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Gaussian Processes in particular can be very useful in regression problems when you don't want to make strong assumptions about the functional form of the relationship between vari…

This is great, using Brownian motion to introduce stochastic processes is a neat way to introduce the idea of priors over a function space. My small contribution to this area is an…

French. I use Anki for building vocabulary, and practice over Skype. The innerFrench YouTube channel has also been a great resource.

Another excellent choice for a LaTex editor is LyX ( https://www.lyx.org/ ). It's not WYSIWYG, but does basic math formatting as you go, which is very helpful for complicated expre…

Most emerging contaminants have no clinical reference levels for safe vs. unsafe exposure, so often the best you can do is compare your exposure level to a reference distribution t…

I used to work on an endocrine disruptor (EDC) testing program ( https://wwww.silentspring.org/detoxmeactionkit/ ). Analytical laboratories won't deal with individual samples from …

Silent Spring Institute | Newton, MA | ONSITE | Software Engineer We’re looking for a web application engineer to lead our efforts to design digital tools to communicate research a…

Silent Spring Institute | Newton, MA | ONSITE | Software Engineer We’re looking for a web application engineer to lead our efforts to design digital tools to communicate research a…

My understanding is that just because you live in a blue area of the map doesn't mean you have contaminated water. Also, note that this paper only looks at public water supply test…

The best way to prevent this, in my opinion, is to be clear that the research has nothing to do with fluoridated water. From my colleague: "The highly fluorinated chemicals that we…

"The contamination of drinking water in Hoosick Falls is an example of the shortcomings of the UCMR3 program. As part of the UCMR program, all large public water supplies that serv…

I work with one of the authors of the Hu et al. paper that this article is based on. I'm happy to relay any questions people have to her.

“What are the chances of falling off the roof?” he argued vociferously when we tried previously to hash it out. Have I ever known anyone who has fallen off a roof? Anyway, he said,…

This is great to see as I've been working on a similar project to try to visualize relationships by looking at the number of texts sent over time. If anyone would like help generat…