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]
more ...We held the third Machine Learning for Physical Sciences workshop at NeurIPS2020 on December 11, 2020.
We had more than 150 posters and more than 200 people attend the poster session on Gather Town. Gather Town worked surprisingly well.
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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
more ...Despite the reputation of 2016 as a terrible year, it was pretty good for me on a personal and professional level. Many of the ideas that were born during my sabbaticall matured this year. Many of my collaborations also flourished.
The year started with a bang …
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Well I caught the fever for the 750 GeV excess too. While ATLAS policies prevent me from submitting a paper to the arXiv about a preliminary result, I couldn't help but write up these thoughts on the excess in the context of Supersplit Supersymmetry. Note, they do not represent any …
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