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Yuling Yao's Blog

Bayesian Statistics, Machine Learning.

  • By Yuling Yao
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly three posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2021 2
2022 6
2023 2
2024 1

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

My five stages of grief
And It is official: I will not have an academia job. Stage 1: a suspicious insider joke During the middle of March, I realized that I had not heard back from any schools I had …
On , by Yuling Yao, 658 words
StanCon 2023
Last month I was at WashU campus for the Bayesian-for-nuclear-physics workshop. Today I am in WashU again: This time it is for StanCon 2023. Here is some of the random takeaway I obtain from the …
On , by Yuling Yao, 1,165 words
Bayes is guaranteed to overfit, for any model, any prior, and every data point
The myth A few years ago I saw a StackOverflow question (but I cannot find it now): allegedly Andrew Gelman blogged that Bayesian models would not overfit and would only underfit (I also cannot find …
On , by Yuling Yao, 1,133 words