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Bits
Short-form writing, notes, and legacy blog posts. Longer essays live in writing.
- 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...
- MathJax with Kramdown Last week, GitHub Pages upgraded to Jekyll 3.0. One major consequence of the upgrade is that, for Jekyll sites hosted on GitHub Pages, only the kramdown engine is supported...
- Simple keyboard shortcuts for any website I'm a huge fan of Gmail's vim-inspired keyboard shortcuts. It's been nice to see the adoption of keyboard shortcuts in other sites, but for most of the web, keyboard access...
- 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...
- Note taking like a hacker In the spirit of blogging like a hacker, I am now taking notes like a hacker, thanks to a system I pieced together using Markdown and Dropbox. I have used Evernote and Goog...
- New Jekyll site So I decided to move from Wordpress to Jekyll. Not that I had any complaints with Wordpress, it's an absolutely fantastic platform. I just wanted to start blogging like a h...
- 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...
- A thought on methodology I've never felt comfortable with the logical positivists' "science is prediction" characterization, primarily because it neglects what I intuitively think of as the heart o...