Sean Manning’s lexicon

2026-05-16

Unlike me, the historian lists his entries not chronologically but alphabetically: Abstraction Ad fontes All Publicity is Good Publicity Analogy Anecdote Anchoring Effect Appeal to Authority Apples and Oranges Archaeological Visibility Argumentum ad baculum Argumentative Theory of Reason Art Historian’s … Continue reading → …

Why are there squares everywhere in statistics (e.g., normal density, variance, least squares, etc.)?

2026-05-16

I remember asking my colleagues at Carnegie Mellon this very same question as I was first learning basic statistics in the early 1990s and they gave the same kind of answers as I found more recently in the AskStatistics subreddit. … Continue reading → …

Exploring the CovR/S Two-Component System in Streptococcus pyogenes

2026-05-16

Exploring the CovR/S two-component system in Group A Strep 🧫 — from genome annotation with Bakta & BaktFold, to AlphaFold confidence metrics, and a first attempt at protein docking with Haddock3. Learning as we go! 🙌

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Probabilistic Time Series Cross-Validation with R package crossvalidation

2026-05-16

Examples of use of R package crossvalidation for Probabilistic Time Series Cross-Validation (measuring coverage and Winkler score)

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