Xi'an's Og
an attempt at bloggin, nothing more...
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Round-robin (with Claude)
A few days ago I had a coffee in Paris with my long-time friend (and former Statistics & Computing editor) Gilles Celeux, and he mentioned me stopping solving and posting maths puzzles like those weekly published by Le Monde. They have indeed vanished with the retirement of the authors, but Gilles added that the arrival […]
piano tuners on France Inter
During the summer months, the Belgian physicist Fabrizio Bucella delivers a daily and funny unit of wisdom every morning just before 8am (CET) on the French public radio. Often addressing every day question to uncover a scientific principle. A recent morn, he mentioned Fermi’s estimates, which is a numerate way to guess(timate) a physical quantity […]
BayesComp²⁰²⁷ mirror in Aussois
Here we go! We have just completed the webpage for the BayesComp 2027 mirror conference in Aussois, French Alps, and launched the call for contributions. This meeting mirrors the main BayesComp 2027 conference, held in Texas on the same week. As such, it will broadcast live and delayed sessions from the main conference, including plenary […]
BAYST 2027 [01-03/03, Karlsruhe]
岡崎の矢作橋 [ISBA 2026]
風不死岳 [jatp]
women’s circle [women behind the lens]
back from Japan [flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict]
Our last day in Japan was wrecked by Japan Airlines, as our JAL flight from Sapporo to Tokyo Haneda got delayed by five hours… The worst part was being kept in the dark about the delay till the initial departure time and then more as the actual departure time was only given hours later. An […]