XL Files
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Perhaps because of my adventure a year ago officiating Yves and Victoria’s happy wedding (see December 2013 XL-Flies), I was invited back to the same church a year later to speak, for five minutes, at one of its Morning Prayers. Repeating my reaction to the Ig…
Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes:
In addition to increasingly frequent requests to predict the future (see the last XL-Files), another sure sign of “professional aging” is being asked to talk about leadership. Just this past summer alone, I served on ICSA–KISS and IMS–NRC panels on leadership (while still sharpening my…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Life sometimes teases us. The older one gets, and hence the shorter future one has to contemplate, the more often one is asked to predict the future. I keep being invited to speculate about our future. But asking a statistician to predict the future of statistics is…
Xiao-Li Meng finds it harder to escape statistics than he thought…
The 2014 AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Annual Meeting (held February 13–17) has given me a new meaning to “Valentine’s Escape”. February is always jam-packed with most of the 57 graduate program admissions meetings, many starting…