Rob Trangucci joins us to discuss his work and study in Bayesian statistics and how he applies it to real-world problems.
In this episode you will learn:
• Getting Rob on the show [8:12]
• Stan [9:34]
• Gradients [18:15]
• What is Bayesian statistics? [23:05]
• Multi-modal deep learning [45:20]
• Stan package [53:46]
• Applications of Bayesian stats [1:09:47]
• The day-to-day of a PhD in stats [1:21:56]
• What does the future hold? [1:42:37]
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