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GitHub
GitHub for Windows can be such a pain sometimes. I guess it’s partially my fault for attempting to use version control on the compiled PDF of a LaTeX document, but I spent a fair amount of time today...
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Response to a student on p values
My students are working on their 25% assessment pieces, the Quantitative Workbook. These are group assignments that require students do a quantitative analysis from start to finish on some ecology data...
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Lotka-Volterra and Bayesian statistics and teaching
One of the standard population dynamics models that I learned in my undergrad mathematical modelling units was the Lotka-Volterra equations. These represent a very simple set of assumptions about...
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Two big pieces of news
I’ve just signed an acceptance of offer of employment which will take me fully back into maths at QUT, 50% teaching in the Mathematical Sciences School and 50% researching with Kerrie Mengersen under...
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A new year
It’s been about a year, and a lot’s happened since then. The Diagnostic Quiz has gone from a tool for helping me understand my students better to a tool to help students choose the right pathway...
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Finishing off projects
One of the issues with working on a number of multidisciplinary projects at the same time is that stuff always ends up taking longer than expected and it interrupts progress on any given one. That...
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Career Practitioners’ Day
I had a lot of fun this morning talking to a room full of career counsellors and others in similar roles about what it means to be a modern statistician/scientist working on large, multidisciplinary...
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Undergrad tutors
Me: Sorry, I don’t have any space in the teaching team this semester. Would you be interested in this other unit? Tutor: Sorry, I’ll be in South Korea on exchange this semester. Maybe next year when...
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