Fun fact: This international ranking of scholars has ranked me as fifth in the world of all time in terms of "Markov chain" research citations (and 57th in "probability" overall). It's probably a pretty questionable ranking algorithm, but I will take it.
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The Blue Jays Lost. So Did I. - Macleans.ca I confidently declared the Blue Jays the odds-on favourites to win the World Series. It’s been a stressful week.

macleans.ca/sports/world...

After last night's tough loss, my statistical model now gives the #BlueJays a 56.84% chance of prevailing in tonight's seventh game. It'll be tight. Let's go Blue Jays!

With last night's convincing win, my statistical model now gives the #BlueJays an 81.4% chance of winning the World Series. Go Jays Go! :-)

A short fun interview about Blue Jays probabilities I did for QR 770AM Calgary radio on Friday:
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Jays vs. Dodgers: What the numbers tell us The World Series heads to Toronto this week with the Los Angeles Dodgers hoping to repeat as league champions while the Toronto Blue Jays are looking for their first title since 1993.

I'm briefly quoted here.
www.ctvnews.ca/sports/artic...

My simple statistical model currently gives the Blue Jays a 52.46% chance of winning baseball's World Series this year. Go #BlueJays!

Sherlock Holmes Day at the BSM Step into the world of mystery, deduction, and intrigue, and celebrate the greatest detective in literary history.

I will be performing music and voices this Sunday afternoon in this fun Sherlock Holmes spoof radio play, at the Bata Show Museum in Toronto. Free! All welcome! Come check it out!
batashoemuseum.ca/event/sherlo...

I’m a statistics professor who became embroiled in the world of online chess drama When one former world chess champion implied that another was cheating on the online platform Chess.com, a statistician was called in to examine the evidence.

I’m a statistics professor who became embroiled in the world of online chess drama
theconversation.com/im-a-statist...

Statistical scientist Jeffrey Rosenthal wades into the chess scandal that’s making headlines

A #UofT News piece about my recent statistical analysis of an online chess scandal.
www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/statist...

An Investigation Into Probabilities of Streaks in Online Chess

My article about the online chess winning streak controversy is now published in the Harvard Data Science Review. hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ex6vbavk... @rmcleodb.bsky.social

I'm in this comedy show tonight in Toronto, performing improv comedy AND musical accompaniment AND storytelling. Come check it out!
comedybar.ca/shows/CincoD...

Very interesting stuff!

13/ @uoft.bsky.social statistician Jeffrey Rosenthal (@jeffski.bsky.social) has a nice collection of "piems" here:
probability.ca/jeff/writing..., while Mike Keith has some amazing (& long!) ones, here: cadaeic.net/cadenza.htm #PiDay #piems

Gareth O. Roberts, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
Quantifying the Speed-Up from Non-Reversibility in MCMC Tempering Algorithms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16506

don't take stuff so seriously, remember... you are here * arrow pointing to small speck in Milky Way galaxy

Ayup

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education

Happy Friday the Thirteenth! I was actually BORN on a Friday the Thirteenth. In fact, "Born on Friday the Thirteenth" was my proposed title for my book about luck, eventually called Knock On Wood. Oh, did I mention that it makes a great Christmas present? 🙂 probability.ca/kow/

Exams done. Phew!

One final exam done, one still to go (tomorrow).

Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.

NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform.

With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.

Looking for a starter pack starter pack?

Deep thought of the day: If you always expect the worst, then you will never be disappointed.

Mentorship - Fall 2024 - Canadian Association of Journalists Fall 2024 Mentor Bios Below you will find an alphabetic list of mentors for the Fall 2024 round of the mentorship program. Each mentor has their bio, who they are looking to mentor, the languages the...

CAJ Mentorship Program is the best gift you can give yourself, and it's free for CAJ members.
6-week private mentoring by, omg omg:
@conniewalker.bsky.social
@nickhunebrown.bsky.social
@sarahcrgr.bsky.social
@adrianklee.bsky.social
@shireenahmed.bsky.social
MOAR.
Apply now:
caj.ca/programs/men...

Richie Assaly: I grew up on Twitter. But with a new Trump era on the horizon, I’ve turned to Bluesky. Here’s what I found there On its surface, the apps almost identical to the old Twitter. But gone, at least for now, is much of the noise — the casual racism, the bullying blue checks,

Is Bluesky the real deal or just more of the same?

For the Toronto Star, a dispatch on my first two weeks hanging out in this space.

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

"My new career is going great! I'm making MILLIONS! Why, just yesterday, I took in 0.00001 million dollars!!"

I performed some music at my department's holiday party today. (With graduate students recruited as my backup singers.) More of my music at: probability.ca/jeff/music/

Just taught my last class of the semester -- phew!

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Bikes v cars: backlash after Ontario premier threatens to tear up cycling lanes in Toronto Doug Ford plans to rip out bike lanes on busy streets, citing ‘insanity’ of gridlock he says they contribute to

Doug Ford’s absurd efforts to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes capture international attention, via the @theguardian.com: Backlash after Ontario premier threatens to tear up cycling lanes in Toronto www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n... #topoli #bikeTO