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Hugo Awards 2026

https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/hugo-awards-2026/

Published: September 12, 2026 22:26

Here are the winners for the Hugo Awards 2026. Still undecided at repeating the voting experiment next year…! Best Novel The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK) [a Locus Awardee 2026, which I did not like, esp. when comparing it to A Drop of…

a journal of the North year

https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/a-journal-of-the-north-year/

Published: September 11, 2026 22:26

Read a surprisingly enjoyable book, Pagans by James Alistair Henry, taking place in an alternate Britain, split into three warring ethnic nations, the Celts, the Saxons, and the Norse. Where Christianity is a fringe sect, The Norman Conquest never…

Bayesian Adversarial Privacy [v2]

https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/bayesian-adversarial-privacy-v2/

Published: September 10, 2026 22:26

We have just reposted our paper Bayesian Adversarial Privacy on arXiv to reflect the revision we wrote in the past months, to address the (quite sensible) comments from the reviewers. Interestingly the discussants of my Akaike lecture made similar points.…

mostly Monte Carlo [new season]

https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/mostly-monte-carlo-new-season/

Published: September 8, 2026 22:26

The new season of mostly Monte Carlo has started with three talks this very Friday! At Paris Santé Campus as usual. 14h El Mahdi Khribch (ESSEC) Contributions to the Theory of Bayesian Computation: Bias, Information, and Robustness. Abstract: Bayesian…

プレナリーセッション（赤池メモリアルレクチャー）

https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/%e3%83%97%e3%83%ac%e3%83%8a%e3%83%aa%e3%83%bc%e3%82%bb%e3%83%83%e3%82%b7%e3%83%a7%e3%83%b3%ef%bc%88%e8%b5%a4%e6%b1%a0%e3%83%a1%e3%83%a2%e3%83%aa%e3%82%a2%e3%83%ab%e3%83%ac%e3%82%af%e3%83%81%e3%83%a3/

Published: September 6, 2026 22:26

プレナリーセッション（赤池メモリアルレクチャー） 「赤池メモリアルレクチャー賞」は2016年5月に統計数理研究所と日本統計学会により共同で設立されました。統計科学の分野において多大な功績を残し，その発展に大きな影響を及ぼした故赤池弘次博士の功績を記念したものです。今年度の第6回受賞者は Christian P. Robert 博士（Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL，University of…