Archive for Xmas
corrida de Noël, Issy-les-Moulineaux [10K, 41’00, 701/3335, 1/38 M6M, 4´06/km]
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags 10k, Brooks, corrida, Hyperion, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris suburbs, PariSanté campus, PHOTO running, road race, starting gate, Xmas on December 16, 2025 by xi'an
separation of church and state no more
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel with tags École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, christianity, divine right, freedom of religion or belief, fundamentalism, secularism, separation between church and state, Trump administration, US politics, White House, Xmas on January 6, 2025 by xi'an
“Today we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ” Pete Hegseth
“The joyous message of Christmas is the hope of Eternal Life through Christ” Marco Rubio
“Let Earth Receive Her King” US Labor Department
“We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior” US Homeland Security Department
“The First Lady and I send our warmest wishes to all Americans as we share in the joy of Christmas Day and celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ (…) Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum” Donald Trump
“the only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that we have been and, by the grace of God, we always will be a Christian nation” JD Vance
Xmastly Monte Carlo [13/12]
Posted in Statistics with tags 2024, diffusion sampler, importance sampling, Issy-les-Moulineaux, MCMC, Mostly MC, multimodal target, Ocean, Paris, PariSanté campus, PDMP, Porte de Versailles, reliability, seminar, Xmas on December 7, 2024 by xi'an
merry Xmas
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags Bansky, Birmingham, Great-Britain, homeless, X, Xmas on December 24, 2019 by xi'an
Xmas tree at UCL, with a special gift
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags academic position, Annals of Applied Statistics, Annals of Probability, Annals of Statistics, Britain, Current Index to Statistics, fellowships, IMS, London, Statistics, The BUGS book, UCL, University College London, Xmas on November 26, 2019 by xi'an
Ph.D. students at UCL Statistics have made this Xmas tree out of bound and unbound volumes of statistics journals, not too hard to spot (especially the Current Indexes which I abandoned when I left my INSEE office a few years ago). An invisible present under the tree is the opening of several positions, namely two permanent lectureships and two three-year research fellowships, all in Statistics or Applied Probability, with the fellowship deadline being the 1st of December 2019!
