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Soft methodology of science 2012-01-13 – 2022-06-23

Scientific institutions and mechanisms Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2022-06-22

Workhacks How to succeed in business (with or without trying) 2020-07-19 – 2022-06-14

Designing less toxic social media 2020-07-12 – 2022-06-11

Pluralistic ignorance, silent majorities, spiral of silence, hidden tribes We all believe that we all believe what we do not believe 2020-06-03 – 2022-06-11

Emergent spacetime What are qubits again? 2022-05-26

Applied psephology 2016-07-12 – 2022-05-25

Learning graphical models from data Also, causal discovery, structure discovery 2017-09-20 – 2022-05-18

Graph neural nets 2020-09-16 – 2022-05-18

Memetics Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc 2020-01-30 – 2022-05-14

Approximate matrix factorisation Sometimes even exact 2014-08-05 – 2022-05-14

Smooth transforms of Gaussian noise Delta method, error propagation, unscented transform, Taylor expansion, in finite and inifinite dimensional spaces 2014-11-25 – 2022-05-12

But what can I do? The stuff to do to make a better society is pretty easy it turns out 2020-02-06 – 2022-05-02

Anthropic principles Convenience-sampling lived human experience 2020-02-15 – 2022-05-01

Being stroppy For people too perverse to be contrarian 2022-03-04 – 2022-04-30

Causal graphical model reading group 2022 Causal inference 2022-04-01 – 2022-04-29

SLAM Simultaneous Location and Mapping 2014-11-25 – 2022-04-28

Vecchia factoring of GP likelihoods Ignore some conditioning in the dependencies and attain a sparse cholesky factor for the precision matrix 2022-04-27

Basis-functions in Gaussian process regression a.k.a Fixed Rank Kriging, basis function regression, weight space, spatial random effects 2022-02-22 – 2022-04-21

Hierarchical models DAGs, multilevel models, random coefficient models, mixed effect models, structural equation models… 2015-06-07 – 2022-04-21

Social norms 2019-10-07 – 2022-04-13

Trapped beliefs Thinking now what made sense then 2022-04-09

Particle belief propagation Graphical inference using empirical distribution estimates 2014-07-25 – 2022-04-08

Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo Particle systems as MCMC proposals 2014-07-25 – 2022-04-08

The levels of simulacra 2018-12-18 – 2022-04-07

Doing complicated things the obvious way and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong 2022-04-04 – 2022-04-04

The language game Coevolution of words and meanings 2014-12-29 – 2022-04-01

Partition-valued random variates 2022-04-01

Belief propagation 2014-11-25 – 2022-03-31

Gaussian belief propagation Least squares at maximal elaboration 2014-11-25 – 2022-03-28

Reservoir Computing 2022-03-28

COVID-19 in practice SARS-CoV-2 to its friends 2020-11-25 – 2022-03-13

Causal inference on DAGs Confounding! This scientist performed a miracle graph surgery intervention and you won’t believe what happened next 2016-10-26 – 2022-03-08

Science; Sociology and institution design for Scientist, falsify thyself 2020-05-17 – 2022-03-06

Measurement, analytics and performance indicators Street fighting statistics 2014-09-22 – 2022-03-04

Journalism, normative Sensors for the superorganism 2020-01-26 – 2022-03-04

Diversity in teams Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale 2020-05-27 – 2022-03-04

Interaction effects are probably what we want to estimate 2022-01-25 – 2022-03-04

Opinion dynamics 1: Social contagion moves hearts and minds How to win elections and influence people 2020-08-30 – 2022-03-03

Designing social movements Minimum viable utopia 2021-05-01 – 2022-02-28

Invasive arguments Weeds in public discourse 2021-12-20 – 2022-02-27

The social brain Rubber-duck-typing 2011-12-09 – 2022-02-27

Symbolic and substantive insurrections Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building 2022-02-20 – 2022-02-27

Conditional expectation and probability 2020-02-04 – 2022-02-25

Learning with conservation laws, invariances and symmetries 2020-04-11 – 2022-02-25

Visualising probabilistic graphical models Also related models, such as Neural nets 2018-03-29 – 2022-02-18

Message-passing algorithms in graphical models Cleaving reality at the joint, then summing it at the marginal 2014-11-25 – 2022-02-17

Incentive mechanism design Markets, cakes, karma, and reverse game theory 2014-09-22 – 2022-02-15

Neurons Neural networks made of real neurons, in functioning brains 2014-11-03 – 2022-02-14

Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2022-02-13

Diversity in society Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic 2017-02-19 – 2022-02-13

Subculture dynamics Coalitions, scenes, fandoms, subcultures, normies, hipsters, sects, and tribes at scale 2018-12-18 – 2022-02-11

Academic publishing 2015-07-07 – 2022-02-11

Factor graphs 2019-12-16 – 2022-02-09

Probabilistic graphical models 2014-08-05 – 2022-02-08

Random graphical models Causality in amongst confusion 2021-10-26 – 2022-02-07

Sexual ethics and institutions 2020-06-07 – 2022-02-07

Recommender systems 2020-11-30 – 2022-02-04

Sociology and politics of information Epistemic democracy, cognitive democracy, the great society 2022-01-09 – 2022-02-02

Ethical consumption Socialism as a Service 2020-02-06 – 2022-01-30

Learning on manifolds Finding the lowest bit of a krazy straw, from the inside 2011-10-21 – 2022-01-26

Teamwork 2020-01-26 – 2022-01-20

Modern conspiracy theorising You are only reading this because the Deep State wants you to 2020-08-16 – 2022-01-16

Social psychology Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated? 2017-02-20 – 2022-01-14

Statistical projectivity 2020-04-26 – 2022-01-11

Standards hell Lock-in, QWERTY, coordination problems etc 2015-01-05 – 2022-01-11

Red queen social signal dynamics Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices 2018-12-18 – 2022-01-05

Group size Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination 2011-12-09 – 2022-01-02

Diversity as an end in itself On a rich an vibrant ecosystem of culture and thought 2021-12-13

Causality via potential outcomes Neyman-Rubin, counterfactuals, conditional treatment effects, and related tricks 2016-10-26 – 2021-12-10

Diffusion of innovations Epidemiology of widgets 2020-01-30 – 2021-12-10

Causal inference in highly parameterized ML 2020-09-18 – 2021-12-10

Gaussian Processes as stochastic differential equations Imposing time on things 2019-09-18 – 2021-11-25

Project management With special attention to speculative and innovative projects 2021-03-23 – 2021-11-04

External validity and dataset shift Also transfer learning, learning under covariate shift, transferable learning, domain adaptation etc 2020-10-17 – 2021-11-03

Spectral graph theory Linear signals on graphs 2014-11-24 – 2021-10-27

Survey modelling Adjusting for the Lizardman constant 2019-08-29 – 2021-10-24

Weaponizing social media Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape 2019-10-21 – 2021-10-24

Networks and graphs, theory thereof 2014-11-24 – 2021-10-20

Economics on networks 2020-05-17 – 2021-10-16

Neural music synthesis 2016-01-15 – 2021-10-14

Research discovery Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2021-10-13

Random neural networks 2017-02-17 – 2021-10-12

Missing data Imputation, estimation despite etc 2021-10-07

Recurrent neural networks 2016-06-16 – 2021-09-06

Governance of the commons On the mysterious fact that most people get on with most of their neighbours most of the time 2014-10-29 – 2021-09-02

Contact tracing Reverse engineering social graphs for the control of contagions of pathogens, subversive ideology and other substances of interest 2020-03-21 – 2021-07-28

Science History, sociology and philosophy thereof 2017-07-08 – 2021-07-21

Contagion processes and their statistics 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-15

Media virality Strategic modelling for content creators 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-15

Learning summary statistics 2020-04-22 – 2021-07-15

Graph sampling Estimating functionals of graphs 2020-02-15 – 2021-07-06

Applied string mangling Regexes, parsing, tokenising etc 2019-12-09 – 2021-07-05

Distributed sensing, swarm sensing, adaptive social learning 2014-10-13 – 2021-06-28

Learning on tabular data 2020-11-30 – 2021-06-21

Queerness 2021-05-06

The simplest thing Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering 2020-02-03 – 2021-04-27

Causal inference in the continuous limit 2021-02-17

Efficient factoring of GP likelihoods 2020-10-16 – 2020-10-26

Graph computation 2014-12-17 – 2020-09-20

Independence, conditional, statistical 2016-04-21 – 2020-09-13

Dimensionality reduction Wherein I teach myself, amongst other things, feature selection, how a sparse PCA works, and decide where to file multidimensional scaling 2015-03-22 – 2020-09-11

Causal graphical model reading group 2020 An introduction to conditional independence DAGs and their use for causal inference. 2020-08-30 – 2020-09-03

Causal Bayesian networks Staged tree models, probability trees …Causalan Bayesian networks 2020-11-01 – 2020-09-01

Dilemmas of collective action 2014-11-25 – 2020-08-01

Economics of insurgence 2015-02-02 – 2020-07-01

Learning of manifolds Also topological data analysis; other hip names to follow 2014-08-19 – 2020-06-23

Inference on social graphs Heterogeneous media and controls 2019-09-22 – 2020-06-03

Natural gradient descent Climbing slower on the tricky bits 2019-07-18 – 2020-05-26

Directed graphical models 2017-09-20 – 2020-05-13

Statistical relational learning 2020-04-26 – 2020-04-27

Post stratification Making the optimal beverage from the fruit life gave you 2020-04-22

Analysis/resynthesis of audio 2016-01-15 – 2020-04-09

Epidemics 2020-03-10 – 2020-04-03

Mechanism design for reputation systems Karma, credit scores, pagerank… 2014-08-05 – 2020-03-02

Learnable indexes and hashes 2018-01-12 – 2020-02-18

Potential theory in probability Something about harmonic functions or whatever 2020-02-12

*-omics 2016-08-12 – 2020-01-22

Information geometry 2011-10-21 – 2019-12-27

Audio source separation 2019-11-04 – 2019-11-26

Undirected graphical models 2017-09-20 – 2019-10-28

Non-negative matrix factorisation 2019-10-14

Probabilistic graphical models over continuous index sets 2014-08-05 – 2019-09-25

Fourier interpolation 2019-06-19

Topology, applied to problems I know about 2015-01-23 – 2019-06-15

Quantum-probabilistic graphical models 2017-08-07

Marketing psychology 2017-04-27 – 2017-05-29

UNSW Stats reading group 2016 - Causal DAGs An introduction to conditional independence DAGs and their use for causal data. 2016-10-17 – 2016-10-21

Inference from disorder 2016-10-19

Clustering 2015-05-22 – 2016-06-07

Expectation maximisation 2014-08-17 – 2016-04-17

Coarse graining 2014-11-11 – 2015-12-02

Sigma algebras, probability spaces, measure theory The scaffolding of randomness 2015-06-20