I like hyperbole. Anyway, I wrote a complicated model again. It ‘works’, it’s slow, and it doesn’t really tell me anything new about the data I ran through it. So what’s really new here. Still, I like it for philosophical reasons. And I often think I’m a better scientific philosopher than actual scientist. So letContinue reading “One model to rule them all”
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Maybe it doesn’t Matern
Calling all bored and crazy Stan coders. I need a long term coding partner. I’ve been doing a lot of completely solo work for a couple years now, and you can guess the result. I have a couple of really awesome models that I am proud of, and yet they’re (1) not quite what IContinue reading “Maybe it doesn’t Matern”
Fun ideas
I have fun ideas, sometimes. Like, I was imagining the title of this blog could be variable depending on the day. On days that were going pretty well, the nice ‘Mer de Microbes’. On other days, maybe that first space would disappear. It should be pretty easy to do. I could write some code thatContinue reading “Fun ideas”
Mer de Microbes
When I started my first blog, I initially used this title for it. I had recently begun working in French Polynesia, was helping a French postdoc, and was interested in learning the language, and I thought, “‘Sea of Microbes’ in French, that’s nice.” I created the page and started working on the blog. And thenContinue reading “Mer de Microbes”