Archives

• Plotting from the command line — a new version of ‘graph’
• New version of pqR, with automatic differentiation and arithmetic on lists
• Critique of “Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period” — Part 4: Modelling R, seasonality, immunity
• Critique of “Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period” — Part 3: Estimating reproduction numbers
• Critique of “Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period” — Part 2: Proxies for incidence of coronaviruses
• Critique of “Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period” — Part 1: Reproducing the results
• Seasonality of COVID-19, Other Coronaviruses, and Influenza
• The Puzzling Linearity of COVID-19
• Body Mass and Risk from COVID-19 and Influenza
• Software for Flexible Bayesian Modeling – New release
• Ancient mechanism
• Canal du Midi
• Automatic differentiation in pqR
• Faster garbage collection in pqR
• The new pqR parser, and R’s “else” problem
• New version of pqR, with major speed improvements
• Path and Bridge
• New release of pqR — faster, and now compatible with R-2.15.1
• Mother and daughter
• Fixing R’s design flaws in a new version of pqR
• Critique of ‘Debunking the climate hiatus’, by Rajaratnam, Romano, Tsiang, and Diffenbaugh
• Has there been a ‘pause’ in global warming?
• What can global temperature data tell us?
• Exact computation of sums and means
• How large vectors in R might be stored compactly
• Before the snow had gone
• Faculty Position in Statistics at the University of Toronto (Mississauga)
• Subset replacement in pqR: Now faster and better
• New version of pqR with faster variable lookup, faster subset replacement, and more
• Brixen / Bressanone, Italy, June 2014
• New release of pqR, with a curated repository
• Inaccurate results from microbenchmark
• New version of pqR, now with task merging
• Netherlands Centennial Carillon, Victoria, BC
• Faculty Positions in Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Toronto
• Pipes at U of T
• Deferred evaluation in Renjin, Riposte, and pqR
• Fixing R’s NAMED problems in pqR
• How pqR makes programs faster by not doing things
• Comparing the speed of pqR with R-2.15.0 and R-3.0.1
• Parallel computation with helper threads in pqR
• Announcing pqR: A faster version of R
• New growth
• Faculty Positions at University of Toronto
• Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto
• Two Hamiltonian Monte Carlo papers
• Non-random MCMC
• MCMC simulation as a random permutation
• Trees, buildings, sunlight
• Low Density Parity Check code software — a new release, now on Github
• Winter flowers
• Evaluation of NUTS — more comments on the paper by Hoffman and Gelman
• No U-Turns for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo – comments on a paper by Hoffman and Gelman
• GRIMS — General R Interface for Markov Sampling
• Innumeracy at the Globe and Mail
• Two textbooks on probability using R
• New patches to speed up R 2.13.0
• Under the slide
• Slowing down matrix multiplication in R
• Speed tests for R — and a look at the compiler
• Ensemble MCMC
• Fourteen patches to speed up R
• Speeding up parentheses (and lots more) in R
• Two Surpising Things about R
• Does coverage matter?
• Downtown with Sky
• Answers to Applied PhD Comprehensive Question #2
• Design Flaws in R #3 — Zero Subscripts
• Applied Statistics PhD Comprehensive Question #2
• Amazement
• Down Syndrome and Decision Theory
• R Design Flaws #1 and #2: A Solution to Both?
• Answers to Applied PhD Comprehensive Question #1
• Young Explorer
• Design Flaws in R #2 — Dropped Dimensions
• The Harmonic Mean of the Likelihood: Worst Monte Carlo Method Ever
• Applied Statistics PhD Comprehensive Question #1
• University College, University of Toronto
• Inconsistent Maximum Likelihood Estimation: An “Ordinary” Example
• Design Flaws in R #1 — Reversing Sequences
• What is This Blog?