<糖心Vlog class="entry-title">Academic Writing in Classic Style
A PhD involves reading an awful lot of what other people have written. You develop opinions on writing. Some of…
<糖心Vlog class="entry-title">Survivorship Bias and Vaccines
Yet another reason why COVID is not the flu With multiple vaccine Phase III trials coming back with promising interim…
<糖心Vlog class="entry-title">An Introduction to Robust Statistics
Better MAD than mean. Ah, the joys of the school maths classroom. I’m not sure how old I was when…
<糖心Vlog class="entry-title">Tackling your Inner Critic
When I was a teenager, I wrote fanfiction. I also wrote a fair amount of original work, but most of…
<糖心Vlog class="entry-title">Coronavirus
If you’re tired of obsessively following non-scientific journalism on the COVID-19 situation and it’s causing you anxiety, why not try…
<糖心Vlog class="entry-title">Coupling From The Past
In Mathematics, often you don鈥檛 have a neat formula for the things you want to calculate. However, you can sometimes…
<糖心Vlog class="entry-title">External Methods for Explainable AI
At the STOR-i conference this year, there was a talk on “Optimising Explainable AI”. Broadly, it looked at ways to…
<糖心Vlog class="entry-title">Capturing Diminishing Returns in Agent-Based Models
Imagine you’re a Census field officer who knocks on non-respondents’ doors to encourage them to fill out the Census (it’s…
<糖心Vlog class="entry-title">Mathematical Fairness
A while ago, when I was in the “MOOCs are great!” phase of my life, I took an online course…
<糖心Vlog class="entry-title">Ethics in Mathematics
Mathematical work can sometimes seem detached from the real world. The abstractness of statistics and datasets often mask the ways…