Archive for Jardin des Plantes
Bayesian inference from the ground up [no book review]
Posted in Books, Kids, Statistics, University life with tags Archimedes death ray, Bayes theorem, Bayesian Inference for Psychological Science, Bayesian inference from the ground up, Bayesian textbook, Bayesian Thinking for Toddlers, book cover, Buffon's needle, E.J. Wagenmakers, French history, Jardin des Plantes, not a book review, Paris, University of Amsterdam on November 7, 2023 by xi'an
re-MCM’d
Posted in Statistics, University life with tags adaptive MCMC, alma mater, badge, conference, doubly intractable posterior, Grande Mosquée de Paris, HMC, Jardin des Plantes, Jussieu, MCM 2023, parallel tempering, Paris, PDMP, slice sampler, Sorbonne Université, U-turn on June 28, 2023 by xi'an
When I entered the classroom on the Jussieu campus where the Monday morning session on PDMP was taking place, some friends told me a badge was waiting for me at the registration desk of MCM 2023! Most surprisingly since I had received a deregistration message a few weeks earlier. Great PDMP session with non-reversible tempering (warning: some PDMPs were harmed in the tempering process), scaling PDMPs for highly anisotropic targets, a PDMP form of reversible jump (with sticky floors!) and a more adaptive version of no-U turn via… PDMPs. After lunch at the nearby Grande Mosquée de Paris (I had not visited since… 1974!), I attended the slice sampler session, where mileage varied imho. With a take on doubly-intractable targets that did not seem to relate to the existing literature.
ring of fire [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, University life with tags biking, Institut de Physique du Globe, Jardin des Plantes, jatp, Jussieu, neon, Pacific Rim, Paris, Ring of Fire, sculpture, Université de Paris, volcanoes on September 4, 2021 by xi'anWhile leisurely biking in Paris the previous (grey) weekend, my wife and I stopped by the entrance to the Jardin des Plantes, in front of a (grey) renovated building of l’Institut de physique du globe, where we both attended (maths) lectures in the 1980’s. I had noticed the renovation years ago and in particular the red neon fractured line going over the faces of the building, but never considered it had a specific meaning.
In fact, the apparent random walk has nothing random as it reproduces the Ring of Fire, a Fuller projection of the continuum of volcanoes that ring the Pacific Ocean. (This sculpture was created by Angela Detanico et Rafael Lain.)
light show in Jardin des Plantes [jatp]
Posted in Statistics with tags 1870 war, Bärengraben, Bern, chateau de Versailles, espèces en voie d'apparition, Jardin des Plantes, jatp, Ménagerie, Napoléon Bonaparte, Paris, Siege of Paris, zoo on January 19, 2019 by xi'an
an afternoon at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags apes, France, Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Jardin des Plantes, Jussieu, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris on November 15, 2015 by xi'an
A sunny Sunday afternoon last week at the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution, with a special exhibit on great apes. We had not been back there for ages, since the kids were kids enough!, and it was a most pleasant afternoon, as was strolling in the vicinity afterwards. Made all the more pleasant in retrospect after the bloodbath last night in the streets of Paris. May we endure against barbarity.
