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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy to see that I am not the only one enjoying that joke.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Julia rising in TIOBE. Here we go! www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

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TIOBE Index - TIOBE

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thank you, Mike! And thanks for all your absolutely amazing work.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Observable is just fantastic. It has really helped in my teaching and communication with students. So happy to see continued efforts to advance it. #visualization #observable

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Olle Häggström @ohaggstrom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

God morgon! Inte kan ni väl föreställa er en bättre start på dagen än att läsa min ledarkrönika i dagens GP? www.gp.se/ledare/gastk...

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Olle Häggström: AI borde vara en mycket större fråga i valrörelsen

De kommande fyra åren kan Artificiell Intelligens komma att skaka om varje del av samhället.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The combination of free research AND teaching. To see students (joyfully) learn and grow in front of you week by week.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The StanCon2026 conference on probabilistic programming for Bayes in Uppsala is over. Very positive experience with interesting talks, a large poster session and social activities. And some HMC updates to modernize the Bayesian Songbook! All talks are on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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StanCon 2026 Uppsala - YouTube

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Because the VS Code extension does that same things? Or are you using something else?

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MC Stan @mc-stan.org · 18/08/2026

There is now StanCon 2026 Uppsala playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... At the moment talks by @mjskay.com, @aseyboldt.bsky.social, @paulbuerkner.com, @charlesm993.bsky.social are up, and we'll keep uploading more during the week

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StanCon 2026 Uppsala - YouTube

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

JuliaCon is starting now. Livestreamed and recorded on YouTube. I have always liked how the Julia folks invite speakers from other languages than Julia, even as keynotes.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Had to Google the acronym LPU. I take this as a good sign. - Senior researcher

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I am currently using VS Code for my Julia work, but I am considering alternatives. Anyone here who has some experience with the Flexible Julia plugin for PyCharm? What does it do better than VS code? What do you miss from VS code? #julialang plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/29356...

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Flexible Julia - IntelliJ IDEs Plugin | Marketplace

Julia IDE, Jupyter/Pluto notebooks, smart completion, REPL, debugger, profiler, refactoring, and more. Full Unicode support, multiple dispatch, macros, type system...

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This was my introduction to Bayes in 1996! Little did I know then that I would see Jim Berger and a few other prominent Bayesian Scholars perform striptease in a run down night club in Spain two years later! #bayesian

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Always a joy with your bird pictures, Pierre!

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 11/07/2026

Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.

Screenshot of post on X in the account of Norm Matloff in which his daughter announces his passing. Gone too soon, and sure to be missed.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

So many great scholars leaving Stats and Computing after Springer Nature announcing an insanely large article processing cost of 2390€ per accepted paper.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What a wonderful contribution this is! Free and open source software for the benefit of all. What a legacy!

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

If this works well it would be fantastic! Do you have an example document in typst that you have also converted to LaTeX? To demo the thing.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

R-folks, is the RTMB package the go-to autodiff package in R now? Limitations? Fast? Alternatives? #RStats #r4ds

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

So the world will continue to wonder why 'Aki prefers student_t(3,0,1), something about some shape of some curve, he put it on the blackboard and I can't remember'. 😂

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Guillaume Dalle @gdalle.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My baby #JuliaLang package got an award! DifferentiationInterface.jl just received a national prize for open-source research software and I couldn't be prouder. We started this from a vague dream with @adrianhill.de, and reached 1000 dependents and 100k downloads last month. Research != just papers.

A close up of the trophy for the "prix science ouverte du logiciel libre de recherche, édition 2025" (open science prize for free research software, 2025 edition)

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Umberto Picchini @upicchini.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

We are recruiting a PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. The project explores Bayesian Experimental Design for real-time, risk-aware trajectory planning in autonomous driving, combining Bayesian inference and optimal control Apply by November 30 tinyurl.com/4mr6u79y

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Vacancies

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Do this, if you can! Your work will reach thousands of thankful Bayesians.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Well, at least before I got these crayons, apparently made out of angel tears.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Photo of me after an intensive Bayes lecture at the blackboard.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Very nice 70 page intro to Julia in these notes. Well done!

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Great to see the forecast package from R in native Julia. One less use case for RCall.jl in my workflow.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

This is a wonderful side-by-side comparison!

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

So me and my buddy chatGPT are now into using Lua filters in the Quarto YAML to hook into the pandoc AST to modify the inline LaTeX at compile time to convert LaTeX syntax to things that render correctly to html. It works, that is all I can tell you.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

"Spotify for Linux is a labor of love from our engineers that wanted to listen to Spotify on their Linux development machines. They work on it in their spare time and it is currently not a platform that we actively support." Honest, but weird when you have the money and passionate people. #linux

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Tell me more! Do NeurIPS and ICML accept Typst source files now?

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Paola Tellaroli @tellarpao.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

We also wish a pleasant weekend to the couriers who transform our parcels in their own way, #stats!

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Very sorry to hear that you are struggling, Cameron.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Is just my imagination, or is the battery better again after last update? Feels so?

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Yes, and there should be more cross-fertilization between Active learning in machine learning and experimental design in Statistics.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

His fellow Nobel prize winner Tom Sargent uses Python and Julia. www.tomsargent.com I don't follow macro so closely nowadays, but my impression is that #julialang is getting popular, as it is the natural progression from Matlab (open source, fast and with linalg syntax similar to Matlab).

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Chris used to have this code only in Matlab, but added R versions some 15-20 years ago. He switched to R when the Mathworks started to get gready with also for academics (who popularized Matlab about economists).

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

An excellent way to feel like a complete loser is to try to do something semi-advanced with LaTeX. It is also a great way to waste an afternoon.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Very happy to see this! How many came to listen? What other talks were given in the session?

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

My Bayesian Data Analysis course at Aalto is starting in 20mins. There are now 375 registered students, but as the course is not compulsory for most, I expect about 230 students to finish it. All the course material is available online at avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A...

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Bayesian Data Analysis course

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Oh, that is quite sad. Sorry to hear that.

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

What is the lost cinema? Another gem that closed down?

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Mattias Villani @matvil.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Yes, fair enough. I am just a little bitter that Twitter when away from us. I learned a lot of useful things from people when I was active on Twitter (and also on Google+ back in the days). Hopefully, this place can get close to that.

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