Archive for Saint Christol
Coste-Moynier
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, Wines with tags Coste-Moynier, Coteaux du Languedoc, French wines, Grés de Montpellier, Languedoc wines, Saint Christol on August 20, 2017 by xi'an
exciting week[s]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Statistics with tags ABC, ABC validation, École Normale Supérieure, Bayesian nonparametrics, BNP11, Domaine Coste Moynier, Grés de Montpellier, mixtures of distributions, PCI Comput Stats, PCI Evol Biol, Peer Community, Pic Saint Loup, Saint Christol, Université de Montpellier, Wasserstein distance on June 27, 2017 by xi'an
The past week was quite exciting, despite the heat wave that hit Paris and kept me from sleeping and running! First, I made a two-day visit to Jean-Michel Marin in Montpellier, where we discussed the potential Peer Community In Computational Statistics (PCI Comput Stats) with the people behind PCI Evol Biol at INRA, Hopefully taking shape in the coming months! And went one evening through a few vineyards in Saint Christol with Jean-Michel and Arnaud. Including a long chat with the owner of Domaine Coste Moynier. [Whose domain includes the above parcel with views of Pic Saint-Loup.] And last but not least! some work planning about approximate MCMC.
On top of this, we submitted our paper on ABC with Wasserstein distances [to be arXived in an extended version in the coming weeks], our revised paper on ABC consistency thanks to highly constructive and comments from the editorial board, which induced a much improved version in my opinion, and we received a very positive return from JCGS for our paper on weak priors for mixtures! Next week should be exciting as well, with BNP 11 taking place in downtown Paris, at École Normale!!!
Saint Christol white & red
Posted in Travel, Wines with tags Chardonnay, grenache, Hérault, Languedoc, Montpellier, Saint Christol, Syrah on September 20, 2013 by xi'an
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