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The Employment White Paper found privatised employment services were duds. Senate and house committees have found they were duds. And in response the govt kept them, and changed nothing

“Threatening to slash 10 per cent of the university workforce as a bargaining tool against the federal government is a cruel and callous way to treat staff.” –Alison Barnes, NTEU National President. Sign our petition to guarantee no job losses: betterunis.com

Still 10 days to apply to this postdoc position! Postdoc opportunity: Research Fellow in Statistical Data Science at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Fundamental and applied research in projects involving statisticians UOW NIASRA See statsoc.org.au/forum-job-vaca…

Nightlights is the most widely used geospatial dataset to measure economic activity. However, there are a number of limitations with them. Here's an overview of them (plus how to address them):

Besides being useful to prove Weierstrass polynomial approximation theorem quantitatively, Bernstein polynomial approximation enjoys many desirable properties. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein…

Here's a mind-blowing open data portal that I think should be far better known than it is: Geoscience Australia's Historical Aerial Photography archive, containing 1.2 million aerial photos from the 1920s on! 🛩 🗺 🤯 Yellow dots = scanned downloadable photos! digital.atlas.gov.au/apps/9a0ecbafe…

The National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia UOW NIASRA at the University of Wollongong is seeking a statistical data scientist. 🔹Research Fellow, Level B 🔹Apply by this Sunday, 18 August 👉uow.edu.au/about/jobs/job… #DataScience #Statistics UOW UOW Research

📢📢📢 WIMSIG Conference 2024: Early-bird Registrations closes on 2 Sept 2024! Abstract submission closes on 8 Sept! Location: SMRI/University of Sydney Dates: 1 - 2 Oct 2024 You can edit your abstract until 26 Sept.  We hope to see you in Sydney! …ical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au/events/wimsig2…

Looking forward to Thursday’s UOW NIASRA seminar by Ben Trubshaw (Tibra Capital) uow.edu.au/events/2024/im…

My yearly reminder that you should contact potential postdoc advisors early (at least 12 months before the intended start day). Even if there isn't an existing position in their lab, there may be external funding opportunities that may be relevant, but take a long time to obtain.

Interested in learning about mixed models? Join Bradley Wakefield and me for a one day online workshop using R (prior knowledge of R helps however we run through the basics to get you going) uow.edu.au/events/2024/on…

Wait until everyone finds out overseas students have almost no impact on our housing crisis. Working with Universities Australia, we did the analysis. They don’t. afr.com/politics/feder…

Oldies but goldies: Henri Gouraud, Continuous shading of curved surfaces, 1971. Gouraud shading is the basic method to render illuminated surfaces by interpolation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouraud_s…

A small glimpse under the curtain. In reality a considerable fraction of election-related posts and replies on this site aren't from actual people (~80% by volume, ~30% by impressions). This includes a number of large accounts. And it increasingly includes LLM-generated replies.

Spherical interpolation (SLERP) of quaternions defines the geodesic over the rotations group. Storing rotations as quaternions is very convenient. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternio… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slerp

In honor of today being the day Skynet becomes self-aware, let us take a moment to remember that far-fetched apocalyptic AI scenarios serve to over-inflate AI’s capabilities while distracting us from the less-apocalyptic but actually existing harms AI is already causing.

New AI lawsuit filed today: A group of voice actors sued Eleven Labs, accusing the text-to-speech service of training its AI voice models using the actors' audiobook recordings.

We are proud to announce our Early Career and Student Statisticians night! (See first comment for speaker list). Food and drinks will be provided! 📅 6-8pm 19/9/24 📍 The Bevery, University of Sydney More details and RSVP: statsoc.org.au/event-5832994

📢Just out! The September edition of our "What's New in the ADSN" Newsletter is online - with heaps of news, jobs, events, scholarships, etc... and the latest on the upcoming ADSN 2024 Conference. linkedin.com/pulse/whats-ne… #DataScience #AI #Statistics #computerscience

„This paper explores how writing mathematics (on paper, blackboards, or even in the air) is indispensable for doing and thinking mathematics.“ Greiffenhagen (2014): The materiality of mathematics: Presenting mathematics at the blackboard. doi.org/10.1111/1468-4…