Chad Scherrer
@cscherrer.bsky.social
Doing Bayesian stuff in #rustlang and #julialang. Seattle
Sorry if someone has already responded with this, but in statistics the "Prussian Army horse kick data" is widely used to introduce models predicting count data
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Deaths by Horse-kick and other Hazards in the Prussian Army
cran.r-project.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Sorry if someone has already responded with this, but in statistics the "Prussian Army horse kick data" is widely used to introduce models predicting count data
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Similar vibes to the original, so it feels retro despite being new. Vaguely nostalgic if you liked the original, but after a couple of episodes it was too formulaic to really keep my interest
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Similar vibes to the original, so it feels retro despite being new. Vaguely nostalgic if you liked the original, but after a couple of episodes it was too formulaic to really keep my interest
Very cool. I have so many questions... I think I saw this took 503 days. So you could pick the same time window each day, but you'd still end up getting samples at different times of the year. So the angle to the sun would be different, right? And you'd be going through different layers of rock?
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Very cool. I have so many questions... I think I saw this took 503 days. So you could pick the same time window each day, but you'd still end up getting samples at different times of the year. So the angle to the sun would be different, right? And you'd be going through different layers of rock?
September 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I always see it trying
"="*50
and changing it to ^ after that fails
"="*50
and changing it to ^ after that fails
September 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I always see it trying
"="*50
and changing it to ^ after that fails
"="*50
and changing it to ^ after that fails
I did look at the original paper, but to be fair I haven't read it carefully yet. So on its face the result seems pretty obvious, but there could easily be some subtlety I'm missing
September 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I did look at the original paper, but to be fair I haven't read it carefully yet. So on its face the result seems pretty obvious, but there could easily be some subtlety I'm missing
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Also Dorchester is pronounced "Dooster"
Also Dorchester is pronounced "Dooster"
September 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Also Dorchester is pronounced "Dooster"
Also Dorchester is pronounced "Dooster"
From earlier this year
arxiv.org/abs/2503.04771
arxiv.org/abs/2503.04771
Building Bridges: Julia as an MLIR Frontend
Driven by increasing compute requirements for deep learning models, compiler developers have been looking for ways to target specialised hardware and heterogeneous systems more efficiently. The MLIR p...
arxiv.org
September 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
From earlier this year
arxiv.org/abs/2503.04771
arxiv.org/abs/2503.04771