Dotfiles
Configuration for a keyboard-first Linux shell, editor, and window-manager setup.
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Toban Wiebe
I lead AI/ML/DS at Keeper, where we're building an automated AI matchmaking system for high-throughput marriage formation. My academic background is in economics (UPenn PhD) where my research focused on equilibrium search and matching models applied to marriage markets.
Stuff I'm excited about: matching markets, Bayesian inference, keyboard-driven interfaces, AI & robots, Starship, and tools that make careful thinking easier.
writing
Essays.
- Quantifying uncertainty in probability predictions Suppose you're interested in knowing the chances of an event X occuring (e.g., X = " a nuclear strike over any populated area in the year 2019 "). When making predictions a...
- Economic growth via effective regulation I somehow ended up reading this long essay by economist John Cochrane on growth-oriented policy. I really enjoyed it because it takes a hard-headed approach to topics where...
- Double standard: caffeine vs nicotine [...] there is a kind of puritanical view that everything relating to nicotine is bad and harmful and should be stamped on. - Richard West I'm no expert on this topic, but...
bits
Short posts.
- Quantifying uncertainty in probability predictions Suppose you're interested in knowing the chances of an event X occuring (e.g., X = " a nuclear strike over any populated area in the year 2019 "). When making predictions a...
- Find Your Community: Increasing user engagement at Reddit Toban Wiebe is an Insight Data Science Fellow in Silicon Valley. For his fellowship project, he performed an analysis of Reddit user engagement to provide actionable insigh...
- Dealing with Anaconda Python in Linux Anaconda is a very handy Python distribution that bundles a slew of scientific packages along with the handy conda package manager, allowing you to easily update your packa...
- Make your own Julia packages Update : with the release of Julia 1.0, the package manager, Pkg , was completely rewritten, though it remains quite similar. Check out the Pkg documentation to see what's...
selected work
Models, tools, and habits.
MarriageMarkets.jl
A Julia package for solving equilibria in marriage-market models.
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