Happy New Year, everyone! 2025 is over (along with the short break we had), and 2026 has arrived. What do I expect from it? Well, I can give you a few hints: The smooth package for R/Python/other languages. I’ve been working on this with several great friends/colleagues, and there will
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Good news, everyone! I’m leaving Lancaster University for good. It’s been a great 12 years of my life, but it is time to move on. Let me explain what’s happening. Some of you have seen one of my previous posts about the Lancaster University crisis (this one), so you might
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The song that I wrote a couple of years ago, when I realised that I can no longer sleep as much as I want 😄. Lyrics Verse 1 G C+7 It’s six in the morning, G The night’s cracking up C+7 You feel so exhausted G But you need to
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Some of you know that the UK education sector is in crisis. The blame is often placed on Chinese students, who have stopped coming to the UK for increasingly expensive education. Personally, I believe the real cause of the crisis is that incompetent senior managers adopted an unsustainable strategy of
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Here is a song about yogurt… Or maybe not… Lyrics Verse 1 Em Oh, hello, come have a look, Tell me what you want to cook Am We have everything in here: I am yogurt, this is beer H7 If you eat me, you’ll go to heaven And don’t tell
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I’ve written a song dedicated to a friend of mine… And I’ve recorded it and uploaded on YouTube. Today is John Boylan’s birthday. Lyrics Intro Verse 1 Am My friend, where did you go? Bb+7/B I haven’t seen you for a while F E7 The time has flown since we
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Good news! Springer has finally published a monograph that my father and I have worked on for the last couple of years. The topic is Complex-Valued Econometrics. You can read more about it here.
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Good news! I’ve been promoted to the position of “Senior Lecturer” (also known as “Associate Professor”, and I’m sometimes joking that SL is actually a “Senile Lecturer”) in my university. More opportunities, more responsibilities, and a higher salary. Not a professor yet, but it’s a small step in that direction.
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On 13th July 2022, during the gala event at the International Symposium on Forecasting in Oxford, I performed my song "Mother". Here is the recording of that performance: I’ve also released a mastered and mixed recording of the song on SoundCloud (photo by Shari de Baets): H0 · Mother
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I’ve written a song about the split in Russian society (not about my personal life). The song was inspired by a poem of Anastasia P. Here is the link to the recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1H6qtw8vzU and here are the words of the song: Verse 1 Every time I see pictures
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