ABOUT MEPhotographer & Statistician.Most of the time...
I do nothing... To my eternal bemusement I became a Statistician, an avid hiker, wilderness explorer, wildlife photographer, and aspiring Neuroplastician. Some of the trails that I have logged using G.P.S. can be found at this link... I have been a licensed HAM Radio operator for quite some time. I enjoy designing and building transmitting antennas, however I have not been active lately. I am also very interested in numismatics, narrowboats and I am a huge fan most genre of music (not noise). This ranges from traditional Celtic Folk Music & Gaelic Music to Bossa Nova, Baroque & Classical and Bluegrass. I hold a B.Sc. degree in Astrophysics from Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I escaped with a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Physics and an M.Sc. degree in Statistics from the University of the West Indies. I am currently near complete my PhD degree in Statistics at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine and planning my next great escape. My true personal interest is to be emancipated from a world of abstraction, false security and material excess, all the things that I truly believe cut us off from the truth of our existence. My academic interest lies in Mathematical & Statistical problems in Phylogeny, addressing issues with nucleotide substitution models, stochastic viral evolution (quasispecies model), and infectious disease dynamics. I find these problems extremely interesting to work on even though they are classified as NP problems in terms of their computational complexity. I profess to know very little about this area and I suspect that it is this state of naive curiosity that aided my survival thus far. I am also actively working on false discovery rates and multiple hypothesis testing. They tell me that Big Data is the current "hot area" so I have diverged a bit and wandered into high dimensional statistical inference, multi-class classification, dimension reduction techniques, and deep learning. If you're interested in what I do for research then you'd better look at this link. I received both onsite and online training from the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge, the Wellcome Genome Campus, the European Bioinformatics Institute, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and the World Health Organisation on a host of topics. I have also been fortunate to have had training in many areas from Charles Sturt University, Central Queensland University, Monash University, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, the University of Leeds, and the University of Reading. |
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
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An áit a bhfuil do chroí is ann a thabharfas do chosa thú.