Cuillins in majesty [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags Cuillin ridge, Gaelic college, jatp, munroes, road running, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Skye, sunrise on May 20, 2026 by xi'anglorious morn on Loch Hourn [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, University life with tags approximate Bayesian inference, approximately Bayes, Eilean Sgitheanach, Frances Walker, Gaelic college, ICMS, Inner Hebrides, Isle of Skye Brewery, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Scotland, Scottish Gaelic, sunset, worksho on May 19, 2026 by xi'annew ALPS
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Alps, annealed importance sampling, annealed leap-point sampler, Coventry, ICML 2026, University of Warwick, warm start on May 18, 2026 by xi'anThis morning, in Coventry, Hugo Queniat presesented Sampling from multimodal distributions with warm starts: Non-asymptotic bounds for the Reweighted Annealed Leap-Point Sampler by Holden Lee and Matheau Santana-Gijzen at a weekly reading group in Warwick. This fairly involved proposal is a modification of the original ALPS algorithm of (my friends) Nick Tawn (Warwick), Matt Moores (ex-Warwick), and Gareth Roberts (Warwick). With theoretical improvements but little applicability in realistic settings, imho (and in others). Still a fascinating topic!
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