Trying to blog even semi-regularly turns out to be difficult! I didn’t even notice that its been 9 months since my last post! But last month I have been busy setting up my new youtube channel ‘space mog’ as well as other accompanying social media sites (instagram, facebook). Hopefully this will help steer my career…
At StanCon 2018 Helsinki, a couple of us gathered together for this thing Breck organised – birds of a feather, to discuss topics of interest with each other. I think there were about 8 of us interested in surrogate models and these are some of the notes from that meeting. So what is a surrogate…
I’m currently working on a problem where I need to sample from a very specific custom pdf. It has taken me a lot of time to get this pdf written down but now that I finally have it, I’m just missing one key ingredient… the selection function! This is when you have some underlying data…
I learned early on in my PhD that binning is not a good idea. The loss of information from binning will lead to biased results. Here I demonstrate this with a simple linear regression toy model. #generate toy data x = runif(nc, 13,15) y = 22+1.5*x+rnorm(nc, 0,0.5) #bin in y variable nbin = 10 ybins…
31.10.2017 The first ever dark matter day… Why the particle physicists decided to it should coincide with halloween I have no clue. Clearly the trending tags will be dominated by the later occasion right? Anyway I made a video about dark matter. I hope you enjoy it!
Okay so a few weeks ago at work a colleague asked me where I was from in the UK, and I replied “Oh, it’s a small little town, you’ve probably never heard of it, Coventry. It’s close to Birmingham”. This is a natural response for me given that I lived in the US for a…
I attended this conference in Aix-en-Provence this week. I gave a talk on my hierarchical analysis of galaxy clusters and there was a great turn out from the cluster community but lots of cluster environmentalists! Anyway some of the most interesting talks I found were: Michael Gregg from UC Davis, gave a really nice talk…
