Vide-coding pentagon tiling "game" and finding it pretty addictive. You can play with it here: ericsgames.tiiny.site
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Vide-coding pentagon tiling "game" and finding it pretty addictive. You can play with it here: ericsgames.tiiny.site
Probabilistic Modeling and Biomedicine: generable.substack.com
CVCT 2025 and Bayesian Model Guiding Iterative, Personalized Anticoagulant Dosing Decision-Making www.generable.com/post/cvct-2025
Beware of lower limits of detection or quantification by Nikolas Siccha
www.generable.com/post/lloqs
Remarkable that Igor Savelyev credits Lenin with the definition of matter! Being a Soviet scientist was a tricky business -- even physics books needed to pass the censor.
Modeling and numerics: could we do something better? by Juho Timonen.
www.generable.com/post/modelin...
Personalized dosing decisions beyond clinical trials: www.generable.com/post/improvi...
Nonparametric statistics: Gaussian processes and their approximations by Nikolas Siccha
www.generable.com/post/nonpara...
If you are interested in meta-analysis (Bayesian or non-Bayesian), check out @rlgrant.bsky.social Robert Grant's nice StanBio Connect talk available at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZ1...
in which he also advertises his soon-to-be shipping book "Bayesian meta-analysis"
www.routledge.com/Bayesian-Met...
StanBio Connect 2025 free online conference May 30 stanbio.org
... Stan in biomedicine including drug discovery and development, bioinformatics, medical devices, health economics, real-world evidence, and decision-making under uncertainty
Things I read listened to, and saw in 2024: ericnovik.com/2025/03/book...
The Scientific Method Vs. AI: Is There Still Room For Theory? My take here: www.forbes.com/councils/for...
Thanks, Robert, I added it to my queue; I love reading biographies of scientists, particularly in math, stats, and physics. The last one I read was "Hawking Hawking", which is not so much a biography, as a more honest take on Steven Hawking's life -- disintangling the myth from the man, so to speak.
StanConnects are a series of one-day online conferences for the application of Stan to specific areas. This year, we're kicking off with Stan for biology (broadly defined), co-organized by @ericnovik.bsky.social and @vianeylb.bsky.social, on 30 May '25!!
stanbio.org
βIn the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president had used the third derivative to advance his case for re-election.β (Notices of the AMS, Oct. 1996, 43(10), p. 1108.)
Turns out there Bayesian BioPharm Meeting 2025. bnp14.org/bbp2025/. Anyone going?
My daughter's pork belly ramen is the best I've ever had.
I was just talking to an experienced probabilistic modeler who said: "After working with a few probabilistic programming languages, Stan is my fave: everything is typed and everything just works." It's a pain to get things in and out of Stan, but it's usually worth it.
2025 is a 2, 3, 4, 5 kind of year. Why? Because 2025 = 3^4 * 5^2
Modeling Public Opinion Over Time and Space: Trust in State Institutions in Europe, 1989-2019 by KoΕczyΕska et al. ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/...
"When you are playing a point, it's the most important thing in the world. But when it's behind you, it's behind you..." -- Roger Federer
Thrilled to share our new @pnas.org paper using active learning π€ to optimise disease testing π¦ and support public health π.
Press release by @imperialsph.bsky.social: imperial.ac.uk/news/259573/...
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Joint work with some stellar collaborators!
If you are interested in doing a #PhD with me at Imperial College London and qualify as a home student, please reach out (before end of 2024)! Potential topics: spatial statistics, applied deep generative models, probabilistic programming and more.
Why is a bullshitter worse than a liar? Because he is not even wrong!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bull...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_eve...
A lot of people heard about John von Neumann but not about Alexander Craig Aitken, but Aitken was quite remarkable particularly if you are a statistician. For example, he independently derived Cramer-Rao lower bound, a very nice result in (frequentist) statistics.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
Traveling salesmen are still out of luck, but the commercial movers finally caught a break with this breakthrough!
phys.org/news/2024-12...
Statistical wars inside the frequentist camp:
According to Neyman, though, the argument began because Fisher demanded that Neyman lecture only from Fisherβs book. When Neyman refused, Fisher promised to oppose him βin all my capacities.β - The Theory That Would Not Die
Ahh, Indox zero.
Why do CS people write nice-looking code while statisticians don't? For a computer scientist, code is the product; for a statistician, code is a byproduct.
A new release of Stan is coming discourse.mc-stan.org/t/cmdstan-st....
Highlights:
New constraints for stochastic matrices and zero-sum vectors
Easier user-defined constraints
Improved diagnostics
New distribution, beta_negative_binomial