# proudly sponsored (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover proudly sponsored. Page: Feed: --- ## #163 How to make your models sample faster, with Adrian Seyboldt & Eliot Carlson _2026-08-13 · Alexandre Andorra · Learning Bayesian Statistics_ Support & Resources → Support the show on Patreon → Bayesian Modeling Course (first 2 lessons free) Our theme music is « Good Bayesian », by Baba Brinkman (feat MC Lars and Mega Ran). Check out his awesome work Takeaways: Q: What is mass matrix adaptation, in plain terms? A: Mass matrix adaptation is best understood as an automatic, fairly dumb, but very effective reparameterization of your model.… [Listen](https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/691d38b4891187abc31b2ca1e152450737997b10aa4b9b0c48ae85efc4157f35/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI3MjYxNWE0MS1jMGFmLTQ3N2EtOTcyYS05MzQ0NDcyZGU5ZjMiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3OWUwYTRmYi05N2FiLTRlOTUtYTg3NS0yNGE4YjllZTI3ZGEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NDQ4M2JiZWM3ZjQ1MTFhYThjMzE1Y2QiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE3ZGYwMTI3MjFhMWQ2YzI2ODliMDkxL2FsZXhhbmRyZS1hbmRvcnJhcy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi04LTEzX18xOC0yNS01NC5tcDMifQ==.mp3) ## Bayesian Statistics vs. Epistemology _2026-08-13 · Alexandre Andorra · Learning Bayesian Statistics_ Today's clip is from episode 160, featuring Vaden Masrani. In this conversation, Vaden explores the tension between Bayesian statistics and Bayesian epistemology, and why he sees them as fundamentally different. He explains why Bayesian epistemology can run into problems when trying to explain where hypotheses themselves come from, and argues that an emphasis on finding supporting evidence can… [Listen](https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/09f8a846c14042f8b1ad399beb08d3810650b280c935823bf48799fb1c0637d9/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI1MzBlNWQ2Yi0xYWMyLTRlZjItYWE0ZC1kYmY0OGQ2OTEwNDMiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3OWUwYTRmYi05N2FiLTRlOTUtYTg3NS0yNGE4YjllZTI3ZGEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NDQ4M2JiZWM3ZjQ1MTFhYThjMzE1Y2QiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE3ZGUxZjFjOTg4ZWU0NTgzMDBiOGYwL2FsZXhhbmRyZS1hbmRvcnJhcy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi04LTEzX18xNy0yNS0zNy5tcDMifQ==.mp3) ## Bayesian Epistemology Is "Bayes' Theorem Without the Data" _2026-08-07 · Alexandre Andorra · Learning Bayesian Statistics_ Today's clip is from episode 160 , featuring Vaden Masrani. In this conversation, Vaden lays out a sharp critique of Bayesian epistemology - the roughly hundred-year-old philosophical tradition, popular in some Oxford-adjacent circles, that treats subjective probability estimates as legitimate even when there's no data behind them. Vaden's core objection: doing Bayes' theorem on numbers you made… [Listen](https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/9a3037d1aa2709fa681a3cae0aa57c1adfd4ac2579747b0a181ba324667fe672/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiIwZDMxMmZkMS0xNjM2LTQyZDEtOWNmZS0zNTY4ZDUyNDExMzYiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3OWUwYTRmYi05N2FiLTRlOTUtYTg3NS0yNGE4YjllZTI3ZGEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NDQ4M2JiZWM3ZjQ1MTFhYThjMzE1Y2QiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE0ZDM2OTVjMTZlYWMzNDQwNTk3MmRhL2FsZXhhbmRyZS1hbmRvcnJhcy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi03LTdfXzE5LTI1LTQxLm1wMyJ9.mp3) ## Why Bayesians Have an Edge in AI _2026-08-03 · Alexandre Andorra · Learning Bayesian Statistics_ Today's clip is from episode 162, featuring Chris Krapu. In this conversation, Chris explains why Bayesian thinking remains surprisingly valuable in today's AI landscape - even when the models themselves aren't explicitly Bayesian. Rather than uncertainty estimation, Chris highlights a different advantage: Bayesian training provides a deep intuition for concepts like priors, sampling, rejection… [Listen](https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/32d1ae9657a631474e5a092fb4783607a9e1cbd152dacb8662148fac56b06ae2/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI0OGQ2NWM5NC1lNzIwLTQ5MmYtYTQ3NC1kNzMwOTJiZDIxY2MiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3OWUwYTRmYi05N2FiLTRlOTUtYTg3NS0yNGE4YjllZTI3ZGEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NDQ4M2JiZWM3ZjQ1MTFhYThjMzE1Y2QiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE3MGE1YmM1Yzk5M2U0M2UwYzIxYTNhL2FsZXhhbmRyZS1hbmRvcnJhcy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi04LTNfXzE2LTI5LTE1Lm1wMyJ9.mp3) ## #162 Bayesian Hydrology & GPU AI, with Christopher Krapu _2026-07-28 · Alexandre Andorra · Learning Bayesian Statistics_ Support & Resources → Support the show on Patreon → Bayesian Modeling Course (first 2 lessons free) Our theme music is « Good Bayesian », by Baba Brinkman (feat MC Lars and Mega Ran). Check out his awesome work Takeaways: Q: How does putting a Gaussian process on unknown coordinates fix noisy location data in mineral prospecting? A: In mining and geostatistics, the classic Gaussian process model,… [Listen](https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/5d813fef1e419ae2835eb010157622478e57accdeaee8cc9172faf6fbc55407b/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI0ZWNjOGRlNC1jM2IwLTRlMjAtYmRkOC1iMDA2YTI2OTMzOTciLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3OWUwYTRmYi05N2FiLTRlOTUtYTg3NS0yNGE4YjllZTI3ZGEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NDQ4M2JiZWM3ZjQ1MTFhYThjMzE1Y2QiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE2OGU4MTU4OWYwNzY4ZGU3YjQ2OWVmL2FsZXhhbmRyZS1hbmRvcnJhcy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi03LTI4X18xOS0zNC0xMy5tcDMifQ==.mp3) ## The Next Step Beyond LLMs: Foundation Models for Inference _2026-07-22 · Alexandre Andorra · Learning Bayesian Statistics_ Today's clip is from episode 161 , featuring Luigi Acerbi. In this conversation, Luigi explains one of the biggest engineering bottlenecks facing transformer-based probabilistic models—and how his group found a way around it. The core challenge is that many inference models treat data as an unordered set, making them naturally permutation invariant. That's statistically elegant, but… [Listen](https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/ad61b0cba8c6f7f8a86a03fa3e60d432f0fa74c67a1d6823b6354ca8d8c5accf/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJhZDA0NjJmMS0wYjgzLTRjYzQtYWIzYS1jNWZmYjc5Y2JiNjUiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3OWUwYTRmYi05N2FiLTRlOTUtYTg3NS0yNGE4YjllZTI3ZGEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NDQ4M2JiZWM3ZjQ1MTFhYThjMzE1Y2QiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE2MGNjYTU2OTNmYTVjZTA4YzRkMjdlL2FsZXhhbmRyZS1hbmRvcnJhcy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi03LTIyX18xNS01OS0wLm1wMyJ9.mp3) ## #161 Amortized Inference & Neural Processes, with Luigi Acerbi _2026-07-16 · Alexandre Andorra · Learning Bayesian Statistics_ Support & Resources → Support the show on Patreon → Bayesian Modeling Course (first 2 lessons free) Our theme music is « Good Bayesian », by Baba Brinkman (feat MC Lars and Mega Ran). Check out his awesome work Takeaways: Q: What is Variational Bayesian Monte Carlo (VBMC) and how is it different from Bayesian optimization? A: VBMC borrows the machinery of Bayesian optimization but aims at a… [Listen](https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/dd4d288bdf90c040023c19f30d6fc87c2122e6a8789e7d021df9add216727b7e/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI3MWNkN2ZjZS0wZWEwLTRiMjMtYWMxMS03YmE1NWNjZWIyOGQiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3OWUwYTRmYi05N2FiLTRlOTUtYTg3NS0yNGE4YjllZTI3ZGEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NDQ4M2JiZWM3ZjQ1MTFhYThjMzE1Y2QiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE1OTBmNGI0Mzc1Y2UyYjdmMzdkYjE2L2FsZXhhbmRyZS1hbmRvcnJhcy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi03LTE2X18xOS01LTE1Lm1wMyJ9.mp3) ## Bayesian Statistics vs Epistemology, with Vaden Masrani _2026-06-29 · Alexandre Andorra · Learning Bayesian Statistics_ Support & Resources → Support the show on Patreon → Bayesian Modeling Course (first 2 lessons free) Our theme music is « Good Bayesian », by Baba Brinkman (feat MC Lars and Mega Ran). Check out his awesome work Takeaways: Q: What's the difference between Bayesian statistics and Bayesian epistemology? A: Bayesian statistics uses Bayes' theorem on actual data: you put a prior over parameters,… [Listen](https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/eeca7f1489d5ee081772621416c329b0bb52611264d2d43630f3badd519bba8c/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJkMWIyNTViYy02Y2Y2LTRhOGMtYmY0Mi03OTk4NTdiN2MxMDgiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3OWUwYTRmYi05N2FiLTRlOTUtYTg3NS0yNGE4YjllZTI3ZGEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NDQ4M2JiZWM3ZjQ1MTFhYThjMzE1Y2QiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE0MjFlOTM3Y2VhNDU0MDJlOTcxNTYwL2FsZXhhbmRyZS1hbmRvcnJhcy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi02LTI5X185LTI4LTE5Lm1wMyJ9.mp3) ## Why Bayesian Statistics Is More Computational Than Ever _2026-06-19 · Alexandre Andorra · Learning Bayesian Statistics_ Today's clip is from Episode 158 featuring Stefan Radev. In this conversation, Alex Andorra and Stefan break down a core argument from their paper: Bayesian statistics has never been more computational than it is now, and simulation is the thread that ties the whole workflow together. Stefan parcellates the Bayesian workflow into four stages, and this clip covers the first two. Stage one is model… [Listen](https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/f85ecf7e8605ad623878402eacc627b04671ac01a0e1db154e70bb95f0db9e3f/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI0MmE2YjQ0Yi1hMzE5LTQzOTItOGZmZi0wNmVhMGNkMjNiZDUiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3OWUwYTRmYi05N2FiLTRlOTUtYTg3NS0yNGE4YjllZTI3ZGEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NDQ4M2JiZWM3ZjQ1MTFhYThjMzE1Y2QiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmEzNDI2NWZmYzU3OTdiNTRkMTRiYTIxL2FsZXhhbmRyZS1hbmRvcnJhcy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi02LTE4X18xOS05LTUxLm1wMyJ9.mp3) ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OLVCWMoVdqDd) _2026-06-19 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## Exact GPs vs Approximations: When to Use Each (and Why It Matters) _2026-06-10 · Alexandre Andorra · Learning Bayesian Statistics_ Today's clip is from episode 159 featuring Matthijs Hollanders. In this conversation, Alex and Matthijs dig into a deceptively practical question: when you're modeling wildlife across space and time with Gaussian Processes, how do you keep the math from becoming computationally unbearable - and what does good engineering actually look like in the field? Matthijs explains that for most real camera… [Listen](https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/2ff8df03ad951a8fe795757b8a3768957248e40798814427bd14f34b334e79dd/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiIyNmQ2MDYxYi0zODJmLTQzZWEtYThhYS1kZWU4OWUwMDBjYTEiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3OWUwYTRmYi05N2FiLTRlOTUtYTg3NS0yNGE4YjllZTI3ZGEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NDQ4M2JiZWM3ZjQ1MTFhYThjMzE1Y2QiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmEyOTk0ZDE2ZGQwODBhMjdhNTA1NTA0L2FsZXhhbmRyZS1hbmRvcnJhcy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi02LTEwX18xOC00Ni04Lm1wMyJ9.mp3)