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Would anybody have any interest in me tooting out cool #emnlp2018 papers, #iclr2019 preprints, #arxiv preprints?

Does anybody actually know tikz or is it all cut-pasting from each other?

That wonderful moment where you get paid in multiple currencies but need to pay bills in different currencies still. Why yes this is an optimal transport problem why do you ask?

I'm fascinated by the probabilistic numerics community realizing that their field was kickstarted in 1969, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.03673.pdf

One day someone is going to figure out how to do theoretical statistics proofs in Coq or Isabelle or whatever, and I want to meet that person when they appear on the scene.

Causality is this little field that I think could potentially really come into vogue in the coming years. This is a great set of links to get started with https://yanirseroussi.com/causal-inference-reading-list/

When your computer algebra system starts spitting out Lambert W functions it's time to catch your breath and try a new approach.

Hey #bayesian people! what's your favourite #probability distribution?

Socialists should really make it a point to be super-fluent in economics. Nothing pisses off ancaps like actually understanding how markets work.

So is it the Gulf Stream or the Jet Stream that explains why Britain isn't a frozen land

I wish I had marx emoji on this instance

Chekov's equation: any notation introduced, must be used!

While deep models are still the hot thing, I massively respect a system that outputs risk scores like https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00168

Just got back from #neurips if there were one highlight it is that Determental point processes are magical.

New dataset of hate speech out now, https://files.pushshift.io/gab/

Fitting ordinal data in Stan is basically built-in, https://gist.github.com/ericnovik/90e1c2377743135827d50e3313ae8968