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Moritz Schauer

@mschauer.bsky.social

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Statistician, Associate Professor (Lektor) at University of Gothenburg and Chalmers; inference and conditional distributions for anything https://mschauer.github.io http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3310-7915 [ˈmoː/r/ɪts ˈʃaʊ̯ɐ]

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Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · 25d

Very nice by Jun Otsuka @junotk.bsky.social and Hayato Saigo: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
about causal interventions/do calculus via string diagram surgery

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Jun Otsuka @junotk.bsky.social · Jul 31

Our process causation paper is published in Synthese! We propose that process causation (a la Salmon, Dowe, MDC new mechanists) can be modeled using a category-theoretic framework.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Sep 11

Confounding is just the failure of the Doob conditioning functor from a Markov category into the associated category of backward-forward optics to be lax comonoidal

Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Oh, hats up to Mike Hicks who authored a policy paragraph on double-blind reviewing and amphibious type systems for POPL 2013 which has stand the test of time and is used in ICSME, OOPSLA, ECOOP, SPLASH, ICFP, PLDI, POPL, CSF, CAV... pldi12.cs.purdue.edu/others/dbr-f...

These guidelines were originally created by Michael Hicks for POPL 2012, and slightly modified for PLDI 2012.

pldi12.cs.purdue.edu

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Aug 20

"But I am conditioning on the outcome all the time and I think I understand the world just fine!"

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Aug 20

Conditional on somebody being a more senior scholar active in replication initiatives, they are less likely to be known for their own highly visible scientific achievements.

In other news, conditioning on the outcome reliably makes it very hard to understand how the world works.

Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 14

It can be so frustrating to read STS research. Here are Bartscherer and Reinhart osf.io/rbyt6_v1/ Look at their flawed logic: Replication is *used as a career strategy*. The evidence? People were not known for earlier research. The clear confound? ECR’s drove the replication movement! 1/x

Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Aug 20

Nice this is getting close to a recursive situation where ignoring collider bias you can find evidence that collider bias is all made up.

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Simon Olsson @smnlssn.bsky.social · May 6

2025 CHAIR Structured Learning Workshop -- Apply to attend: ui.ungpd.com/Events/60bfc...

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Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Aug 8

A golden Marburg Weidenhausen night accentuated by blue paper recycling bins…

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Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Jul 27

I wanted a poster session on a ferris wheel

Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Jul 14

So this is how I learned programming when I was twelve! 😃

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Rocío Mercado Oropeza @rociomer.bsky.social · Jul 7

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For details: ailab.bio/join-us

Rocío Mercado Oropeza @rociomer.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 We are currently recruiting 2 PhD students to join our team at Chalmers, which you can learn more about on our team website: ailab.bio/join-us

Details in thread below! (1/5)

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Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Jul 5

Somehow relatedly I sometimes think of Bayesian inference as harm reduction tool as well

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Jul 3

Please, please put your hyperparameter tuning procedure into the paper. For your method and the baselines

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Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Jul 2

Ich habe versucht meinen Kollegen dieses deutsche Konzept zu erklären und dabei kam ich stark ins Zweifeln ob die Kinder wirklich einfach nach Hause geschickt werden?! Aber anscheinend hatte ich es richtig 🙃

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Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Jun 26

Yeah Moritz, *electricity*, that’s totally why you were doing this (bridges for random walks on random graphs)

Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Jun 25

I can only recommend it, it was a very nice experience when I did it.

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ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · Jun 12

link 📈🤖
Parallel computations for Metropolis Markov chains with Picard maps (Grazzi, Zanella) We develop parallel algorithms for simulating zeroth-order (aka gradient-free) Metropolis Markov chains based on the Picard map. For Random Walk Metropolis Markov chains targeting log-concave distributio

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Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Jun 20

Don’t let your idea of good wine be shaped by a generation you wouldn’t trust to choose the tiles for an underpass

Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Jun 18

bayescomp2025.sg

Bayes Comp 2025

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Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Jun 18

Tomorrow at #BayesComp @rseyer.bsky.social with arxiv.org/abs/2504.12190 (poster presentation, 19 Jun 2025, 5.30pm - 7.30pm local time)

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Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Jun 17

It’s giving late-game vibes of Sid Meier’s Civilization, where the player is bored and just trying to see what happens if they declare some wars before they abandon the game.

Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Jun 17

Yeah, in general you should be averaging the densities not the means, and I took a shortcut that for Bernoullis this is the same

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Jun 17

Has nominative determinism gone too far

h/t @benjaminschneider.ch

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Moritz Schauer @mschauer.bsky.social · Jun 17

Reads like made up reasons. As if dual licensing didn’t exist.

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