Ed Kroc
@ed_kroc
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Statistician, informal ecologist, gull lover at UBC. Officially, I’m an Associate Professor of Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined November 2015
The culmination of nearly a decade of work: my new paper with Louise Blight @procellaria11 and Wilson Cao on urban-nesting Glaucous-winged Gulls (GWGUs) of @CityofVancouver now online in Ecological Modelling. I'll give the highlights here, but more to come soon. 1/7
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Legend.
For his contribution in solving the Poincaré Conjecture, an open problem for a century, Grigori Perelman was offered the Fields Medal in 2006 and the Millennium Prize of 1 million dollars in 2010. He rejected both of them.
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I watch this monologue probably once a month. The opening monologue too. I'm sure I know both by heart now. But Jones' deliveries are harrowing and haunting, which is why I keep coming back.
The final monologue of No Country for Old Men stays haunting long after the credits roll.
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Die Spitz is absolutely the band punk rock needs right now. Their sound has matured so much in such a short time and every one now is killer.
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RT @miniapeur: Some of the most important mathematical spaces are those that are complete and separable. I decided to summarise a small exa….
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The madness of multiple complex variables.
A holomorphic function of two or more complex variables has no isolated zeros.
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In the forest east of the plains, working in Statisticgrad, but commuting through Probabilistan proper.
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RT @fermatslibrary: Human-like beings are doomed to drop toast butter-side down 🥪. In 1995, Robert Matthews wrote a paper showing that toas….
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Proving it converges vs finding the rate of convergence.
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My second best piece of advice, of course, is to *learn more math*. Specifically, probability and real analysis.
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Every summer, when I'm back out in the field, I'm reminded that my best piece of advice for aspiring stats/methods people is to *go collect your own data* sometimes. The appreciation and thoughtfulness for design, sampling, and measurement issues are invaluable.
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RT @MarmotRecovery: Okay, this is cute. Two pups of one of world's most endangered mammals, the Vancouver Island marmot, tussle. The specie….
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RT @propagandopolis: 'What has he done to deserve this?' — American cartoon (1917) showing Uncle Sam unhappily shackled to the metric syste….
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Courage the Cowardly Dog is a criminally underrated cartoon. Dark, unnerving, hilarious, and sweet in equal measures. There is no comparable.
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