Archive for rain
art brut
Posted in Books, pictures with tags Count Zero, Katatonenkunst, Le Monde, rain, William Gibbson on November 6, 2016 by xi'an
art brut
Posted in Books, pictures with tags Count Zero, Katatonenkunst, Le Monde, rain, William Gibson on June 25, 2016 by xi'an
vista de Sevilla [#2]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags Constrained Monte Carlo, Museo Bellas Artes de Sevilla, museum, rain, Sevilla, Spain, well on May 11, 2016 by xi'an
appliBUGS (wet)
Posted in Statistics, University life with tags BayesComp, BUGS, Euro 2012, football, Galton, Google, Paris, Pierre Simon de Laplace, quincunx, rain on December 27, 2012 by xi'an
This morning I gave my talk on ABC; computation or inference? at the appliBUGS seminar. Here, in Paris, BUGS stands for Bayesian United Group of Statisticians! Presumably in connection with a strong football culture, since the talk after mine was Jean-Louis Foulley’s ranking of the Euro 2012 teams. Quite an interesting talk (even though I am not particularly interested in football and even though I dozed a little, steaming out the downpour I had received on my bike-ride there…) I am also sorry I missed the next talk by Jean-Louis on Galton’s quincunx. (Unfortunately, his slides are not [yet?] on-line.)
As a coincidence, after launching a BayesComp page on Google+ (as an aside, I am quite nonplussed by the purpose of Google-), Nicolas Chopin also just started a Bayes in Paris webpage, in connection with our informal seminar/reading group at CREST. With the appropriate picture this time, i.e. a street plaque remembering…Laplace! May I suggest the RER stop Laplace and his statue in the Paris observatory as additional illustrations for the other pages…
Trouville snapshot
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags jetty, La Trouvillaise, Normandy, rain, sea, Trouville, women races on September 24, 2012 by xi'an
