June 2026 Digest

Upcoming Office HoursOn Wednesday, June 3rd at 1:30 PM EDT I'll be hosting another round of statistics office hours, https://www.patreon.com/posts/spring-has-hours-157652562. In these office hours I address as many questions as possible on topic...

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May 28, 2026
May 2026 Digest

Recent Code UpdateDid you know that I maintain a suite of principled diagnostic and visualization tools for Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis in both R and Python? https://github.com/betanalpha/mcmc_diagnostics https://github.com/betanalpha/mcmc_vis...

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Apr 29, 2026
March 2026 Digest

Recent Case Study< warning klaxon > INCOMING CASE STUDY < begin Star Fox boss music >HTML: https://betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapters_html/reading_times.htmlPDF: https://betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapters_pdf/reading_times.p...

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Mar 01, 2026
February 2026 Digest

Upcoming TalkOn Tuesday, February 17th I'll be giving a talk and short workshop on (narratively) generative modeling for Princeton's psychology department, https://psychology.princeton.edu/news-events/2026/michael-betancourt-chief-research-scientist-...

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Jan 29, 2026
January 2025 Digest

Recent WritingI was looking into Voronoi diagrams for a side project, but I just could not follow the details. So I do want I am wont to do and dove into the details, working out a lot of geometry and making too many figures.HTML: https://betana...

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Dec 30, 2025