Yuling Yao
@YulingYao
Assistant Professor of Statistics at UT Austin. Research focused on Bayesian statistics, machine learning, and causal inference.
My controversial opinion: Bayes is guaranteed to overfit, for any model, any prior, and any data point yulingyao.com/blog/2023/over…
Attending the BFF (Bayesian, Fiducial & Frequentist) meeting this week in cincinnati. Delighted to see many of my favorite nuggets including cross validation, flow, and coarea formula popping up altogether.
perhaps what can be more shocking than the content of the travel ban itself, is how the order was issued without any resistance, and how the comments under this very thread were filled with groundless hostilities.
My Chinese American colleagues in Texas public universities such as the whole U Texas including MD Anderson are now required to report family visit trip to China ahead of trip, and provide a post-travel briefing detailing the trip. Land of the free (your experience may differ).
Wasn't sure what Voyages Beyond the SM would achieve beyond the amazing venue & experience, but this was a great week of forced device-disconnection + (unforced) physics discussion. Oh, and sailing across the Aegean! Buzzing with ideas, big thanks to Ezequiel & the slackers ⛵⚛️
Attending a workshop “Bayesian stats for particle physics beyond the standard model”. Could you be cooler than learning cool physics at Agnes sea?
apparently there is a second, and arguably better, part of the discussion on Bayes vs overfit statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/06/16/bay…
At the Joint Statistical Meeting in DC, I will present at two sessions: Tue, 8/9, 2:00 PM, 308: Highlights in Bayesian Analysis, where I will present hierarchical stacking. Wed, 8/10, 10:30 AM, 406: panel discussion of Breiman’s Two Cultures. If you are around, please say hi.
Another example to trick Bayesian inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/12/13/ano…