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We are living in new Bayesian age. Applications of Bayesian probability are taking over our lives. Doctors, lawyers, engineers and financiers…

The Computational Biology network at the University of Coimbra  is pleased to announce the 2018 Summer School in Computational Biology – From molecules to tissues, to be held in Coimbra (Port…

Luca Pappalardo and Paolo Cintia, Italian researchers at SoBigData, are using a new method for predicting the results of FIFA World Cup 2018. Instead of relying…

The way we perceive reality is a function of how we slice and dice the physical world, argues theoretical physicist Alfredo Metere.

Our lab is particularly interested in scientific discovery, knowledge creation, mental generativity, synergistic intellectual cooperation and, as part of that, cases where we see an increase in the…

Recently I’ve started using PyMC3 for Bayesian modelling, and it’s an amazing piece of software! The API only exposes as much of heavy machinery of MCMC as you need — by which I mean, just the pm.sample() method (a.k.a., as Thomas Wiecki puts it, the Magic…

Little is known about the genetic determinants of social isolation and loneliness despite their well-established importance for health. Here, using multi-trait GWAS, Day et al. identify 15 genomic loci for loneliness and further show a bidirectional causal…

I’ve been a Product Manager at Google for almost ten years. I’ve worked for Google on Search, Ads and YouTube, across Zurich, London and…

The strengths and limitations of peer review have long been documented. The concept of ergodicity from statistical physics may shine a new light on them.

Patterns and surprises in rich but noisy network data - There has in recent years been a large amount of research interest in networks such as the Internet, the World Wide Web, citation networks, social networks, and biological networks such as metabolic…