Version 0.0.26 of RcppSpdlog arrived on CRAN moments ago, and will be uploaded to Debian and built for r2u shortly. The (nice) documentation site has been refreshed too. RcppSpdlog bundles spdlog, a wonderful header-only C++ logging library with all …

现在越来越多用电脑打字，但我一直习惯随身备一支笔。有时手写像是给思考增加一些摩擦力，过滤掉一些浮躁的东西。 这 …

即便电视静音，小学时的我仍能分辨出它开机、运行与关机的声音。父母听不见，表哥听不见，似乎只有我能听见。 我一度 …

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Qui n’a jamais entendu cette phrase ? Elle revient mécaniquement dès qu’un risque collectif devient visible. Après une crue, après un feu de forêt, après une tempête, après une sécheresse qui dure trop longtemps, on entend, au détour d’une discussion ou d’une tribune, une formule qui sonne comme une évidence et comme une conclusion. Ce fameux “C’est l’État qui paiera” que j’ai gardé comme titre pour mon billet. Parfois on l’entend sous une forme plus douce “L’État doit prendre ses responsabilités“. Parfois sous une …

This post was initially written in French https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/87308 Who has never heard this phrase? It comes back almost automatically as soon as a collective risk becomes visible. After a flood, after a wildfire, after a storm, after a drought that lasts too long, you hear, in passing conversation or in an op ed, a formula that sounds like both an obvious truth and a conclusion. That familiar The Government Will Foot the Bill, which I have kept as the title of this post. Sometimes … Continue …

This is Erik: A few days ago, I wrote about my concerns about the z-curve method. I demonstrated that under certain circumstances, the coverage of the confidence interval of the expected discovery rate (EDR) is far below nominal. Ulrich Schimmack, … Continue reading → …

Matthias Müller-Schrader writes: I’ve recently read your ADVI paper in JMLR with great enjoyment. However, I stumbled over one important detail: In case of the full-rank Gaussian, the Cholesky factorization ensures that Sigma is positive-semi-definite for an unconstrained lower-triangular matrix … Continue reading → …

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