Welcome!
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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Now listening to
Golden Cats and Sub Urban, live at Subterranean
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Now listening to
Maps & Atlases, also live at Edgewater Music Fest
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Now listening to
Inept, live at Edgewater Music Fest
My most listened to music of the last 30 days. See more on LastFM.
- Queen of Venus by Flavor Foley
- havefun by Kill Eva
- Solid Ground by Maps & Atlases
- the long night by Purity Ring
- Hannah Hunt by Vampire Weekend
Articles from around the internet I would recommend reading.
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From: CELPHASE
Date: September 25, 2026
Subject: He who does not code, neither shall he eat
You have never heard of me, and depending on who you are, god do I hope you will forget my name as soon as you finish reading this. Quite frankly, I am unimportant. I am not a maintainer of any major Open Source project. My largest Open Source contributio…
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From: Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Date: September 25, 2026
Subject: They were trying to convince everybody to have 3 kids
We were just here–pretty unusual to see a museum exposition devoted to a census, can’t get much more up my alley than that! It was good. The above photo gives a sense of the charm of the exhibits, and they … Continue reading →
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From: Mike Blumenkrantz
Date: September 25, 2026
Subject: That Time I Fought Draw And Won
Tessellate Your Nightmares
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