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jeffski.bsky.social
Professor of Statistics at the University of Toronto, Canada, and author of "Struck by Lightning". Info at: http://probability.ca
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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

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Very interesting stuff!

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

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Ayup

submitted 120 days ago • 187 comments

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

submitted 137 days ago • 942 comments

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/

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

Exams done. Phew!

submitted 162 days ago • 0 comments

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

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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.

submitted 166 days ago • 558 comments

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

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submitted 167 days ago • 2 comments

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/...

submitted 168 days ago • 5 comments

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

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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/

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

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

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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

submitted 181 days ago • 12 comments

This is my first-ever Bluesky post. Hello everyone!

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