Yet another reason why COVID is not the flu With multiple vaccine Phase III trials coming back with promising interim…
Better MAD than mean. Ah, the joys of the school maths classroom. I’m not sure how old I was when…
When I was a teenager, I wrote fanfiction. I also wrote a fair amount of original work, but most of…
If you’re tired of obsessively following non-scientific journalism on the COVID-19 situation and it’s causing you anxiety, why not try…
In Mathematics, often you don’t have a neat formula for the things you want to calculate. However, you can sometimes…
At the STOR-i conference this year, there was a talk on “Optimising Explainable AI”. Broadly, it looked at ways to…
Imagine you’re a Census field officer who knocks on non-respondents’ doors to encourage them to fill out the Census (it’s…
A while ago, when I was in the “MOOCs are great!” phase of my life, I took an online course…
Mathematical work can sometimes seem detached from the real world. The abstractness of statistics and datasets often mask the ways…
Here’s my entry for the STOR-i Bakeoff. Prompt was “bread”. Didn’t win, don’t care, had toasties. 🙂