statistics

Neural denoising diffusion models Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs), score-based generative models, generative diffusion processes, neural energy models… 2021-11-11 – 2023-12-06
Science communication On making people feel they are smart enough to teach themselves, or failing that, that they are smart enough to fund YOU to teach yourself 2021-06-02 – 2023-11-20
Neural PDE operator learning Especially forward operators. Image-to-image regression, where the images encode a physical process. 2019-10-15 – 2023-10-19
Pytorch #torched 2018-05-04 – 2023-10-17
Data dashboards and ML demos On assuring the client that you are doing something data-sciency because it looks like in the movies 2020-03-12 – 2023-09-20
Informations Entropies and other measures of surprise 2011-11-25 – 2023-09-04
Materials informatics Machine learning in condensed matter physics, chemistry and materials science 2023-08-01 – 2023-08-08
Model averaging On keeping many incorrect hypotheses and using them all as one goodish one 2017-06-20 – 2023-07-24
Optimal transport inference I feel the earth mover under my feet, I feel the ψ tumbling down, I feel my heart start to trembling, whenever you’re around (my barycentre) 2021-03-16 – 2023-05-03
Normalizing flows Invertible density models, sounding clever by using the word diffeomorphism like a real mathematician 2018-04-04 – 2023-05-02
Quantified self Instrumentation and analytics for body and soul. Punk DIY precision medicine. 2022-01-11 – 2023-04-24
Particle filters incorporating Interacting Particle Systems, Sequential Monte Carlo and a profusion of other simultaneous-discovery names 2014-07-25 – 2023-03-24
Deep sets invariant and equivariant functions 2022-11-24 – 2023-03-21
Ensemble Kalman methods Data Assimilation; Data fusion; Sloppy filters for over-ambitious models 2015-06-22 – 2023-03-18
Transport maps Inference by measure transport, low-dimensional coupling… 2018-04-04 – 2023-02-21
External validity When does what I learn on one data set apply to another? 2020-10-17 – 2023-02-16
Predictive coding Does the model that our brains do bayesian variational prediction make any actual predictions about our brains? 2011-11-27 – 2023-02-09
Probability divergences Metrics, contrasts and divergences and other ways of quantifying how similar are two randomnesses 2014-11-25 – 2023-01-06
The edge of chaos Computation, evolution, competition and other past-times of faculty 2016-12-01 – 2022-10-30
Anomaly detection I don’t define what is abnormal, but I know it when I see it 2015-10-06 – 2022-10-20
Data sets Questions for answers looking for questions 2015-06-26 – 2022-10-08
Causal inference on DAGs Confounding! This scientist performed a miracle graph surgery intervention and you won’t believe what happened next 2016-10-26 – 2022-08-06
ELBO Evidence lower bound, variational free energy etc 2020-10-02 – 2022-08-03
Signal sampling Discrete representation of continuous signals and converse 2017-05-30 – 2022-06-24
SLAM Simultaneous Location and Mapping 2014-11-25 – 2022-04-28
Hierarchical models DAGs, multilevel models, random coefficient models, mixed effect models, structural equation models… 2015-06-07 – 2022-04-21
Change points Looking for regime changes in stochastic processes. a.k.a. Switching state space models 2021-11-29 – 2022-04-01
Random binary vectors The class of distributions that cause you to reinvent Shannon information if you stare at them long enough 2017-02-20 – 2022-03-30
Variational inference On fitting something not too far from a pretty good model that is not too hard 2016-03-22 – 2022-02-10
Bootstrap Shuffling reality to produce your data 2014-11-26 – 2022-01-27
Psychometrics Dimensionality reduction for souls 2017-10-31 – 2022-01-26
R The statistical programming language, not the letter 2011-08-07 – 2021-12-14
Pyro Approximate maximum in the density of probabilistic programming effort 2019-10-02 – 2021-11-25
(Geo)spatial data sets In which I complain about paying a nominal fee for giant rocket robots that scan the earth from space 2021-03-02 – 2021-10-13
Science for policy Using evidence and reason to govern ourselves 2011-08-07 – 2021-09-22
Heavy tails Weird things about rare massive events 2020-01-13 – 2021-09-18
Publication bias Replication crises, P-values, bitching about journals, other debilities of contemporary science at large 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-22
IDEs for R Friendly UIs for the almost-friendly statistical programming language 2011-08-07 – 2021-07-18
Media virality Strategic modelling for content creators 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-15
Tensorflow The framework to use for deep learning if you groupthink like Google 2016-07-11 – 2021-07-07
Graph sampling Estimating functionals of graphs 2020-02-15 – 2021-07-06
Stein’s method His eyes are like angels but his heart is cold / No need to ask / He’s a Stein operator 2021-03-12 – 2021-06-01
Bayesians vs frequentists Just because we both get the same answer doesn’t mean neither of us is wrong 2014-11-25 – 2021-01-14
Covariance functions Variograms, Mercer kernels, positive definite operators, spare reproducing kernels for that Hilbert space I bought on eBay real cheap 2019-09-16 – 2021-01-05
Stan The flagship Bayesian workhorse 2020-10-19
Data 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
Learning of manifolds Also topological data analysis; other hip names to follow 2014-08-19 – 2020-06-23
Queueing The mathematical field whose major result is enraging you about call centres 2015-06-03 – 2020-04-06
Bias reduction Estimating the bias of an estimator so as to subtract it off again 2020-02-26
R Shiny Statistics through the internet 2020-02-11
Signal processing That which you study for 4 years in order to design trippy music visualisers 2015-03-18 – 2018-01-05