Haven't read it yet, but seems like a very cool idea www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Metropolis–Hastings with Scalable Subsampling

The Metropolis–Hastings (MH) algorithm is one of the most widely used Markov Chain Monte Carlo schemes for generating samples from Bayesian posterior distributions. The algorithm is asymptotically ...

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I learned about sans and serif fonts. I hate (knowing) that there is a difference. But more-so I hate noticing when both are in the same document and I feel like they clash.

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

Heroe's journey is just survivorship bias:

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 2w ago

From this perspective, Odysseus's journey could be a perfect example of survivorship bias. How many ships must have perished and never seen the coast again.

Can you eat smoked trout as-is? Or do you need to cook it? Does anyone know?👀

Stats For Bios@statsforbios.bsky.social · 2w ago

Someone somewhere owns the official list of which smoked fish you need to cook. Cod yes, salmon no, trout no, kippers yes? Think it's hot Vs cold smoke but I'm well out of my zone of expertise.

On an impulse I bought a fillet of smoked rainbow (🌈) trout. I have never cooked trout and very rarely cook fish. Any suggestions for serving/preparation?

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Springer about to hijack Statistics & Computing

I recently learned that Springer Nature is about to make the reference journal Statistics and Computing, where I published close to twenty papers over the years, fully “open access”, wh…

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As we kick off the Round of 32, I give you what these matchups are really about: 1. Canada 🇨🇦 vs. South Africa 🇿🇦 - Battle of the Commonwealth nations 2. Brazil 🇧🇷 vs. Japan 🇯🇵 - Battle of the Portuguese Jesuit "colonies" 3. Germany 🇩🇪 vs. Paraguay 🇵🇾 - Battle of *chuckles nervously* (1/x)

The existence of baked goods implies the existence of baked bads

This is going to come across as pretentious and unhelpful, but I really recommend reading books. Reading a book is the only thing I do where I feel like I'm nourishing my attention span, rather than sanding it down. The trick is to just read whatever you enjoy — not what you feel like you should.

Why is the slack symbol essentially just a rotation of the google photos symbol??

Applied Statisticians, (violently)

Dan Simpson@danpsimpson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

2x sealed and a draft. Not pulling bad.

there’s a peer-reviewed article on how professors who bring students baked goods get higher evaluation scores. my colleague would bring this article & homemade cookies to class the day students filled evals out, tell them evals aren’t effective measures of teaching, then leave them to it.

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I'm looking for a post-doc to help organize Bayesian Data Analysis course avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A... (200 students) and to do research on Bayesian workflow users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... at Aalto www.aalto.fi/en, Finland. Background in Bayes needed. Up to five year contract possible.

Why do I have eduroam at the local hipster bakery but not in my classroom and other questions of the modern academic

The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.

Constantly torn between my hate for ads and my curiosity to know what the finnish ads are trying to sell me

When the book is too interesting

"Other extensions of the factorial function do exist, but the gamma function is the most popular and useful. " did the gamma function herself/itself write this

tb to a micro (econ) prof who gave a quiz that boiled down to finding the solution to (something like) xe^x =1, and *everyone* lost their mind trying to solve it instead of just stating that the 'desired solution' was obtained from just saying 'xe^x =1'

wait no this is actually incredible youraislopbores.me

innes mck@innes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

wow it works

The sidewalk is so icy that even the precaution bars are falling

The change between tea and iced tea is very different to the change between coffee and iced coffee.

Iconic moment as he says "God Bless América" and then names every country in South, Central, and North america in order For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S. It means evveeerrybody

To counter my tendency to factor my code in a million different functions, I have configured my editor to gradually reduce the font of each function I create, until they become so hard to read I have to give up. I call that: Diminishing returns

It’s really easy to make an academic website with GitHub: (1) Find a template & fork it github.com/topics/acade... (2) Add your info (often just markdown). All you need is (short!) bio, contact info, CV, and your paper(s) or posters. (3) Host for free with GitHub docs.github.com/en/pages/qui...

Harrison Ritz@hritz.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This has also been an issue for talk invitations. Lab pages need emails, and grad student need websites.

Seeing an influencer bring up an old video of them calling out something, gives me the same vibe of professors mentioning papers they have co-authored

Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.

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