I created this pedagogical example about simulation-based inference for a set of lectures that I gave in Paris in July 2025 for the University of Chicago's AI for Science summer school. The repository is here and it includes instructions on how to run the tutorial on your own machine.

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 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

Recently I've been learning more about docker and all the things it can do for us. My student Lukas Heinrich has been working on the Recast project and using docker heavily. In parallel, Tim Head and I have been talking a lot about projects like binder and everware, which let …

So I recently learned about the ability to convert IPython notebooks into slides using nbconvert. Not sure how I overlooked that capability of nbconvert. There are some (somewhat out of date) references on Damián Avila's blog.

I'm pretty excited about the idea of using IPython notebooks as a more effective …