While preparing the slides for my talk at Bayes2013 next week, I stumbled on a slight LaTeX problem. Creating the talk with overlays is easy and the results are really good. But often you need to create handouts, in which case overlays are not too...
Yesterday we took XY for his first gelato in Richmond (to be fair, he'd already tried some ice cream, but that wasn't quite the same experience...). In the last couple of years, the place has become very popular (and a bit overpriced), so there was a b...
Yesterday Gareth pointed me to this article on the BBC website. The underlying story has to do with Meredith Kercher's murder and the subsequent trial involving mainly her flat-mate Amanda Knox, in Perugia (Italy). As often in these grue...
Karl Saliba writes with some queries about our football paper, which I have already discussed on the blog here. He says:Thanks to the code in the appendix I could easily replicate (by using WinBUGS) a similar analysis on any football league of my ...
This is a bit of a Russian doll situation, because I'm effectively pointing to another blog, which (kind of) points to this blog (and, who knows, may be this blog is somehow pointing to that other blog too... [To enjoy this fully, you should read ...
Sometimes you try really hard to ask interesting questions, so that people think that you're clever and interesting too, that you actually don't realise how dumb you're being just for asking those very same questions.For example, a few years ago, Marta...
Today, the British media (eg here) have given some attention to a report commissioned by Westminster council into the condition of sex workers, with particular reference to the current economic recession.One of the main conclusions is that, because of ...
Not sure if I'm giving away some good trick here, but I thought I'd shared my experience with this add on for gmail. Once installed, Boomerang allows you to schedule emails to be sent at a given time and date, using gmail. You compose your email normal...
I have to admit that in some sense I am being petty here. But I also think that this story is actually quite interesting, so I'm posting about it.As I've mentioned elsewhere in the blog (here and here), together with some colleagues I'm working on an e...
Of course, a Bayes 500 would be even better and more powerful (although more fuel-consuming...). But: the best we can afford (strictly for time constraints $-$ time since publication, that is) is a Bayes 250.This is what promises to be a very, ver...
