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Ian Waudby-Smith

@ianws.bsky.social

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Postdoc @ UC Berkeley | statistics, probability, machine learning, privacy 🇨🇦 ianws.com

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arXiv math.PR Probability @mathpr-bot.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Ian Waudby-Smith, Martin Larsson, Aaditya Ramdas: Nonasymptotic and distribution-uniform Koml\'os-Major-Tusn\'ady approximation arxiv.org/abs/2502.06188 arxiv.org/pdf/2502.06188 arxiv.org/html/2502.06188

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Ian Waudby-Smith @ianws.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

Much of my undergrad years are in these photos.

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Ian Waudby-Smith @ianws.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

"Cuthpert Daniel [...] stopped me in the corridor of Columbia and said 'Hello Robbins, have you gotten around to beginning to commence to start to think of something that might conceivably someday have some practical use?'" youtu.be/IIO2urt8jHI?...

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Ian Waudby-Smith @ianws.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

So many funny quotes "I am a *pure* statistician, meaning I am too dumb to understand mathematics, and I am too impractical to understand data. So don’t talk to me about your problems" youtu.be/IIO2urt8jHI?...

Herbert Robbins laughing at his own joke

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Ian Waudby-Smith @ianws.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Awesome. This interview is also a gem www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIO2...

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DS027 Herbert Robbins

A Conversation with Herbert Robbins (1990), 55 minutes

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