Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-08

sad story of a father dying 10 days after his wedding from H1N1 http://bbc.in/fkZyOd #
the esmeralda printer in building 937 on UCSB's campus was pretty painless http://bit.ly/eCjbqk #
off to MCMSKi http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/ #
New blog post: 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes http://jaradniemi.com/blog/2011/01/04/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes/ #tt #
New blog post: PhD writing skills http://jaradniemi.com/blog/2011/01/04/phd-writing-skills/ #
great talk by Jeff Rosenthal (http://www.probability.ca/jeff/) about MCMC theory at #MCMSki3 R package (http://www.probability.ca/amcmc/) #
@ryanjparker no kidding, if he is smart enough to get a degree at Stanford, he is smart enough to do it while playing in the NFL #
another great session at #MCMSki3 in particular Colin Fox's talk concerning how MCMC samplers relate to linear iterative solvers #
for those interested, here (http://bit.ly/hgjLYP) are my posts at significancemagazine.org #
Mike Newton's talk at #MCMSki3 ranked results by lower percentile which I had done with player contribution in bb http://bit.ly/fzCwIX #
cabaret at #MCMSki3 was a success highlighted by an appearance by the Crash Test Dummies (yes, you read that right) #

08 January 2011