USB sticks? 😱

Science Slam am 4.6.2025 🎤 | moritz.tv - Universität Greifswald YouTube video by moritz.tv

Heiko Dunkel at the Greifswald Science slam: "Why Matthew studies Mathematics - Implicit Egotism among Academics"

youtu.be/ejdDMFJk6y0?...

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‼️ Three job openings for Full Professor positions

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Please share! #datascience #economics

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Epinowcast A community to discuss epinowcast and real-time infectious disease analysis more generally

Do you like situational awareness of infectious diseases (who doesn't). Do you like thinking about modelling with this aim in mind? Do you feel like its a bit of a niche and hard to find people to talk to about it?

We have a forum: community.epinowcast.org for you.

Oh no, absolute paths! 😱🙃

data <- read.csv("/Users/boyuan/Desktop/R/gallery/DATASETS/US_disease.csv")

Heatmaps for eight infections diseases in the US: poilio, mumps, rubbella. hepatitis A, ... Each one has the US states in rows and year in columns, with a thick black line showing the year that a vaccine against that disease was introduced. Cells are colored by the number of cases of that disease.

Graphic #rstats reminder that vaccines work 📊
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Math you can do with Lego - The Circle YouTube video by Michael Höhle

Happy π day!

Calculating the circumference and area of a circle with Lego.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDnA...

Curious Math with LEGO Bricks | AD YouTube video by TheDadLab

More inspiration:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVYG...

Math you can do with Lego - (a+b)^3 YouTube video by Michael Höhle

Michael Höhle‬ ‪@mhoehle.bsky.social‬
A Lego proof of (a+b)^3 = a^3 + 3·a^2·b + 3·a·b^2 + b^3.

youtu.be/Clz1Ud06EPQ

(inspired by the fantastic "The Book of Numbers")

Math you can do with Lego - (a+b)^2 YouTube video by Michael Höhle

Math is beautiful.
youtu.be/kaYQg6AteQ0

Assistant stanowisko badawcze W Instytucie Matematyki i Informatyki Uniwersytetu w Greifswaldzie dostępne jest stanowisko (zatrudnienie 75% czasu pracy) asystenta badawczego (TV-L 13) na okres trzech lat. Zakres obowiązków na tym ...

My colleague Joscha Diehl in Greifswald is hiring an AI/XR research assistant. Applicants from Poland are particularly encouraged to apply: bazaogloszen.nauka.gov.pl/oferta/assis...

Small update to the blog post, which now uses sparse matrix algebra and the canonical form of the Markov chain to compute the attacker's win probability faster.

The cosmic distance ladder with Terence Tao, part 2 YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

Part 2 of the collaboration with Terence Tao on the cosmic distance ladder is now out. It covers how we first learned the distances to planets, stars, and galaxies far, far away.

youtu.be/hFMaT9oRbs4

A screenshot of the Troll interface.

Most surprising discovery of the research behind the post: The Troll dice roller and probability calculator

topps.diku.dk/torbenm/trol...

It can help you solve any dice probability problem or board game dice question.

TLDR: If A is the number of dice the attacker has and D is the defender's number of dice then attack if A≥1.2204+0.8525⋅D.

Enjoying the free time from classes to finally write a blog post again:

Risky Risk Results - mhoehle.github.io/blog/2025/02...

The work was inspired by a #Numberphile episode about calculating the probabilities of winning in the Game of Risk. @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social #rstats #probability

Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos | Part 1 YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

New video! Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos: youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4U

Occupational risk (of the photographer as well as of the reader)

Oops, sorry. Missed that part. That's when you don't copy & paste. Thanks for clarifying!

Thanks for sharing & making me interested in the challenge! 😀 Not sure I fully understand why this works, because the recursive use of "safe" goes against the "one record wrong" instruction, i.e. the result of safe(c(100,2,3,10,5), damp=TRUE) would be TRUE, even though there are 2 wrong records?

Available without charge and also in HTML Bookdown format:

statistics4ecologists-v2.netlify.app

Besides the recommendations in the thread I also came across

Fieberg, John R. (2024). Statistics for Ecologists: A Frequentist and Bayesian Treatment of Modern Regression Models. University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. hdl.handle.net/11299/260227

Thanks! I've used that & the cool videos going with it for a Bayes course , but it's a little lightweight on the math IMHO. I teach mostly math students who are appear a little uncomfortable when there is no equation - I am too at times 😀.

Thx for the refs! I didn't know the first one, looks like it could fit well and contains the modern R perspective.

I'm teaching an applied regression course this fall. Any recommendations on good up2date (e)-books covering the use of mixed models with R? (I guess I'm looking for the successor of Pinheiro and Bates with a little less math..)

Interesting read, where the authors show, that a previous claim in a publication by Whitehouse et al. about an inferior fit of our pomp rotavirus model is simply due to different scaling of the data. Will be interesting to see if a correction will follow.