Archive for Trinity College Dublin
library, whatzat???
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, University life with tags banned books, ENSAE, Francis Bacon, library, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, online book, students, Trinity College Dublin on December 19, 2022 by xi'an
quantum computing reproducibility crisis?
Posted in Books, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Brittany, Majorana fermion, Microsoft, Nature, particle physics, quantum computers, reviewing, train travel, Trinity College Dublin on September 16, 2021 by xi'an
While standing in a train to my mother’s house in Brittany, I was catching up on earlier Nature issues and came upon this April issue where, following the retraction of a Nature paper on the topic, Sergey Frolov casts doubt on the possible detection of a new type of quantum particle, the Majorana fermion, whose existence still remains inconclusive. The criticism concentrates on the data analysis of signals where the appearance of a narrow peak should support the hypothesised existence. The article is interesting (to me) as a reflection of someone having published positive, then negative articles on the topic, upon the tendency for authors in the field to cherry-pick experiments where some peaks occur. Among dozens or hundred of experiments where they did not. And calling for open data and more stringent review(er)s on the matter (and others). The arguments in the opinion tribune sound most reasonable but I wonder whether or not other particle physicists share the same concern.
Bacon in the Library [jatp]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel, University life with tags books, Dublin, Eire, Francis Bacon, Ireland, jatp, library, Trinity College Dublin on May 23, 2017 by xi'an
11 million French voters voted for the far-right candidate
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel, University life with tags Dublin, falsehood flies and truth comes limping after it, French elections, Marine Le Pen, Trinity College Dublin on May 8, 2017 by xi'an
talk at Trinity College
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC, ABC convergence, asymptotics, Dublin, Eire, Ireland, seminar, Trinity College Dublin on May 7, 2017 by xi'an
Tomorrow noon, I will give a talk at Trinity College Dublin on the asymptotic properties of ABC. (Here are the slides from the talk I gave in Berlin last month.)
