Archive for La Meije
Ailefroide [Alt. 3954m]
Posted in Books, Kids, Mountains, Travel with tags Ailefroide, Barre des Écrins, BD, book review, Briançon, French Alps, Grenoble, Jean-Marc Rochette, La Meije, Snowpiercer on September 24, 2021 by xi'an
Trip to Lyon
Posted in Mountains, pictures, R, Statistics, University life with tags JAGS, La Meije, Lyon, parallelisation, Rao-Blackwellisation, seminar, talk on January 21, 2011 by xi'an
This was my first trip to Lyon in about… 35 years, I think, but I did not have much time to tour the city! My original plan was to go climbing with Ivan near La Meije right after the talk, but our respective knees were hurting for the past week at least (since Utah in my case…), so we decided to postpone. I think the talk itself went on rather ok (?!), with good questions for possible extensions at the end. And Martyn Plummer (the creator and maintainer of JAGS) came with a most relevant question about the difficult comparison with completely independent MCMC chains, a point Colin also raised a while ago.
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