Radu’s Rides
Radu Craiu shares his thoughts about time, and about timing:
I like mechanical watches because they combine precise engineering—the movement is built under tremendous constraints that have to do with the minimalist space it is allowed to occupy and its efficiency under minimal friction (it’s not lost on me that…
What are the factors that make some university statistics departments go from rags to riches… and vice versa? Contributing Editor Radu Craiu, University of Toronto, has been thinking about this:
In an election year, one hears a lot about “haves” and “have nots” and how the gap between them is…
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu (Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto) took the opportunity to reflect during his “summer intermezzo”:
Constrained by circumstances, this was a summer of relative stagnation, at least in terms of spatial displacement. Toronto being the lovely city that it is, I still managed to…
Radu Craiu writes: Writing for this column can really be a pain in the neck, especially when I think a good idea is coming to fruition and then I lose momentum once things get a little more complicated. Sounds familiar? I thought I should write about statistical ideas, how their…
Our contributing columnist Radu Craiu, University of Toronto, writes:
In this age of excess, the question in the title will sound sacrilegious. Has the permissive attitude towards a bloated pantry, shoe rack or refrigerator spilled over into (data) science? While the evidence is piling up, the irony of our lived…