Incredible PhD #Scholarship opportunities with ACEMS researchers at UNSW - 2 UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarships - each worth $40K p/a for four years plus $10K p/a for development, training, and travel acems.org.au/scholarships Scott Sisson Robert Kohn

2 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions open at UNSW Mathematics & Statistics: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/4940…

"Game theory... and Markov Chain Monte Carlo to sample the game tree" FTW x.com/gradientpub/st…

Thanks for a superbly organised and highly inspiring #datathon & workshop. I've learned a great deal about #BigQuery and healthcare applications, and most importantly made good friends and collaborators. x.com/MITcriticaldat…

Six UNSW/CSIRO/industry iPhD opportunities in health data analytics are now open for applications - see research.unsw.edu.au/industry-phd/p…

Hierarchical stochastic blockmodels (the bipartite version) are better at topic modelling than Latent Dirichlet Allocation:

Handbook of Approximate Bayesian Computation released worldwide today! Filled with outstanding content from outstanding ABC researchers! Well done to everyone who contributed!

So you have a #logisticregression baseline model, and are thinking of the next step up in complexity? Before you fit a #deeplearning model, try glinternet first! Here's a little tutorial: strakaps.github.io/post/glinterne…

Google is now saying: Let's keep the research/AI parts under one group Let's put products that are ready to scale in another. Why this matters: It's among the first tech companies figuring out a real strategy for health vs. groups doing random projects. cnbc.com/2018/11/13/goo…

Predicting extremes in bursty time series #sixwordstory #Mathematics #Statistics

Good morning in sad, jealous tweets. All schools in Taiwan have been open since February. They did not listen to China or WHO in January and immediately masked up and shut down travel. They also traced the hell out of their outbreaks. They were practically done by February.