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Thanks to the multiple trips the past weeks, esp. the AC issue on my flight to Tokyo!

As I missed the banquet in Nagoya for ISBA 2026, I also missed the award ceremony afterwards.

My friends Isabella Verdinelli and Larry Wasserman published recently a new book with CUP in the spirit of the lean, terse, All of Statistics and All of Non-parametric Statistics (hilariously immodest titles!).

[A Fields Medallists declaration that also appeared in Le Monde last weekend, about the chAInsaw massacre that LLMs solving open math problems and conjectures represents.]

“The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 goes to a person who with exceptional courage and integrity has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order.

I recently received a request for refereeing a paper for a journal I had never heard of, in a field far, far away from my own, with an abstract that indicated little innovation beyond transferring a by now standard technique to this very field.

“This original, thought-provoking, and transforming, book is much much more than an implementation manual for Bayesian Data Analysis, even though it shares almost the same perspective.

The 6 August issue of Nature arrived after my return from Japan, but it took me a while to catch up, the more because its cover story, Bloom service, about fertilising the oceans with iron as a carbon sink did not appeal much to the geoengineering sceptic…

The 6 August issue of Nature arrived after my return from Japan, but it took me a while to catch up, the more because its cover story, Bloom service, about fertilising the oceans with iron as a carbon sink did not appeal much to the geoengineering sceptic…

The arXiv limit

The arXiv limit

On his last year of the French Presidency, Emmanuel Macron delivered a marathon speech at the UN General Assembly (which he could attend, contrary to the Palestinian delegation).

On his last year of the French Presidency, Emmanuel Macron delivered a marathon speech at the UN General Assembly (which he could attend, contrary to the Palestinian delegation).

The next episode of our mostly Monte Carlo seminar is next Friday (9 October) at PariSanté Campus (room #8) with speakers 15:00 – Víctor Elvira, University of Edinburgh 16:00 – Edoardo Bandoni, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL Víctor Elvira, “Rethinking self…

The next episode of our mostly Monte Carlo seminar is next Friday (9 October) at PariSanté Campus (room #3) with speakers 15:00 – Víctor Elvira, University of Edinburgh 16:00 – Edoardo Bandoni, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL Víctor Elvira, “Rethinking self…

[Reposting:] The ELLIS UnConference is an annual community gathering, bringing together the European machine learning community to foster exchange, collaboration, and scientific discussion.

[Reposting:] The ELLIS UnConference is an annual community gathering, bringing together the European machine learning community to foster exchange, collaboration, and scientific discussion.

Але він не знищив Національну академію наук України.

Але він не знищив Національну академію наук України.

“it is time to guarantee the sexual and reproductive health and rights of everyone, including the right to make decisions about their own bodies and lives and to ensure access to quality abortion care and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health servi…

“it is time to guarantee the sexual and reproductive health and rights of everyone, including the right to make decisions about their own bodies and lives and to ensure access to quality abortion care and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health servi…

Death of Catherine Ringer, singer of the punk band Les Rita Mistouko, the most original French band of the 80’s!

Nothing out of the ordinary there, but after years of procrastination at failing to update my publication webpage, following a wreckage by the default web composer on Ubuntu (and yours truly obviously!)

A paper about privacy (or lack thereof) in Nature by Knolle et al. about medical AI models that exhibit a weakness to membership privacy attacks thru multiple queries of the public model.

Following my Akaike Memorial Lecture, I was treated to a very traditional kaiseki dinner near Shōmyōji Temple in Kanazawa, Yokohama.

Just received the good news that our paper Faster Hamiltonian Monte Carlo by Learning Leapfrog Scale by Wu Changye (吴昌烨), Pierre Pudlo, Julien Stoehr and myself, got accepted in Statistics & Computing!

The paper Prequential posteriors Shreya Roy wrote as part of her PhD thesis at Warwick U, under the supervision of Rito Dutta, Richard Everitt and myself, got published on-line after earlier acceptance by the Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Scienc…

As you may have noticed from previous entries, over the past three weeks I have been almost constantly travelling, with various but mostly large amounts of luck in my travels.

In connection with the IMS conference ICSDS 2026, an IMS Frontiers in Statistical Machine Learning (FSML) satellite workshop takes place on Monday, December 14, 2026 (also) in Split, Croatia, the day before the main conference.

From the Hugo Award package (leftover), I read the fifth and sixth volumes in John Scalzi’s Old Man War, namely The Human Division, and The End of All Things, the former a rather loose collection of short stories, and the later not even pretending.

As a follow-up to the Akaike lecture, I was hoping to summit Fuji-san for my 65th B’day but it did not work out, thanks to a rain storm (remnant of a typhoon) keeping Fuji-san out of reach that day (and even blocking the access road for a few hours by cau…

In this 20 August edition, a wealth of data analysis papers, with many highly informative graphs.

Here are the winners for the Hugo Awards 2026.

Read a surprisingly enjoyable book, Pagans by James Alistair Henry, taking place in an alternate Britain, split into three warring ethnic nations, the Celts, the Saxons, and the Norse.

We have just reposted our paper Bayesian Adversarial Privacy on arXiv to reflect the revision we wrote in the past months, to address the (quite sensible) comments from the reviewers.