Interested in large-scale, rapid experimentation in the Internet industry? There are multiple sessions tomorrow at #jsm2019 on the topic. I'm moderating this panel with experts from FANG in CC-703. Will dig into statistical, computational, and practical issues.

🎉Prophet v0.6 is now out for Python and R.🎉 Props to Ben Letham who did the majority of the work and to Chris Suchanek who did the cmdstanpy integration. Github: github.com/facebook/proph… CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages/p… PyPI: pypi.org/project/fbprop… Docs: facebook.github.io/prophet/

Of all the things that shocked me in grad school, I still find it really shocking that no one is doing code reviews in science. It was the clearest sign that people were fundamentally uninterested in how the sausage got made — but so much of what’s important was in those details.

If you're looking for some levity while stuck at home, this video may help.

At Mozilla, we’ve noticed a recent increase in desktop usage of Firefox 🔥. Because this data may have some value to researchers investigating #SocialDistancing measures, we're releasing a dataset to support this collaborative effort. mzl.la/3dOYoV4

This post describes a really exciting use of Prophet to understand the impact of social distancing on Firefox usage (+Sean J. Taylor)

Just learned some fun, apropos history: the classic method for estimating excess flu mortality and detecting epidemics is called Serfling regression. It's a linear regression with Fourier terms to model flu seasonality. (Prophet does the same). ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Introducing the Truncated Sine distribution, denoted TrSin. The main application is modeling the probability of a smoke detector starting "low battery" beeping, which is 0 during the day and peaks from 12a-4a.

I extracted repeated phrases from Biden and Trump speeches to create a bingo card generator. To be used in 2 days! #DebateBingo lethalletham.com/posts/debatebi…

If AI papers were pharmaceuticals: Do you suffer from high-dimensional Bayesian optimization? Watch this commercial to understand how our #NeurIPS2020 paper can help you get back to living your life! youtu.be/fbEwVxXYSok

😂 I hope this is the start of a trend for promoting papers

WOW the response to our upcoming #AISTATS paper has been incredible. Here is a compilation of just a few of the paper reaction videos: youtu.be/dx0TBmM4wcI