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Say you are developing some sort of statistical test and you have run simulations and applications, and now you wanna work on its theoretical guarantees (asymptotics, efficiency, consistency, etc.)

Can you not just feed in the test statistics, assumptions, etc. to your favorite intelligent AI and get it to derive everything?

In this instance, is the focus of statistical theory going to be more on the algorithms/computation side and dealing with issues like scalability going forward, while leaving the math to AI?

Didn't AI solve that big unsolved problem in pure mathematics the other day (Navier-stokes or something, I think)

I'm focusing my research on mixed-frequency time series modelling and nowcasting, developing computational tools and algorithms to help model and forecast multivariate economic and financial time series.

Are there good prospects in academia after this kind of work?

No family (they exist, but no relationship present, and for good reason)

I haven't had a long-term friendship since 6th grade. The only thing I have been able to make is acquaintensces and hi-byes.

I can push myself to socialize sometimes, but when I do, I can only be present for a very short period before having a very strong urge to leave and go back to being alone and warm in my room. When I'm socializing I feel even lonelier than I do when I'm actually alone.

This is all after I graduated university.

The only thing I have been able to make is a texting buddy (who is always reluctant to hang out irl) and a guy who just spams me with random reels he probably sends to 20 other people at the same time. It's pathetic.

My psychologist today emphasized the importance of friendships and told me I have to "make my own family", which a few other people have told me as well. I know that is inevitably what I will have to do, but I don't even know where to start.

In my mind, I'm better off being alone cause I usually feel even lonelier when I'm physically around and interacting with people. Not sure how that works. But being actually alone is no solution either, for the obvious fact that I am, well, alone.

I feel stuck, I don't know how to get out of this.

I feel like a little kid who got abandoned in a mall by his mom and is left to fend for himself.

I have CPTSD from only emotional and/or psychological abuse from my parents but no physical/sexual abuse of any kind.

How common is this? Because everything I read about CPTSD seems to point towards some kind of physical abuse.

What is the cause of this kind of CPTSD? How is it possible to feel like your life is in danger to the point of developing CPTSD from only emotional abuse?

My main symptoms are hypervigilance, an extreme sensitivity to someone yelling at me and, to a lesser extent, loud noises in general

Has anyone had experience being on keto to mitigate their CPTSD?

My psychologist put me on this diet a few years ago and wants me to continue doing it. I went off it for about a week and had a big dip in my mood one day and he said it might be cause I started eating carbs again.

I asked ChatGPT and it said that people with CPTSD are more sensitive to internal body changes (such as glycaemic fluctuations) due to the body constantly being on the lookout for danger.

Does anyone know how true this is?

I also wanna have my tastebuds insured for $10 million

My professor developed a model and published it in Computational Economics. I am completing an application paper of this model, but the paper is too short to be a full-length paper so we cannot also publish it in the same journal.

So he asked me to look at some "letter" type journals and I came across Applied Economics Letters.

How is this journal? Is it too low, or is it the best I can do with an application paper?

The topic of the application paper is Trump's 2025 tariff policies and includes some robustness checks.

Meaning should you aim for a perfect match between your topic and your supervisor's main research area?

I'm in STEM (statistics and data science)

A fresh new semester has started, so exciting 🥳🥳🥳

I am happy to see you all again, especially the cute new twinks

Annals of Statistics is the flagship journal of statistics, but also the most theorerical/mathematical.

When was the last time you needed to read a paper from there?

I can hardly find any information online (I'm guessing cause data science is a lot more popular)

How is the course? Is it rigorous in terms of its mathematics?

I can hardly find any information online (I'm guessing cause data science is a lot more popular)

How is the course? Is it rigorous in terms of its mathematics?

I read somewhere that LLMs can now produce a lot of the proofs that one would otherwise have spent months manually doing by hand, and that the focus has now shifted towards bigger-picture stuff like framing the problem correctly.

Since proofs are the essence of every result in mathematical statistics, is this one area that might be automated away soon? i.e., is it useless to be learning how to write and replicate many lines of mathematical proofs when LLMs can already do that?

In almost all countries, people do a bachelors and a masters before their PhD, or at least the masters is integrated into the PhD.

For Australians, you do a 1-year honours year, which doesn't have a lot of coursework, usually, followed by a PhD, also without much (or any) coursework.

Did you feel inferior or lacking in some way as compared to US/European folk who have completed extensive amounts of coursework before and/or during their PhD?

By the time I apply, I would have:

Bachelor of Business and Commerce, Major in Econometrics & Applied Statistics, Weighted Average Mark: 87.6% (Top 1-2% of my cohort), GPA: 3.75 (note that WAM is more commonly used than GPA in my Australian university)

Bachelor of Business and Commerce (Honours): This is a 1-year research-oriented program with research methodology courses and an undertaking of a major research project. Mine is about modelling multivariate mixed-frequency time series models using a semiparametric, algorithmic approach. I expect to get first-class honours.

Relevant Coursework:

Math: Multivariate mathematics for data science, encompassing multivariable calculus and linear algebra

Statistics & Data Science: Principles of Statistical Inference, Advanced Data Analysis (emphasis on Bayesian methods and theoretical aspects of machine learning), Deep Learning

Econometrics: Lots of time series analysis, forecasting, and causal inference

I might have an applied statistics paper under review in a Q2 letters journal by the time I apply.

Would I be competitive for top 50 PhD Statistics programs, or am I better off getting an MSc in Statistics first?

Specifically focussing on the Vibeke-era (where they became notorious), Tristania is overrated for 1 simple reason:

Morten Veland felt the need to growl his way through 80-90% of each song, leaving poor Vibeke with a minor (and in some cases, no) role in any particular song. The worst offender of this is the Beyond the Veil album, which is also tauted by many as their best album.

Vibeke was supposed to be the frontwoman, who was supposed to bring a beautiful, gothic, and melodic touch to the music, instead, she was pushed to the side for Veland's underwhelming growls.

I know in later albums this was corrected to some extent, but Tristania became famous largely because of their first 2 albums, and also this issue was never fully resolved. This has left me with a bittersweet taste in my mouth where i basically have to cherrypick a few songs from each album where Veland is not just growling 90% of the time with no substance.

I feel like they had good potential and great ideas; the vibe of their early albums are exactly what gothic metal should be, they just failed in their execution.

Wikepedia labelling them as a "premier gothic metal band" seems a bit inaccurate in this sense. I actually think early Sirenia was better and more tasteful, with the exception of An Elixir for Existence, which again faced the same issue

I am 100% sure I left my backpack containing a laptop in a Bolt ride, but the driver keeps saying he found nothing and even asked 4-5 passengers to check the backseat.

I contacted him just half an hour after I left the ride. The only possibility right now is that another passenger accidentally (or not) took my backpack.

The only identifying information on the backpack is a sticker that has my university's name on it.

Can anyone help me? Who do I report to since the Bolt driver says he found nothing?