Archive for NYT
What Just Happened in France Is Astounding [reposted]
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags abstention, cohabitation, diversity, Emmanuel Macron, far-right, French parliement, French politics, Frente Popular, Front National, inclusion, National Assembly, national unity, nationalism, NYT, opinion, populism, République, snap elections, snap vote, The New York Times on July 9, 2024 by xi'an
France is headed for disaster [reposted]
Posted in Books, Kids, Travel with tags abstention, cohabitation, Emmanuel Macron, far-right, French parliement, French politics, Front National, National Assembly, national unity, nationalism, NYT, opinion, populism, snap vote, The New York Times, University College London, Vichy régime on July 2, 2024 by xi'an
keep your [used] teabag & carry on
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel with tags black tea, cuppa, Gaza war, Hamas, Houthis, Israel, NYT, Palestine, Red Sea, red tea, Sainsbury, Taylors of Harrogate, tea dealer, The New York Times, Yorkshire, Yorkshire tea on April 6, 2024 by xi'an
A report from The New York Times about a shortage of black tea in Britain, due to shipping delays, dues to container ships avoiding the Red Sea [not red tea!], due to Houthi attacks, themselves connected with the unjustified suffering Israel inflicts upon Gaza civilians, in a war induced by the 07 October Hamas atrocities…
36 hours in Oaxaca [for a future workshop]
Posted in Statistics with tags 36 hours in, BIRS-CMO, Casa Matemática Oaxaca, Mexico, NYT, Oaxaca cuisine, Oaxaca gastronomia, San Pablo Villa de Mitla, The New York Times, workshop on December 27, 2023 by xi'an
sweet 60’s
Posted in Kids, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, celebrations, CMB, cosmic microwave background, Eric Moulines, FIFA, football World Cup, group picture, IHP, Institut Henri Poincaré, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NeurIPS 2021, NYT, Paris, recording, The New York Times, Thomas Edison, Zeitschrift on October 9, 2023 by xi'an
The traditional group picture at the end of Eric Moulines’ 60th anniversary celebration, at IHP, Paris. Some of the participants had already left (and I am carefully hidding in the background). Among the celebrating talks reflecting the huge thematic diversity of EM’s carreer, Patrick Flandrin gave a great historical account of a certain Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville and his invention of a sound recording device that did not meet with the same success as the later phonograph by Edison. A song he had registered in 1860 was retrieved in 2008 by a team of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, making it the earliest known intelligible voice recording in existence! Jean-François Cardoso explained how the team at Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris produced a near optimal estimate of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) by linear projections preserving normality. Sara Filippi exposed a variational Bayes approach to selecting groups of variables in a GLM. Gareth Roberts illustrated retrospective sampling with his recent foray with Jeff Rosenthal in the lack of uniformity in the FIFA World Cup draws. Anatoli Iouditski spoke about a recent work on polyhedral estimation in statistical linear inverse problems. And Elisabeth Gassiat strolled through recent works on inference for hidden Markov models, including one at NeurIPS 2021 with Aapo Hyvärinen and others on nonlinear ICA. This was quite a fun meeting, with plenty of anecdotes and a few older pictures (even though I could not find any prior to 2005, which may have been the year I bought my first digital camera!)
