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More seriously, these days I'm just pragmatic about it. Some communities care, some don't, neither of them have it right nor wrong, and we need to help them both.

Para-meters are beside the point.

The title is the real highlight though

My finalist medal from the Ignyte Awards arrived today for my scifi novella "Fractal Karma" which was a finalist in 2025

Made me tear up, it's beautiful

If you want to read my story, it's available here. 2050's Boston and a hivemind based on Brunnian links: clarkesworldmagazine.com/ratnakar_10_...

Bayesian Quadrature: Gaussian Processes for Integration Bayesian quadrature is a probabilistic, model-based approach to numerical integration, the estimation of intractable integrals, or expectations. Although Bayesian quadrature was popularised already in...

Clearly a must read for anyone even remotely interested in numerical integration (be it stochastic and deterministic).

Toni has been (hyper)active in studying these methods both theoretically and practically.

arxiv.org/abs/2602.16218

Couillard in french. Also means "he who has big balls".

Happy birthday!

Max Hird, Florian Maire, Jeffrey Negrea: A Non-asymptotic Analysis for Learning and Applying a Preconditioner in MCMC https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10714 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.10714 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.10714

GitHub - state-space-models/cuthbert: State-space model inference with JAX State-space model inference with JAX. Contribute to state-space-models/cuthbert development by creating an account on GitHub.

Repo: github.com/state-space-...

Another exciting workshop to be held at Warwick Statistics this coming June: The ProbAI Theory of Scaling Laws Workshop from 22-24 June!

Website of the workshop: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Registration open until 31 March on a first-come-first-serve basis: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc....

Isn't the fact that everything is basic liberating? It means nothing is really out of reach.

a man in a suit and tie is laying on a pile of money with the letters a and b on the bills ALT: a man in a suit and tie is laying on a pile of money with the letters a and b on the bills

This sparks joy

According to AI, the exam I've written for my students "does not spark any joy".

The only water that mixes with snake oil.

Morning

i am not trying to be a part of my LLM's emotional growth arc. i do not want to know what my LLM works on with their therapist

ELLIS Institute Finland @ellisinstitute.fi has open call for postdocs (DL Feb 9) www.ellisinstitute.fi/postdoc-recr...

There are 45 PIs to choose from, and you can apply to work also with me on computational Bayesian modeling and Bayesian workflow!

Shreya Sinha Roy's first paper (joint with me, Christian Robert and Rito Dutta) is on "Generalized Bayesian deep reinforcement learning". We use a neural network as a model in Bayesian reinforcement learning, trained using a generalized prequential scoring rule with SMC arxiv.org/abs/2412.1...

Yeah that's the point I'll be making: the KF is just the BLUE for SSMs.

There there

This is gonna end up in my lecture.

I'm not sure how I feel about Pokemon being a hack and slash game all of a sudden.

I just bought that too 😁

It has some features of gomphidius mushrooms, perhaps an old glutinous gomphidius on a dry day
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomphid...?

I've always thought it should be "you can't sell your cake and eat it too"

Do time travellers bring supermutant bugs from the future? Surely time travel should be banned from health and safety principles only.

That guy's close to being arrested. I'd be worried too.

There's free coffee.

Random thought: imagine there's a parallel universe exactly identical to ours. You are a genius scientist and invent a machine that lets you cross. As you press the button, your doppelganger does too, and so, for all intents and purposes, nothing changes and the machine simply doesn't work.

Fixed it for you.