Eric Novik
@ericnovik.bsky.social
Pragmatic Bayesian | Statistics Faculty @ NYU
Modeling and numerics: could we do something better? by Juho Timonen.
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Modeling and numerics: could we do something better? | Juho Timonen | Generable
The issues of the traditional ODE solvers in probabilistic models
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November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Modeling and numerics: could we do something better? by Juho Timonen.
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Personalized dosing decisions beyond clinical trials: www.generable.com/post/improvi...
Improving dosing decisions | Jacqueline Buros | Generable
Using a multistate model and patient utilities to improve dosing decisions
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October 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Personalized dosing decisions beyond clinical trials: www.generable.com/post/improvi...
Nonparametric statistics: Gaussian processes and their approximations by Nikolas Siccha
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Nonparametric statistics: Gaussian processes and their approximations | Nikolas Siccha | Generable
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October 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Nonparametric statistics: Gaussian processes and their approximations by Nikolas Siccha
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If you are interested in meta-analysis (Bayesian or non-Bayesian), check out @rlgrant.bsky.social Robert Grant's nice StanBio Connect talk available at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZ1...
in which he also advertises his soon-to-be shipping book "Bayesian meta-analysis"
www.routledge.com/Bayesian-Met...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZ1...
in which he also advertises his soon-to-be shipping book "Bayesian meta-analysis"
www.routledge.com/Bayesian-Met...
StanBio Connect 2025
YouTube video by Stan
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June 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If you are interested in meta-analysis (Bayesian or non-Bayesian), check out @rlgrant.bsky.social Robert Grant's nice StanBio Connect talk available at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZ1...
in which he also advertises his soon-to-be shipping book "Bayesian meta-analysis"
www.routledge.com/Bayesian-Met...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZ1...
in which he also advertises his soon-to-be shipping book "Bayesian meta-analysis"
www.routledge.com/Bayesian-Met...
Reposted by Eric Novik
StanBio Connect 2025 free online conference May 30 stanbio.org
... Stan in biomedicine including drug discovery and development, bioinformatics, medical devices, health economics, real-world evidence, and decision-making under uncertainty
... Stan in biomedicine including drug discovery and development, bioinformatics, medical devices, health economics, real-world evidence, and decision-making under uncertainty
StanBio Connect 2025 – StanBio
Advancing Biomedical Research with Stan
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May 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
StanBio Connect 2025 free online conference May 30 stanbio.org
... Stan in biomedicine including drug discovery and development, bioinformatics, medical devices, health economics, real-world evidence, and decision-making under uncertainty
... Stan in biomedicine including drug discovery and development, bioinformatics, medical devices, health economics, real-world evidence, and decision-making under uncertainty
Things I read listened to, and saw in 2024: ericnovik.com/2025/03/book...
Books and more in 2024 - Unnatural Consequences
These books and plays left an impression on me in 2024, with summaries compiled with the help of Perplexity and ChatGPT. Books The Accidental President. Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Change...
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March 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Things I read listened to, and saw in 2024: ericnovik.com/2025/03/book...
The Scientific Method Vs. AI: Is There Still Room For Theory? My take here: www.forbes.com/councils/for...
The Scientific Method Vs. AI: Is There Still Room For Theory?
It may seem that all scientific tasks will soon be outsourced to AI—not so fast.
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March 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The Scientific Method Vs. AI: Is There Still Room For Theory? My take here: www.forbes.com/councils/for...
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StanConnects are a series of one-day online conferences for the application of Stan to specific areas. This year, we're kicking off with Stan for biology (broadly defined), co-organized by @ericnovik.bsky.social and @vianeylb.bsky.social, on 30 May '25!!
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stanbio.org
StanBio Connect 2025 – StanBio Connect
Advancing Biomedical Research with Stan
stanbio.org
March 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
StanConnects are a series of one-day online conferences for the application of Stan to specific areas. This year, we're kicking off with Stan for biology (broadly defined), co-organized by @ericnovik.bsky.social and @vianeylb.bsky.social, on 30 May '25!!
stanbio.org
stanbio.org
“In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president had used the third derivative to advance his case for re-election.” (Notices of the AMS, Oct. 1996, 43(10), p. 1108.)
January 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president had used the third derivative to advance his case for re-election.” (Notices of the AMS, Oct. 1996, 43(10), p. 1108.)
Turns out there Bayesian BioPharm Meeting 2025. bnp14.org/bbp2025/. Anyone going?
Bayesian BioPharm Meeting 2025 – BNP 14 World Meeting @ UCLA
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January 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Turns out there Bayesian BioPharm Meeting 2025. bnp14.org/bbp2025/. Anyone going?
My daughter's pork belly ramen is the best I've ever had.
January 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
My daughter's pork belly ramen is the best I've ever had.
I was just talking to an experienced probabilistic modeler who said: "After working with a few probabilistic programming languages, Stan is my fave: everything is typed and everything just works." It's a pain to get things in and out of Stan, but it's usually worth it.
January 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I was just talking to an experienced probabilistic modeler who said: "After working with a few probabilistic programming languages, Stan is my fave: everything is typed and everything just works." It's a pain to get things in and out of Stan, but it's usually worth it.
2025 is a 2, 3, 4, 5 kind of year. Why? Because 2025 = 3^4 * 5^2
January 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
2025 is a 2, 3, 4, 5 kind of year. Why? Because 2025 = 3^4 * 5^2
Modeling Public Opinion Over Time and Space: Trust in State Institutions in Europe, 1989-2019 by Kołczyńska et al. ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/...
January 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Modeling Public Opinion Over Time and Space: Trust in State Institutions in Europe, 1989-2019 by Kołczyńska et al. ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/...
"When you are playing a point, it's the most important thing in the world. But when it's behind you, it's behind you..." -- Roger Federer
December 27, 2024 at 4:29 PM
"When you are playing a point, it's the most important thing in the world. But when it's behind you, it's behind you..." -- Roger Federer
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Thrilled to share our new @pnas.org paper using active learning 🤖 to optimise disease testing 🦠 and support public health 🌍.
Press release by @imperialsph.bsky.social: imperial.ac.uk/news/259573/...
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Joint work with some stellar collaborators!
Press release by @imperialsph.bsky.social: imperial.ac.uk/news/259573/...
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Joint work with some stellar collaborators!
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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December 20, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Thrilled to share our new @pnas.org paper using active learning 🤖 to optimise disease testing 🦠 and support public health 🌍.
Press release by @imperialsph.bsky.social: imperial.ac.uk/news/259573/...
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Joint work with some stellar collaborators!
Press release by @imperialsph.bsky.social: imperial.ac.uk/news/259573/...
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Joint work with some stellar collaborators!
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If you are interested in doing a #PhD with me at Imperial College London and qualify as a home student, please reach out (before end of 2024)! Potential topics: spatial statistics, applied deep generative models, probabilistic programming and more.
December 19, 2024 at 2:21 PM
If you are interested in doing a #PhD with me at Imperial College London and qualify as a home student, please reach out (before end of 2024)! Potential topics: spatial statistics, applied deep generative models, probabilistic programming and more.
Why is a bullshitter worse than a liar? Because he is not even wrong!
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December 16, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Why is a bullshitter worse than a liar? Because he is not even wrong!
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A lot of people heard about John von Neumann but not about Alexander Craig Aitken, but Aitken was quite remarkable particularly if you are a statistician. For example, he independently derived Cramer-Rao lower bound, a very nice result in (frequentist) statistics.
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Alexander Aitken - Wikipedia
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December 16, 2024 at 10:01 PM
A lot of people heard about John von Neumann but not about Alexander Craig Aitken, but Aitken was quite remarkable particularly if you are a statistician. For example, he independently derived Cramer-Rao lower bound, a very nice result in (frequentist) statistics.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
Traveling salesmen are still out of luck, but the commercial movers finally caught a break with this breakthrough!
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December 13, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Traveling salesmen are still out of luck, but the commercial movers finally caught a break with this breakthrough!
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Statistical wars inside the frequentist camp:
According to Neyman, though, the argument began because Fisher demanded that Neyman lecture only from Fisher’s book. When Neyman refused, Fisher promised to oppose him “in all my capacities.” - The Theory That Would Not Die
According to Neyman, though, the argument began because Fisher demanded that Neyman lecture only from Fisher’s book. When Neyman refused, Fisher promised to oppose him “in all my capacities.” - The Theory That Would Not Die
December 13, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Statistical wars inside the frequentist camp:
According to Neyman, though, the argument began because Fisher demanded that Neyman lecture only from Fisher’s book. When Neyman refused, Fisher promised to oppose him “in all my capacities.” - The Theory That Would Not Die
According to Neyman, though, the argument began because Fisher demanded that Neyman lecture only from Fisher’s book. When Neyman refused, Fisher promised to oppose him “in all my capacities.” - The Theory That Would Not Die
Why do CS people write nice-looking code while statisticians don't? For a computer scientist, code is the product; for a statistician, code is a byproduct.
December 6, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Why do CS people write nice-looking code while statisticians don't? For a computer scientist, code is the product; for a statistician, code is a byproduct.
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A new release of Stan is coming discourse.mc-stan.org/t/cmdstan-st....
Highlights:
New constraints for stochastic matrices and zero-sum vectors
Easier user-defined constraints
Improved diagnostics
New distribution, beta_negative_binomial
Highlights:
New constraints for stochastic matrices and zero-sum vectors
Easier user-defined constraints
Improved diagnostics
New distribution, beta_negative_binomial
CmdStan & Stan 2.36 release candidate
I am happy to announce that the latest release candidates of CmdStan and Stan are now available on Github! This release cycle brings new constrained types, improved diagnostics, and a new distributio...
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December 2, 2024 at 11:26 AM
A new release of Stan is coming discourse.mc-stan.org/t/cmdstan-st....
Highlights:
New constraints for stochastic matrices and zero-sum vectors
Easier user-defined constraints
Improved diagnostics
New distribution, beta_negative_binomial
Highlights:
New constraints for stochastic matrices and zero-sum vectors
Easier user-defined constraints
Improved diagnostics
New distribution, beta_negative_binomial
Lisbon looks very nice this morning.
November 27, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Lisbon looks very nice this morning.