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<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://ims.nus.edu.sg/events/2018/bay/index.php" target="_blank"><img width="435" src="https://i1.wp.com/ims.nus.edu.sg/events/2018/bay/files/wk1.jpg?resize=435%2C290&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1" height="290"></a><strong>I</strong> made the “capital” mistake of walking across the entire NUS campus this morning, which is quite green and pretty, but which almost enjoys an additional dimension brought by such an intense humidity that one feels having to get around this humidity!, a feature I have managed to completely erase from my memory of my previous visit there. Anyway, nothing of any relevance. oNE talk in the morning was by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ims.nus.edu.sg/events/2018/bay/files/markus.pdf" target="_blank">Markus Eisenbach</a> on tools used by physicists to speed up Monte Carlo methods, like the Wang-Landau flat histogram, towards computing the partition function, or the distribution of the energy levels, definitely addressing issues close to my interest, but somewhat beyond my reach for using a different language and stress, as often in physics. (I mean, as often in physics talks I attend.) An idea that came out clear to me was to bypass a (flat) histogram target and aim directly at a constant slope cdf for the energy levels. (But got scared away by the Fourier transforms!)</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://xianblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/img_1703.jpg" target="_blank"><img data-orig-file="https://xianblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/img_1703.jpg" data-orig-size="1024,768" data-medium-file="https://xianblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/img_1703.jpg?w=300" data-attachment-id="4072" data-image-meta="{" data-image-description="" src="https://xianblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/img_1703.jpg?w=450&h=338&fit=450%2C338&resize=450%2C338" data-permalink="https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/maailman-paras-kyla/img_1703/" data-large-file="https://xianblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/img_1703.jpg?w=450&amp;h=338&amp;fit=450%2C338&amp;resize=450%2C338" alt="" data-image-title="Oulanka National Park, 2005" title="I realise there is no birch tree in this picture, but this is the most connected one from my own image c'Og'llection, taken in northern Finland, 2005" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" width="450" data-comments-opened="1" class="wp-image-4072" data-recalc-dims="1" height="338"></a>Lawrence Murray <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ims.nus.edu.sg/events/2018/bay/files/murray.pdf" target="_blank">then discussed</a> some features of the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://birch-lang.org/" target="_blank">Birch probabilistic programming language</a> he is currently developing, especially a fairly fascinating concept of <a rel="nofollow" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07787" target="_blank">delayed sampling</a>, which connects with locally-optimal proposals and Rao Blackwellisation. Which I plan to get back to later [and hopefully sooner than later!].</p>
<p>In the afternoon, Maria de Iorio <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ims.nus.edu.sg/events/2018/bay/files/maria.pdf" target="_blank">gave a talk</a> about the construction of nonparametric priors that create dependence between a sequence of functions, a notion I had not thought of before, with an array of possibilities when using the stick breaking construction of Dirichlet processes.</p>
<p>And Christophe Andrieu gave a very smooth and helpful entry to partly deterministic Markov processes (PDMP) in preparation for talks he is giving next week for the continuation of the workshop at IMS. Starting with the guided random walk of Gustafson (1998), which extended a bit later into the non-reversible paper of Diaconis, Holmes, and Neal (2000). Although I had a vague idea of the contents of these papers, the role of the velocity <strong>Î½</strong> became much clearer. And premonitory of the advances made by the more recent PDMP proposals. There is obviously a continuation with the equally pedagogical talk Christophe gave at MCqMC in Rennes two months [and half the globe] ago,Â  but the focus being somewhat different, it really felt like a new talk [my short term memory may also play some role in this feeling!, as I now remember the discussion of Hilderbrand (2002) for non-reversible processes]. An introduction to the topic I would recommend to anyone interested in this new branch of Monte Carlo simulation!</p>
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