Ben Recht got my attention with a tweet about his blog post "The Higgs discovery did not take place.” I’m generally a fan of Ben’s writing, but I think he’s off base on a number of issues, and I’ll explain why. [Updated Oct 23rd, 2024]

Ben's …

I've been wanting to add some semi-automated way to handle papers and bibliography information in this website. I found pelican-bibtex and pelican-cite. I'll need to look into pelican-bibtex to see if I can make a nice automated page based on a .bib file, but pelican-cite looked pretty easy to setup …

While updating this website, I considered migrating it to Sphinx based on Chris Holdgraf's blog post and my recent experience with JupyterBooks for Statistics and Data Science for Physicists. Chris has this nice timeline on his about page.

I'm not ready to migrate this website away from pelican, so I …

We held the third Machine Learning for Physical Sciences workshop at NeurIPS2020 on December 11, 2020.

• Website: Machine Learning for Physical Sciences
• Some live tweets: #ML4PS2020

We had more than 150 posters and more than 200 people attend the poster session on Gather Town. Gather Town worked surprisingly well.

We …

I've just started to collect material that I use for a class at NYU into a Jupyter book. It's here:

https://cranmer.github.io/intro-exp-phys-book/introduction

This is a variation on the other Collaboration map aimed at IRIS-HEP.

• people: with description that links to their homepage.
• projects: specific projects or perhaps topics of discussion
• collaborations: groups of people brought together with some common goal, theme, or for some other organizational reason

The result

Making it easier …