I've been reading Good Statistics by I. J. Good. He's entertaining as a writer. He's also pretty good at letting you know exactly what he thinks in the most unimpeachably polite British way possible.

#statsky

Reading some Montaigne and mostly I enjoy his little melancholic meanderings. Then sometimes he casually drops in shit like this.

In the short essay On Idleness

Playing with Bayesian non-parametrics for distance sampling (preprint out soon). Had a little moment where my feelings about the model were worringly conditional on how many histogram bins I used.

These four plots are from the same model fit, just different numbers of bins summarising the data.

Up to no good again

Well this is news to me

The academic grind never stops even on a Sunday. Got to network, get your research out there.