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Bruxelles ma belle
Posted in Books, Running, Travel with tags art déco, Bains de Saint-Josse, Belgique, Bruxelles, clip, indoor swimming, Jeanne Added, swimming pool, Victoires de la Musique, youtube on September 25, 2022 by xi'anthe sandman
Posted in Books, Kids with tags cereal collector, comics, dark fantasy, Lucifer, Neil Gaiman, Netflix, Robert Smith, The Cure, The Sandman, TV series, youtube on September 5, 2022 by xi'an
“What is missing – regrettable for a story made of this material – is the strangeness and the anxiety that immediately distinguished The Sandman from all other comics.” , Le Monde
Although I never read any of The Sandman comic books, and could not finish Gaiman’s American Gods, I nonetheless watched (decidedly Netflixy!) Netflix’s rendering over the past week, which I found mostly pleasant if on the light (although dark) side. Except for a few gems like Morpheus’ stroll with Death in Richmond and Hammersmith. And the unbearably lengthy “24 hours” episode about an endless spiral into primal violence, induced by the psychopath John Dee and Morpheus’ ruby. The actors are mostly terrific, starting with Tom Sturridge playing Morpheus as a young Robert Smith! But also Vivienne Acheampong as Dream’s librarian or Stephen Fry as … Fiddler’s Green! As a aside, I found out that the (much lighter) Netflix’s series Lucifer is also inspired by the corresponding Sandman character.
MCqMC 2020 live and free and online
Posted in pictures, R, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags COVID-19, England, Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm, MCQMC 2020, Monte Carlo methods, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, Oxford, quasi-Monte Carlo methods, remote conference, tutorial, University of Oxford, virtual reality, webinar, youtube on July 27, 2020 by xi'an
The MCqMC 20202 conference that was supposed to take place in Oxford next 9-14 August has been turned into an on-line free conference since travelling remains a challenge for most of us. Tutorials and plenaries will be live with questions on Zoom, with live-streaming and recorded copies on YouTube. They will probably be during 14:00-17:00 UK time (GMT+1), 15:00-18:00 CET (GMT+2), and 9:00-12:00 ET. (Which will prove a wee bit of a challenge for West Coast and most of Asia and Australasia researchers, which is why our One World IMS-Bernoulli conference we asked plenary speakers to duplicate their talks.) All other talks will be pre-recorded by contributors and uploaded to a website, with an online Q&A discussion section for each. As a reminder here are the tutorials and plenaries:
Invited plenary speakers:
Aguêmon Yves Atchadé (Boston University)
Jing Dong (Columbia University)
Pierre L’Écuyer (Université de Montréal)
Mark Jerrum (Queen Mary University London)
Peter Kritzer (RICAM Linz)
Thomas Muller (NVIDIA)
David Pfau (Google DeepMind)
Claudia Schillings (University of Mannheim)
Mario Ullrich (JKU Linz)
Tutorials:
Fred Hickernell (IIT) — Software for Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods
Aretha Teckentrup (Edinburgh) — Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
Xi'an's Og 