The third season of the [now monthly] One World ABC Seminar is starting! With talks by
30 September: Matias Quiroz28 October: Michael Gutmann25 November: Clara Grazian27 January: Rafael Izbicki
The third season of the [now monthly] One World ABC Seminar is starting! With talks by
30 September: Matias Quiroz28 October: Michael Gutmann25 November: Clara Grazian27 January: Rafael Izbicki
“Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving America’s allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy” M. Menezes, US Secretary of Energy
“NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon – We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part)” DT,, 7 June
“I just met with the Queen of England (U.K.) [sic], the Prince of Whales [re-sic]” DT, 13 June
“[Sarah Sanders] is going to be leaving the service of her country and she’s going to be going (…) She’s a very special person, a very, very fine woman, she has been so great, she has such heart, she’s strong but with great, great heart, and I want to thank you for an outstanding job.” DT, 13 June
“…when I asked, ‘How many will die?’ ‘150 people, sir’, was the answer from a General. 10 minutes before the strike I stopped it, not … proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone.” DT, 21 June
“The reason we have tragedies like that on the border is because that father didn’t wait to go through the asylum process in the legal fashion and decided to cross the river and not only died but his daughter died tragically as well,” K. Cuccinelli, head of US Immigration and Citizenship Services, 28 June
“If Japan is attacked, we will fight World War III. But if we’re attacked, Japan doesn’t have to help us at all. They can watch it on a Sony television.” DT, 24 June
After missing the blood moon eclipse last night, I had a meeting today at the Paris observatory (IAP), where we discussed an ABC proposal made by Tom Charnock, Guilhem Lavaux, and Benjamin Wandelt from this institute.
“We introduce a simulation-based machine learning technique that trains artificial neural networks to find non-linear functionals of data that maximise Fisher information : information maximising neural networks.” T. Charnock et al., 2018
“Even summary statistics derived by careful scientific or statistical reasoning have been found surprisingly uninformative compared to the whole data likelihood in both scientific investigations (Shrestha et al., 2011) and simulation experiments (Fasiolo et al., 2016)” E. Ionides, slides, 2017