congrats, Dr. Clarté!
Grégoire Clarté, whom I co-supervised with Robin Ryder, successfully defended his PhD thesis last Wednesday! On sign language classification, ABC-Gibbs and collective non-linear MCMC. Congrats to the now Dr.Clarté for this achievement and all the best for his coming Nordic adventure, as he is starting a postdoc at the University of Helsinki, with Aki Vehtari and others. It was quite fun to work with Grégoire along these years. And discussing on an unlimited number of unrelated topics, incl. fantasy books, teas, cooking and the role of conferences and travel in academic life! The defence itself proved a challenge as four members of the jury, incl. myself, were “present remotely” and frequently interrupted him for gaps in the Teams transmission, which nonetheless broadcasted perfectly the honks of the permanent traffic jam in Porte Dauphine… (And alas could not share a celebratory cup with him!)
October 9, 2021 at 10:48 pm
Hey, can you please give me a hint of how to answer the part (c) of 8.12 question in “introducing Monte Carlo methods with R”?, i do not know how to evaluate the integral with the MCMC sample
October 10, 2021 at 4:23 pm
The question is about comparing convergence diagnostics with a direct evaluation of the integral, which should be one. Using a sample from f and any Monte Carlo method relying on such a sample to assess the integral.