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Robin Evans

@ItsAStatLife

Oxford lecturer and statistician who just wants to tell the world about numbers. Especially when causality is involved.

 Oxford, UK
itsastatlife.blogspot.com
Joined May 2012
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Naomi Wray@WrayNaomi2 Jul 2024
New Oxford-Aarhus-Copenhagen collaboration - not yet launched - 2 postdocs, 2 senior postdocs and postdoc coordinator in Oxford. Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in group Holmes, Visscher, Evans, Nicholson, @cwcyau, @ten_photo etc, Denmark ads soon
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Keeping your eyes open can help you fall asleep faster. Here’s why sciencefocus.com/the-human-b… Delighted to provide the science behind paradoxical intention. A so called ‘sleep hack’? I don’t think so, you can’t take credit for human nature! @UniofOxford @OxSCNi @wearebighealth @NHSEngland @scotgov @ESRS_Sleep @AASMorg @ResearchSleep @BritishSleepSoc @TheSleepCharity
Keeping your eyes open can help you fall asleep faster. Here’s why | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Keeping your eyes open can help you fall asleep faster. Here’s why | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Paradoxical intention is doing the rounds on social media. Here, a professor of sleep medicine explains its origins and how to implement it.

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In related news...I'll be hiring soon! Please get in touch if you are a looking for a post doc position broadly in the area of in AI for Health!
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We invite proposals for tutorials at #UAI2024 by March 15th. Topics include, not limited to - Causal Inference/Discovery - Uncertainty Quantification - Optimization - Fairness, Interpretability, Reproducibility in ML - RL - DL and more. For instructions: auai.org/uai2024/call_for_tu…
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

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A vehicle has crashed into a parade of shops on Oxford's Iffley Road. It is not known how the accident took place or if there were any casualties but police are on the scene. The speed limit on this road is 20mph.
vehicle on side behind police tape. police car in attendance, store front destroyed.

ALT vehicle on side behind police tape. police car in attendance, store front destroyed.

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Hannah Fry
@FryRsquared13 Oct 2023
My favourite reviews are the ones that make you start off with your heart in your mouth thetimes.co.uk/article/38b36…
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Thanks so much for coming! Standing room only at our #ProportionalRepresentation event at #ldconf with @cajardineMP Jess Sargent of @instituteforgov @klinaj @thomasbrake of @UnlockDemocracy Ian simpson of @electoralreform @Neal_Compass of @CompassOffice @LibDem4ER @LibDemConf
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All over Paris car parking spaces are being upgraded to plots for trees and micro gardens - cooling the city, cleaning the air & making the streets more pleasant for people - thanks to the vision & tenacity of city's mayor...
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NIMBY Britain in one infuriating sentence. From @s8mb’s excellent piece on the fundamental problems Britain must fix if it is to become a serious country and return to growth thetimes.co.uk/article/why-h…
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Not sure whether the hysterical laughter I hear in my head when reading this is loudest from Douglas or Herc….
Ad for P&O Ferries, reading ‘You can’t swashbuckle on a plane.’ You really, really can.

ALT Ad for P&O Ferries, reading ‘You can’t swashbuckle on a plane.’ You really, really can.

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YouGov
@YouGov11 Jul 2023
Britons' top 3 most trusted news outlets (net score) FT: +30 ITV: +28 Channel 4: +27 Britons' top 3 least trusted news outlets The Sun: -53 The Star: -50 The Mirror / The Mail: both -37 yougov.co.uk/topics/politics…
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Great article from @cycloxoxford on the barriers put up to cycling in our community in @TheOxfordMail oxfordmail.co.uk/news/235935…
Why cyclists are constantly confronted with barriers

Why cyclists are constantly confronted with barriers

Andy Chivers writes for Cyclox on how cyclists are often confronted with barriers and how the issue should be dealt with

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This looks like large-scale fraud and will send shockwaves through the behavioral science community. datacolada.org/109
[109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): “Clusterfake”

[109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): “Clusterfake”

This is the introduction to a four-part series of posts detailing evidence of fraud in four academic papers co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. In 2021, we and a team o…

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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on standing up to Donald Trump: "People know that I am a conservative, but I am also always going to follow the law and follow the Constitution...and if we do not follow that, then we start going down a dangerous path."
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Registration for UAI 2023 is now open! auai.org/uai2023/registratio… #UAI2023 will take place at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jul 31-Aug 4, with banquet @PhippsNews Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens! Early bird deadline is June 22
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Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques @oxfordlaw was a speaker @ the G7 High-Level Corporate Governance Roundtable in Niigata during G7 Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors' Meeting. WATCH oecd.org/corporate/g7-high-l…
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Science published a hopelessly credulous news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" about one of the worst preprints we've seen in years. This is some next-level bullshit. Over at Mastodon, a full thread: fediscience.org/@ct_bergstro…
Carl T. Bergstrom (@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org)

Carl T. Bergstrom (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image This week, Science published a stunningly irresponsible news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" and claiming that upward of 30% of the scientific litera...

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Trung H@trunghlt12 May 2023
Looking to join our world-class team to deliver the next-generation Data Science platform? We are searching for talents for the below positions:
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Two computer scientists have found a new — and dramatically lower — limit to the maximum size of a set of integers in which no three of them are evenly spaced. Mathematicians have called the work a breakthrough in combinatorics. @slomanleila reports: quantamagazine.org/surprise-…

Surprise Computer Science Proof Stuns Mathematicians | Quanta Magazine

For decades, mathematicians have been inching forward on a problem about which sets contain evenly spaced patterns of three numbers. Last month, two computer scientists blew past all of those results.

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