Andrew M. Thomas
@andymiketom.bsky.social
Assistant professor, University of Iowa. Stochastic topology, TDA, statistics and imaging. Borel measurable, PhD. Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of my employer.
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Andrew M. Thomas
@andymiketom.bsky.social
· Jul 17
Thrilled to announce the publication of our article "Bayesian Changepoint Detection via Logistic Regression and the Topological Analysis of Image Series" in Technometrics: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AYGJE...
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I sincerely don’t even understand how this is supposed to work. There just … won’t be an economy? We just all get infinite money? Or is AI going to cover the mortgage?
Elon Musk (net worth $600 billion+) says people shouldn't worry about saving for retirement because, in 20 years, everyone will have everything they want thanks to AI.
Elon Musk says saving for retirement will be 'irrelevant' in abundant future
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk described a future where technology creates an abundance of resources so "anyone can have whatever stuff they want."
www.businessinsider.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I sincerely don’t even understand how this is supposed to work. There just … won’t be an economy? We just all get infinite money? Or is AI going to cover the mortgage?
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We all know and love the airport as the place we go to cough on each other. But if you purchase a ticket you can also use it to get to other cities
January 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
We all know and love the airport as the place we go to cough on each other. But if you purchase a ticket you can also use it to get to other cities
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Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett is reuniting with the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Lynx in a new, all-encompassing role involving business, community efforts and content development, sources told ESPN. His long-awaited No. 21 Wolves jersey retirement will also happen in Minnesota.
December 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett is reuniting with the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Lynx in a new, all-encompassing role involving business, community efforts and content development, sources told ESPN. His long-awaited No. 21 Wolves jersey retirement will also happen in Minnesota.
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What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"
May 19, 2024 at 12:26 PM
What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"
Great piece by Emily Riehl on what mathematics is today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too
At a recent conference on mathematics in the age of automated proofs, mathematician and Fields Medalist Akshay Venkatesh presented “How do we talk to our students about AI?'' He quoted an email he'd r...
www.science.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Great piece by Emily Riehl on what mathematics is today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
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Friends of Stats: The U. of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics needs your help. The university's Chancellor submitted a FINAL proposal today for budget cuts (budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget...) that eliminates the department. 1/ #LNK #Nebraska #Huskers @amstatnews.bsky.social
Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska
budgetprocess.unl.edu
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Friends of Stats: The U. of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics needs your help. The university's Chancellor submitted a FINAL proposal today for budget cuts (budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget...) that eliminates the department. 1/ #LNK #Nebraska #Huskers @amstatnews.bsky.social
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
Stunning number
Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.
October 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Stunning number
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imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
September 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
Detroiters 🙌
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.
What's yours?
What's yours?
September 13, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Detroiters 🙌
Thrilled to announce the publication of our article "Bayesian Changepoint Detection via Logistic Regression and the Topological Analysis of Image Series" in Technometrics: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AYGJE...
July 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Thrilled to announce the publication of our article "Bayesian Changepoint Detection via Logistic Regression and the Topological Analysis of Image Series" in Technometrics: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AYGJE...
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
A while back we published an article on using TDA in a limited data setting to predict follicular thyroid cancer using ultrasound imaging (in particular distinguish between adenoma and carcinoma): doi.org/10.1556/1647...
A proof-of-concept investigation into predicting follicular carcinoma on ultrasound using topological data analysis and radiomics
Abstract Background Sonographic risk patterns identified in established risk stratification systems (RSS) may not accurately stratify follicular carcinoma from adenoma, which share many similar US cha...
doi.org
June 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A while back we published an article on using TDA in a limited data setting to predict follicular thyroid cancer using ultrasound imaging (in particular distinguish between adenoma and carcinoma): doi.org/10.1556/1647...
Jones sums up well the lunacy of modern industrial row-crop agriculture and the absurdity of the so-called “renewable fuel standard”
June 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Jones sums up well the lunacy of modern industrial row-crop agriculture and the absurdity of the so-called “renewable fuel standard”
Pleased to announce the publication of my latest article "Convergence of persistence diagrams for discrete time stationary processes" in the Journal of Applied and Computational Topology (@springernature.com), and it's open access.
Convergence of persistence diagrams for discrete time stationary processes - Journal of Applied and Computational Topology
In this article we establish two fundamental results for the sublevel set persistent homology for stationary processes indexed by the positive integers. The first is a strong law of large numbers for ...
link.springer.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Pleased to announce the publication of my latest article "Convergence of persistence diagrams for discrete time stationary processes" in the Journal of Applied and Computational Topology (@springernature.com), and it's open access.
(WOLVES IN 5) X 2
May 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
(WOLVES IN 5) X 2
An encyclical about how it’s actually called the “Cloud Gate” and not “The Bean”
May 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
An encyclical about how it’s actually called the “Cloud Gate” and not “The Bean”
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Wolves faithful believed when no one else did.
Best (and smartest) fan base in the nation.
(S/O @kyletheige.bsky.social @skornorth.bsky.social @twowordspod.bsky.social @thedailywolves.bsky.social @nopantscrunch.bsky.social)
Best (and smartest) fan base in the nation.
(S/O @kyletheige.bsky.social @skornorth.bsky.social @twowordspod.bsky.social @thedailywolves.bsky.social @nopantscrunch.bsky.social)
May 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Wolves faithful believed when no one else did.
Best (and smartest) fan base in the nation.
(S/O @kyletheige.bsky.social @skornorth.bsky.social @twowordspod.bsky.social @thedailywolves.bsky.social @nopantscrunch.bsky.social)
Best (and smartest) fan base in the nation.
(S/O @kyletheige.bsky.social @skornorth.bsky.social @twowordspod.bsky.social @thedailywolves.bsky.social @nopantscrunch.bsky.social)
WOLVES WIN! WOLVES WIN! THERE ARE GOOD THINGS IN THIS WORLD!
April 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
WOLVES WIN! WOLVES WIN! THERE ARE GOOD THINGS IN THIS WORLD!
If you want an easy-to-use Python package for interpretable multivariate, multiple changepoint detection with uncertainty quantification, check out BCLR, now on PyPI: pypi.org/project/bclr/
March 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
If you want an easy-to-use Python package for interpretable multivariate, multiple changepoint detection with uncertainty quantification, check out BCLR, now on PyPI: pypi.org/project/bclr/