Release of CmdStan 2.38
We are very happy to announce that the 2.38.0 release of CmdStan is now available on Github! As usual, the release of CmdStan is accompanied by new releases of Stan Math, core Stan, and Stanc3. This release cycle focused on stability and usability improvements, with a few…
The NHS is changing trans people back to birth sex on file, meaning we will not be treated appropriately for our bodies.
This is deadly, completely unacceptable, and the result of hateful far right ideology in our politics and healthcare.
Guys and dolls: the sopranos but with extra gender, 10/10.
I love the implication that this was detected by a seismograph or something
I just watched the Big Sleep and am very drawn to its cosmology where every person is in in their heart either a goon or a diva
blog post: connections between survey statistics and experimental design.
split-plot designs are analogous to cluster sampling.
blocking is analogous to stratification.
featuring an experiment by Arjun Potter and colleagues at NM-AIST !
An announcement, which might be of some interest:
In the period 2022-2024, myself and a number of other postdocs on the "CoSInES" and "Bayes4Health" EPSRC grants were involved in organising a number of internal tutorial workshops, on topics relevant to researchers in computational statistics.
(Ripley recommending honey flavoured chewing gum)
Manuka the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure
oh look there's john terry putting his shinpads on
Reminds me of the best shop in Denmark
Literally no one learns about Carnap during compulsory education, and yet we wonder about the dearth of positive male role models. 🙄 Time to get serious, people.
With turnout around 30%, remember that the results you see in the news must be divided by three to see the support of parties across the whole electorate
And that doesn't account for those not registered etc
The big news, as always, should be the crisis of democracy but who cares about that?
The UK Supreme Court’s transphobic ruling on the definition of woman last week is a defeat for all women—even, ultimately, the self-described feminists celebrating it, and the women who will gain in the short term from their alliance with the carceral state.
my latest for @thenation.com
Sorry to hear, he was a fantastic scholar on so many levels and really inspired me. Also a unique and engaging prose stylist: he really knew how to use the word “constitutive”!
Alacritty and wezterm have both been fine in my experience (terminal editing + general use on a macbook)
The cover of THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA, my sapphic lady knight/witch reincarnation romance, out in October. ⚔️🔮🌊
Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. Weyoun, a humanoid alien with (ribbed for his pleasure) ears that stretch down near his chin, is pictured. Behind him is a reptilian looking fella with ridges-a-plenty. Weyoun is speaking and mid-sentence. Closed caption reads, "You see, I really like Deep Space 9, and I like you."
Roses are red, violets are blue
incomparable
Old newspaper clipping with simple illustration: CAT RIDES A HORSE. Attracts Mach Attention on the Streets of Philadelphia. WAFFLES HAS A GOOD TIME.
Comparison may be a thief of joy, but it is an undoubtably interesting statistical modeling problem. In my latent chapter I go deep into the general problem of modeling comparisons between pairs of abstract items.
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All wheat, no us
The weirdest thing is the uncomfortable feeling of being spoken to as a liberalish late Victorian. It’s like ‘why are you telling me about the midlands in the 1830s, don’t you want me to stop ransacking the world or something?’
Takes: team Rosamund in the Lydgate affair (and maybe she and mr Ladislaw were the best match?). Overall the book is quite similar to war and peace. Made me want to learn about CoE and dissenters.
Dislikes: rev Farebrother (classic annoying coe vicar), mr Garth (why is his family constantly having to say how good he is? bit sus)
Like: amendments to wills, Mr Brooke, the politics scene, medical facts, classical style extended similes about mundane things, the dramatic sort-of crime sequence, the pub where you go to lose all your money, mr Casauban, Ben Garth. Most of all the meandering, that was just great.
Ok now finished, time for retrospective opinions!
I just love how the story meanders
