In addition to Jigiang’s talk on Stan, 11:25 AM on Wednesday, I’ll also be giving a talk about Hamiltonian Monte Carlo today at 3:20 PM. Stanimals in attendance can come find me to score a sweet Stan sticker.
And everyone should check out Andrew’s breakout performance in “A Stan is Born”.
Update: Turns out I missed even more Stan! There was a great session just this morning, that unfortunately I was not able to post earlier due to some logistical issues (i.e. my inadvertently leaving my laptop behind after my talk yesterday…). Seth will also be talking about his sweet Gaussian processes Tuesday at 10:35 AM.
Fantastic video! I am going to open my ESSLLI course on Bayesian data analysis with Andrew’s youtube performance. Andrew, you should be in the movies, what are you doing in this boring field of statistics where nothing ever happens and \mu is almost always 0?
Not to take any glory away from Andrew, but the you tube video that automatically followed the Stan video was very interesting: George Dyson on the history of the Monte Carlo algorithm (including, of course, discussion of the pre-namesake Stan Ulam), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtcB1MOlNiY
Biggest belly-laughs all day. Thanks! Now how can I get one of those stickers?
@Jim: We’ll put them up on StickerMule, which is who made them. No idea if they’ll ship to Australia, but if they don’t, I’d be happy to send you one (if you’re not this offer only stands for people who’ve invited me to dinner!). I think we’ll probably have three versions, one with just the logo, one with the “mc-stan.org”, and one with just “Stan”. We also have the logos for RStan, PyStan, etc. I just need to find an hour to set up the shop.
@Martha: Nice video, but as Michael pointed out when I sent it to him, a very sad ending.
Yes, very sad toward the end, but Dyson does add a somewhat happy ending (that all the letters are being digitized) at the very end.
Those little stickers are adorable! I’m think we could make some delicious Stan cupcakes with red frosting.
There are definitely companies in New York that could make those cupcakes. Have some made for Stan’s third birthday!
Are you kidding? I’d make them myself. It would be cheating to pay someone to do it. What next—paying someone to unscramble your Rubik’s cube?
P.S. I made the cupcakes and served them at the Stan 3rd birthday celebration the other day.
Pictures or it didn’t happen.
Michael, how much of this overlaps your 2014 ML talk in Iceland?
Bill, as you already saw it was mostly a tighter (and much shorter) explanation than was given in Iceland.
They complemented each other nicely! Thanks.