Miscellaneous

Notes

Here are some random notes that I thought would be useful for a casual read. A lot of them contain mistakes and so please read them with your own caution.

• Sparse Variational Gaussian Processes - 12 November 2021. CSML Reading Group, Imperial College London. [Slides] [Demo]
• An Overview of Sparse Gaussian Processes

Code

• neural-processes: a PyTorch implementation of various Neural Processes

Side Projects

• [Covid-19 Age Specific Mortality Data]. An automated pipeline for collecting age-specific COVID-19 data.
• IC Hack 19, an application for live spatio-temporal modelling of temperatures and precipitation in the USA

Miscellaneous

• My maternal grandparents both also studied Mathematics at Beijing Normal University and were classmates there.
• My maternal grandfather 房兴业 (Fáng Xīngyè) was a Researcher (研究员 (yán jīu yuán), equivalent to academic rank of full professor) in the Institute of Biophysics and Institute of Space Medical Engineering (now China Astronautic Research and Training Center) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He dedicated his entire career towards China’s Shenzhou space exploration programme and trained the first Chinese astronauts. He currently rests at 八宝山革命公墓 (Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery).