Mufan Li
mufan-li.bsky.social
Mufan Li
@mufan-li.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UWaterloo Statistics and @VectorInst | Prev: Postdoc @Princeton PhD @UofTStatSci

https://mufan-li.github.io/
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

Linkin Park
Dream Theater
X-Japan
Lamb of God
Rivers of Nihil
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

The Magnetic Fields
The Legendary Pink Dots
Leonard Cohen
Thom Yorke
Stereolab
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

Pixies
Breeders & Nirvana
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Shonen Knife
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 AM
People should write more blog posts. I have been pleasantly surprised over and over again by how much people found them beneficial, when I just wanted to share some cool math.
No, the problem is people writing too damn many papers. It’s not sustainable. There are other ways to contribute meaningfully to the field (blog posts, for example).
November 24, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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Starter packs are helpful as well as the twitter import tool chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store
Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.
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November 23, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Since I'm moving over, I would like to reshare my most recent blog post on why you should learn Optimal Transport. Part 2 is coming, most likely during the winter break :)

mufan-li.github.io/OT1/
Everyone Should Learn Optimal Transport, Part 1
In my opinion, optimal transport (OT) is a seriously underrated topic. I think part of the reason is the way OT is often introduced: as an optimization problem or a metric on probability distributions...
mufan-li.github.io
November 22, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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