Some of the Og’s readers possibly remember the (long-winded?) entries on playing with the logo of a famous outdoor clothing brand (popularised into streetwear by 1990’s graffiti writers). As explained here, it all started with a (Norman) misconception about said logo. The joke is now sailing to another sea and another North, on a different vessel, if you do not mind staying onboard…
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from Þe Norse Farce to…
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags Elder Futhark, Futhark runes, Half Dome, joke, logo, meme, Norman, Oseberg Ship, runic alphabet, Scandinavian ancestry, tee-shirt, The Norse Farce, The North, Thorn rune, Thurizas rune, TNF, Viking longship, Yosemite on May 17, 2025 by xi'ancomputo on the go
Posted in Books, R, Statistics, University life with tags binary, Biometrika, Computo, editor in chief, free software, French researchers, github, journal, Julia, Latin, logo, machine learning, open access, open source, Python, Quarto, R, repositories, reproducible research, Rmarkdown, SFDS, Société française de Statistique, Statistics on April 8, 2025 by xi'an
þe norse farce [re-explained]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags brands, logo, Normandy, North, Olso, Oseberg Ship, pun, tee-shirt, Teespring, The Norse Farce, Viking helmet, Viking longship, Vikingskiphuset, William the Conqueror, workshop on April 1, 2024 by xi'an
As I was quizzed about the meaning of þe norse farce logo (on both my tee-shirt and my laptop) at a recent workshop (and as befits the day!), let me recall here it is a multilevel pun mostly centred at myself and neither at a famous outdoor brand or at Norsemen! It started with my wearing apparels from said brand often enough to attract jokes from colleagues and with my misreading its logo as a Viking helmet, rather than the iconic Half-Dome in Yosemite I visited years later. Following several attempts at creating a logo that drifted oceans away from the original trademark, I drew the above from a figurehead near the Oseberg ship in the Vikingskiphuset and with the help of a few friends, ended up with the above, where absolutely no component (font, color, text, logo) was pilfered in the process! I also took advantage of one of the numerous make-your-own-tee websites to create a Norse Farce shop(pe) for afficionadas and afficionados..!
COMPUTO, the journal for reproducible statistical research
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags academic journals, Computo, logo, non-reproducible research, notebook, open and free access, PCI Comput Stats, reproducibility, Rmarkdown, SFDS, Société française de Statistique on February 15, 2022 by xi'an
Computo (latin for calculate, compute, reckon) is a new journal launched by the French statistical society (SFDS) to promote reproducible research in statistics and machine learning by publishing papers with reproducible contributions. Towards this goal, Computo goes beyond classical static publications by including technical advances in literate programming and scientific reporting. The reproducibility of numerical results is a necessary condition for publication in Computo. In particular, submissions must include all necessary data (e.g. via zenodo repositories) and code. For contributions featuring the implementation of methods/algorithms, the quality of the provided code is assessed during the review process. Meaning accepting contributions in the form of notebooks (e.g. Rmarkdown, or Jupyter). This is a 100% free and open-access journal, thanks to the sponsoring of the SFDS. Once a manuscript is accepted, its reviews will be made available on the Computo website. Reviewers can choose to remain anonymous or not. (Towards an even broader reach, we are now considering a partnership with the PCI, following an earlier attempt I did not pursue till its completion…) Computo’s logo has been designed by Loïc Schwaller. And represents the letters of Computo in bytes. Submissions are now open!
Online workshop: Measuring the quality of MCMC output
Posted in Books, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags BayesComp, ISBA, live sessions, logo, MCMC, Queensland University of Technology, QUT on June 22, 2021 by xi'an
[Here is an announcement about an online MCMC workshop, posted by Pierre Jacob on Statisfaction and reposted here with his permission. By the way, there is a competition for the conference logo if the above does not sound good enough!]
With Leah South from QUT we are organizing an online workshop on the topic of “Measuring the quality of MCMC output”. The event website is here with more info:
https://bayescomp-isba.github.io/measuringquality.html
This is part of ISBA BayesComp section’s efforts to organize activities while waiting for the next “big” in-person meeting, hopefully in 2023. The event benefits from the generous support of QUT Centre for Data Science. The event’s website will be regularly updated between now and the event in October 2021, with three live sessions:
- 11am-2pm UTC on Wednesday 6th October,
- 1pm-4pm UTC on Thursday 14th October,
- 3pm-6pm UTC on Friday 22nd October.
Registration is free but compulsory (form here) as we want to make sure the live sessions remain convivial and focused; hence the rather specific theme, but it’s an exciting topic with lots of very much open questions, which we hope will attract both practitioners and methodologists. Meanwhile some material will be available on the website to everyone, including video recordings of presentations, and posters, so that the workshop hopefully benefits the wider community.
If you have suggestions for this event, or would like to organize a similar event in the future, on another “BayesComp” topic, do not hesitate to get in touch. Our contact details are on the workshop’s website.
