Archive for tee-shirt
an oldie but a goldie [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, University life with tags Banff, Banff Mountain Festival, BIRS, Canada, Canadian Rockies, Cerro Torre, jatp, Patagonia, tee-shirt on March 19, 2020 by xi'an
rions jaune….
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags France, French politics, gilets jaunes, jatp, tee-shirt on January 12, 2019 by xi'an
talks at CIRM with special tee-shirts
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags Þe Norse face, Bayesian Analysis, Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, CIRM, CNRS, HMC, JASP, logo, Luminy, Marseiile, master class, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, STAN, tee-shirt, Université Aix Marseille, videoed lectures, ye Norse farce on November 21, 2018 by xi'an
another tee-shirt issue
Posted in Statistics with tags climbing accident, Coventry, crack, lead fall, mountain equipment, Tasmania, tee-shirt, thumb, Totem Pole, UK on September 10, 2018 by xi'an
I bought this burgundy mountain equipment tee-shirt last time I was in Coventry as I found the play on the seam as a crack rather clever. (As if I needed new tee shirts!) I later reflected that the posture of the climber is quite wrong as this climber should not be holding the rope when falling: as I became rather painfully aware a few years, ropes can become dangerous when stretched in the vicinity of fingers… So I dropped a line to the company, which kindly replied to my email that they had digitised an actual picture of a falling climber, hoping no one would take this tee-shirt as a recommendation for lead falls! (Their site actually opens with a great picture of a climber on the iconic Totem Pole, Tasmania.)
for a coincidence
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, University life with tags Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, coincidences, JSM 2018, North Face, tee-shirt, The Norse Farce, Vancouver on August 5, 2018 by xi'an
Last night in Vancouver, we were walking back to Chinatown under an expressway, in a rather uninspiring section of town. Waiting at a cross-light with another couple on the other side. As we crossed the street I glanced at the man and noticed his Chamonix North Face tee-shirt. He happened to do the same and… noticed my identical Chamonix North Face tee-shirt! We shared a laugh at this (huge?) coincidence and continued on our respective ways. (He was not taking part in MCMskiii in case this seems a likely explanation!)
JASP, a really really fresh way to do stats
Posted in Statistics with tags Bayes factors, Bayesian inference, design, Harold Jeffreys, JASP, tee-shirt, University of Amsterdam on February 1, 2018 by xi'an
winning entry at MCqMC’16
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags California, MCqMC 2016, qMC, quasi-random sequences, scientific computing, Stanford University, tee-shirt, uniformity on August 29, 2016 by xi'an
The nice logo of MCqMC 2016 was a collection of eight series of QMC dots on the unit (?) cube. The organisers set a competition to identify the principles behind those quasi-random sets and as I had no idea for most of them I entered very random sets unconnected with algorithmia, for which I got an honourable mention and a CD prize (if not the conference staff tee-shirt I was coveting!) Art Owen sent me back my entry, posted below and hopefully (or not!) readable.
