by Sean Robinson | Sep 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Come closer. What I’m about to tell you is privileged information. No seriously. Closer still. *conspiratorial whisper* The government controls the science you get to know about. Is this a surprise to anyone? It could be. Right now my country (that’s the USA) is...
by Sean Robinson | Sep 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
“If all you have is a hammer…” so the old adage goes. As it turns out, I have a nice big one, and a corresponding anvil. One is called Monte-Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC), and the other is called the method of Maximum Likelihood. I’m going to talk about the first one...
by Sean Robinson | Sep 6, 2017 | Sean Robinson
I was recently standing in a department store, getting a new waistcoat to further cement the “professor gym-rat” look I have carefully constructed. Next month I’m gonna try suspenders and a bow-tie. Anyway, during the checkout process, some...
by Sean Robinson | Sep 6, 2017 | Sean Robinson
In my time working as a government scientist, I was able to work with a lot of cross-disciplinary teams, often putting math-and-code-heavy folks like myself together with domain-specific specialists like chemists or biologists who worked in wet labs more and made...