
This is a relatively minor update on my saga of tacking the many-headed beast that is structural equation modeling (SEM).
I occasionally post on Bluesky, mostly about concerts and music.
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Now listening to
re6ce and ThxSoMch
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Now listening to
Thotcrime, Cocojoey, Full Body 2, and Anamanaguchi, all live at Metro
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Now listening to
Joywave, live at Uptown Live
My most listened to music of the last 30 days. See more on LastFM.
- In The Night by Mr.Kitty
- False Dichotomy by Metric
- Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too by Say Anything
- Cradles by Sub Urban
- My Propeller by Arctic Monkeys
Articles from around the internet I would recommend reading.
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From: Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Date: February 5, 2026
Subject: Sunstein on Kissinger: No opinion on the whole war criminal thing, but the generosity that he showed when talking about Star Wars [the movie, not the weapons program] was “incomparable”
A colleague points us to this interview by Isaac Chotiner with law professor and public intellectual Cass Sunstein. I think that Sunstein’s fundamental problem is that he places too much trust in government and the authorities. For example, a few … Contin…
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From: Drezner’s World
Date: February 5, 2026
Subject: A Sad, Angry Day at the Washington Post
Jeff Bezos doubles down on bad decisions.
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From: Xe Iaso's blog
Date: February 5, 2026
Subject: Life pro tip: a Steam Deck can be a bluetooth speaker
Your headphones may only let you get audio from one source at once, but Linux has no such limitations!
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