A reminder that the 2025 Objective Bayes (O’Bayes) Methodology Conference will take place in Athens, Greece, from June 8 to 12, 2025, which I will alas miss (for attending BayesComp the week after). Registration for the O’Bayes25 meeting is now open, with an increase on the 470€ fees in March. Speakers and discussants are available on the website and poster can be proposed till 28 February 28. The tutorials on Sunday will be given by Guido Consonni, Rianna de Heide, and Mark Stell (University of Warwick).
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O’Bayes 2025 της Αθήνας
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Athens, Athens University of Economics and Business, BayesComp 2025, foundations of objective Bayesian methodology, Greece, National Technical University of Athens, O'Bayes 2025, registration, registration fees, Singapore, University of Warwick on January 18, 2025 by xi'ana journal of the chaos, conquest, war, fried meals, and death year
Posted in Books, Kids, Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags book review, book reviews, Canada, collages, COVID-19, Daniel Defoe, fanzines, giant killer, Hellbound, hen, horror story, Journal of the Plague Year, Marseille, Marseille-Cassis 2024, mezze, nan bread, octopus, olive oil, Ontario, Ottawa, Plus belle la vie, pop culture, Russian invasion, Singapore, soap opera, stir fry, Sundance Film Festival, Ukraine on November 30, 2024 by xi'an
Read Charles de Lint’s Jack, The Giant-Killer, which is just as terrible as it sounds! The only redeeming feature is that it takes place in Ottawa, Canada, where the author lives, as I could relate to the places of down-town Ottawa mentioned therein. Otherwise, a terrible book inspired from classical folk tales, with an unpleasant undertone about homeless people… Can’t see at all why this book was recommended in one of Tor’s tribunes on forgotten classics or something like that.
Cooked a variety of spicy stir-fries while staying at a Warwick maths house with Josh and Stan two weeks ago, Josh adding the sweet-potato pancakes, which made the mini-nans somewhat superfluous. The common colour theme came from abusing the curry dispenser. Also had a great Greek mezze dinner in Pointe Rouge, Marseille, to celebrate the Marseille-Cassis race. (The place was a wee bit too popular, though, patronised the same evening by some actors of the local soap opera, as well as a group that sounded like a hen-party.)
Watched the first ½ hour of Shirkers, a pseudo-documentary about a movie made twenty years earlier by three young women in Singapore. Very original, especially for the delve into the 1990’s Singapore pop culture. And the fanzines that reminded me of my teenage years. No wonder it won the Sundance Film Festival documentary award. Also tried Season 2 of Hellbound, but could not find the slightest excitement to even complete the first episode…
[not so] hostile takeover on my Nature issue
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel, University life with tags AF beer, AI scare, AlphaFold, alternative meat, black holes, book review, bread, buckwheat, Caspian sea, CHANCE, chili pepper, cultivated meat, curry, English beer, flight mode, foie gras, fruit fly, group picture, Internet, internet security, Montréal, Nature, Nobel Prize, origin of bread, Parasite, rye bread, Singapore, solar system, wasps on November 29, 2024 by xi'an
O’Bayes 2025 [με αθηναϊκό άρωμα]
Posted in Statistics with tags Athens, Athens University of Economics and Business, BayesComp 2025, conference, foundations of objective Bayesian methodology, Greece, ISBA, ISBA conference, National Technical University of Athens, National University Singapore, O'Bayes, O'Bayes 2022, O'Bayes 2025, objective Bayes, Parthenon, Renzo Piano, scientific committee, Singapore, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, tutorial on November 6, 2024 by xi'an
The next O’Bayes conference will take place in Athens, 8-12 June 2025. Registration is open, as well as a call for posters. As in (all?) earlier episodes of these Objective Bayes methodology conferences, speakers and discussants are invited by the scientific committee. And the first afternoon consists of tutorials on different aspects of Objective Bayes methodology. The conference will take place in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre. (Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend O’Bayes 2025, once again, due to my attending BayesComp 2025 the week after.)
off to St. Kilda
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags Australia, Bayesian Nonparametrics Networking Workshop 2023, BNP, conference, Hobsons Bay, Melbourne, Monash Business School, Monash University, Outer Hebrides, Pacific Ocean, Phillip Island, Singapore, St Kilda, Uist, Victoria on November 27, 2023 by xi'an
