With a few hours left in my year over here, it seemed like a good time to reflect. Here’s what we did in 2025.

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Au printemps dernier, Ed Zitron publiait un texte passionnant, et certes, un peu long, The Era Of The Business Idiot, que j’ai découvert seulement au début des fêtes (désolé). Il ne se contente pas de dire que certaines organisations sont mal gérées, il décrit un type de sélection sociale. Il explique qu’on monte dans la hiérarchie parce qu’on sait produire des signes de compétence, pas parce qu’on sait comprendre un problème et le résoudre. On apprend à parler comme il faut, à présenter comme … Continue …

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This post was initially written in French https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/87139. Last spring, Ed Zitron published a fascinating text, and yes, a bit long, The Era Of The Business Idiot, which I only discovered at the start of the holidays (sorry). He does not just say that some organizations are badly managed, he describes a type of social selection. He explains that you climb the hierarchy because you know how to produce signs of competence, not because you know how to understand a problem and solve it. … <a href=“https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/87215" …

前两天折腾了两个本地运行的工具，现在回头记录，时间点已经可以称「去年底」了。

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In case you don’t know about the Stan Forums, let me just tell you that it’s a great online space for discussions about applied statistics and computing. All sorts of things come up. Today we had a discussion about challenges … Continue reading → …

A rigorous benchmark of Dynrmf vs Theta Method on M-Competitions and Tourism competitition

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In this post I’ll use R to recap my running data from 2025. Previous round-ups are here (2021, 2022, 2023, not sure why I didn’t post one for 2024…). I had a goal of running a total distance of 3650 km in 2025. In truth, after running 3500 km in 2024, I decided to aim […]

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