Statisfaction - a collaborative blog about Bayesian computation and related topics

The MAP is not the territory

inference
inverse problems
foundations
TL;DR: The MAP estimator is sometimes a Bayes estimator in disguise, but this comes at a price.
Nov 25, 2025
Rémi Bardenet

 

Testing the RSS feed

test
sorry
This is just a test. Sorry for the inconvenience. I will delete this post shortly.
Oct 4, 2025
Nicolas Chopin

Nested sampling and SMC: numerical experiments

Nested sampling
SMC
numerics
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Jun 30, 2025
Nicolas Chopin

 

A simpler nested sampling identity

SMC
nested sampling
paper
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Jun 4, 2025
Nicolas Chopin

Numpy broke my heart

python
joblib
multiprocessing
numpy
I swear, the title is kind of funny in French (try to figure out…
Apr 25, 2024
Nicolas Chopin

Quantum workers in Bernoulli factories

quantum computing
simulation
TL;DR: A quantum computer lets you provably build more general Bernoulli factories than your laptop.
Feb 14, 2024
Rémi Bardenet

 

Coulomb rhymes with variance reduction

Monte Carlo
point processes
… Well, it does rhyme if you read the title aloud with a French accent, hon hon hon.
Nov 1, 2023
Rémi Bardenet

particles version 0.4: single-run variance estimates, FFBS variants, nested sampling

news
particles
SMC
Version 0.4 of particles have just been released. Here are the main changes:
Sep 1, 2023
Nicolas Chopin

 

Better than Monte Carlo (this post is not about QMC)

Monte Carlo
QMC
rates
(This is repost from this December 2022 post on the old website, but since math support is so poor on Wordpress, I’d rather have this post published here.)
Aug 19, 2023
Nicolas Chopin

 

Welcome to the new, quarto-based version of Statisfaction

news
Hey! We have just moved this blog from Wordpress to github. The old version is still available here. The new version is based on quarto, which will make…
Aug 19, 2023
Nicolas Chopin
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