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2020-03-05 — 2024-12-20

The Score Function Estimator

a.k.a. REINFORCE; a gradient estimator for expectations
Bayes
calculus
density
estimator distribution
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
score function
tail risk
uncertainty
2024-09-13 — 2024-12-20

Which self?

When we choose who to become, who are we choosing for?
economics
ethics
mind
gene
institutions
incentive mechanisms
2024-12-20 — 2024-12-20

Constructivist rationalism

cooperation
economics
hand wringing
wonk
2024-12-19 — 2024-12-19

AI Safety Australia

adversarial
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
tail risk
security
technology
2024-10-31 — 2024-12-19

tmux

computers are awful
faster pussycat
plain text
POSIX
2020-06-11 — 2024-12-19

AI Safety

Getting ready for the grown-ups to arrive
adversarial
catastrophe
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
tail risk
security
technology
2024-10-31 — 2024-12-19

Typing weird symbols

Writing with added 🆕🐜🐜
computers are awful
typography
2019-01-03 — 2024-12-18

Marimo

A python visual notebook that works more like how I imagined jupyter would work when I heard about it
faster pussycat
premature optimization
python
UI
2024-11-04 — 2024-12-18

Bayes neural nets via subsetting weights

Bayes
convolution
density
likelihood free
machine learning
neural nets
nonparametric
sparser than thou
uncertainty
2022-01-11 — 2024-12-17

Quantum computing for ML

compsci
physics
quantum
statmech
2024-12-17 — 2024-12-17

Python

Syntactic saccharine for compiled code
computers are awful
python
2011-04-18 — 2024-12-17

Particle filters

Bayes
Monte Carlo
particle
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sciml
signal processing
state space models
statistics
swarm
time series
2014-07-25 — 2024-12-17

Thermodynamics of life

buzzword
compsci
life
statmech
time series
2014-09-23 — 2024-12-17

Economics of foundation models

Practicalities of competition between ordinary schlubs, and machines which can tirelessly pastiche all of history’s greatest geniuses at once
agents
bounded compute
collective knowledge
concurrency hell
distributed
economics
edge computing
extended self
faster pussycat
incentive mechanisms
innovation
language
machine learning
neural nets
NLP
swarm
technology
UI
2023-03-23 — 2024-12-17

Science; Institution design for

“Scientist, falsify thyself”. Peer review, academic incentives, credentials, evidence and funding
academe
agents
collective knowledge
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
how do science
incentive mechanisms
information provenance
institutions
mind
networks
sociology
wonk
2020-05-17 — 2024-12-16

Linux-compatible laptops

I love linux but I hate googling for “wifi hangs after suspend”
compsci
computers are awful
hardware
POSIX
premature optimization
2018-05-28 — 2024-12-16

Generative AI workflows and hacks 2024

economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
neural nets
NLP
stringology
technology
UI
2024-03-23 — 2024-12-12

Australian AI Safety Forum Sydney 2024

Scattered notes from the floor
adversarial
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
tail risk
security
technology
2024-11-07 — 2024-12-12

Free images

Raiding history for clip art
content
making things
photon choreography
2014-08-31 — 2024-12-11

Research discovery and synthesis

Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet?
academe
collective knowledge
faster pussycat
how do science
institutions
mind
networks
sociology
wonk
2019-01-22 — 2024-12-11

Machine learning for climate systems

calculus
climate
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
wonk
2020-04-02 — 2024-12-10

Natalism and fertility

Reproduction and the ethics of population growth and decline
economics
ethics
mind
gene
institutions
incentive mechanisms
2024-12-07 — 2024-12-09

Academic publishing

academe
collective knowledge
diy
doing internet
economics
faster pussycat
how do science
incentive mechanisms
information provenance
institutions
mind
networks
sociology
2015-07-07 — 2024-12-09

Tabular data processing in Python

CSV to Data lake
approximation
Bayes
clustering
high d
linear algebra
networks
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
2020-11-30 — 2024-12-09

Zotero

The adequate citation tool
academe
collective knowledge
computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
workflow
2019-12-01 — 2024-12-09

Website cheat codes

CSS, SCSS, SASS, HTML, UX, Web 2.0, RFC, Yeah you know me
computers are awful
making things
photon choreography
UI
2014-12-23 — 2024-12-09

Criminal justice

The ethics and efficacy of policing and punishment
economics
ethics
mind
2017-04-01 — 2024-12-07

Asynchronous Python

It can’t be premature optimisation if it took 20 years to start
computers are awful
concurrency hell
python
2018-03-24 — 2024-12-06

Gaussian Ensemble Belief Propagation

A method which improves our ability to solve important tricky problems, such as whether your house will flood tomorrow based on what the satellite says today
approximation
Bayes
distributed
dynamical systems
generative
graphical models
machine learning
Monte Carlo
networks
optimization
particle
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sciml
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
swarm
time series
2024-04-15 — 2024-12-06

TikZ/PGFplots etx

communicating
computers are awful
dataviz
faster pussycat
LaTeX
photon choreography
plain text
typography
UI
workflow
2015-03-02 — 2024-12-06

The robot regency

How long is it safe to have our learning left unsupervised?
agents
bounded compute
collective knowledge
distributed
economics
edge computing
extended self
faster pussycat
incentive mechanisms
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
technology
unsupervised
2024-02-28 — 2024-12-06

Jax

Julia for python
algebra
calculus
computers are awful
linear algebra
number crunching
optimization
2020-09-15 — 2024-12-05

Differentiable PDE solvers

geometry
how do science
machine learning
PDEs
physics
sciml
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
uncertainty
2017-05-15 — 2024-12-05

Machine learning for partial differential equations

calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
Lévy processes
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
2017-05-15 — 2024-12-05

Python packaging, environment and dependency management

“import antigravity” raises an exception if you want CUDA antigravity
computers are awful
python
standards
2011-04-18 — 2024-12-05

Neural network activation functions

calculus
classification
dynamical systems
geometry
machine learning
neural nets
physics
regression
sciml
statistics
2017-01-13 — 2024-12-05

submitit

A less horrible way to parallelize on HPC clusters
computers are awful
computers are awful together
concurrency hell
distributed
premature optimization
python
2021-10-09 — 2024-12-04

Money, Australian-style

diy
economics
money
utility
2019-03-14 — 2024-12-04

Canalization and plasticity in human brains

Updating fast-system priors; therapy as described by mathematicians
adaptive
cooperation
evolution
learning
mind
networks
utility
2022-04-09 — 2024-12-04

The Jupyter Cinematic Universe

A constellation of somewhat-compatible technologies from which we can extract a compromise between ease of 1) actually doing data science and 2) seeming to laypeople to be doing data science 3) begrudging IT support
faster pussycat
premature optimization
python
UI
2017-02-09 — 2024-12-04

VS Code / VS Codium

Egg-laying wool milk code editor
computers are awful
faster pussycat
plain text
UI
workflow
2018-01-25 — 2024-12-04

Quarto

Swiss army knife for hand-whittling scientific reports, slides and blogs
academe
faster pussycat
how do science
javascript
julia
language
making things
plain text
premature optimization
python
R
writing
2022-05-01 — 2024-12-03

Quarto integrated website system

Academic blog publishing that is easy on me, albeit hard on my computer
academe
faster pussycat
how do science
javascript
julia
language
making things
plain text
premature optimization
python
R
writing
2023-12-01 — 2024-12-03

Learning stuff

Shoving knowledge into my brain
faster pussycat
language
learning
mind
utility
2020-06-16 — 2024-12-03

Innovation

Side order of progress studies now I guess
economics
innovation
intellectual property
making things
policy
sociology
spatial
technology
the rather superior sort of city
2014-07-27 — 2024-12-02

Log-concave distributions

The probabilist’s equivalent to convex optimisation objectives
Bayes
estimator distribution
Markov processes
Monte Carlo
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
stochastic processes
2017-08-28 — 2024-12-02

Statistical learning theory for dependent data

Markov processes
measure
model selection
optimization
regression
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2016-11-03 — 2024-12-02

Efficient Langevin sampling Gaussian distributions

An educationally quixotic exercise
Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
Lévy processes
nonparametric
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2024-10-30 — 2024-11-30

Western Australia

A big state with modest dreams
place
straya
wonk
2019-03-05 — 2024-11-30

Anti-TESCREALists

Post-rationalism for non-post-rationalists
adversarial
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
security
technology
2024-10-01 — 2024-11-29

Livescribe

A nifty smart pen that I use for stylus input despite various qualms
academe
making things
plain text
real time
UI
2017-04-17 — 2024-11-29

Ensemble Kalman methods for training neural networks

Data assimilation for network weights
Bayes
dynamical systems
likelihood free
linear algebra
machine learning
Monte Carlo
neural nets
nonparametric
particle
probability
sciml
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
time series
uncertainty
2022-09-20 — 2024-11-29

Terminals

More realistically, terminal emulators, because anyone who owns an actual working VT102 these days is not using it to do work
computers are awful
faster pussycat
plain text
POSIX
2018-10-11 — 2024-11-29

Contemporary rationalists

Cloth mother/wire mother for cognition
catastrophe
culture
ethics
history
language
mind
wonk
2020-09-06 — 2024-11-26

Data summarization

a.k.a Data distillation
approximation
estimator distribution
functional analysis
information
linear algebra
model selection
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2019-01-14 — 2024-11-26

GP inducing variables

algebra
approximation
functional analysis
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
machine learning
optimization
probability
statistics
2020-10-16 — 2024-11-26

Verification and detection of generative AI

Watermarks, cryptographic verification of the products of AI
adversarial
approximation
Bayes
cryptography
generative
likelihood free
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
security
statistics
unsupervised
2024-10-29 — 2024-11-26

Certification of neural nets

Watermarks, cryptographic verification and other certificates of authenticity for our computation
adversarial
approximation
Bayes
cryptography
game theory
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
security
statistics
2024-11-26 — 2024-11-26

LaTeX

…and ΤeΧ, and ConTeXt and XeTeX and TeXleMeElmo
computers are awful
faster pussycat
LaTeX
plain text
typography
UI
workflow
2014-09-08 — 2024-11-25

Subculture dynamics

Coalitions, scenes, fandoms, subcultures, normies, hipsters, sects, and tribes at scale
adaptive
collective knowledge
culture
economics
evolution
game theory
history
networks
social graph
sociology
2018-12-18 — 2024-11-24

Bureaucracy

The theory of Iron Laws and Moral Mazes
cooperation
culture
economics
game theory
institutions
rhetoric
wonk
2020-02-02 — 2024-11-24

Institutions for angels

Adverse selection in social movements
agents
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
democracy
distributed
economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
mind
networks
policy
rhetoric
social graph
sociology
wonk
2021-05-01 — 2024-11-24

Spamularity

The infosphere after people
AI
confidentiality
adversarial
catastrophe
computers are awful together
confidentiality
democracy
economics
evolution
game theory
incentive mechanisms
networks
P2P
social graph
virality
wonk
2015-10-05 — 2024-11-23

Fish shell

A command line shell that does not think that the problem is you
computers are awful
faster pussycat
macos
plain text
POSIX
2019-03-30 — 2024-11-22

Gradient steps to an ecology of mind

Regularised survival of the fittest
adaptive
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
economics
energy
evolution
extended self
game theory
gene
incentive mechanisms
learning
mind
networks
probability
social graph
sociology
statistics
statmech
utility
wonk
2011-11-27 — 2024-11-22

Interpolation, extrapolation and memorisation in neural networks

algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
meta learning
networks
probability
statistics
2022-01-25 — 2024-11-22

Audiobooks

Long form podcasts
content
making things
music
signal processing
2014-11-11 — 2024-11-22

Incoming links and notes

2020-03-05 — 2024-11-20

Ageing

Both descriptive and prescriptive
drugs
faster pussycat
fit
gene
health
mind
2022-01-11 — 2024-11-20

Bayesian sparsity

Bayes
high d
information
model selection
regression
sparser than thou
statistics
2019-01-08 — 2024-11-19

Bayesian model selection

Bayes
information
model selection
statistics
2017-08-20 — 2024-11-19

Editing images using code

Painting with a hammer, blindfolded
computers are awful
generative art
making things
photon choreography
2018-10-16 — 2024-11-18

Neural learning for geoscience

dynamical systems
machine learning
neural nets
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
spheres
2020-09-16 — 2024-11-18

Australia in data

data sets
place
straya
2020-01-25 — 2024-11-18

Data sets

Questions for answers looking for questions
computers are awful
data sets
statistics
2015-06-27 — 2024-11-18

Teaching mathematics and especially statistics

academe
communicating
faster pussycat
learning
mind
statistics
2020-02-12 — 2024-11-18

Oral health

Teeth, gums etc
health
drugs
faster pussycat
fit
gene
health
mind
2024-11-16 — 2024-11-16

The (Fisher) score function

Bayes
estimator distribution
functional analysis
Markov processes
Monte Carlo
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
score function
2024-11-14 — 2024-11-15

Langevin dynamcs MCMC

Bayes
estimator distribution
functional analysis
Markov processes
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
SDEs
stochastic processes
2020-08-17 — 2024-11-15

Neural PDE operator learning

Especially forward operators. Image-to-image regression, where the images encode a physical process.
calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
Lévy processes
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
2019-10-15 — 2024-11-15

Particle variational message passing

Graphical inference using empirical distribution estimates
approximation
Bayes
distributed
dynamical systems
generative
graphical models
machine learning
Monte Carlo
networks
optimization
particle
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sciml
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
swarm
time series
2014-07-25 — 2024-11-14

Safetyism and alignment problems

economics
extended self
faster pussycat
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
networks
2014-09-22 — 2024-11-14

Foundation models for spatiotemporal systems

dynamical systems
machine learning
neural nets
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2024-11-14 — 2024-11-14

Foundation models for partial differential equations

calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
Lévy processes
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
2024-11-14 — 2024-11-14

Diagrams

Of the kind I need, a practical guide to the creation thereof
communicating
computers are awful
dataviz
faster pussycat
photon choreography
2015-03-02 — 2024-11-13

Neural learning for extreme values

density
dynamical systems
machine learning
neural nets
point processes
probability
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
tail risk
time series
2024-11-13 — 2024-11-13

Neural learning for spatiotemporal systems

dynamical systems
machine learning
neural nets
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2020-09-16 — 2024-11-13

Thailand

place
2024-11-12 — 2024-11-12

Graph neural nets

algebra
functional analysis
geometry
machine learning
networks
neural nets
2020-09-16 — 2024-11-11

Monastic traditions

collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
democracy
distributed
economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
mind
networks
policy
religion
rhetoric
social graph
sociology
swarm
wonk
2024-05-27 — 2024-11-09

Catastrophic risk

All your base are belong to dust
adaptive
catastrophe
economics
game theory
how do science
incentive mechanisms
markets
probability
tail risk
statistics
wonk
2015-04-30 — 2024-11-09

Localhost dev server

My own little fake internet
computers are awful
diy
doing internet
2018-11-26 — 2024-11-04

Podcasts

content
music
2017-05-11 — 2024-11-04

Differentiable learning of automata

compsci
machine learning
making things
neural nets
2016-10-14 — 2024-11-04

Reality gap

The difference between the real world and the simulations we use to model it
approximation
Bayes
feature construction
likelihood free
machine learning
measure
metrics
probability
sciml
statistics
time series
2024-02-21 — 2024-11-02

Variational message passing with high-dimensional and functional nodes

algebra
approximation
Bayes
distributed
dynamical systems
generative
graphical models
machine learning
Monte Carlo
networks
neural nets
optimization
particle
probabilistic algorithms
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
swarm
time series
2022-11-11 — 2024-11-02

Model complexity penalties

Information criteria, degrees of freedom etc
estimator distribution
information
likelihood
model selection
statistics
2015-04-22 — 2024-11-01

Verifiable information on the interent

Now that it is cheap to fabricate history, how can we trust anything?
adversarial
boring
computers are awful together
confidentiality
cooperation
cryptography
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
incentive mechanisms
mind
money
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
wonk
2024-11-01 — 2024-11-01

The public sphere and its business models

Free speech versus market-clearing speech
bandit problems
boring
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
mind
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
wonk
2023-12-23 — 2024-11-01

Transformer networks as recurrent or state-space models

language
machine learning
meta learning
neural nets
NLP
stringology
time series
2017-12-20 — 2024-10-31

Variational Bayes NNs and Graphical Models

Bitter Lesson Propagation
algebra
graphical models
hidden variables
hierarchical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probability
statistics
2024-01-18 — 2024-10-31

Physical infrastructure

design
diy
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
making things
markets
money
physics
policy
tail risk
spatial
the rather superior sort of city
wonk
2022-09-24 — 2024-10-31

Fonts

Typefaces I need, which is to say, for web pages and scientific papers
making things
typography
2016-01-11 — 2024-10-31

Transferring money

computers are awful together
confidentiality
cryptography
money
2016-09-06 — 2024-10-31

Quarto website preview server hacks

Do you want to build an enormous quarto website? Strap in for a bumpy ride. Here, I have a seatbelt for you.
academe
faster pussycat
how do science
javascript
julia
language
making things
plain text
premature optimization
python
R
writing
2024-10-07 — 2024-10-30

Snowmobile or bicycle?

Complement or substitute?
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
stringology
technology
UI
2023-03-23 — 2024-10-30

Posterior Gaussian process samples by updating prior samples

Matheron’s other weird trick
functional analysis
Gaussian
generative
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
particle
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2020-12-03 — 2024-10-30

Ensemble Kalman methods

Data Assimilation; Data fusion; Sloppy updates for messy models
Bayes
distributed
dynamical systems
generative
graphical models
linear algebra
machine learning
Monte Carlo
optimization
particle
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sciml
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
swarm
time series
2015-06-22 — 2024-10-30

Singular Learning Theory

dynamical systems
machine learning
neural nets
physics
pseudorandomness
sciml
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
2024-10-29 — 2024-10-30

Confidentiality

How to maintain it
computers are awful
confidentiality
security
wonk
2014-08-23 — 2024-10-30

Superstimuli

adaptive
bounded compute
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
economics
ethics
evolution
gene
incentive mechanisms
institutions
neuron
utility
wonk
2023-09-25 — 2024-10-29

Addiction

ethics
fit
health
learning
mind
neuron
utility
2021-05-24 — 2024-10-29

Overparameterization in large models

Improper learning, benign overfitting, double descent
decision theory
feature construction
machine learning
model selection
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
SDEs
statmech
stochastic processes
2018-04-04 — 2024-10-29

Materials informatics

Machine learning in condensed matter physics, chemistry and materials science
calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
how do science
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
stringology
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
2023-08-01 — 2024-10-29

Nearly-low-rank Hermitian matrices

a.k.a. perturbations of the identity, low-rank-plus-diagonal matrices
feature construction
functional analysis
high d
linear algebra
networks
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2014-08-05 — 2024-10-28

Ablation studies, knockout studies, lesion studies

In order to understand it we must be able to break it
algebra
graphical models
hidden variables
hierarchical models
how do science
machine learning
mind
networks
probability
sociology
statistics
2016-10-26 — 2024-10-28

Fan fiction

adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
evolution
game theory
networks
social graph
sociology
writing
2024-10-28 — 2024-10-28

Artificial intimacy

adaptive
bounded compute
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
economics
ethics
evolution
gene
incentive mechanisms
institutions
neuron
utility
wonk
2024-10-28 — 2024-10-28

Trousers

diy
economics
fashion
sustainability
wonk
2020-09-05 — 2024-10-28

Fandoms

adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
evolution
game theory
networks
social graph
sociology
writing
2018-12-18 — 2024-10-27

Australian authoritarianism

Beneath the beach, the barbed wire
confidentiality
straya
wonk
2019-08-20 — 2024-10-26

Reproducing kernels satisfying physical equations

functional analysis
Gaussian
generative
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2023-08-12 — 2024-10-24

Who I donate to

Expensive virtue signalling
democracy
insurgency
money
wonk
2019-08-21 — 2024-10-21

Medicalisation

classification
ethics
health
language
wonk
2020-01-28 — 2024-10-21

Human enthalpy

Nudges, changing things, UX for life
cooperation
culture
economics
evolution
incentive mechanisms
mind
social graph
utility
wonk
2024-10-19 — 2024-10-21

Implicit variational inference

Variational inference without densities
approximation
metrics
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
2024-05-10 — 2024-10-21

The blogosphere

Now with added newsletter-o-sphere
academe
faster pussycat
how do science
plain text
workflow
writing
2014-12-30 — 2024-10-20

Sequential Monte Carlo

Particle filters if the objective is not necessarily a filter. Incorporating Interacting Particle Systems, Sequential Monte Carlo and a profusion of other simultaneous-discovery names
Bayes
Monte Carlo
particle
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sciml
signal processing
state space models
statistics
swarm
time series
2014-07-25 — 2024-10-18

Superintelligence

Incorporating technological singularities, hard AI take-offs, game-over high scores, the technium, deus-ex-machina, deus-ex-nube, AI supremacy, nerd raptures and so forth
adversarial
catastrophe
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
security
technology
2016-12-02 — 2024-10-18

Adaptive design of experiments

I am not going to call it ‘Bayesian optimization’, but that is what everyone else does
functional analysis
how do science
model selection
optimization
surrogate
2017-04-11 — 2024-10-18

Annealing in inference

Tempering, cooling, Platt scaling…
Bayes
density
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
2020-09-30 — 2024-10-17

Krylov subspace iteration

Power method, pagerank, Lanczos decomposition, …
feature construction
functional analysis
high d
linear algebra
networks
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2014-08-05 — 2024-10-16

The occupation kernel method

calculus
dynamical systems
functional analysis
Gaussian
generative
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
kernel tricks
machine learning
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
time series
uncertainty
2024-10-15 — 2024-10-15

Function space versus weight space in NNs

algebra
approximation
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
statistics
2024-10-15 — 2024-10-15

ML benchmarks and their pitfalls

On marginal efficiency gain in paperclip manufacture
economics
game theory
how do science
incentive mechanisms
institutions
machine learning
neural nets
statistics
2020-08-16 — 2024-10-15

Models for count data

branching
count data
regression
statistics
2015-05-15 — 2024-10-15

Cascade models

a.k.a. cluster distributions, Galton-Watson models
branching
count data
probability
time series
2019-10-11 — 2024-10-15

Kolmogorov-Arnold neural networks

Don’t learn weights, learn activations encode a physical process.
calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
Lévy processes
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
2024-10-14 — 2024-10-15

High dimensional statistics

functional analysis
high d
linear algebra
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
2015-03-12 — 2024-10-14

Gradient flows, sometimes stochastic

Infinitesimal optimization, SDEs and generalisation
Bayes
estimator distribution
functional analysis
Markov processes
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
SDEs
stochastic processes
2020-01-30 — 2024-10-10

Divisible, decomposable and stable distributions

Ways of slicing randomness into easy chunks
dynamical systems
linear algebra
Lévy processes
probability
SDEs
stochastic processes
time series
2017-06-15 — 2024-10-09

Rationalists in Australia and surrounding regions

catastrophe
culture
ethics
history
language
mind
wonk
2023-10-30 — 2024-10-09

Bikes

Especially bikes where I live, which means Melbourne at the moment
diy
hardware
travel
2014-11-11 — 2024-10-09

Adaptive stochastic gradient descent

I need to mention Adam and RMSProp etc somewhere
functional analysis
neural nets
optimization
SDEs
stochastic processes
2020-01-30 — 2024-10-08

Moloch, slack and hyperselection

Weak selection versus goodharting, 内卷, involution
cooperation
economics
ethics
utility
wonk
2021-12-25 — 2024-10-07

Model interpretation and explanation

Colorising black boxes; mechanistic interpretability
adversarial
game theory
hierarchical models
machine learning
sparser than thou
2016-09-01 — 2024-10-07

Symbolic regression

compsci
dynamical systems
machine learning
neural nets
optimization
physics
probabilistic algorithms
sciml
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
stringology
2023-03-14 — 2024-10-07

Free content

Open source and public domain cultural resources
content
making things
photon choreography
2014-08-31 — 2024-10-07

DIY VPN access point

computers are awful together
confidentiality
cryptography
diy
2020-08-16 — 2024-10-07

Dilemmas of collective action

coordination games
bounded compute
distributed
economics
game theory
networks
squad
wonk
2014-11-25 — 2024-10-07

Voting systems

Mathematics and economics of aggregate group preferences; the will of the people (whatever that might be); social choice theory
cooperation
economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
ordinal
wonk
2014-09-22 — 2024-10-07

Economic mechanism design

Designing markets and games to achieve what we collectively want from what we individually want
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
2014-09-22 — 2024-10-07

Ecological stability

The explosive growth and collapse of May’s paradox
branching
catastrophe
networks
probability
SDEs
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
virality
2012-08-30 — 2024-10-06

Misinformation, disinformation etc

Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape
adversarial
catastrophe
computers are awful together
confidentiality
democracy
economics
evolution
game theory
incentive mechanisms
insurgency
networks
P2P
social graph
virality
wonk
2019-10-21 — 2024-10-06

Free books

Ideas in the age of mass reproduction
content
making things
photon choreography
2014-08-31 — 2024-10-06

Australian governance

#auspol
confidentiality
straya
wonk
2024-04-08 — 2024-10-04

Internet in Australia?

computers are awful together
data sets
straya
2021-08-10 — 2024-10-04

Decision theory

algebra
Bayes
decision theory
functional analysis
Hilbert space
how do science
linear algebra
machine learning
model selection
nonparametric
statistics
uncertainty
2014-08-23 — 2024-10-04

Epistemic bottlenecks

adaptive
agents
bounded compute
classification
collective knowledge
communicating
distributed
economics
evolution
how do science
incentive mechanisms
information
institutions
language
learning
mind
networks
social graph
sociology
standards
stringology
virality
2021-08-24 — 2024-10-04

Public goods

Rival and excludable goods, you need to know what these are
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
networks
2010-09-22 — 2024-10-04

Generative art with language+diffusion models

buzzword
computers are awful
generative art
machine learning
making things
music
neural nets
photon choreography
2022-09-16 — 2024-10-02

VS Code for Python

An acceptable python IDE for very low cost
computers are awful
faster pussycat
plain text
python
UI
workflow
2021-08-10 — 2024-10-02

Reproducible research

Open notebooks etc
academe
collective knowledge
how do science
information provenance
workflow
2016-06-07 — 2024-10-01

(Geo)spatial data sets

In which I complain about paying a nominal fee for giant rocket robots that scan the earth from space
computers are awful
data sets
spatial
statistics
2021-03-02 — 2024-10-01

Let’s solve social event organising

confidentiality
cooperation
culture
diy
social graph
standards
2024-10-01 — 2024-10-01

Community

Engineering, maintaining, organizing, engineering oxytocin and dopamine…
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
institutions
insurgency
religion
rhetoric
social graph
wonk
2020-02-02 — 2024-10-01

Free will

Let’s conflate stochastic dynamics with stochastic control
boring
how do science
mind
snarks
2012-03-16 — 2024-09-29

Python cluster computing

Parallel computing, wherein a head process spawns workers executing some python function
computers are awful
concurrency hell
distributed
number crunching
premature optimization
workflow
2016-08-23 — 2024-09-28

VS Code as LaTeX editor

computers are awful
faster pussycat
LaTeX
plain text
typography
UI
workflow
2019-11-11 — 2024-09-27

Gibbs posteriors

Bayes-like inference without probability models
Bayes
estimator distribution
functional analysis
Markov processes
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
SDEs
stochastic processes
2024-09-26 — 2024-09-26

Code generation, programming assistants

faster pussycat
language
machine learning
making things
neural nets
NLP
real time
signal processing
stringology
time series
UI
2021-10-14 — 2024-09-25

Project management

With special attention to speculative and innovative projects
communicating
distributed
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
incentive mechanisms
innovation
institutions
mind
networks
2021-03-23 — 2024-09-25

ssh

a.k.a. “Secure shell”, which is not actually a shell but an encrypted network protocol that people like to shell with
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
encryption
plain text
POSIX
2014-12-28 — 2024-09-24

Spherical coordinates

algebra
functional analysis
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
spheres
2021-01-29 — 2024-09-23

Predictive coding

Should a model that our brains do Bayesian variational prediction update any priors about our brains?
energy
learning
mind
neuron
probability
statistics
statmech
2011-11-27 — 2024-09-23

VS Code online and networked

computers are awful together
faster pussycat
plain text
UI
workflow
2018-01-25 — 2024-09-23

Artificial life

adaptive
agents
evolution
gene
grammar
incentive mechanisms
learning
life
neuron
probabilistic algorithms
stringology
swarm
time series
2011-12-13 — 2024-09-22

Symbolic system identification

compsci
dynamical systems
machine learning
neural nets
optimization
physics
probabilistic algorithms
sciml
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
stringology
2023-03-14 — 2024-09-22

Rhetoric

Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive
adversarial
bounded compute
communicating
cooperation
culture
mind
wonk
2017-06-07 — 2024-09-18

Modern conspiracy theorising

Someone paid me to write this
confidentiality
democracy
economics
evolution
game theory
insurgency
networks
P2P
wonk
2020-08-16 — 2024-09-17

Rituals and beliefs that bind

agents
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
democracy
distributed
economics
extended self
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
mind
networks
policy
religion
rhetoric
social graph
sociology
squad
wonk
2021-05-01 — 2024-09-17

Audio synthesis in Python

Sometimes it is the right time to use the wrong tool for the job
computers are awful
generative art
music
UI
2018-03-25 — 2024-09-16

The softmax function

classification
metrics
probability
regression
statistics
2024-09-13 — 2024-09-16

Health and chemistry

Pollution, ambient poisons and other things it turns out I cannot rely upon the state to protect me from
fit
health
mind
2021-04-14 — 2024-09-15

Classification

Computer says no
classification
metrics
statistics
2017-02-20 — 2024-09-13

Melbourne/Naarm

Australia’s culture sweatshop
diy
place
policy
straya
wonk
2021-10-18 — 2024-09-11

Pytorch

The best-supported neural network framework
computers are awful
neural nets
optimization
premature optimization
python
statistics
2018-05-04 — 2024-09-10

Mathematica

algebra
compsci
computers are awful
stringology
2011-04-06 — 2024-09-09

Digital scientific workbooks

Literate coding for reality
academe
computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
information provenance
plain text
premature optimization
UI
workflow
2014-11-18 — 2024-09-09

Coarse graining

Also, fluctuation theorems
algebra
Bayes
machine learning
networks
physics
sciml
snarks
statmech
surrogate
2014-11-12 — 2024-09-09

Probabilistic numerics

Bayes
calculus
compsci
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
machine learning
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
2023-07-13 — 2024-09-09

Calendars and contacts GUIs for Linux

computers are awful
computers are awful together
diy
faster pussycat
office
POSIX
standards
UI
2015-06-25 — 2024-09-05

Implementing neural nets

computers are awful
machine learning
neural nets
optimization
2016-10-14 — 2024-09-05

Langevin dynamcs MCMC

Bayes
estimator distribution
functional analysis
Markov processes
Monte Carlo
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
quantum
SDEs
stochastic processes
2020-08-17 — 2024-09-05

pandoc

An itemised list of the esoteric difficulties involved in bullet points
academe
computers are awful
faster pussycat
lua
plain text
UI
workflow
2019-07-17 — 2024-09-05

Meditation and enlightenment

Fundamental well-being, nondual medidation, non-symbolic experience, samadhi, socially-approved zoning out, YOL∞
faster pussycat
health
learning
mind
utility
2016-01-05 — 2024-09-05

Functional reactive programming

Especially for user interfaces
computers are awful
concurrency hell
premature optimization
signal processing
stringology
UI
2016-10-31 — 2024-09-05

Editing images with machine learning

computers are awful
generative art
making things
photon choreography
2018-10-16 — 2024-09-02

Python CLIs

Putting the “argument” in “command-line argument”
computers are awful
python
2021-07-02 — 2024-09-02

Righting and wronging

Harnessing righteousness for rightness
bandit problems
boring
bounded compute
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
mind
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
wonk
2020-02-01 — 2024-08-31

Neural vector embeddings

Hyperdimensional Computing, Vector Symbolic Architectures, Holographic Reduced Representations
approximation
feature construction
geometry
high d
language
linear algebra
machine learning
metrics
neural nets
NLP
2017-12-20 — 2024-08-29

Model explanation with sparse autoencoders

Monosemanticity, sparsity and foundation models
adversarial
classification
communicating
feature construction
game theory
high d
language
machine learning
metrics
mind
NLP
sparser than thou
2024-08-29 — 2024-08-29

Bayesian and causal inference by foundation models

approximation
Bayes
generative
language
machine learning
meta learning
Monte Carlo
neural nets
NLP
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
stringology
time series
2024-08-29 — 2024-08-29

Model mixing, model averaging for regression

Switching regression, mixture of experts
Bayes
classification
clustering
compsci
convolution
density
information
linear algebra
nonparametric
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
2016-03-29 — 2024-08-27

Home automation

computers are awful together
confidentiality
cryptography
faster pussycat
diy
2024-12-16 — 2024-08-24

Home networks for lazy dummies

computers are awful together
confidentiality
cryptography
diy
2020-08-16 — 2024-08-24

Sampling by the method of the ratio of uniforms

Bayes
estimator distribution
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
2024-08-23 — 2024-08-23

Probabilistic programming

Doing statistics using the tools of computer science
Bayes
generative
how do science
Monte Carlo
statistics
2019-10-02 — 2024-08-21

Perception and evolution

How much of reality is it worth it for us to see? Umwelt, etc. Biological phenomenology.
adaptive
classification
collective knowledge
communicating
cooperation
culture
economics
energy
evolution
extended self
feature construction
gene
incentive mechanisms
language
learning
machine learning
metrics
mind
NLP
probability
statistics
statmech
utility
2024-08-19 — 2024-08-19

Attention management tips for web browsing

bounded compute
computers are awful
computers are awful together
faster pussycat
incentive mechanisms
mind
standards
UI
2017-04-20 — 2024-08-17

Privacy while web browsing

Browsing the internet without giving corporations my personal information for free
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
2018-12-12 — 2024-08-17

Simulating climate

calculus
climate
dynamical systems
geometry
how do science
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
wonk
2020-04-02 — 2024-08-13

Atmospheric modeling

calculus
climate
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
wonk
2024-08-13 — 2024-08-13

Vector databases

approximation
feature construction
geometry
high d
language
linear algebra
machine learning
metrics
neural nets
NLP
2024-08-13 — 2024-08-13

Oceanography

Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2024-08-13 — 2024-08-13

Reconciliation of overlapping Gaussian processes

Combining Gaussian processes on the same domain; consistency; coherence; generalized phase retrieval
functional analysis
Gaussian
generative
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
nonparametric
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2024-08-12 — 2024-08-12

Weighted data, weighted likelihoods in statistics

estimator distribution
functional analysis
linear algebra
model selection
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
uncertainty
2020-11-04 — 2024-08-07

Gamma distributions

Lévy processes
probability
stochastic processes
time series
2019-10-14 — 2024-07-29

Monte Carlo gradient estimation

Bayes
calculus
density
estimator distribution
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
score function
tail risk
uncertainty
2020-09-30 — 2024-07-26

Conjugate priors

functional analysis
probability
statistics
2024-06-26 — 2024-07-23

Indyweb, small web, cozy web

communicating
computers are awful together
diy
doing internet
2020-03-05 — 2024-07-22

LaTeX mathematics hacks

computers are awful
faster pussycat
LaTeX
plain text
typography
UI
workflow
2014-09-08 — 2024-07-18

Temporal generative adversarial networks

adversarial
AI
Bregman
game theory
generative
learning
likelihood free
Monte Carlo
optimization
probability
2024-07-11 — 2024-07-11

Functional stochastic differential equations

SDEs taking values in some function space
Banach space
dynamical systems
Hilbert space
Lévy processes
probability
SDEs
signal processing
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2024-07-10 — 2024-07-10

Soft incentive mechanism design

Markets, cakes, karma, and reverse game theory, applied to humans
bounded compute
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
networks
2014-09-22 — 2024-07-09

Inverse Gaussian distribution

Lévy processes
probability
stochastic processes
time series
2024-07-08 — 2024-07-09

Historical English

history
language
2014-09-23 — 2024-07-09

Academic reading workflow

The continuing ascendancy of using piles of dead tree products for understanding cutting edge digital informatics
academe
computers are awful
faster pussycat
information provenance
learning
UI
workflow
2016-04-11 — 2024-07-08

Curved exponential families

geometry
probability
statistics
2016-04-19 — 2024-07-08

Music gear

Pragmatic digital amps and microphones
diy
hardware
making things
music
2014-08-26 — 2024-07-08

History of medicine

Quacks, Mountebanks, Big Pharma
academe
agents
collective knowledge
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
health
how do science
incentive mechanisms
information provenance
institutions
mind
networks
sociology
wonk
2024-07-06 — 2024-07-06

Timeless works of art

Aesthetics as a conditional average treatment effect
adaptive
collective knowledge
diy
making things
sociology
2015-01-13 — 2024-07-02

DIY home repair stuff

Minimum viable handydan
cooperation
culture
diy
economics
housing
making things
straya
2021-09-25 — 2024-07-02

Video editing

computers are awful
making things
music
photon choreography
standards
2020-04-23 — 2024-07-02

Exponential families

functional analysis
probability
statistics
2016-04-19 — 2024-07-01

R

The statistical programming language, not the letter
computers are awful
number crunching
R
statistics
2011-08-07 — 2024-07-01

Bayesian model selection

Bayes
machine learning
model selection
neural nets
nonparametric
sparser than thou
statistics
uncertainty
2024-06-25 — 2024-06-25

Bandit problems

Also stochastic control
bandit problems
control
decision theory
signal processing
stochastic processes
stringology
2014-11-27 — 2024-06-19

Non-stationary bandit problems

Restless bandits
bandit problems
control
decision theory
signal processing
stochastic processes
stringology
2024-05-27 — 2024-06-19

Bitter lessons in compute and cleverness

Amortizing the cost of being smart
bounded compute
functional analysis
machine learning
model selection
optimization
statmech
2021-01-14 — 2024-06-19

How to reduce corporate spying

on me, hopefully
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
security
wonk
2018-12-12 — 2024-06-19

Transformer networks for generic time series prediction

language
machine learning
meta learning
neural nets
NLP
stringology
time series
2024-06-17 — 2024-06-17

Kernel distribution embedding

Conditional mean embeddings etc
approximation
functional analysis
Hilbert space
measure
metrics
nonparametric
optimization
probability
statistics
2016-08-21 — 2024-06-17

Democratization of generative AI

agents
bounded compute
collective knowledge
concurrency hell
distributed
economics
edge computing
extended self
faster pussycat
incentive mechanisms
innovation
language
machine learning
neural nets
NLP
swarm
technology
UI
2024-06-15 — 2024-06-15

Transformer networks

The transformer-powered subtitle for this article is “Our most terrifyingly effective weapon against the forces of evil is our ability to laugh at them.”
language
machine learning
meta learning
neural nets
NLP
stringology
time series
2017-12-20 — 2024-06-15

Niche construction

cooperation
economics
evolution
game theory
incentive mechanisms
2011-07-26 — 2024-06-14

Tip me

computers are awful
cryptography
money
2016-09-06 — 2024-06-13

Normalising flows

Invertible density models, sounding clever by using the word diffeomorphism like a real mathematician
approximation
Bayes
density
likelihood free
Monte Carlo
nonparametric
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
2018-04-04 — 2024-06-13

Neural mixtures of experts

Switching regression, mixture of experts
Bayes
classification
clustering
compsci
density
information
linear algebra
model selection
nonparametric
optimization
particle
probability
regression
sparser than thou
statistics
2016-03-29 — 2024-06-11

Navigating large organisations

Applied bureaucracy
communicating
distributed
economics
extended self
faster pussycat
game theory
institutions
learning
mind
networks
squad
2020-01-26 — 2024-06-07

Community governance

Coordinating human beings by collective application of social force
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
institutions
insurgency
wonk
2020-02-02 — 2024-06-07

The Gaussian distribution

The default probability distribution
algebra
Gaussian
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
probability
signal processing
spheres
statistics
2016-06-27 — 2024-06-06

Uncertainty quantification

Bayes
statistics
stochastic processes
surrogate
uncertainty
2016-12-26 — 2024-06-06

Indonesia

nusantara
place
2016-03-01 — 2024-06-05

Continual learning

Also catastrophic forgetting, catatrophic interference, lifelong learning
algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2024-06-05 — 2024-06-05

Teamwork

communicating
distributed
economics
extended self
faster pussycat
game theory
institutions
learning
mind
networks
squad
2020-01-26 — 2024-06-05

Trading securities, hedging and portfolio design, practical

Shares, cryptocurrency, options and derivatives for babies
diy
finance
money
probability
2017-05-09 — 2024-06-04

Learning with PDE conservation laws

calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
Lévy processes
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
2019-10-15 — 2024-06-03

Genre speciation

classification
music
semantics
2016-08-23 — 2024-06-03

Noise outsourcing

approximation
Bayes
density
likelihood free
Monte Carlo
nonparametric
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sciml
statistics
2024-06-03 — 2024-06-03

Deep sets

Invariant and equivariant functions, learning to aggregate
feature construction
functional analysis
linear algebra
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probability
sciml
sparser than thou
statistics
topology
2022-11-24 — 2024-06-03

Graphical model / machine learning decoder ring

algebra
graphical models
hidden variables
hierarchical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probability
statistics
2024-01-18 — 2024-06-03

Inference from disorder

compsci
dynamical systems
networks
physics
probability
pseudorandomness
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
2016-10-19 — 2024-06-02

Judaism, Jews in history, art and culture

culture
history
religion
2024-05-31 — 2024-05-31

Fediverse

Mastodon et al
computers are awful together
confidentiality
distributed
diy
economics
P2P
2019-08-12 — 2024-05-30

(Kernelized) Stein variational gradient descent

KSD, SVGD, other computational Stein discrepancy methods
approximation
Bayes
functional analysis
Markov processes
measure
metrics
Monte Carlo
optimization
particle
probabilistic algorithms
probability
score function
statistics
2022-11-02 — 2024-05-30

Functional programming

compsci
computers are awful
concurrency hell
grammar
stringology
2016-01-05 — 2024-05-30

Messenger shooting

Distinguishing bad things from bad news
adaptive
bounded compute
collective knowledge
culture
economics
ethics
evolution
extended self
incentive mechanisms
institutions
learning
mind
neuron
statistics
utility
wonk
2024-05-30 — 2024-05-30

Death

Logistics of
culture
diy
economics
ethics
gender
institutions
life
mind
networks
sex
sociology
wonk
2020-06-07 — 2024-05-30

Nested sampling

Bayes
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
swarm
time series
2022-05-16 — 2024-05-29

Doubly robust learning for causal inference

TMLE, debiassed ML, X-learners, Neyman learning, Targeted learning
algebra
graphical models
hidden variables
hierarchical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probability
statistics
2020-09-18 — 2024-05-27

Agtech/Agritech

Dotcomese for “agricultural technology”
computers are awful together
confidentiality
ecology
food
money
technology
2020-10-05 — 2024-05-27

Basa Sunda

The Sundanese Language
language
nusantara
South East Asia
Sunda
2015-11-11 — 2024-05-27

Bayesian model selection by model evidence maximisation

Type II maximum likelihood, marginal maximum likelihood, Bayes Occam’s razor, Bayes factor
Bayes
information
model selection
statistics
2017-08-20 — 2024-05-27

Jensen Gap

approximation
functional analysis
measure
metrics
probability
stochastic processes
2024-05-22 — 2024-05-22

Entropy vs information

MaxEnt(?), macrostates, subjective updating, epistemic randomness, Szilard engines, Gibbs paradox…
Bayes
dynamical systems
machine learning
neural nets
physics
pseudorandomness
sciml
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
2010-12-02 — 2024-05-22

Configuring machine learning experiments

computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
information provenance
premature optimization
2021-10-20 — 2024-05-22

Big data ML best practice

Being transparent about what I put in this black box
computers are awful
machine learning
neural nets
2020-09-16 — 2024-05-22

Transforms of Gaussian noise

Delta method, error propagation, unscented transform, Taylor expansion…
approximation
Bayes
dynamical systems
Gaussian
Hilbert space
linear algebra
Lévy processes
Markov processes
networks
optimization
probability
SDEs
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2014-11-25 — 2024-05-22

Expectation maximisation

algebra
graphical models
hidden variables
hierarchical models
networks
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
2014-08-17 — 2024-05-21

Pornography and other lewd art

Morsels of oddity from the depiction of human sexual behaviour
gender
photon choreography
sex
wonk
2020-04-22 — 2024-05-21

Quasi-gradients of discrete parameters

calculus
classification
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
score function
statistics
2022-12-20 — 2024-05-17

Reproducibility in Machine Learning research

economics
game theory
how do science
incentive mechanisms
institutions
machine learning
neural nets
statistics
2024-05-06 — 2024-05-06

Squeaky wheel equilibria

Mismatches between vocal-ness and collective desire, NIMBYism, intolerance
collective knowledge
communicating
cooperation
culture
distributed
economics
insurgency
mind
networks
wonk
2024-05-05 — 2024-05-05

Editors for LaTeX

compsci
computers are awful
faster pussycat
LaTeX
typography
UI
2019-11-20 — 2024-05-05

Pyro

Approximate maximum in the density of probabilistic programming effort
Bayes
generative
how do science
Monte Carlo
sciml
statistics
2019-10-02 — 2024-05-03

Collectivism and individualism

communicating
cooperation
culture
economics
making things
mind
squad
wonk
2024-05-03 — 2024-05-03

Online shopping

diy
economics
hardware
making things
2014-08-26 — 2024-05-02

Goodhart’s Law

economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
machine learning
optimization
statistics
utility
2019-12-22 — 2024-04-30

Rough path theory and signature methods

control
dynamical systems
SDEs
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2021-04-02 — 2024-04-30

Physically-grounded computing

compsci
life
machine learning
physics
statmech
2015-02-21 — 2024-04-30

Feed readers

Automated content aggregation for an internet designed to inform you rather than distract you
academe
computers are awful together
doing internet
faster pussycat
information provenance
learning
UI
workflow
2016-06-29 — 2024-04-27

Internet search engines

Tips, tricks, confidentiality
computers are awful together
faster pussycat
information provenance
NLP
search
2021-08-02 — 2024-04-26

Neural denoising diffusion models

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs), score-based generative models, generative diffusion processes, neural energy models…
approximation
Bayes
generative
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
score function
2021-11-11 — 2024-04-22

Git tricks

computers are awful
information provenance
workflow
2015-06-26 — 2024-04-19

Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder

gene
health
learning
mind
neuron
utility
2022-09-25 — 2024-04-18

Editing images using a GUI

Chinks in my armour of learned Photoshop helplessness
computers are awful
generative art
making things
photon choreography
2018-10-16 — 2024-04-17

The property market is pollution

Or: hunting endangered big game in dwindling habitat. Or: Investing in Boomer Bitcoin
cooperation
culture
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
making things
policy
spatial
straya
wonk
2021-05-26 — 2024-04-16

Algorithmic statistics

Probably also algorithmic information theory
compsci
information
pseudorandomness
statistics
statmech
stringology
2014-07-25 — 2024-04-15

Guesstimation

Fermi calculations, calculation hacks, principled estimates, informed guesses
computers are awful
faster pussycat
Monte Carlo
number crunching
office
UI
2024-04-09 — 2024-04-15

Git GUIs

computers are awful
information provenance
UI
workflow
2019-02-08 — 2024-04-12

Syncthing

A good, easy, peer-to-peer, free Dropbox-replacement system for the modern paranoid age
computers are awful
computers are awful together
concurrency hell
distributed
diy
P2P
2019-01-03 — 2024-04-11

Optimisation

functional analysis
optimization
statmech
2014-10-04 — 2024-04-11

An orderly retreat from relevance

Red-teaming short-term human purpose
agents
bounded compute
collective knowledge
distributed
economics
edge computing
extended self
faster pussycat
incentive mechanisms
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
technology
unsupervised
2024-03-03 — 2024-04-10

Resilience (Psychological)

adaptive
evolution
health
learning
mind
networks
utility
2024-04-08 — 2024-04-08

Scientific institutions and mechanisms

Descriptive and normative
adaptive
bounded compute
collective knowledge
distributed
economics
how do science
incentive mechanisms
institutions
learning
mind
networks
sociology
standards
swarm
2021-08-24 — 2024-04-08

Neural likelihood inference

Emulating likelihoods with neural networks
approximation
Bayes
feature construction
likelihood free
machine learning
measure
metrics
probability
sciml
statistics
time series
2024-04-08 — 2024-04-08

Ethical consumption

Veganisms, boycotts and other individual solutions to structural problems
economics
ethics
networks
wonk
2020-02-06 — 2024-04-07

Air pollution

For a new century in which inhaling gets only more dangerous
fashion
fit
health
2019-01-18 — 2024-04-06

South-east Asia

place
2024-04-06 — 2024-04-06

Decentralized net services

a.k.a. web3, DEX, P2P, Peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend; Internet for an untrustworthy world
computers are awful together
concurrency hell
confidentiality
distributed
diy
game theory
P2P
2017-09-18 — 2024-04-04

Bayesian posterior inference via optimization

Conditioning by gradient
Bayes
estimator distribution
functional analysis
Markov processes
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
SDEs
stochastic processes
2020-08-17 — 2024-04-04

Sufficiently good hedonism

Trade-offs between limited time, limited cash and limited imagination, toward the most happiness
bounded compute
economics
making things
money
utility
2020-06-23 — 2024-04-04

Urbanism

Stuff about cities
buzzword
cooperation
culture
design
diy
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
making things
policy
spatial
straya
the rather superior sort of city
wonk
2014-12-26 — 2024-04-04

Approximate conditioning

algebra
approximation
functional analysis
graphical models
measure
metrics
networks
optimization
probability
statistics
2024-04-03 — 2024-04-03

Squared neural families

functional analysis
probability
statistics
2024-04-03 — 2024-04-03

Contemporary epidemiology of mental health

Healthy norms, trauma, contagion, psychiatrisation, prevalence inflation hypothesis
catastrophe
culture
economics
ethics
health
incentive mechanisms
mind
networks
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
virality
wonk
2024-04-03 — 2024-04-03

Score matching

approximation
Bayes
Bregman
generative
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
score function
statistics
2021-11-11 — 2024-04-02

Designing less toxic social media

confidentiality
democracy
distributed
diy
economics
evolution
game theory
insurgency
networks
P2P
wonk
2020-07-12 — 2024-03-28

Bayes linear methods

Some kind of approximate Bayes thing
Bayes
Gaussian
generative
Hilbert space
how do science
linear algebra
measure
Monte Carlo
statistics
2022-08-17 — 2024-03-28

Presentation tools

Slide decks, “powerpoints”, beamer lore
academe
communicating
computers are awful
faster pussycat
office
photon choreography
standards
2015-06-01 — 2024-03-27

Jupyter front end systems

UX design by underfunded committee is how I like my data science experience
faster pussycat
premature optimization
python
2017-02-09 — 2024-03-27

Hardware for neural networks

Neuromorphic computing, non-von-Neumann architectures, and other ways to compute for AI
compsci
computers are awful
concurrency hell
grammar
number crunching
stringology
2023-11-16 — 2024-03-25

Variational message-passing algorithms in graphical models

Cleaving reality at the joint, then summing it at the marginal. Generalized Approximate Message Passing.
algebra
approximation
Bayes
distributed
dynamical systems
generative
graphical models
machine learning
networks
optimization
particle
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
swarm
time series
2014-11-25 — 2024-03-25

Designing social movements

Synthetic biology for utopian egregores
agents
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
democracy
distributed
economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
mind
networks
policy
rhetoric
social graph
sociology
swarm
wonk
2021-05-01 — 2024-03-24

Unconferences

Hackfests, Open Space Technology, BarCamps, and other self-organising events for science purposes
academe
collective knowledge
how do science
information provenance
workflow
2024-03-11 — 2024-03-22

Morality and computational constraints

It is as if we knew what we were doing
economics
mind
sociology
2023-10-02 — 2024-03-20

Python debugging, profiling and testing

It only looks simple when it’s finished
computers are awful
premature optimization
python
2019-04-28 — 2024-03-20

Microstressors

Asymmetric interactions in aggregate, microinequity, microaggressions
boring
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
language
mind
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
wonk
2020-02-01 — 2024-03-17

Learning curves

Minimum viable whatever, experience curve, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering
culture
economics
faster pussycat
institutions
mind
networks
standards
technology
2020-02-03 — 2024-03-14

Matrix algebra

Maybe also some operator algebra
algebra
calculus
functional analysis
linear algebra
optimization
2018-07-09 — 2024-03-11

Cognitive Enhancement

The struggle to find a drug that makes you so fast that you save more time by taking it than you lost by researching it
drugs
faster pussycat
health
2017-08-07 — 2024-03-11

Causal inference in highly parameterized ML

algebra
graphical models
hidden variables
hierarchical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probability
statistics
2020-09-18 — 2024-03-07

Stein’s method

His eyes are like angels but his heart is cold / No need to ask / He’s a Stein operator
approximation
functional analysis
measure
metrics
model selection
optimization
probability
spheres
statistics
2021-03-12 — 2024-03-07

Recurrent / convolutional / state-space

Translating between means of approximating time series dynamics
Bayes
convolution
dynamical systems
functional analysis
linear algebra
machine learning
making things
music
networks
neural nets
nonparametric
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
state space models
statistics
time series
2016-04-05 — 2024-03-05

Dynamic causality

algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probability
statistics
2024-03-05 — 2024-03-05

Cryptographic tokens, distributed ledgers, and blockchain-like-things

When all you have is a hasher…
computers are awful
confidentiality
distributed
game theory
incentive mechanisms
money
2016-10-15 — 2024-03-05

Which are your 100 bytes?

Collective knowledge as training data
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
technology
UI
2024-03-03 — 2024-03-03

Simulation-based inference

If I knew the right inputs to the simulator, could I get behaviour which matched my observations?
approximation
Bayes
feature construction
likelihood free
machine learning
measure
metrics
probability
sciml
statistics
time series
2014-12-23 — 2024-03-03

Comment systems for static websites

Minimum viable interaction for the web
computers are awful together
diy
doing internet
faster pussycat
plain text
UI
workflow
2019-12-30 — 2024-03-03

Let’s try substack

academe
faster pussycat
how do science
plain text
workflow
writing
2024-03-03 — 2024-03-03

China

china
place
2021-09-16 — 2024-03-03

Email blogs and newsletters

academe
faster pussycat
how do science
plain text
workflow
writing
2014-12-30 — 2024-03-03

Dan’s projects

2009-03-05 — 2024-03-03

Maximum Mean Discrepancy, Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion

approximation
functional analysis
Hilbert space
measure
metrics
nonparametric
optimization
probability
statistics
2016-08-21 — 2024-03-01

Maximum Mean Discrepancy flows

approximation
functional analysis
Hilbert space
measure
metrics
nonparametric
optimization
probability
statistics
2016-08-21 — 2024-03-01

Scalable vector graphics

“SVG” to its friends
computers are awful
faster pussycat
photon choreography
2019-12-23 — 2024-03-01

Procedurally generated diagrams

Of the kind I need, a practical guide to the creation thereof
communicating
computers are awful
dataviz
faster pussycat
photon choreography
plain text
typography
UI
workflow
2015-03-02 — 2024-02-29

Money

diy
economics
money
utility
2019-03-14 — 2024-02-28

Nostr

Social media for the stroppy
computers are awful together
confidentiality
distributed
diy
economics
P2P
2023-08-08 — 2024-02-28

Factor graphs

algebra
graphical models
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2019-12-16 — 2024-02-27

Institutional alignment problems

Mechanism design for distributed moral wetware
cooperation
culture
economics
extended self
faster pussycat
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
networks
swarm
wonk
2024-02-27 — 2024-02-27

Morphogenesis

agents
compsci
distributed
extended self
game theory
generative art
hidden variables
incentive mechanisms
life
photon choreography
self similar
spatial
statmech
swarm
2011-01-19 — 2024-02-27

Cooperation in evolutionary context

‘Cui bono’ for selfishness
adaptive
cooperation
culture
economics
evolution
gene
incentive mechanisms
wonk
2020-04-27 — 2024-02-25

Conflict theorist models of coordination

Never ascribe to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice, if you want click-throughs
adaptive
bounded compute
cooperation
culture
economics
evolution
game theory
incentive mechanisms
networks
wonk
2022-07-20 — 2024-02-25

Dunning-Kruger theory of mind

On anthropomorphising humans
bounded compute
cooperation
culture
how do science
incentive mechanisms
learning
mind
snarks
wonk
2020-06-18 — 2024-02-24

Intimate question systems

Conversation starters, truth-or-dare
adaptive
bounded compute
cooperation
culture
ethics
evolution
extended self
gene
institutions
learning
mind
wonk
2022-01-24 — 2024-02-24

Microjoys

Gratitude lists, morale boosts
bounded compute
economics
faster pussycat
incentive mechanisms
mind
utility
2024-02-24 — 2024-02-24

Battlers

Those who get the rough end of the pineapple, nanny states, paternalism, luxury beliefs, class wars
cooperation
culture
economics
ethics
evolution
incentive mechanisms
mind
social graph
utility
wonk
2024-02-05 — 2024-02-24

Won’t somebody think of the children?

The bottom rung of the status ladder
cooperation
culture
economics
ethics
evolution
incentive mechanisms
mind
social graph
utility
wonk
2024-02-05 — 2024-02-24

Terminal session management and multiplexing

computers are awful
faster pussycat
plain text
POSIX
2020-06-11 — 2024-02-22

Social organisation of knowledge

Descriptive and normative
adaptive
agents
bounded compute
collective knowledge
distributed
economics
game theory
how do science
incentive mechanisms
institutions
learning
mind
networks
sociology
squad
standards
swarm
2021-08-24 — 2024-02-10

Drugs, prescribed

chemistry
drugs
health
mind
neuron
2017-08-07 — 2024-02-09

The money laundry

Paypal for the 1%
computers are awful together
confidentiality
cooperation
cryptography
economics
hand wringing
money
wonk
2020-05-13 — 2024-02-07

Typst

academe
faster pussycat
how do science
plain text
workflow
2024-02-07 — 2024-02-07

Status

The original karma system
cooperation
culture
economics
evolution
incentive mechanisms
mind
social graph
utility
wonk
2019-10-25 — 2024-02-05

Tensorboard

computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
information provenance
premature optimization
2020-10-23 — 2024-02-02

Tracking experiments in data science

computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
information provenance
premature optimization
2020-10-23 — 2024-02-02

Ethnomusicology

culture
information provenance
making things
music
2015-04-02 — 2024-01-26

Symbols and the public sphere

Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building, symbolic capitalism
cooperation
culture
democracy
distributed
economics
game theory
language
making things
mind
networks
rhetoric
semantics
sociology
virality
wonk
2022-02-20 — 2024-01-26

Linear algebra

If the thing is twice as big, the transformed version of the thing is also twice as big. {End}
algebra
functional analysis
Hilbert space
linear algebra
2011-04-06 — 2024-01-26

The simplest thing

Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering, maintenance externalities, DX vs UX
culture
economics
faster pussycat
institutions
mind
networks
standards
2020-02-03 — 2024-01-23

Mass power generation, engineering and use

On the magical, terrible requisites of keeping the lights on
ecology
economics
physics
snarks
spatial
statmech
technology
2021-05-04 — 2024-01-23

DIY social networks and groupware

V. cypherpunk! much 733+!
computers are awful together
confidentiality
distributed
diy
economics
P2P
2019-08-12 — 2024-01-23

Hyperparameter optimization

Replacing a hyperparameter problem with a hyperhyperparameter problem, which feels like progress
functional analysis
how do science
model selection
optimization
2020-09-25 — 2024-01-22

Static websites

Websites that are just files on a server, which is all I need
computers are awful together
diy
doing internet
faster pussycat
plain text
UI
workflow
2014-12-30 — 2024-01-19

Single-site web browsers

Websites as apps
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
UI
2018-12-12 — 2024-01-19

Web browser hacks

Castor oil for your webs—ts
computers are awful
computers are awful together
faster pussycat
standards
UI
2017-04-20 — 2024-01-19

Structural programs are hard, let’s do training programs

“The least you can do” is the minimum unviable product
communicating
cooperation
culture
economics
mind
wonk
2024-01-19 — 2024-01-19

Offline email syncing

with bonus email wrangling
communicating
computers are awful
computers are awful together
concurrency hell
confidentiality
distributed
diy
encryption
faster pussycat
office
P2P
plain text
POSIX
2020-12-30 — 2024-01-18

Python, compilation and acceleration of

compsci
computers are awful
premature optimization
python
2019-10-15 — 2024-01-16

Gradient descent, Newton-like

functional analysis
neural nets
optimization
2019-02-05 — 2024-01-15

Indonesian music

music
nusantara
South East Asia
2016-03-30 — 2024-01-15

Hugo

Lightweight static site utility which is as fast and elegant as it is stubborn
academe
faster pussycat
how do science
plain text
workflow
2020-08-26 — 2024-01-13

Fashion

Theory and practice of hip garments
diy
economics
fashion
making things
sustainability
wonk
2020-07-10 — 2024-01-12

Javascript user interfaces

computers are awful
javascript
UI
2014-11-11 — 2024-01-11

Data cleaning

90% of statistics
information provenance
statistics
2020-01-22 — 2024-01-11

Switching to netlify

communicating
computers are awful together
diy
doing internet
faster pussycat
plain text
UI
workflow
2023-12-24 — 2024-01-09

Worker- and founder-owned ventures

economics
ethics
incentive mechanisms
institutions
markets
money
2015-02-16 — 2024-01-08

Metis and .*-rationality

High modernism, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society, technocracy, local knowledge
classification
collective knowledge
culture
ethics
how do science
mind
wonk
2017-07-24 — 2024-01-05

Iterated and evolutionary game theory

agents
bounded compute
cooperation
economics
evolution
game theory
incentive mechanisms
mind
2016-10-13 — 2024-01-05

Recursive identification

Learning forward dynamics by looking at time series a bit at a time
Bayes
dynamical systems
linear algebra
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
time series
2017-09-15 — 2024-01-03

Economic inequality

Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature
cooperation
economics
hand wringing
wonk
2014-10-29 — 2024-01-02

Travel hacks

esp for technomads
faster pussycat
money
travel
2019-05-18 — 2024-01-02

Internet for the marginally online

computers are awful
computers are awful together
diy
2015-10-20 — 2023-12-29

All we need is hate

ScapeGOAT
cooperation
culture
economics
ethics
evolution
incentive mechanisms
mind
social graph
wonk
2021-12-25 — 2023-12-28

Quantified self

Instrumentation and analytics for body and soul. Punk DIY precision medicine.
causality
drugs
economics
faster pussycat
fit
gene
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
mind
probability
statistics
2022-01-11 — 2023-12-26

Stochastic Taylor expansion

Polynomial approximations of small randomnesses, Itô’s lemma
dynamical systems
Lévy processes
probability
SDEs
signal processing
stochastic processes
time series
2020-10-15 — 2023-12-24

Narrative

culture
making things
mind
rhetoric
sociology
wonk
writing
2019-10-27 — 2023-12-23

Extraversion

Also, extroversion
gene
mind
statistics
2022-01-26 — 2023-12-22

Neural codecs and compression algorithms

Neural bandwidth reduction
compsci
computers are awful
information
metrics
music
photon choreography
standards
2020-04-23 — 2023-12-20

Music software

making things
music
signal processing
2014-11-11 — 2023-12-17

Software audio routers

Patch cables for the cable-averse
making things
music
signal processing
2017-06-03 — 2023-12-15

Audio sample libraries

data sets
diy
music
2015-09-17 — 2023-12-13

Travel checklist

faster pussycat
money
travel
2023-12-12 — 2023-12-12

Hallucinations

health
mind
2017-08-07 — 2023-12-08

Microsoft Windows for the avoidant

computers are awful
MS Windows
2017-02-11 — 2023-12-08

Audio/music corpora

Smells like Team Audioset
content
data sets
machine listening
music
statistics
time series
2014-08-08 — 2023-12-06

Generative music with language+diffusion models

buzzword
computers are awful
generative art
machine learning
making things
music
neural nets
2022-09-16 — 2023-12-06

Science communication of ML research

PR for the robots
academe
communicating
faster pussycat
learning
mind
statistics
2023-12-05 — 2023-12-05

Voice transcriptions and speech recognition

faster pussycat
language
machine learning
NLP
real time
signal processing
stringology
time series
UI
writing
2019-01-08 — 2023-12-05

Effective altruism

First world trolley problems
cooperation
economics
ethics
game theory
hand wringing
2017-06-06 — 2023-12-05

Moral wetware

What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate?
adaptive
bounded compute
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
economics
ethics
evolution
extended self
gene
incentive mechanisms
institutions
neuron
utility
wonk
2020-04-27 — 2023-12-05

Natural language processing software

Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
grammar
language
machine learning
NLP
stringology
2018-01-11 — 2023-12-03

Computational Fluid Dynamics

algebra
functional analysis
linear algebra
PDEs
2021-01-27 — 2023-11-30

System identification in continuous time

Learning in continuous ODEs, SDEs and CDEs
calculus
dynamical systems
Hilbert space
Lévy processes
machine learning
neural nets
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2016-08-01 — 2023-11-30

Python caches

The fastest code is the code you don’t run
computers are awful
python
2018-07-02 — 2023-11-30

Learning graphical models from time series

Also, causal discovery, structure discovery in time series
algebra
graphical models
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2017-09-20 — 2023-11-28

Neural process regression

functional analysis
Gaussian
generative
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
meta learning
nonparametric
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2019-12-03 — 2023-11-28

Data storage formats

computers are awful
data sets
standards
2020-06-17 — 2023-11-27

Learning from ranking, learning to predict ranking

Learning preferences, ordinal regressions etc
kernel tricks
ordinal
regression
tail risk
2020-09-16 — 2023-11-22

Visualizing data

Philosophy and psychology of good plots
communicating
computers are awful
faster pussycat
generative art
making things
photon choreography
2016-07-04 — 2023-11-21

Multi fidelity models

Data-driven multi-scale sampling, multi-resolution, super-resolution
Bayes
machine learning
physics
sciml
statmech
surrogate
2020-08-24 — 2023-11-20

Science communication

On making people feel they are smart enough to teach themselves, or failing that, that they are smart enough to fund YOU to teach yourself
academe
communicating
faster pussycat
learning
mind
statistics
writing
2021-06-02 — 2023-11-20

Automatic differentiation

algebra
calculus
computers are awful
functional analysis
linear algebra
number crunching
optimization
2016-07-27 — 2023-11-15

Calibration of probabilistic forecasts

Proper scoring rules, skill scores etc
model selection
regression
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2015-06-17 — 2023-11-15

Feedback system identification, not necessarily linear

Learning dynamics from data
calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
how do science
Lévy processes
machine learning
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
time series
uncertainty
2016-08-01 — 2023-11-15

Generative industrial design

buzzword
computers are awful
generative art
machine learning
making things
music
neural nets
photon choreography
2022-09-16 — 2023-11-13

Learning new languages

Mostly as an adult
faster pussycat
language
learning
mind
utility
2020-06-16 — 2023-11-11

Comfort traps

On edging life with a little friction
adaptive
incentive mechanisms
learning
mind
utility
2023-09-17 — 2023-11-09

Javascript/browser vector graphics

computers are awful
faster pussycat
photon choreography
2015-11-20 — 2023-11-09

Lotekno

Also, other Sundanese music projects I have been involved in
making things
music
nusantara
South East Asia
Sunda
2015-11-05 — 2023-11-06

Playing video

Pumping bits to eyeballs
compsci
computers are awful
information
making things
metrics
music
photon choreography
standards
2020-04-23 — 2023-11-06

Big history

Cliodynamics, deep history, big-picture history
adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
evolution
game theory
networks
social graph
sociology
2018-12-18 — 2023-11-06

Quantization

Bayes
classification
clustering
compsci
feature construction
information
networks
nonparametric
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
2016-03-29 — 2023-11-02

Sexual ethics and institutions

culture
diy
economics
ethics
gender
institutions
life
mind
networks
sex
sociology
squad
wonk
2020-06-07 — 2023-10-31

Collective care and wellbeing

agents
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
democracy
distributed
economics
extended self
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
mind
networks
social graph
sociology
wonk
2023-10-31 — 2023-10-31

Groundwater hydrology, applied

Rivers, aquifers and other wet things that can flood your house
geometry
machine learning
physics
statmech
straya
2020-09-07 — 2023-10-27

Non-negative matrix factorisation

feature construction
functional analysis
linear algebra
networks
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2019-10-14 — 2023-10-26

Belief propagation with loops

Bethe approximation, Kikuchi approximations, loop calculus
algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probability
statistics
2020-09-18 — 2023-10-24

Causal inference under feedback

algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probability
statistics
2020-09-18 — 2023-10-24

Learning under distribution shift

Also transfer learning, covariate shift, transferable learning, domain adaptation, transportability etc
algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2020-10-17 — 2023-10-24

Numerical PDE solvers

algebra
computers are awful
functional analysis
linear algebra
PDEs
premature optimization
sciml
2016-03-01 — 2023-10-23

Efficient food

Economics and resource-efficiency of food production
catastrophe
economics
incentive mechanisms
life
sustainability
wonk
2019-04-15 — 2023-10-21

Time management

The psychology of getting stuff done
bounded compute
faster pussycat
incentive mechanisms
mind
2017-06-18 — 2023-10-20

Physics-informed neural networks

calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
Lévy processes
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
2019-10-15 — 2023-10-19

Interpersonal relationships

Applied. Love, friendship, trust and oxytocin, considered dyadically
adaptive
bounded compute
cooperation
culture
ethics
evolution
extended self
gene
institutions
learning
mind
wonk
2022-01-24 — 2023-10-18

Optimal conditioning

algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
meta learning
networks
probability
statistics
2023-10-16 — 2023-10-16

Probability

algebra
Bayes
functional analysis
probability
2023-10-16 — 2023-10-16

Explainability of human ethical algorithms

bounded compute
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
ethics
gene
incentive mechanisms
institutions
machine learning
neuron
sparser than thou
utility
wonk
2023-10-10 — 2023-10-10

Static website editors

The vision of Netscape Composer and HotDog, finally realised
computers are awful together
diy
doing internet
faster pussycat
plain text
UI
workflow
2014-12-30 — 2023-10-10

Recipes

Especially meta-recipes
food
2015-06-23 — 2023-10-06

Text data processing

computers are awful
data sets
plain text
stringology
2014-12-16 — 2023-10-04

Decoupling the economy from energy

design
ecology
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
innovation
institutions
intellectual property
making things
markets
money
physics
policy
tail risk
snarks
spatial
statmech
technology
the rather superior sort of city
wonk
2021-05-21 — 2023-10-03

Material basis of the economy

design
diy
ecology
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
making things
markets
money
physics
policy
tail risk
snarks
spatial
statmech
the rather superior sort of city
wonk
2011-10-17 — 2023-10-03

Brain-like neuronal computation

learning
life
mind
neuron
probability
statistics
statmech
2015-12-22 — 2023-10-03

Making macOS behave itself

Things I have to do to keep my laptop running so I can google how to fix other things
computers are awful
macos
2015-04-28 — 2023-10-02

Whom to live amongst

Designing housesholds, bash’es, families, villages
cooperation
culture
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
making things
policy
spatial
straya
wonk
2021-09-25 — 2023-10-02

DNS

On asking strangers for directions
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
2017-10-13 — 2023-10-02

Low-rank matrices

feature construction
functional analysis
high d
linear algebra
networks
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2014-08-05 — 2023-09-29

Matrix inverses

feature construction
functional analysis
high d
linear algebra
networks
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2014-08-05 — 2023-09-29

Clickbait bandit problems

On using computers to program humans
bandit problems
culture
economics
mind
reinforcement learning
sociology
UI
utility
wonk
2017-05-18 — 2023-09-29

Misrule, punks and ravers

Peasantpunk, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget, metis farming, the feast of fools in suburbia, crusty rituals for the churchless, oxytocin fixes, mock chivalric orders, squads
adaptive
collective knowledge
communicating
cooperation
culture
design
diy
economics
institutions
making things
mind
networks
sociology
squad
status
wonk
2018-03-26 — 2023-09-26

Weaponised design

design
making things
the rather superior sort of city
wonk
2014-10-10 — 2023-09-25

Hybrid machine/human ML

computers are awful
statistics
UI
unsupervised
2021-09-13 — 2023-09-23

Degrowth

Yurtopia
cooperation
economics
hand wringing
life
sustainability
wonk
2019-10-29 — 2023-09-23

Ecomodernism

A tomorrow worth retiring to
cooperation
economics
hand wringing
life
sustainability
wonk
2019-10-29 — 2023-09-23

Coffee and caffeine

food
2018-03-25 — 2023-09-21

Data dashboards and ML demos

On assuring the client that you are doing something data-sciency because it looks like in the movies
communicating
computers are awful
data sets
dataviz
faster pussycat
generative art
making things
photon choreography
statistics
UI
workflow
2020-03-12 — 2023-09-20

Bayesian inference for misspecified models

Bayes
how do science
statistics
2016-05-30 — 2023-09-20

Orthonormal and unitary matrices

Energy preserving operators, generalized rotations
algebra
dynamical systems
functional analysis
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
signal processing
spheres
stochastic processes
time series
2019-10-22 — 2023-09-19

Taking notes

Notes on notes on notes
computers are awful
faster pussycat
information provenance
learning
plain text
UI
workflow
2020-02-17 — 2023-09-19

Differential geometry, geometric algebra etc

algebra
functional analysis
geometry
2014-11-28 — 2023-09-19

Exit/voice dilemmas

Fix this one or build another?
adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
evolution
game theory
networks
social graph
sociology
2018-12-18 — 2023-09-18

Image file formats

computers are awful
generative art
making things
photon choreography
2018-10-16 — 2023-09-17

Unix commands I need often

but which are tedious to work anew out each time
computers are awful
macos
plain text
POSIX
2015-11-06 — 2023-09-15

Cohousing in Australia

Plus other low-cost, low-tedium options for secure habitation
cooperation
culture
economics
extended self
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
making things
policy
spatial
straya
wonk
2021-09-25 — 2023-09-15

Emoji

computers are awful
standards
typography
2019-01-03 — 2023-09-13

Statistics and machine learning

graphical models
how do science
machine learning
probability
statistics
2011-04-15 — 2023-09-13

Footwear

fashion
gear
health
2015-05-23 — 2023-09-13

Where next Sydney freaks?

climate
cooperation
culture
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
making things
policy
spatial
straya
wonk
2021-04-11 — 2023-09-11

Akrasia

Description to come later
bounded compute
economics
faster pussycat
incentive mechanisms
mind
utility
2017-06-18 — 2023-09-09

Random number generation

computers are awful
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
pseudorandomness
2015-05-15 — 2023-09-08

Incentive alignment problems

What is your loss function?
adversarial
economics
extended self
faster pussycat
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
networks
tail risk
security
swarm
2014-09-22 — 2023-09-08

Informations

Entropies and other measures of surprise
classification
compsci
information
metrics
statistics
statmech
2011-11-25 — 2023-09-04

Academic writing workflow

Cranking the paper mill in the 21st century
academe
faster pussycat
how do science
plain text
workflow
2014-10-04 — 2023-09-04

Autism/allism spectrum

communicating
cooperation
culture
mind
sociology
utility
2022-05-25 — 2023-08-30

Bregman divergences

Bregman
functional analysis
optimization
statmech
2023-08-29 — 2023-08-29

Mirror descent

Bregman
functional analysis
optimization
statmech
2019-12-29 — 2023-08-29

Monte Carlo methods

Bayes
estimator distribution
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
2014-11-17 — 2023-08-26

Potential theory in probability

Something about harmonic functions or whatever
algebra
dynamical systems
functional analysis
Lévy processes
PDEs
probability
SDEs
statmech
stochastic processes
2020-02-12 — 2023-08-24

Gradient descent

First order of business
functional analysis
optimization
statmech
2014-10-04 — 2023-08-24

Reshipping

money
place
2021-12-02 — 2023-08-23

Approximate matrix factorisations and decompositions

Sometimes even exact
feature construction
functional analysis
high d
linear algebra
networks
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2014-08-05 — 2023-08-23

Browser machine learning

computers are awful
javascript
machine learning
neural nets
optimization
premature optimization
standards
UI
2017-01-14 — 2023-08-22

Remix and copyright

economics
incentive mechanisms
information provenance
institutions
intellectual property
music
2014-10-29 — 2023-08-22

Sydney lifestyle theme village

The sunniest mortgage farm in the Southern Hemisphere!
diy
place
policy
straya
wonk
2019-03-05 — 2023-08-20

Sleep

Pathologies and hacks
health
2017-04-19 — 2023-08-16

Virtual machines for curmudgeons

On pretending to have hardware using software
computers are awful
diy
macos
MS Windows
POSIX
2015-11-05 — 2023-08-15

edge_ml

Putting intelligence on chips small enough to be in disconcerting places
bounded compute
edge computing
machine learning
neural nets
sparser than thou
2016-10-14 — 2023-08-14

Naming things

Hashes, UUIDs, haecceities, deep and inscrutable singular Names
computers are awful
cryptography
2016-06-07 — 2023-08-11

Generalised autoregressive processes

dynamical systems
Hilbert space
Lévy processes
probability
regression
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2022-01-10 — 2023-08-11

Secure Scuttlebutt et al

Social media for off-the-grid
computers are awful together
confidentiality
distributed
diy
economics
P2P
2020-11-18 — 2023-08-08

Non-uniform signal sampling

Discrete sample representation of continuous signals without a grid
dynamical systems
Hilbert space
signal processing
statistics
time series
2019-01-08 — 2023-08-08

Doing it yourself

Peasantpunk, artisanal poverty, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms
adaptive
collective knowledge
communicating
cooperation
culture
design
diy
economics
institutions
making things
mind
networks
sociology
squad
status
wonk
2018-03-26 — 2023-08-08

Doing complicated things the obvious way

and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong
adaptive
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
economics
evolution
faster pussycat
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
networks
snarks
sociology
wonk
2022-04-04 — 2023-08-07

DJing

On encouraging people to listen to your living room playlist by demanding that they pay for it
computers are awful
making things
music
2015-02-03 — 2023-08-07

Firefox

computers are awful
computers are awful together
faster pussycat
standards
UI
2017-04-20 — 2023-08-07

Real estate economics

Passive-aggressive income
cooperation
culture
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
making things
policy
spatial
straya
the rather superior sort of city
wonk
2022-01-24 — 2023-08-06

Large sample theory

Gaussian
likelihood
optimization
probability
statistics
2015-02-16 — 2023-08-02

The social brain

Rubber-duck-typing
adaptive
adversarial
bounded compute
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
economics
ethics
evolution
extended self
gene
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
networks
neuron
rhetoric
snarks
social graph
sociology
swarm
wonk
2011-12-09 — 2023-08-02

Genetic programming

agents
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
swarm
2015-12-22 — 2023-08-02

Learnable coarse-graining

Approximate meso-scale physics
Bayes
machine learning
physics
statmech
surrogate
2020-08-24 — 2023-08-01

Plotting in Python

Jack of all trades, old master of none
communicating
computers are awful
dataviz
photon choreography
python
2014-10-08 — 2023-08-01

AV controller interfaces

lua
machine learning
making things
music
real time
UI
2019-12-10 — 2023-08-01

Ergonomics

faster pussycat
health
2020-03-27 — 2023-07-31

Noise pollution

cooperation
design
diy
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
making things
mind
neuron
policy
spatial
straya
the rather superior sort of city
2021-05-26 — 2023-07-31

Crisis, collapse etc

All your base are belong to dust
catastrophe
economics
game theory
wonk
2018-10-15 — 2023-07-31

Polynomial bases

convolution
functional analysis
Hilbert space
nonparametric
signal processing
2021-01-29 — 2023-07-28

Gaussian process regression

And classification. And extensions.
functional analysis
Gaussian
generative
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
nonparametric
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2019-12-03 — 2023-07-28

Python spatial statistics

data sets
Gaussian
python
spatial
standards
statistics
time series
2020-09-11 — 2023-07-26

Semidefinite proramming

functional analysis
optimization
statmech
2019-06-30 — 2023-07-24

Model averaging, model stacking, model ensembling

On keeping many incorrect hypotheses and using them all as one goodish one
information
model selection
particle
statistics
2017-06-20 — 2023-07-24

Matrix calculus

algebra
calculus
functional analysis
linear algebra
optimization
2018-07-09 — 2023-07-24

Healthcare in Australia

health
policy
straya
wonk
2021-02-13 — 2023-07-23

M-open, M-complete, M-closed

Bayes
how do science
statistics
2016-05-30 — 2023-07-23

M-open, M-complete, M-closed

Bayes
how do science
statistics
2016-05-30 — 2023-07-23

(Reproducing) kernel tricks

algebra
functional analysis
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
metrics
nonparametric
2014-08-18 — 2023-07-21

Devcontainers

computers are awful
diy
2023-07-14 — 2023-07-19

Geoscience

Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2020-09-11 — 2023-07-19

Hydra for tracking machine learning experiments

computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
information provenance
premature optimization
python
2021-10-20 — 2023-07-19

Bio marker tracking

Instrumenting health to improve it
causality
drugs
faster pussycat
fit
gene
institutions
mind
2022-01-11 — 2023-07-18

Hypothesis tests, statistical

algebra
Bayes
decision theory
functional analysis
Hilbert space
how do science
linear algebra
machine learning
model selection
nonparametric
statistics
uncertainty
2014-08-23 — 2023-07-18

Reinforcement learning

bandit problems
control
signal processing
stochastic processes
stringology
2014-11-27 — 2023-07-17

3d data

A grab bag of point clouds, volumetric data and photogrammetry
computers are awful
faster pussycat
photon choreography
2019-02-15 — 2023-07-17

Codebraid

Minimalist scientific workbook
academe
computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
information provenance
julia
plain text
premature optimization
python
R
UI
workflow
2023-07-14 — 2023-07-14

Calendars and scheduling software

confidentiality
diy
standards
2015-06-25 — 2023-07-14

Gaussian process ensembles

Bayesian committee machines, product-of-experts
algebra
approximation
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
statistics
2023-07-12 — 2023-07-12

Synchronising config files across machines

computers are awful
computers are awful together
distributed
diy
P2P
2015-01-03 — 2023-07-11

Blogdown

Plus other RMarkdown-derived scholarly blogging systems
academe
doing internet
faster pussycat
how do science
plain text
workflow
2020-08-26 — 2023-07-09

The returns on hierarchy in group coordination

Optimising egalitarianism
cooperation
culture
economics
evolution
extended self
incentive mechanisms
mind
social graph
wonk
2019-10-25 — 2023-07-07

Homebrew

Minimalist software management for POSIX systems
compsci
computers are awful
POSIX
premature optimization
2019-06-15 — 2023-07-05

Model-based NN

Upproximateing unrolled algorithms
dynamical systems
linear algebra
machine learning
neural nets
optimization
regression
sciml
signal processing
sparser than thou
statmech
stochastic processes
2020-12-08 — 2023-06-28

Position encoding

Also Fourier features
approximation
dynamical systems
functional analysis
Hilbert space
machine learning
neural nets
2021-01-21 — 2023-06-23

Journalism, normative

Sensors for the superorganism
agents
collective knowledge
cooperation
distributed
economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
information provenance
institutions
networks
swarm
virality
wonk
2020-01-26 — 2023-06-23

Curators of nice bits of internet

The delightful web
computers are awful together
information provenance
making things
2021-05-03 — 2023-06-19

Decaying sinusoid dictionaries

dynamical systems
functional analysis
Hilbert space
linear algebra
signal processing
time series
2019-01-07 — 2023-06-15

Markdown

An itemised list of the esoteric difficulties involved in bullet points
academe
computers are awful
faster pussycat
plain text
UI
workflow
2019-07-17 — 2023-06-15

Neural nets that do symbolic maths

compsci
language
machine learning
meta learning
networks
neural nets
NLP
stringology
2019-12-09 — 2023-06-14

Spatial data in R

computers are awful
data sets
dataviz
faster pussycat
Gaussian
generative art
making things
photon choreography
R
spatial
standards
statistics
2021-03-21 — 2023-06-13

Noise contrastive estimation

Also “negative sampling”.
approximation
Bayes
Bregman
feature construction
likelihood free
machine learning
metrics
probability
statistics
time series
2020-04-22 — 2023-06-06

Statistical mechanics of statistics

dynamical systems
machine learning
neural nets
physics
pseudorandomness
sciml
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
2016-12-02 — 2023-06-02

Bayesian model calibration

functional analysis
how do science
model selection
optimization
statmech
surrogate
2017-04-11 — 2023-06-01

Climate change

The conspiracy of those malign incumbent powers, the laws of physics, against the plucky underdog, coal megacorporations
catastrophe
climate
game theory
wonk
2011-12-13 — 2023-05-31

Institutions and governance for mass conversation

Discourse red in tooth and claw versus the sovereign
bandit problems
boring
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
mind
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
wonk
2020-02-01 — 2023-05-30

Matrix norms, divergences, metrics

algebra
feature construction
functional analysis
high d
Hilbert space
linear algebra
networks
optimization
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2016-06-03 — 2023-05-29

PDF, Portable Document Format

How we may use a thousand dollar computer to simulate a one cent piece of paper with zero day exploits
computers are awful
information provenance
making things
office
standards
2018-06-03 — 2023-05-28

Stylus input

academe
making things
plain text
real time
UI
2017-04-17 — 2023-05-26

Bayes functional regression

functional analysis
Gaussian
generative
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
nonparametric
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2019-12-03 — 2023-05-25

Non-Gaussian Bayesian functional regression

Hilbert space
kernel tricks
PDEs
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2019-10-10 — 2023-05-25

State filtering for hidden Markov models

Kalman and friends
Bayes
dynamical systems
linear algebra
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
time series
2015-06-22 — 2023-05-24

Nerdview

language
2014-12-28 — 2023-05-23

Singular Value Decomposition

The ML workhorse
feature construction
functional analysis
high d
linear algebra
networks
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2014-08-05 — 2023-05-23

Neural learning dynamical systems

calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
Lévy processes
machine learning
neural nets
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
2018-08-13 — 2023-05-23

Dropbox if you must

computers are awful
computers are awful together
distributed
diy
P2P
2015-01-03 — 2023-05-20

Saying “Bayes” is not enough

The other secret steps to doing Bayesian statistics
Bayes
bounded compute
how do science
Monte Carlo
statistics
2016-05-30 — 2023-05-19

Gradient descent, first-order, stochastic

a.k.a. SGD
functional analysis
neural nets
optimization
SDEs
stochastic processes
2020-01-30 — 2023-05-19

Belief propagation and related algorithms

algebra
approximation
Bayes
distributed
dynamical systems
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
swarm
time series
2014-11-25 — 2023-05-17

Canonical correlation

algebra
Bayes
convolution
functional analysis
Hilbert space
linear algebra
machine learning
model selection
nonparametric
statistics
uncertainty
2014-08-23 — 2023-05-17

Method of Adjoints for differentiating through ODEs

Bayes
dynamical systems
linear algebra
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
time series
2017-09-15 — 2023-05-15

IPython

Jupyter’s forgotten uncle
computers are awful
python
2011-04-18 — 2023-05-15

Matrix square roots

Whitening, preconditioning etc
feature construction
functional analysis
high d
linear algebra
networks
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2014-08-05 — 2023-05-13

Databases (for scientists)

Stashing experimental data for later use
computers are awful
concurrency hell
data sets
2015-03-04 — 2023-05-06

Conformal prediction

Bayes
statistics
stochastic processes
surrogate
uncertainty
2016-12-26 — 2023-05-05

Multi-objective optimisation

economics
machine learning
model selection
neural nets
optimization
regression
sparser than thou
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2021-07-14 — 2023-05-04

Optimal transport inference

I feel the earth mover under my feet, I feel the ψ tumbling down, I feel my heart start to trembling, whenever you’re around (my barycentre)
functional analysis
measure
metrics
optimization
statistics
2021-03-16 — 2023-05-03

Distances between Gaussian distributions

Nearly equivalent to distances between symmetric positive definite matrices
algebra
Gaussian
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
probability
signal processing
spheres
statistics
2016-06-27 — 2023-05-03

Reparameterization methods for MC gradient estimation

Pathwise gradient estimation,
approximation
Bayes
density
likelihood free
Monte Carlo
nonparametric
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sciml
statistics
2018-04-04 — 2023-05-02

Combining kernels

Hilbert space
kernel tricks
metrics
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
2019-09-16 — 2023-05-02

Numerical libraries

computers are awful
number crunching
premature optimization
python
2016-03-01 — 2023-04-28

Scheduling jobs on HPC clusters for modern ML nerds

In Soviet Russia, job puts YOU in queue
computers are awful
computers are awful together
concurrency hell
distributed
premature optimization
2018-03-09 — 2023-04-28

Probabilistic neural nets

Bayesian and other probabilistic inference in overparameterized ML
Bayes
convolution
density
likelihood free
machine learning
neural nets
nonparametric
sparser than thou
uncertainty
2017-01-11 — 2023-04-27

Neural implicit representations

Neural nets as coordinate mappings
dynamical systems
functional analysis
machine learning
neural nets
2021-01-21 — 2023-04-26

Neural rendering

dynamical systems
functional analysis
machine learning
neural nets
2021-01-21 — 2023-04-26

Dynamics of recommender systems and other AI social interventions at societal scale

Variational approximations to high modernism
classification
collective knowledge
confidentiality
culture
economics
ethics
faster pussycat
game theory
how do science
incentive mechanisms
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
NLP
sociology
stringology
technology
UI
wonk
2023-07-03 — 2023-04-26

Covariance estimation

Esp Gaussian
algebra
functional analysis
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
metrics
nonparametric
regression
sparser than thou
statistics
2014-11-17 — 2023-04-26

Generative AI workflows and hacks 2023

economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
neural nets
NLP
stringology
technology
UI
2023-03-23 — 2023-04-26

Legibility and automation

Variational approximations to high modernism as AI modernism
classification
collective knowledge
confidentiality
culture
ethics
game theory
how do science
incentive mechanisms
sociology
wonk
2017-07-24 — 2023-04-22

Lua

computers are awful
lua
number crunching
premature optimization
2014-07-25 — 2023-04-21

Model order reduction

feature construction
functional analysis
linear algebra
machine learning
networks
neural nets
PDEs
physics
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
statmech
surrogate
topology
2015-03-23 — 2023-04-21

Secure chat systems

Optimizing back channel interjections into other people’s meetings
communicating
computers are awful
confidentiality
encryption
2015-02-15 — 2023-04-21

Agent-based models

Science as Grand Theft Auto
agents
economics
mind
sociology
2011-07-28 — 2023-04-19

ΦFlow

A modern python computational fluid dynamics library for ML research
geometry
how do science
machine learning
PDEs
physics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
uncertainty
2022-06-24 — 2023-04-17

Code editors

The best thing since punchcards
compsci
computers are awful
faster pussycat
plain text
UI
2014-11-12 — 2023-04-14

How to do research funding

academe
diy
2015-06-28 — 2023-04-14

Performance indicators, Measurement, analytics

Street fighting statistics
economics
faster pussycat
incentive mechanisms
institutions
networks
statistics
2014-09-22 — 2023-04-13

Online collaboration tools

academe
communicating
computers are awful together
distributed
diy
mind
photon choreography
UI
2020-06-01 — 2023-04-13

Leakage in predictive models

estimator distribution
linear algebra
model selection
probability
statistics
2016-09-05 — 2023-04-12

Configuring Python with “.env” files

computers are awful
python
2017-04-18 — 2023-04-11

Cheap talk

Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc
bandit problems
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
mind
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
wonk
2020-02-01 — 2023-04-11

Optimal rotations

algebra
calculus
functional analysis
geometry
high d
linear algebra
optimization
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
spheres
2021-05-18 — 2023-04-06

Webmail systems

communicating
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
diy
encryption
faster pussycat
office
plain text
POSIX
UI
2022-04-18 — 2023-04-05

Email clients on linux

Unix invented email, sand kind of left it there
communicating
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
encryption
faster pussycat
office
POSIX
UI
2020-04-21 — 2023-04-05

Expectation propagation

Generalized moment matching
approximation
Bayes
concurrency hell
graphical models
probabilistic algorithms
statistics
2015-10-26 — 2023-04-03

MLP-Mixer neural networks

machine learning
neural nets
signal processing
2021-11-21 — 2023-03-30

Contemporary neo-feudalism & endimming

Steelmanning the strong man
catastrophe
cooperation
culture
economics
wonk
2017-02-04 — 2023-03-27

Practical text generation and writing assistants

faster pussycat
language
machine learning
NLP
real time
signal processing
stringology
UI
2019-01-08 — 2023-03-23

PDF viewers

On turning texts into font rendering errors
computers are awful
information provenance
office
UI
2020-02-11 — 2023-03-21

(Nearly-)Convex relation of nonconvex problems

feature construction
functional analysis
Hilbert space
machine learning
optimization
statmech
2018-04-04 — 2023-03-17

Markdown editors

academe
computers are awful
faster pussycat
plain text
UI
workflow
2020-05-09 — 2023-03-10

Visual Studio Code for prose

for pros
computers are awful
faster pussycat
plain text
UI
workflow
2020-06-12 — 2023-03-03

Sparse coding with learnable dictionaries

convolution
high d
Hilbert space
linear algebra
nonparametric
optimization
regression
signal processing
sparser than thou
2014-11-18 — 2023-03-02

Online whiteboards

academe
communicating
computers are awful together
distributed
diy
mind
photon choreography
UI
2020-08-26 — 2023-02-27

Tensor decompositions

algebra
Hilbert space
2016-08-15 — 2023-02-21

Transport maps

Inference by measure transport, low-dimensional coupling…
approximation
Bayes
density
likelihood free
nonparametric
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
2018-04-04 — 2023-02-21

UX

design
making things
photon choreography
UI
2018-10-16 — 2023-02-21

Science Fiction

increasingly, now-casting
catastrophe
culture
history
language
mind
wonk
2019-12-23 — 2023-02-20

Contemporary techno-horror

On eldritch terrors from beyond and their Twitter accounts
catastrophe
culture
history
language
mind
wonk
writing
2019-12-23 — 2023-02-20

Disgust

culture
history
language
mind
wonk
2019-12-23 — 2023-02-19

External validity

When does what I learn on one data set apply to another?
algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2020-10-17 — 2023-02-16

Scaling laws for very large neural nets

Compute/size/data tradeoffs
bounded compute
functional analysis
machine learning
model selection
optimization
statmech
2021-01-14 — 2023-02-16

The Matrix-Gaussian distribution

algebra
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
probability
signal processing
spheres
statistics
2022-08-19 — 2023-02-16

Interoperating with R

computers are awful
number crunching
R
statistics
2011-08-07 — 2023-02-13

Jupyter UI wrangling

What happens inside those notebook cells doesnt stay inside tgose notebook cells
faster pussycat
premature optimization
python
2017-02-09 — 2023-02-13

UIs in Python

interacting with an app, a python app, without too much dicking about
computers are awful
concurrency hell
premature optimization
python
UI
2017-06-03 — 2023-02-13

Generative flow nets

Gflownets
approximation
Bayes
generative
likelihood free
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
unsupervised
2021-11-11 — 2023-02-13

Tolerating Jupyter’s file format

In order to make your python code accessible, we wrapped it into encoded javascript strings. No need to thank us.
faster pussycat
premature optimization
python
2017-02-09 — 2023-02-13

Diffusion of innovations

Epidemiology of widgets
adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
hidden variables
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
networks
social graph
sociology
technology
virality
wonk
2020-01-30 — 2023-02-09

Shells

That alternative to GUIs by which you replace clicking-on-the-wrong-thing errors with typing-the-wrong-thing errors
computers are awful
faster pussycat
2014-10-03 — 2023-02-09

Last-layer Bayes neural nets

Bayesian and other probabilistic inference in overparameterized ML
algebra
Bayes
convolution
density
functional analysis
Hilbert space
likelihood free
linear algebra
machine learning
nonparametric
sparser than thou
uncertainty
2017-01-11 — 2023-02-09

Last-layer Bayes neural nets

Bayesian and other probabilistic inference in overparameterized ML
Bayes
convolution
density
likelihood free
machine learning
neural nets
nonparametric
sparser than thou
uncertainty
2017-01-11 — 2023-02-09

IDEs for Julia

compsci
computers are awful
julia
UI
2019-11-27 — 2023-02-08

manim

pedagogic animations via python
communicating
computers are awful
learning
photon choreography
python
2018-10-08 — 2023-02-06

Visualising probabilistic graphical models

Also related models, such as Neural nets
algebra
computers are awful
dataviz
faster pussycat
graphical models
machine learning
networks
photon choreography
probability
statistics
2018-03-29 — 2023-02-02

Maths hacks

faster pussycat
mathematics
2016-08-18 — 2023-02-01

Web API automation

browser
compsci
computers are awful together
diy
doing internet
faster pussycat
2020-06-04 — 2023-01-31

When to argue ad hominem

Skin in the game, vested interests, overt and covert prejudices, lived experience, Dunning-Kruger outgroup effects, genealogy of knowledge, aetiology, donatism, genealogy of knowledge, ex opere operato, donatism
adversarial
bandit problems
bounded compute
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
mind
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
wonk
2020-02-01 — 2023-01-28

Conference posters

academe
computers are awful
photon choreography
2018-07-19 — 2023-01-27

Web scraping

Turns out we can get information off the internet
browser
computers are awful together
confidentiality
diy
doing internet
faster pussycat
2016-06-17 — 2023-01-24

Models of inequity

Sharpening the fuzzy process of bias, discrimination and inequity
culture
diy
ethics
gender
gene
sex
sociology
wonk
2017-08-13 — 2023-01-19

Browser graphics

computers are awful
faster pussycat
photon choreography
2015-11-20 — 2023-01-18

Statistics and ML in Python

computers are awful
neural nets
python
statistics
2015-04-27 — 2023-01-18

Javascript audio

Every program will expand until the point that it can generate cheezy techno
computers are awful
javascript
music
2011-11-25 — 2023-01-16

Research data sharing

academe
data sets
how do science
information provenance
2017-05-31 — 2023-01-16

Matplotlib

A way to draw things in python, which is better than no way to draw things in python
computers are awful
photon choreography
python
2014-10-08 — 2023-01-16

Are they too old/young for me?

Dating, gender, age, and equity
game theory
statistics
2017-10-14 — 2023-01-15

Bounded rationality at large

It is as if we knew what we were doing
economics
mind
sociology
2012-01-13 — 2023-01-15

Drugs, recreational

chemistry
drugs
health
mind
neuron
2017-08-07 — 2023-01-14

Gradients and message-passing

Cleaving reality at the joint, then summing it at the marginal
algebra
approximation
Bayes
distributed
dynamical systems
generative
graphical models
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
swarm
time series
2014-11-25 — 2023-01-12

Numerical Python

compsci
computers are awful
premature optimization
python
2015-04-27 — 2023-01-12

Schelling-Goodhart coordination problems

Sustainable beliefs and accurate beliefs, and the utility of each
economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
machine learning
optimization
religion
statistics
utility
2024-03-13 — 2023-01-11

Comfy Ubuntu

Now with added Pop!_OS
compsci
computers are awful
POSIX
premature optimization
2014-10-15 — 2023-01-09

Highly performative computing

Research cluster computing
computers are awful
computers are awful together
concurrency hell
distributed
premature optimization
2018-03-09 — 2023-01-06

Probability divergences

Metrics, contrasts and divergences and other ways of quantifying how similar are two randomnesses
approximation
measure
metrics
optimization
probability
statistics
2014-11-25 — 2023-01-06

Password management

computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
cryptography
security
2016-07-20 — 2023-01-05

Image search

computers are awful together
faster pussycat
information provenance
making things
photon choreography
search
standards
2021-08-02 — 2023-01-05

Special LaTeX symbols

computers are awful
faster pussycat
LaTeX
typography
2020-02-11 — 2023-01-04

Elliptical distributions

algebra
density
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
probability
tail risk
signal processing
spheres
statistics
2015-06-24 — 2023-01-03

BibLaTeX

Also BibTeX if you must
academe
collective knowledge
computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
workflow
2020-09-29 — 2022-12-23

Economic development

cooperation
economics
hand wringing
wonk
2014-10-29 — 2022-12-20

Fitness health

Getting swole and/or deferring death
health
2015-01-18 — 2022-12-14

Synchronising files across machines

Dropbox for Dropbox haters
computers are awful
computers are awful together
concurrency hell
distributed
diy
P2P
2015-01-03 — 2022-12-12

Open Source (mostly software)

On published schematics for cheap objects
collective knowledge
cooperation
economics
information provenance
innovation
institutions
making things
2017-03-31 — 2022-12-12

Machine learning for physical sciences

Turbulent mixing at the boundary between disciplines with differing inertia and viscosity
calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
2017-05-15 — 2022-12-07

COVID-19 in practice

SARS-CoV-2 to its friends
branching
count data
diy
fit
health
life
networks
tail risk
SDEs
stochastic processes
straya
time series
2020-11-25 — 2022-12-07

Mind as statistical learner

Shoggoth pride
collective knowledge
learning
life
mind
probability
statistics
statmech
2020-06-23 — 2022-12-06

Density ratio tricks

approximation
Bayes
feature construction
likelihood free
machine learning
measure
metrics
probability
statistics
time series
2022-12-06 — 2022-12-06

Growing up

cooperation
culture
incentive mechanisms
learning
mind
snarks
wonk
2022-04-13 — 2022-11-27

Statistical relational learning

causality
networks
statistics
stringology
2020-04-26 — 2022-11-22

Models of computation

Turing machines, λ-calculus, term-rewriting and other models of what may be computed.
compsci
grammar
stringology
2017-06-18 — 2022-11-22

Adverse advice selection

algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2022-01-25 — 2022-11-15

Adverse advice selection

algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2022-01-25 — 2022-11-15

Conditioning non-specific advice

algebra
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
economics
ethics
graphical models
how do science
networks
probability
statistics
2022-01-25 — 2022-11-15

Hamiltonian and Langevin Monte Carlo

Physics might be on to something
Bayes
generative
geometry
how do science
information
Monte Carlo
physics
score function
statistics
2018-07-31 — 2022-11-14

Explorables and interactives

Between exploratory data analysis and games
academe
communicating
computers are awful
data sets
dataviz
faster pussycat
generative art
how do science
learning
making things
mind
number crunching
photon choreography
statistics
UI
workflow
2020-03-12 — 2022-11-07

Plotly

A pretty good plotting system.
communicating
computers are awful
photon choreography
python
2015-11-20 — 2022-11-06

But what can I do?

Recommended behaviour to make society better is to think, then act
democracy
economics
insurgency
networks
social graph
straya
wonk
2020-02-06 — 2022-11-06

Starfish problems

Recommended behaviour to make society better is to think, then act
ethics
2020-02-06 — 2022-11-06

Interaction effects and subgroups are probably what we want to estimate

algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
meta learning
networks
probability
statistics
2022-01-25 — 2022-11-06

Personalized medicine

Precision medicine
causality
economics
faster pussycat
fit
gene
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
mind
probability
statistics
2022-01-25 — 2022-11-06

How to communicate

with humans
bandit problems
boring
bounded compute
communicating
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
extended self
faster pussycat
institutions
mind
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
standards
wonk
2019-04-02 — 2022-11-06

Scientific writing

In which tips are given for the projection of status through nominal phrases and passive voice
collective knowledge
communicating
how do science
information provenance
language
making things
writing
2014-12-31 — 2022-11-06

Queerness

culture
diy
gender
sex
sociology
wonk
2021-05-06 — 2022-11-06

Blogroll

The internet of essays
academe
computers are awful together
faster pussycat
information provenance
learning
UI
workflow
2008-11-02 — 2022-11-06

Culture wars

On our the ascendancy of virality over importance
computers are awful together
confidentiality
democracy
economics
evolution
game theory
insurgency
networks
P2P
social graph
virality
wonk
2022-09-03 — 2022-11-06

Electric cars

diy
hardware
travel
2014-11-11 — 2022-11-05

Organising a photo collection

computers are awful
faster pussycat
making things
music
photon choreography
standards
2020-01-03 — 2022-11-05

Feelings, applied

adaptive
bounded compute
cooperation
culture
ethics
evolution
gene
incentive mechanisms
institutions
learning
mind
wonk
2022-01-24 — 2022-11-04

Email hosts

Who handles my mail? And what do they do with it?
communicating
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
encryption
faster pussycat
2020-12-30 — 2022-11-04

How to do research careers

academe
diy
2015-06-28 — 2022-11-04

Emancipating my tribe

Inclusivism and exclusivism in sacred and secular subcultures. Or, scaling up the in-group.
communicating
cooperation
culture
economics
making things
mind
squad
wonk
2021-12-20 — 2022-11-01

Deep learning as a dynamical system

calculus
classification
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
Lévy processes
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
2018-08-13 — 2022-10-30

The edge of chaos

Computation, evolution, competition and other past-times of faculty
compsci
dynamical systems
machine learning
neural nets
physics
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
2016-12-02 — 2022-10-30

Pluralism, multiculturalism, politics

bandit problems
boring
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
mind
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
wonk
2020-02-01 — 2022-10-29

Casual anthropic principles

Convenience-sampling lived human experience
collective knowledge
cooperation
distributed
game theory
how do science
insurgency
networks
probability
sociology
statistics
wonk
2020-02-15 — 2022-10-28

Python pickling

Parallel computing, wherein assume a head process with spawn workers
computers are awful
concurrency hell
distributed
number crunching
premature optimization
workflow
2016-08-23 — 2022-10-23

Randomised linear algebra

algebra
approximation
feature construction
functional analysis
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
metrics
model selection
probabilistic algorithms
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
2016-08-16 — 2022-10-22

Online learning

Bayes
dynamical systems
linear algebra
optimization
probability
signal processing
statistics
time series
2018-09-30 — 2022-10-20

Anomaly detection

I don’t define what is abnormal, but I know it when I see it
probability
statistics
2015-10-07 — 2022-10-20

Neural tangent kernel

algebra
Bayes
functional analysis
Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
machine learning
metrics
model selection
neural nets
nonparametric
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
SDEs
stochastic processes
2020-12-09 — 2022-10-14

Editing images

computers are awful
generative art
making things
photon choreography
2018-10-16 — 2022-10-13

Posterior Gamma process samples by updating prior samples

functional analysis
generative
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
measure
nonparametric
Lévy processes
physics
point processes
probability
SDEs
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
uncertainty
2022-10-12 — 2022-10-12

Continuous and equilibrium probabilistic graphical models

graphical models
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2014-08-05 — 2022-10-10

Tribal sorting and polarization

Social fragmentation by browser cookies
collective knowledge
cooperation
distributed
game theory
how do science
insurgency
networks
social graph
sociology
squad
wonk
2017-02-12 — 2022-10-08

Forecasting

Vegan haruspicy
model selection
regression
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2015-06-17 — 2022-10-08

Intellectual property

especially in science and technology.
collective knowledge
cooperation
economics
ethics
incentive mechanisms
innovation
institutions
technology
2014-12-31 — 2022-10-06

Transcoding

Digital recordings and converting between them.
compsci
computers are awful
information
making things
metrics
music
photon choreography
standards
2020-04-23 — 2022-10-05

Precision matrix estimation

Especially Gaussain
algebra
functional analysis
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
metrics
nonparametric
regression
sparser than thou
statistics
2014-11-17 — 2022-10-04

(Weighted) least squares fits

Hilbert space
linear algebra
optimization
regression
statistics
2016-09-22 — 2022-10-04

Biomimetic algorithms

agents
learning
life
neuron
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
swarm
2015-12-22 — 2022-10-03

Multi level marketing

Pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, Newcomb unboxing
collective knowledge
cooperation
distributed
game theory
how do science
insurgency
networks
probability
sociology
statistics
wonk
2022-10-02 — 2022-10-02

Learning graphical models from data

Also, causal discovery, structure discovery
algebra
graphical models
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2017-09-20 — 2022-10-01

Bayesian inverse problems in function space

a.k.a. Bayesian calibration, model uncertainty for PDEs and other wibbly, blobby things
functional analysis
linear algebra
probability
sparser than thou
spatial
statistics
2020-10-13 — 2022-09-26

Squads

Small scale collectives
cooperation
culture
diy
economics
institutions
insurgency
rhetoric
social graph
wonk
2022-06-25 — 2022-09-25

Depression

health
mind
2022-02-13 — 2022-09-25

The interpretation of RV densities as point process intensities and vice versa

Point process of observations ↔ observation of a point process
density
nonparametric
point processes
probability
spatial
statistics
time series
2016-09-13 — 2022-09-24

Gaussian process inference by partial updates

functional analysis
Gaussian
generative
geometry
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
optimization
regression
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2020-12-03 — 2022-09-22

Generalised Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes

Markov/AR(1)-like processes
dynamical systems
Hilbert space
Lévy processes
probability
regression
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2022-01-10 — 2022-09-21

Conditional expectation and probability

algebra
Bayes
functional analysis
networks
probability
2020-02-04 — 2022-09-21

Penalised/regularised regression

Bayes
functional analysis
linear algebra
model selection
optimization
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2016-06-23 — 2022-09-19

Eye/head-tracking input

Mousing using my face
academe
making things
plain text
real time
UI
2022-09-15 — 2022-09-16

Multi-agent self

adaptive
adversarial
bounded compute
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
economics
ethics
evolution
extended self
gene
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
networks
neuron
rhetoric
snarks
social graph
sociology
wonk
2022-09-11 — 2022-09-11

Data versioning

computers are awful
data sets
information provenance
workflow
2020-03-11 — 2022-09-07

Laplace approximations in inference

Lightweight uncertainties, especially for heavy neural nets
Bayes
feature construction
machine learning
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
2021-07-28 — 2022-09-06

Soft methodology of science

adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
faster pussycat
how do science
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
networks
sociology
2012-01-13 — 2022-09-06

Gaussian belief propagation

Least squares at maximal elaboration
algebra
approximation
Bayes
distributed
dynamical systems
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
Hilbert space
linear algebra
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
swarm
time series
2014-11-25 — 2022-09-01

Scattering transforms

computers are awful
machine learning
machine listening
making things
music
signal processing
sparser than thou
2022-03-16 — 2022-08-31

Distributional robustness in inference

adversarial
AI
functional analysis
game theory
learning
metrics
optimization
probability
statistics
2019-07-12 — 2022-08-30

State space reconstruction

count data
dynamical systems
stringology
time series
2014-10-14 — 2022-08-30

Managing people

Making piece with the fact that I cannot do everything myself
adversarial
bounded compute
communicating
cooperation
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
institutions
mind
networks
rhetoric
2020-07-19 — 2022-08-30

Containerized apps (for scientists)

Doing things that previously took 0.5 computers using 0.4 computers
computers are awful
diy
2015-11-05 — 2022-08-29

Factorial hidden Markov models

Bayes
dynamical systems
linear algebra
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
time series
2022-08-29 — 2022-08-29

Mellin transforms

functional analysis
Hilbert space
linear algebra
signal processing
sparser than thou
2021-01-29 — 2022-08-28

Semantics

Compressed representations of reality for syntactic agents; which might be what meaning means
classification
communicating
feature construction
high d
language
machine learning
metrics
mind
NLP
2014-12-30 — 2022-08-28

Cluster B personality disorders

adversarial
bounded compute
communicating
cooperation
culture
mind
2022-06-20 — 2022-08-26

Generic variance reduction in Monte Carlo samplers

Bayes
estimator distribution
Markov processes
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
2022-08-25 — 2022-08-25

Julia interoperation and foreign function interfaces

computers are awful
julia
2019-11-27 — 2022-08-25

Elliptical belief propagation

Generalized least generalized squares
algebra
approximation
Bayes
distributed
dynamical systems
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
Hilbert space
linear algebra
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
swarm
time series
2022-08-22 — 2022-08-23

Apptainer

Containerized apps for research
computers are awful
diy
2015-11-05 — 2022-08-22

Recommender systems

approximation
Bayes
clustering
high d
linear algebra
networks
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
2020-11-30 — 2022-08-15

Practical LaTeX fonts and character sets

computers are awful
faster pussycat
LaTeX
typography
2020-02-11 — 2022-08-11

Video conferencing

and other ways of working together, or at least around each other
communicating
computers are awful together
confidentiality
encryption
2015-02-15 — 2022-08-10

Automatic differentiation in Julia

algebra
computers are awful
functional analysis
julia
linear algebra
number crunching
optimization
2016-07-27 — 2022-08-09

Neural nets with implicit layers

Also, declarative networks, bi-level optimization and other ingenious uses of the implicit function theorem
dynamical systems
linear algebra
machine learning
neural nets
optimization
regression
sciml
signal processing
sparser than thou
statmech
stochastic processes
2020-12-08 — 2022-08-09

Proof assistants

Automated theorem provers
compsci
language
networks
stringology
2019-12-09 — 2022-08-09

Tracking experiments in machine learning

computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
information provenance
premature optimization
2020-10-23 — 2022-08-08

Observablejs

computers are awful
dataviz
javascript
photon choreography
UI
2022-08-07 — 2022-08-07

Vector icons

computers are awful
javascript
UI
2014-11-11 — 2022-08-07

Social factors in information security

Our revealed preference for revealing our preferences
bounded compute
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
cooperation
economics
security
wonk
2018-11-21 — 2022-08-07

Academic blogging workflow

Minimizing the friction of advertizing my thoughts in order to maximize the chance each thought gets advertised. Not covered: maximizing quality of thoughts.
academe
diy
doing internet
faster pussycat
how do science
plain text
workflow
2020-05-22 — 2022-08-07

Causal inference on DAGs

Confounding! This scientist performed a miracle graph surgery intervention and you won’t believe what happened next
algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2016-10-26 — 2022-08-06

Instumental variables and two stage regression

Confounding! This scientist performed a miracle graph surgery intervention and you won’t believe what happened next
algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2016-10-26 — 2022-08-06

Mathematics without LaTeX

compsci
computers are awful
faster pussycat
LaTeX
typography
UI
2019-11-20 — 2022-08-06

Futurism

Useful ways of imaginatively forecasting
cooperation
economics
hand wringing
wonk
2014-12-31 — 2022-08-06

Learning Gamelan

convolution
functional analysis
music
neural nets
nonparametric
signal processing
sparser than thou
2016-04-05 — 2022-08-05

Neural net attention mechanisms

On brilliance through selective ignorance
language
machine learning
neural nets
NLP
2017-12-20 — 2022-08-05

ELBO

Evidence lower bound, variational free energy etc
approximation
optimization
probability
statistics
2020-10-02 — 2022-08-03

Privilege accountancy

bandit problems
boring
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
mind
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
wonk
2020-02-01 — 2022-08-03

Mechanism design for reputation systems

Karma, credit scores, pagerank, optimised ad hominem reasoning…
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
game theory
how do science
incentive mechanisms
mind
networks
rhetoric
social graph
sociology
wonk
2014-08-05 — 2022-08-02

Spreadsheetalikes

computers are awful
faster pussycat
number crunching
office
UI
2014-10-15 — 2022-08-02

Javascript mathematics

computers are awful
javascript
photon choreography
2016-05-25 — 2022-08-02

Virtual private mesh networks

Pretending your phone is on your LAN
computers are awful together
confidentiality
cryptography
diy
2017-04-15 — 2022-07-30

Gaussian process regression software

And classification.
functional analysis
Gaussian
generative
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
nonparametric
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2019-12-03 — 2022-07-29

Scenius

communicating
distributed
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
institutions
learning
mind
networks
2020-01-26 — 2022-07-28

Diversity in teams

Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale
agents
collective knowledge
communicating
cooperation
culture
distributed
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
mind
networks
policy
rhetoric
sociology
squad
wonk
2020-05-27 — 2022-07-28

Bayes linear regression and basis-functions in Gaussian process regression

a.k.a Fixed Rank Kriging, weight space GPs
algebra
approximation
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
statistics
2022-02-22 — 2022-07-27

Simulating Gaussian processes on a lattice

Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
Lévy processes
nonparametric
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2022-03-17 — 2022-07-26

Models of human cultural reproduction

Egregores, superorganisms, memeplexes
adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
evolution
game theory
networks
social graph
sociology
2018-12-18 — 2022-07-26

Player vs game

adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
evolution
faster pussycat
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
networks
social graph
sociology
2018-12-18 — 2022-07-26

Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation

Bayes
feature construction
machine learning
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
2021-07-28 — 2022-07-26

Red queen social signal dynamics

Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices
adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
ethics
evolution
game theory
networks
social graph
sociology
2018-12-18 — 2022-07-24

Bayes for beginners

Bayes
generative
how do science
Monte Carlo
statistics
2016-05-30 — 2022-07-23

Partial differential equations

algebra
functional analysis
linear algebra
PDEs
2021-01-27 — 2022-07-23

Trauma and resilience

catastrophe
culture
economics
ethics
health
incentive mechanisms
mind
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
wonk
2021-07-19 — 2022-07-23

Data centric AI

computers are awful
data sets
information provenance
workflow
2022-07-21 — 2022-07-21

Julia, the programming language

The hippest way to get your IEEE754 on. Hngh.
computers are awful
dataviz
julia
number crunching
premature optimization
2015-03-31 — 2022-07-19

Fun tricks in non-convex optimisation

functional analysis
optimization
statmech
2014-10-04 — 2022-07-14

Australia

You’re standing in it
straya
wonk
2020-01-25 — 2022-07-14

Empirical mode decomposition

Multiplying your exposure to uncertainty principles
functional analysis
Hilbert space
probability
signal processing
2018-01-06 — 2022-07-12

Performance indicators, measurement, analytics

Street fighting statistics
economics
faster pussycat
incentive mechanisms
institutions
networks
statistics
2014-09-22 — 2022-07-09

Being stroppy

For malcontents too perverse to be contrarian like everyone else
adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
evolution
game theory
networks
social graph
sociology
2022-03-04 — 2022-07-06

Intro to probability

algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2022-07-05 — 2022-07-05

Astroturf and artificial reefs

On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet
adaptive
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
design
diy
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
making things
policy
sociology
spatial
the rather superior sort of city
wonk
2016-01-13 — 2022-07-03

Comfy GNOME shell

Sparing thoughts for the desktop whatsit favoured by the thoughtless
computers are awful
diy
POSIX
UI
2019-08-13 — 2022-07-03

Hydrology, applied

Rivers, aquifers and other wet things that can flood your house
geometry
machine learning
physics
statmech
straya
2020-09-07 — 2022-06-30

Blame engineering

On institutions for siphoning blame
adaptive
cooperation
culture
economics
engineering
ethics
incentive mechanisms
institutions
tail risk
wonk
2020-04-27 — 2022-06-30

Inverse problems

functional analysis
linear algebra
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
2016-03-30 — 2022-06-30

Betting

diy
finance
money
probability
2017-05-09 — 2022-06-27

Gender identity

Political and/or empirical engagement therewith
culture
diy
extended self
gender
gene
sex
sociology
wonk
2017-08-13 — 2022-06-25

Invasive arguments

Inflammatory topics, toxplasmic incidents. Weeds in public discourse
adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
game theory
hidden variables
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
networks
social graph
sociology
virality
wonk
2021-12-20 — 2022-06-25

Stochastic signal sampling

Discrete sample representation of continuous stochastic processes
dynamical systems
Hilbert space
signal processing
statistics
time series
2017-05-30 — 2022-06-24

Signal sampling

Discrete representation of continuous signals and converse
dynamical systems
functional analysis
Hilbert space
signal processing
statistics
time series
2017-05-30 — 2022-06-24

Tokenism or table stakes?

“The least you can do” is the minimum unviable product
communicating
cooperation
culture
economics
mind
wonk
2021-12-20 — 2022-06-23

Social justice games, colonial games

Collective action for mutually assured destruction
communicating
cooperation
culture
economics
evolution
game theory
mind
wonk
2022-07-08 — 2022-06-23

Generic dependency managers

computers are awful
python
2021-05-03 — 2022-06-17

Workhacks

How to succeed in business (with or without trying)
communicating
cooperation
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
institutions
mind
money
networks
rhetoric
2020-07-19 — 2022-06-14

Political axes, political correlations

Dimensionality reduction for the Great Society
collective knowledge
culture
economics
ethics
wonk
2021-03-01 — 2022-06-12

Pluralistic ignorance, silent majorities, spiral of silence, hidden tribes

We all believe that we all believe what we do not believe
causality
collective knowledge
cooperation
distributed
insurgency
mind
networks
2020-06-03 — 2022-06-11

Institutions

Stable orbits in human systems
cooperation
economics
hand wringing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
snarks
wonk
2014-10-29 — 2022-06-10

HDF5

A data format I need to know about
computers are awful
data sets
standards
2020-06-17 — 2022-06-08

Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods

Bayes
estimator distribution
generative
Markov processes
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
2017-08-28 — 2022-06-08

Markov decision problems

bandit problems
control
dynamical systems
linear algebra
optimization
probability
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
stringology
time series
2014-11-27 — 2022-06-07

Plants

gender
gene
life
photon choreography
self similar
sex
star omics
wonk
2020-05-28 — 2022-06-02

The Illawarra

The cheaper bit underneath Sydney comprising Wollongong etc
diy
place
policy
straya
wonk
2022-05-27 — 2022-05-27

Machine learning and statistics in Julia

computers are awful
julia
neural nets
number crunching
optimization
premature optimization
python
statistics
2019-11-27 — 2022-05-27

Emergent spacetime

What are qubits again?
functional analysis
geometry
networks
physics
probability
quantum
statistics
statmech
2022-05-26 — 2022-05-26

Stochastic partial differential equations

SDEs taking values in some function space
Banach space
dynamical systems
Hilbert space
Lévy processes
probability
SDEs
signal processing
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2021-01-27 — 2022-05-25

Applied psephology

Bayes
hidden variables
hierarchical models
insurgency
networks
regression
statistics
wonk
2016-07-12 — 2022-05-25

Public speech norms as compatibility problem

Postel vs postal, legibility vs intelligibility
bandit problems
boring
bounded compute
communicating
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
faster pussycat
institutions
mind
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
standards
wonk
writing
2020-02-01 — 2022-05-25

Funerals and other end-of-life stuff

Services, enduring guardianships, wills, burials cremations, esp in New South Wales
diy
economics
fashion
sustainability
2022-05-21 — 2022-05-21

GUIs for numerical array data

computers are awful
data sets
number crunching
spatial
statistics
UI
2015-03-04 — 2022-05-19

Database and data file GUIs

computers are awful
data sets
statistics
UI
2015-03-04 — 2022-05-19

Crowd-sourced science

buzzword
collective knowledge
distributed
economics
game theory
how do science
information provenance
spatial
the rather superior sort of city
2015-08-11 — 2022-05-17

Memetics

Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc
adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
hidden variables
incentive mechanisms
institutions
learning
mind
networks
social graph
sociology
virality
wonk
2020-01-30 — 2022-05-14

Email

Doing email better, or better, not doing email at all
communicating
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
encryption
faster pussycat
office
2015-01-14 — 2022-05-10

System identification using particle filters

A.k.a. parameter estimation in data assimilation
Bayes
Monte Carlo
particle
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sciml
signal processing
state space models
statistics
time series
2014-07-25 — 2022-05-04

(Discrete-measure)-valued stochastic processes

classification
machine learning
nonparametric
probability
regression
SDEs
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
uncertainty
2019-10-10 — 2022-05-04

Forecasting with model averaging

Mixtures of experts and regression ensembles applied to time series forecasting
dynamical systems
model selection
particle
regression
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2022-05-04 — 2022-05-04

Measure-valued stochastic processes

Moving masses
functional analysis
kernel tricks
machine learning
nonparametric
PDEs
physics
point processes
probability
regression
SDEs
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
uncertainty
2020-10-16 — 2022-05-03

Linux audio

Making sound by banging rocks together 44 thousand times per second
computers are awful
diy
making things
music
2018-04-23 — 2022-05-01

knitr/RMarkdown etc

faster pussycat
how do science
premature optimization
R
workflow
2020-02-02 — 2022-04-30

Farming and husbandry of black swans and dragon kings

Heavy tailed and Knightian uncertainties for fun and profit
catastrophe
density
economics
how do science
incentive mechanisms
markets
probability
tail risk
statistics
2020-09-22 — 2022-04-30

Causal graphical model reading group 2022

Causal inference
algebra
how do science
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2022-04-01 — 2022-04-29

Generalized Bayesian Computation

approximation
Bayes
functional analysis
generative
how do science
measure
metrics
Monte Carlo
nonparametric
probability
statistics
stochastic processes
2019-10-03 — 2022-04-28

Inference without KL divergence

approximation
Bayes
how do science
measure
metrics
Monte Carlo
probability
statistics
2019-10-03 — 2022-04-28

SLAM

Simultaneous Location and Mapping
algebra
approximation
Bayes
distributed
dynamical systems
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
Hilbert space
linear algebra
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
swarm
time series
2014-11-25 — 2022-04-28

Vecchia factoring of GP likelihoods

Ignore some conditioning in the dependencies and attain a sparse cholesky factor for the precision matrix
algebra
approximation
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
statistics
2022-04-27 — 2022-04-27

Synchrony between things, especially organisms

Entrainment, synchronisation, dancing together
dynamical systems
making things
music
signal processing
sync
2014-11-03 — 2022-04-23

Utopian governance

Hedonistic mechanism design
economics
extended self
incentive mechanisms
institutions
markets
money
wonk
2020-05-04 — 2022-04-22

Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds

Information cascades
cooperation
culture
democracy
distributed
economics
extended self
rhetoric
sociology
squad
wonk
2019-09-22 — 2022-04-22

Hierarchical models

DAGs, multilevel models, random coefficient models, mixed effect models, structural equation models…
hidden variables
hierarchical models
machine learning
meta learning
networks
probability
regression
statistics
2015-06-07 — 2022-04-21

Model fairness

adversarial
game theory
machine learning
wonk
2018-11-29 — 2022-04-21

Social media if you must

Harm minimisation for corporate social network users
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
diy
doing internet
fit
mind
wonk
2017-04-05 — 2022-04-21

Markov bridge processes

Especially Lévy bridges, Doob h-transforms
Lévy processes
point processes
probability
spatial
stochastic processes
2019-10-15 — 2022-04-20

Email clients

communicating
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
encryption
faster pussycat
office
UI
2020-04-21 — 2022-04-18

Tracking my website traffic

Optimising scarce attention into the shopping cart widget
computers are awful together
faster pussycat
UI
workflow
2021-01-30 — 2022-04-16

Social norms

culture
economics
ethics
institutions
mind
networks
social graph
standards
virality
2019-10-07 — 2022-04-13

Application firewalls

Spyware mitigation and bandwidth management
computers are awful
macos
2019-06-03 — 2022-04-10

This is a simulation

Can the automaton learn to play the game of life?
complexity
compsci
economics
how do science
innovation
mind
pseudorandomness
quantum
statmech
technology
2017-04-04 — 2022-04-09

Beta Processes

algebra
geometry
linear algebra
Lévy processes
measure
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
stochastic processes
time series
2019-10-14 — 2022-04-08

Stationary Gamma processes

algebra
geometry
linear algebra
Lévy processes
measure
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
stochastic processes
time series
2019-10-14 — 2022-04-08

Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Particle systems as MCMC proposals
algebra
approximation
Bayes
distributed
dynamical systems
generative
graphical models
machine learning
Monte Carlo
networks
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
swarm
time series
2014-07-25 — 2022-04-08

Typesetting algorithms in LaTeX

Pseudocode
compsci
computers are awful
faster pussycat
LaTeX
plain text
typography
UI
workflow
2014-09-08 — 2022-04-08

Bayesian nonparametric statistics

Updating more dimensions than datapoints
Bayes
functional analysis
Gaussian
generative
how do science
Monte Carlo
nonparametric
statistics
stochastic processes
2016-05-30 — 2022-04-07

The levels of simulacra

adaptive
collective knowledge
economics
ethics
evolution
game theory
language
networks
semantics
sociology
2018-12-18 — 2022-04-07

Myths

Aspirationally self-fulfilling narratives, Schelling points in the social construction of reality, stone soups and Tinkerbell effects
culture
making things
mind
rhetoric
sociology
wonk
2022-02-20 — 2022-04-07

Probabilistic neural nets

Inferring distributions in neural nets
Bayes
convolution
density
likelihood free
machine learning
neural nets
nonparametric
sparser than thou
uncertainty
2017-01-11 — 2022-04-07

Plotting for the web

computers are awful
dataviz
faster pussycat
photon choreography
UI
2015-11-20 — 2022-04-05

Playing music on the computer

Continuing difficulty thereof
computers are awful
faster pussycat
making things
music
photon choreography
standards
2014-11-26 — 2022-04-04

Beta and Dirichlet distributions

classification
Lévy processes
probability
stochastic processes
time series
2019-10-14 — 2022-04-04

Attention economy

bandit problems
bounded compute
culture
democracy
economics
mind
rhetoric
sociology
wonk
2012-01-13 — 2022-04-03

Gumbel (soft) max tricks

Concrete distribution, relaxed categorical etc
classification
metrics
probability
statistics
2017-02-20 — 2022-04-01

Change points

Looking for regime changes in stochastic processes. a.k.a. Switching state space models
Bayes
metrics
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2021-11-29 — 2022-04-01

Pólya-Gamma augmentation trick

classification
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
2017-02-20 — 2022-04-01

The language game

Coevolution of words and meanings
adaptive
agents
classification
collective knowledge
communicating
economics
evolution
information
language
learning
mind
networks
social graph
sociology
standards
stringology
virality
2014-12-30 — 2022-04-01

Detecting stationarity in stochastic processes

Change-points, trends and transients
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
metrics
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
2021-11-29 — 2022-04-01

Partition-valued random variates

algebra
graphical models
machine learning
networks
PDEs
physics
point processes
probability
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
uncertainty
2022-04-01 — 2022-04-01

Random binary vectors

The class of distributions that cause you to reinvent Shannon information if you stare at them long enough
classification
compsci
information
metrics
statistics
2017-02-20 — 2022-03-30

Measure-valued random variates

Including completely random measures and many generalizations
functional analysis
kernel tricks
machine learning
nonparametric
PDEs
physics
point processes
probability
regression
SDEs
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
uncertainty
2020-10-16 — 2022-03-30

Cloud ML compute vendors

computers are awful
concurrency hell
distributed
number crunching
premature optimization
workflow
2016-08-23 — 2022-03-29

Reservoir Computing

dynamical systems
feature construction
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probabilistic algorithms
statmech
stochastic processes
2022-03-28 — 2022-03-28

Simulating Gaussian processes

Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
Lévy processes
nonparametric
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2022-03-17 — 2022-03-17

Life-adjusted quality years

Whether to come to our party, if you like parties
diy
fit
health
life
tail risk
social graph
straya
2022-03-11 — 2022-03-15

Multivariate Gamma distributions

algebra
geometry
high d
Lévy processes
measure
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
spheres
stochastic processes
2019-10-14 — 2022-03-14

Wiener-Khintchine representations

Spectral representations of stochastic processes
functional analysis
Hilbert space
optimization
signal processing
stochastic processes
2019-05-08 — 2022-03-11

Sparse coding

Wavelets, matching pursuit, overcomplete dictionaries…
convolution
high d
Hilbert space
linear algebra
nonparametric
optimization
regression
signal processing
sparser than thou
2014-11-18 — 2022-03-07

Survival analysis and reliability

Hazard rates, proportional hazard regression, life testing, mean time to failure
density
nonparametric
point processes
probability
statistics
score function
time series
2019-03-12 — 2022-03-07

QR codes

Subtitles for robots
diy
2019-10-30 — 2022-03-06

Plotting in R

computers are awful
photon choreography
R
statistics
2019-10-13 — 2022-03-05

Self-supervised learning

I just wanna be meeeeee / with high probabilityyy ♬♪
hidden variables
likelihood free
nonparametric
statistics
unsupervised
2022-03-04 — 2022-03-04

Race, politics of

Ethnicity too
communicating
culture
economics
ethics
gene
mind
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
wonk
2021-12-20 — 2022-03-04

Opinion dynamics 1: Social contagion moves hearts and minds

How to win elections and influence people
adaptive
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
economics
hidden variables
how do science
institutions
learning
mind
networks
snarks
sociology
swarm
virality
wonk
2020-08-30 — 2022-03-03

Fun with rotational symmetries

algebra
functional analysis
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
spheres
2021-01-29 — 2022-03-03

Matrix- and vector-valued generalizations of Gamma processes

linear algebra
Lévy processes
probability
stochastic processes
2019-10-14 — 2022-03-03

Lévy Gamma processes

Lévy processes
probability
stochastic processes
time series
2019-10-14 — 2022-03-03

Gaussian processes on lattices

Bayes
dynamical systems
linear algebra
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
time series
2019-10-30 — 2022-02-28

Institutions for devils

agents
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
democracy
distributed
economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
mind
networks
policy
rhetoric
social graph
sociology
wonk
2021-05-01 — 2022-02-28

OODA loops

agents
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
democracy
distributed
dynamical systems
economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
optimization
time series
wonk
2021-05-01 — 2022-02-28

Learning Gaussian processes which map functions to functions

Gaussian
generative
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
kernel tricks
machine learning
PDEs
physics
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2020-12-07 — 2022-02-25

Learning with conservation laws, invariances and symmetries

algebra
how do science
information
machine learning
networks
physics
probability
sciml
statistics
statmech
2020-04-11 — 2022-02-25

Subordinators

Non-decreasing Lévy processes with weird branding
branching
point processes
probability
stochastic processes
2019-10-14 — 2022-02-24

Stability in dynamical systems

Lyapunov exponents and ilk
dynamical systems
functional analysis
probability
statistics
2019-05-21 — 2022-02-22

Adversarial learning

Statistics against Shayṭtān
adversarial
AI
game theory
learning
2016-10-07 — 2022-02-21

Audio sample management

computers are awful
content
data sets
diy
machine listening
making things
music
search
signal processing
2021-09-14 — 2022-02-19

Moral calculus

ethics
machine learning
wonk
2014-08-04 — 2022-02-19

M-estimation

likelihood
optimization
statistics
2016-07-11 — 2022-02-17

Our eating disorder

food
health
mind
2014-11-30 — 2022-02-17

Politics as statistical learner

collective knowledge
ethics
institutions
learning
life
mind
probability
statistics
statmech
2022-01-31 — 2022-02-17

Betting and prediction markets

Market design for good guesses
catastrophe
economics
how do science
incentive mechanisms
markets
probability
tail risk
2017-08-12 — 2022-02-15

Neurons

Neural networks made of real neurons, in functioning brains
compsci
life
machine learning
mind
networks
neuron
2014-11-03 — 2022-02-14

Ergodicity and mixing

Things that probably happen eventually on average
dynamical systems
Markov processes
statmech
time series
2011-10-17 — 2022-02-13

Window management in macOS

computers are awful
diy
macos
POSIX
UI
2020-10-06 — 2022-02-13

Tiling window managers

Desktop management how Pajitnov intended
computers are awful
diy
POSIX
UI
2019-08-13 — 2022-02-13

Diversity in society

Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic
agents
collective knowledge
communicating
cooperation
culture
democracy
distributed
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
mind
networks
policy
rhetoric
sociology
wonk
2017-02-19 — 2022-02-13

Visual node based programming

a.k.a. dataflow graphs, patchers, visual coding, flow-based programming
compsci
computers are awful
making things
signal processing
2020-06-13 — 2022-02-12

Experimental ethics and observational data

communicating
mind
probability
statistics
2011-04-14 — 2022-02-11

Variational inference

On fitting something not too far from a pretty good model that is not too hard
approximation
metrics
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
2016-03-22 — 2022-02-10

Probabilistic graphical models

algebra
graphical models
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2014-08-05 — 2022-02-08

Random graphical models

Causality in amongst confusion
algebra
graphical models
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2021-10-26 — 2022-02-07

Evolution

adaptive
evolution
gene
incentive mechanisms
optimization
2014-11-04 — 2022-02-07

Cryptocurrencies

Imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin
adversarial
computers are awful together
confidentiality
cryptography
incentive mechanisms
money
2016-09-06 — 2022-02-05

Biological phylogeny

how do science
life
self similar
star omics
topology
2016-10-06 — 2022-02-05

Teaching

How-to
academe
communicating
faster pussycat
learning
mind
2020-02-11 — 2022-02-05

Outsourcing, applied

economics
faster pussycat
making things
money
2021-02-27 — 2022-02-05

Visualising geospatial data

Geographic information systems, or, as we in the trade refer to them, “maps”
communicating
computers are awful
dataviz
faster pussycat
generative art
making things
photon choreography
spatial
2016-07-04 — 2022-02-02

Sociology and politics of information

Epistemic democracy, cognitive democracy, the great society
adaptive
collective knowledge
distributed
economics
hidden variables
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
networks
social graph
sociology
virality
wonk
2022-01-09 — 2022-02-02

Neural nets with basis decomposition layers

convolution
dynamical systems
Hilbert space
linear algebra
machine learning
neural nets
nonparametric
optimization
regression
signal processing
sparser than thou
statmech
stochastic processes
2021-03-09 — 2022-02-01

Here’s how I would do art with machine learning if I had to

buzzword
computers are awful
generative art
machine learning
making things
music
neural nets
photon choreography
2016-06-06 — 2022-02-01

Karhunen-Loève expansions

convolution
functional analysis
Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
metrics
nonparametric
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
2019-09-16 — 2022-02-01

Running neural nets backwards

dynamical systems
linear algebra
machine learning
neural nets
optimization
regression
signal processing
sparser than thou
statmech
stochastic processes
2022-01-29 — 2022-01-29

Spatial processes and statistics thereof

data sets
Gaussian
Hilbert space
spatial
standards
statistics
2011-07-29 — 2022-01-28

Bootstrap

Shuffling reality to produce your data
estimator distribution
nonparametric
probabilistic algorithms
statistics
uncertainty
2014-11-26 — 2022-01-27

Learning on manifolds

Finding the lowest bit of a krazy straw, from the inside
functional analysis
Gaussian
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
kernel tricks
machine learning
networks
PDEs
physics
regression
signal processing
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
uncertainty
2011-10-21 — 2022-01-26

Psychometrics

Dimensionality reduction for souls
gene
mind
statistics
2017-10-31 — 2022-01-26

Prepping for the end of (my access to) the (industrialised) world

catastrophe
cooperation
economics
fashion
hand wringing
social graph
wonk
2016-06-19 — 2022-01-24

Quantum computing

compsci
physics
quantum
statmech
2017-12-14 — 2022-01-21

Feedback system identification, linear

calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
Lévy processes
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
surrogate
time series
uncertainty
2016-07-27 — 2022-01-21

(Outlier) robust statistics

functional analysis
likelihood
optimization
statistics
2014-11-25 — 2022-01-21

E-readers

Very expensive paper substitute that breaks if I drop it
academe
computers are awful
faster pussycat
information provenance
learning
UI
workflow
2016-04-11 — 2022-01-20

Dunning-Kruger theory of institutions

Lay theories of social mechanisms
cooperation
culture
evolution
how do science
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
snarks
wonk
2022-01-20 — 2022-01-20

Dunning-Kruger theory of society

Lay theories of groups
cooperation
culture
how do science
incentive mechanisms
mind
snarks
wonk
2022-01-20 — 2022-01-20

Android hacks

computers are awful
portable
2019-02-23 — 2022-01-19

Care and feeding of macOS filesystems

computers are awful
macos
standards
2016-08-04 — 2022-01-19

Docker containerized apps (for scientists)

Doing things that previously took 0.5 computers using 0.4 computers
computers are awful
diy
2015-11-05 — 2022-01-19

Software package managers

computers are awful
premature optimization
2019-06-15 — 2022-01-19

Risk perception and communication

catastrophe
communicating
mind
probability
tail risk
statistics
wonk
2011-04-14 — 2022-01-17

Sex and sexology

Incorporating smut, lewdness, and prurience
gender
life
sex
wonk
2020-06-07 — 2022-01-17

Faust, the DSP language

making things
music
signal processing
2016-08-22 — 2022-01-16

Bounded rationality

Plus miscellaneous rationality postulates restricting von Neumann-Morgenstern
bounded compute
economics
mind
sociology
2012-01-13 — 2022-01-15

Social psychology

Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated?
cooperation
culture
economics
ethics
how do science
mind
networks
rhetoric
snarks
social graph
sociology
wonk
2017-02-20 — 2022-01-14

Bayesian inverse problems

functional analysis
linear algebra
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
2016-03-30 — 2022-01-13

Gamma-Beta algebra

classification
Lévy processes
measure
probability
stochastic processes
time series
2019-10-14 — 2022-01-12

Categorical random variates

classification
metrics
probability
regression
statistics
2017-02-20 — 2022-01-12

Hardened desktop operating systems

Also amnesiac and/or anonymous
computers are awful
confidentiality
wonk
2019-09-11 — 2022-01-11

Statistical projectivity

distributed
networks
probability
statistics
2020-04-26 — 2022-01-11

Standards hell

Lock-in, QWERTY, fragmentation problems etc
culture
economics
game theory
institutions
networks
standards
2015-01-05 — 2022-01-11

Models of the mind

collective knowledge
life
mind
probability
statistics
statmech
2022-01-09 — 2022-01-09

Presentations

Slide decks and other stylised academic dominance displays
academe
communicating
faster pussycat
office
photon choreography
standards
2015-06-01 — 2022-01-09

R packaging, installation etc

computers are awful
R
statistics
2020-11-30 — 2022-01-07

Matrix-valued random variates

algebra
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
probability
signal processing
spheres
statistics
stochastic processes
2021-12-01 — 2022-01-06

Stickers

Printouts that you do not lose because they are adhered to a very large thing
diy
making things
2020-01-31 — 2022-01-05

Music software frameworks

and programming languages, for music
computers are awful
lua
making things
music
signal processing
2016-08-22 — 2022-01-05

Apple laptops

Wish list, hi-fi
diy
hardware
music
2019-02-12 — 2022-01-05

Backups

Version control for horrible data
computers are awful
2015-01-03 — 2022-01-05

Group size

Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
extended self
mind
networks
rhetoric
snarks
social graph
sociology
squad
wonk
2011-12-09 — 2022-01-02

Top influences of 2021

Content that changed my life this year, and which also might change yours
making things
review
2021-12-25 — 2021-12-25

Time frequency analysis

Multiplying your exposure to uncertainty principles
functional analysis
Hilbert space
probability
signal processing
2018-01-06 — 2021-12-21

Garbled highlights from NeurIPS 2021

neural nets
statistics
2021-11-05 — 2021-12-15

Diversity as an end in itself

On a rich and vibrant ecosystem of culture and thought
agents
collective knowledge
communicating
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
faster pussycat
game theory
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
mind
networks
policy
rhetoric
sociology
wonk
2021-12-13 — 2021-12-13

Causality via potential outcomes

Neyman-Rubin, counterfactuals, conditional treatment effects, and related tricks
algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2016-10-26 — 2021-12-10

Gradient descent, Newton-like, stochastic

functional analysis
neural nets
optimization
SDEs
stochastic processes
2020-01-23 — 2021-12-09

Variational state filtering

Bayes
dynamical systems
linear algebra
optimization
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
time series
2018-03-19 — 2021-12-08

Bundled/ packaged apps for Linux

On unifying the existing 3 app distribution stand ards by adding 3 additionll app distribution standards 12
computers are awful
diy
2019-08-10 — 2021-12-02

Convolutional subordinator processes

functional analysis
kernel tricks
machine learning
PDEs
physics
point processes
regression
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
uncertainty
2021-03-08 — 2021-12-01

Random rotations

algebra
functional analysis
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
spheres
2021-05-18 — 2021-12-01

Multi-output Gaussian process regression

Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2020-12-02 — 2021-11-26

Sydney food suppliers

Practical bulk budget Sydney gourmet
diy
food
making things
straya
2016-10-15 — 2021-11-25

Gaussian Processes as stochastic differential equations

Imposing time on things
algebra
approximation
Bayes
distributed
dynamical systems
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
linear algebra
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
sciml
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2019-09-18 — 2021-11-25

Ensembling neural nets

Monte Carlo
Bayes
machine learning
neural nets
particle
2020-12-14 — 2021-11-25

t-processes, t-distributions

Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
Lévy processes
nonparametric
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2021-11-10 — 2021-11-24

Windows Subsystem for Linux

computers are awful
MS Windows
POSIX
2021-01-14 — 2021-11-23

Convolutional neural networks

machine learning
neural nets
signal processing
2017-11-10 — 2021-11-21

Gamification

“Belated Blogging of a Buzzword” achievement unlocked
bandit problems
mind
reinforcement learning
UI
wonk
2019-10-27 — 2021-11-18

Lévy processes

Stochastic processes with independent increments, jump diffusion
branching
Lévy processes
point processes
probability
spatial
statmech
stochastic processes
2017-05-29 — 2021-11-17

Financing utopia

Hedonistic mechanism design
economics
incentive mechanisms
institutions
markets
money
2015-02-16 — 2021-11-12

Cooperation amongst humans

cooperation
culture
economics
evolution
extended self
social graph
wonk
2014-11-04 — 2021-11-12

Energy-based models.

approximation
Bayes
generative
likelihood free
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
unsupervised
2020-12-10 — 2021-11-11

Deep generative models

approximation
Bayes
generative
likelihood free
Monte Carlo
neural nets
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
unsupervised
2020-12-10 — 2021-11-11

Digital nostalgia

Pixel art, geocities chic, cyberpunk retrofuturism
computers are awful
information provenance
making things
2020-05-15 — 2021-11-09

Sexy plants

gender
gene
life
photon choreography
self similar
sex
star omics
wonk
2020-05-28 — 2021-11-02

Teaching and doing mathematics remotely

academe
communicating
mind
photon choreography
UI
2020-03-16 — 2021-10-28

Spectral graph theory

Linear signals on graphs
algebra
clustering
linear algebra
networks
topology
2014-11-24 — 2021-10-27

Better homes and societies

On destinations
economics
extended self
mind
policy
wonk
2017-11-01 — 2021-10-27

Probably Approximately Correct

machine learning
optimization
statistics
2014-11-25 — 2021-10-27

Survey modelling

Adjusting for the Lizardman constant
Bayes
confidentiality
hidden variables
hierarchical models
mind
networks
ordinal
regression
sociology
statistics
wonk
2019-08-29 — 2021-10-24

First aid

If you are checking this webpage while your colleague bleeds out, you are doing it wrong
diy
health
how do science
2019-02-12 — 2021-10-22

Eyewear

fashion
gear
health
2020-09-14 — 2021-10-21

German

Für Konsonantkenner
language
learning
mitteleuropa
2014-10-17 — 2021-10-20

Networks and graphs, theory thereof

clustering
dynamical systems
networks
topology
2014-11-24 — 2021-10-20

Knowledge geometry

collective knowledge
how do science
stringology
topology
2012-05-23 — 2021-10-20

Economics on networks

culture
economics
game theory
institutions
mind
networks
standards
2020-05-17 — 2021-10-16

Neural music synthesis

algebra
generative art
machine learning
machine listening
making things
music
networks
probability
signal processing
statistics
2016-01-15 — 2021-10-14

Fun with determinants

Especially Jacobian determinants
algebra
functional analysis
Gaussian
Hilbert space
linear algebra
2011-04-06 — 2021-10-12

Random neural networks

dynamical systems
feature construction
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probabilistic algorithms
statmech
stochastic processes
2017-02-17 — 2021-10-12

Dual booting MS Windows and linux

compsci
computers are awful
MS Windows
POSIX
premature optimization
2014-10-15 — 2021-10-11

Printing

Offline backups that do not need batteries
diy
making things
2018-10-03 — 2021-10-11

Planning under uncertainty

Transcending planning-though-hope-and-haruspicy
Bayes
collective knowledge
economics
how do science
mind
sociology
2020-04-23 — 2021-10-10

Multilinear algebra

Outer products, tensors, einstein summation
algebra
functional analysis
Hilbert space
linear algebra
2021-10-08 — 2021-10-08

Missing data

Imputation, estimation despite etc
hidden variables
hierarchical models
machine learning
networks
probability
regression
statistics
2021-10-07 — 2021-10-07

Gradient descent at scale

Practical implementation of large optimisations
functional analysis
machine learning
model selection
optimization
premature optimization
statmech
2021-07-14 — 2021-09-28

Regularising neural networks

Generalisation for street fighters
machine learning
model selection
neural nets
sparser than thou
2017-02-12 — 2021-09-24

Science for policy

Using evidence and reason to govern ourselves
catastrophe
communicating
economics
ethics
how do science
mind
probability
tail risk
statistics
wonk
2011-08-07 — 2021-09-22

Fractals and self-similarity

model selection
photon choreography
regression
self similar
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2011-11-13 — 2021-09-22

Economics of automation

When to the robots come for my job?
economics
faster pussycat
innovation
language
machine learning
mind
neural nets
technology
UI
2021-09-20 — 2021-09-20

Arpeggiate by numbers

Workaday automatic composition and sequencing
algebra
generative art
making things
music
stringology
2015-01-08 — 2021-09-20

Hygienic masks

Medical/anti-infectious masks
diy
fashion
fit
health
2020-08-01 — 2021-09-20

Approximate Bayesian Computation

Posterior updates without likelihood
Bayes
feature construction
likelihood free
machine learning
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
time series
2020-08-25 — 2021-09-20

Heavy tails

Weird things about rare massive events
density
point processes
probability
tail risk
statistics
2020-01-13 — 2021-09-18

GIFs

computers are awful
photon choreography
premature optimization
standards
2019-11-11 — 2021-09-17

Software engineering for scientists

academe
collective knowledge
computers are awful
how do science
information provenance
workflow
2016-06-07 — 2021-09-16

Meta learning

Few-shot learning, learning fast weights, learning to learn
functional analysis
how do science
meta learning
model selection
optimization
statmech
2021-09-16 — 2021-09-16

Biological basis of language

Neurology, evolution and ecology of our memes
grammar
language
machine learning
NLP
stringology
2018-01-11 — 2021-09-16

Natural language processing

Automatic processing of words and sentences and such
grammar
language
machine learning
NLP
stringology
2018-01-11 — 2021-09-16

Fractional differential equations

branching
calculus
functional analysis
Hilbert space
self similar
statistics
2016-03-22 — 2021-09-13

User interface design

computers are awful
photon choreography
UI
2021-09-13 — 2021-09-13

Maths hacks

faster pussycat
mathematics
2016-08-18 — 2021-09-08

Software video routers

making things
music
signal processing
2017-06-03 — 2021-09-08

Wirtinger calculus

It’s not complicated / It’s complex
functional analysis
Hilbert space
optimization
2019-05-08 — 2021-09-07

Recurrent neural networks

machine learning
networks
neural nets
signal processing
time series
2016-06-16 — 2021-09-06

Governance of the commons

On the mysterious fact that most people get on with most of their neighbours most of the time
cooperation
culture
distributed
economics
hand wringing
incentive mechanisms
mind
networks
policy
sociology
wonk
2014-10-29 — 2021-09-02

Path smoothness properties of stochastic processes

Continuity, differentiability and other smoothness properties
functional analysis
probability
stochastic processes
time series
2020-02-26 — 2021-09-02

Cloud machine learning

Cloudimificating my artificial data learning intelligence brain clever science analyticserisation
computers are awful
concurrency hell
distributed
number crunching
premature optimization
workflow
2016-08-23 — 2021-09-01

Stochastic calculus

Itô and friends
dynamical systems
Lévy processes
probability
SDEs
signal processing
stochastic processes
time series
2019-09-19 — 2021-08-31

VS Code as R IDE

computers are awful
number crunching
plain text
R
statistics
UI
workflow
2021-10-06 — 2021-08-22

Baby’s first private cloud

computers are awful together
confidentiality
cryptography
wonk
2021-08-08 — 2021-08-20

X11, Wayland etc

The other antiquated windowing system
computers are awful
diy
POSIX
UI
2019-08-13 — 2021-08-18

Vector Gaussian processses

Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2020-12-02 — 2021-08-16

Convolutional stochastic processes

Moving averages of noise
Gaussian
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
kernel tricks
machine learning
PDEs
physics
regression
signal processing
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
uncertainty
2021-03-01 — 2021-08-16

Essays in stochastic processes

My PhD thesis with Zdravko I. Botev
count data
regression
sparser than thou
time series
2020-08-13 — 2021-08-13

Virtual private networks

More options for internet privacy
computers are awful together
confidentiality
cryptography
diy
2017-04-15 — 2021-08-12

Design grammars

generative art
grammar
making things
photon choreography
self similar
stringology
2011-05-30 — 2021-08-09

Grammar induction

generative art
grammar
language
machine learning
stringology
2011-05-30 — 2021-08-09

Risk neutral measure

diy
finance
money
probability
2021-10-15 — 2021-08-08

Hardened mobile

Trusting the computer that follows you around all day
computers are awful
confidentiality
edge computing
encryption
2015-02-15 — 2021-08-07

Generalized linear models

machine learning
optimization
regression
statistics
2016-03-24 — 2021-08-05

GPU computation

computers are awful
concurrency hell
number crunching
premature optimization
2014-10-07 — 2021-08-04

Sequential experiments

Especially multiple sequential experiments
functional analysis
how do science
model selection
optimization
statmech
surrogate
2021-08-04 — 2021-08-04

System76 laptops

Luxury linux
compsci
computers are awful
hardware
POSIX
premature optimization
2018-05-28 — 2021-08-03

Unix/linux distros explained as bikes

computers are awful
diy
POSIX
snarks
2021-08-02 — 2021-08-02

Games, computer, recreational

computers are awful
lua
mind
2020-01-22 — 2021-08-02

Contact tracing

Reverse engineering social graphs for the control of contagions of pathogens, subversive ideology and other substances of interest
branching
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
count data
health
life
networks
stochastic processes
time series
wonk
2020-03-21 — 2021-07-28

Generic cloud machines

computers are awful
concurrency hell
number crunching
premature optimization
workflow
2016-08-23 — 2021-07-26

Publication bias

Replication crises, P-values, bitching about journals, other debilities of contemporary science at large
collective knowledge
how do science
information provenance
statistics
2016-08-30 — 2021-07-22

Science

History, sociology and philosophy thereof
academe
agents
collective knowledge
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
how do science
incentive mechanisms
information provenance
institutions
mind
networks
sociology
wonk
2017-07-08 — 2021-07-21

IDEs for R

Friendly UIs for the almost-friendly statistical programming language
computers are awful
number crunching
R
statistics
2011-08-07 — 2021-07-18

Contagion processes and their statistics

branching
count data
networks
probability
SDEs
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
virality
2016-08-30 — 2021-07-15

Media virality

Strategic modelling for content creators
branching
computers are awful together
confidentiality
count data
democracy
economics
evolution
game theory
insurgency
networks
P2P
probability
SDEs
social graph
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
virality
wonk
2016-08-30 — 2021-07-15

Learning summary statistics

feature construction
functional analysis
linear algebra
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probability
sciml
sparser than thou
statistics
topology
2020-04-22 — 2021-07-15

GPU computation out of the cloud

How is deep learning awful this time?
computers are awful
concurrency hell
premature optimization
2017-03-23 — 2021-07-15

Multi-task ML

edge computing
machine learning
neural nets
regression
sparser than thou
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2021-07-14 — 2021-07-14

Tensorflow

The framework to use for deep learning if you groupthink like Google
computers are awful
neural nets
optimization
premature optimization
python
statistics
2016-07-11 — 2021-07-07

Point process intensities and statistical estimation thereof

branching
point processes
spatial
statmech
2016-08-01 — 2021-07-07

Monetizing my music

economics
intellectual property
making things
money
music
2015-05-03 — 2021-07-07

Graph sampling

Estimating functionals of graphs
distributed
networks
probability
statistics
2020-02-15 — 2021-07-06

Semi/weakly-supervised learning

On extracting nutrition from bullshit
density
hidden variables
statistics
unsupervised
2017-07-24 — 2021-07-05

Applied string mangling

Regexes, parsing, tokenising etc
compsci
language
networks
stringology
2019-12-09 — 2021-07-05

Moral philosophy

collective knowledge
culture
economics
ethics
machine learning
wonk
2014-08-04 — 2021-07-01

Extreme value theory

On the decay of awfulness with oftenness
density
point processes
probability
tail risk
statistics
2020-01-13 — 2021-06-30

Distributed sensing, swarm sensing, adaptive social learning

agents
bounded compute
collective knowledge
concurrency hell
distributed
economics
edge computing
extended self
game theory
incentive mechanisms
machine learning
networks
swarm
2014-10-14 — 2021-06-28

Algebraic probability

If you liked it then you prob’ly put a ring on it
algebra
probability
2017-06-15 — 2021-06-24

Marine biology and ecology

adaptive
ecology
gene
life
2021-06-24 — 2021-06-24

Gaussian processes

Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
Lévy processes
nonparametric
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2016-08-07 — 2021-06-23

ML Koans

Passing through the NAND-gate
machine learning
neural nets
2021-06-23 — 2021-06-23

Stochastic differential equations

dynamical systems
Lévy processes
probability
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
stochastic processes
time series
2019-09-19 — 2021-06-22

Backward stochastic differential equations

dynamical systems
Lévy processes
probability
SDEs
signal processing
stochastic processes
time series
2019-09-19 — 2021-06-22

Learning on tabular data

approximation
Bayes
clustering
high d
linear algebra
networks
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
2020-11-30 — 2021-06-21

Random-forest-like methods

An optimally-weighted average of randomly stopped clocks is never far from wrong.
classification
model selection
nonparametric
optimization
particle
regression
2015-09-23 — 2021-06-17

Voice fakes

dynamical systems
language
machine learning
NLP
optimization
signal processing
time series
2018-09-06 — 2021-06-17

Organising a music collection

Also guessing missing metadata
computers are awful
faster pussycat
making things
music
search
signal processing
standards
2020-01-03 — 2021-06-14

Optimal transport metrics

Wasserstein distances, Monge-Kantorovich metrics, Earthmover distances
approximation
functional analysis
measure
metrics
optimization
probability
statistics
2019-05-30 — 2021-06-08

Energy based models

Inference with kinda-tractable un-normalized densities
approximation
Bayes
generative
Monte Carlo
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
statmech
2021-06-07 — 2021-06-07

Ecology

adaptive
ecology
gene
life
2015-01-27 — 2021-06-01

What is your Sydney housing endgame?

cooperation
culture
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
making things
policy
spatial
straya
wonk
2021-04-11 — 2021-05-26

Isotropic random vectors

algebra
functional analysis
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
spheres
2011-08-10 — 2021-05-24

Neural net kernels

Hilbert space
kernel tricks
machine learning
metrics
probabilistic algorithms
signal processing
spheres
statistics
stochastic processes
2019-09-16 — 2021-05-24

Randomized low dimensional projections

algebra
approximation
feature construction
functional analysis
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
metrics
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
spheres
2021-03-12 — 2021-05-24

Burning bootable USB drives, SD cards etc

computers are awful
diy
2021-05-23 — 2021-05-24

Transforms of random variates

Hilbert space
Lévy processes
Markov processes
probability
SDEs
stochastic processes
2020-06-04 — 2021-05-14

Cross validation

estimator distribution
linear algebra
model selection
probability
statistics
2016-09-05 — 2021-05-13

Complexity of markets

Computation in economic mechanisms
economics
incentive mechanisms
institutions
markets
money
2021-02-20 — 2021-05-13

Deep Gaussian process regression

Gaussian
generative
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
regression
spatial
stochastic processes
time series
2021-05-13 — 2021-05-13

Infinite width limits of neural networks

algebra
Bayes
feature construction
functional analysis
Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
machine learning
metrics
model selection
neural nets
nonparametric
probabilistic algorithms
SDEs
stochastic processes
2020-12-09 — 2021-05-11

Computational symbolic mathematics

Cheating at calculus exams
algebra
compsci
computers are awful
stringology
2016-10-13 — 2021-05-11

Compressing neural nets

pruning, compacting and otherwise fitting a good estimate into fewer parameters
edge computing
machine learning
model selection
neural nets
sparser than thou
2016-10-14 — 2021-05-07

Spectral factorization

dynamical systems
linear algebra
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2021-05-05 — 2021-05-07

Wiener-Hopf method

Righteous hack for certain integral equations
dynamical systems
linear algebra
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2021-05-05 — 2021-05-05

Fourier transforms

functional analysis
Hilbert space
linear algebra
signal processing
sparser than thou
2021-01-29 — 2021-04-26

LaTeX Installation

computers are awful
faster pussycat
LaTeX
2019-11-20 — 2021-04-19

Path integral formulations of SDEs

Feynman path integrals, esp for stochastic processes
dynamical systems
probability
SDEs
statmech
stochastic processes
time series
2021-04-19 — 2021-04-19

Cats

fit
health
2021-04-14 — 2021-04-14

Differentiable model selection

Differentiable hyperparameter search, and architecture search, and optimisation optimisation by optimisation and so on
functional analysis
how do science
model selection
optimization
statmech
2020-09-25 — 2021-04-13

Prediction processes

Some kind of weird time series formalism
dynamical systems
energy
mind
probability
statistics
statmech
2021-04-09 — 2021-04-09

Dynamical systems via Koopman operators

Composition operators, Dynamic Extended Mode decompositions…
dynamical systems
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
regression
signal processing
statistics
time series
2020-10-13 — 2021-04-09

Kernel zoo

Hilbert space
kernel tricks
metrics
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
2019-09-16 — 2021-03-30

Colour

making things
mind
perception
sparser than thou
2015-04-08 — 2021-03-24

Generically approximating probability distributions

approximation
functional analysis
metrics
model selection
optimization
probability
statistics
2021-03-12 — 2021-03-22

Assorted laws and paradoxes

Mostly-eponymous laws I would confound without this note
economics
language
mind
2019-12-22 — 2021-03-18

Determinantal point processes

linear algebra
Monte Carlo
point processes
2018-07-31 — 2021-03-16

Technopoetics

language
making things
mind
2016-07-26 — 2021-03-12

Statistics, computational complexity thereof

machine learning
statistics
2020-11-03 — 2021-03-10

Matrix measure concentration inequalities and bounds

dynamical systems
functional analysis
high d
linear algebra
model selection
probability
stochastic processes
2014-11-25 — 2021-03-08

Measure concentration inequalities

The fancy name for probability inequalities
approximation
dynamical systems
functional analysis
measure
metrics
model selection
probability
stochastic processes
2014-11-25 — 2021-03-04

Sauna

sweating, deliberately
health
straya
2017-04-06 — 2021-03-03

Mind reading by computer

The ultimate inverse problem
life
machine learning
mind
neuron
photon choreography
statistics
2017-07-01 — 2021-03-03

Memory in machine learning

language
machine learning
neural nets
NLP
2021-03-03 — 2021-03-03

Convolutional Gaussian processes

Gaussian
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
kernel tricks
machine learning
PDEs
physics
regression
signal processing
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2021-03-01 — 2021-03-01

Random fields as stochastic differential equations

Precision vs covariance, fight!
Bayes
dynamical systems
edge computing
linear algebra
probability
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2020-10-12 — 2021-03-01

Stochastic processes on manifolds

Gaussian
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
kernel tricks
machine learning
PDEs
physics
regression
signal processing
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
uncertainty
2021-03-01 — 2021-03-01

Learning covariance functions

Learning a family of covariances at once
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
metrics
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
2019-09-16 — 2021-03-01

Frames and Riesz bases

Generalisations of orthogonal bases
functional analysis
Hilbert space
linear algebra
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
2017-06-12 — 2021-02-24

Causal inference in the continuous limit

algebra
functional analysis
how do science
machine learning
networks
neural nets
PDEs
probability
sciml
statistics
stochastic processes
2021-02-17 — 2021-02-17

Stability in linear dynamical systems

This Bodes well
dynamical systems
functional analysis
Hilbert space
probability
statistics
2019-07-19 — 2021-02-16

Chaos expansions

Polynomial chaos, generalized polynomial chaos, arbitrary chaos etc
Bayes
Hilbert space
Lévy processes
Markov processes
probability
SDEs
stochastic processes
2020-05-21 — 2021-02-15

Office software

A short note to remind myself how to communicate with people who are compelled to use word processors
computers are awful
faster pussycat
number crunching
office
UI
2021-02-12 — 2021-02-12

Make your own podcast why not

content
music
2017-05-11 — 2021-02-09

Online collaboration

Remote work
academe
communicating
computers are awful together
distributed
diy
mind
UI
2020-06-01 — 2021-02-03

Integral transforms

functional analysis
Hilbert space
linear algebra
signal processing
sparser than thou
2021-01-29 — 2021-01-30

Feynman-Kac formulae

side order of Fokker-Planck
Bayes
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
state space models
statistics
swarm
time series
2021-01-27 — 2021-01-27

Miscellaneous nonstationary kernels

Hilbert space
kernel tricks
metrics
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
2019-09-16 — 2021-01-21

Warping of stationary stochastic processes

Hilbert space
kernel tricks
metrics
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
2019-09-16 — 2021-01-21

Running a secure server

and other self-hosting madness
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
security
2015-12-04 — 2021-01-19

Bayesians vs frequentists

Just because we both get the same answer doesn’t mean neither of us is wrong
how do science
statistics
2014-11-25 — 2021-01-14

Auditory features

descriptors, maps, representations for audio
computers are awful
machine learning
machine listening
making things
music
signal processing
2019-11-13 — 2021-01-14

Browse the internet for me

Introducing modern automation to the ancient handicrafts of serfing the web and tilling the clickfarm
browser
computers are awful together
confidentiality
diy
doing internet
faster pussycat
2016-06-17 — 2021-01-07

Positive (semi-)definite kernels

Covariance functions, Mercer kernels, positive definite functions, spare reproducing kernels for that Hilbert space I bought on eBay real cheap
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
metrics
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
2019-09-16 — 2021-01-05

Nowhere to hide

A catalogue of terrifying surveillance methods I encounter
confidentiality
wonk
2019-07-13 — 2021-01-03

Why does deep learning work?

Are we in the pocket of Big VRAM?
machine learning
neural nets
optimization
statmech
2017-05-30 — 2020-12-14

Generative adversarial networks

adversarial
AI
Bregman
game theory
generative
learning
likelihood free
Monte Carlo
optimization
probability
2016-10-07 — 2020-12-14

Garbled highlights from NeurIPS 2020

neural nets
statistics
2020-09-17 — 2020-12-11

Sun protection

diy
fashion
gear
health
2018-11-21 — 2020-12-10

Random embeddings and hashing

feature construction
functional analysis
linear algebra
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
2016-12-06 — 2020-12-01

Randomised regression

feature construction
functional analysis
linear algebra
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sparser than thou
spheres
statistics
2017-01-14 — 2020-12-01

Distributed consistency

Getting stuff down in crowds of computers
computers are awful
computers are awful together
concurrency hell
premature optimization
2020-12-01 — 2020-12-01

Distribution regression

functional analysis
metrics
optimization
statistics
2020-12-01 — 2020-12-01

Probabilistic spectral analysis

Bayes
dynamical systems
linear algebra
probability
sciml
signal processing
state space models
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2019-11-13 — 2020-11-25

Tensor regression

algebra
Hilbert space
2020-11-19 — 2020-11-19

Julia arrays

computers are awful
julia
number crunching
premature optimization
2019-12-31 — 2020-11-14

Observability and sensitivity in learning dynamical systems

Parameter identifiability in dynamical models
dynamical systems
Markov processes
regression
signal processing
statistics
statmech
time series
2020-11-09 — 2020-11-09

Chromium browsers

computers are awful
computers are awful together
faster pussycat
standards
UI
2017-04-20 — 2020-11-03

Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods

Bayes
estimator distribution
Markov processes
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
2020-06-28 — 2020-10-28

Julia, testing and packaging

computers are awful
julia
premature optimization
standards
2020-10-27 — 2020-10-27

Efficient factoring of GP likelihoods

algebra
approximation
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
statistics
2020-10-16 — 2020-10-26

GP inducing features

algebra
approximation
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
spheres
statistics
2020-10-16 — 2020-10-26

Localized Gaussian processes

algebra
approximation
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
statistics
2020-10-16 — 2020-10-26

Variational Gaussian Process regression

algebra
approximation
Gaussian
generative
graphical models
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
machine learning
networks
optimization
probability
statistics
2020-10-16 — 2020-10-26

Audiovisuals

Synesthetic and other cross-media audio stunts
computers are awful
generative art
machine learning
machine listening
machine vision
making things
music
photon choreography
signal processing
UI
2020-10-26 — 2020-10-26

Time

Certain quirks of entropy
standards
statmech
time series
2020-10-20 — 2020-10-20

Stan

The flagship Bayesian workhorse
Bayes
how do science
Monte Carlo
statistics
2020-10-19 — 2020-10-19

Julia IO

computers are awful
julia
2019-11-27 — 2020-10-09

Fintech, assorted

computers are awful together
confidentiality
money
2020-10-05 — 2020-10-05

Convenient Razer

Ubuntu on the Razer blade
compsci
computers are awful
POSIX
premature optimization
2018-05-28 — 2020-10-05

Alternative file managers

computers are awful
diy
POSIX
UI
2020-10-04 — 2020-10-04

Sparse model selection

estimator distribution
functional analysis
high d
linear algebra
model selection
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2016-09-05 — 2020-10-02

AutoML

functional analysis
how do science
model selection
optimization
statmech
2017-07-17 — 2020-10-02

Monte Carlo optimisation

Bayes
density
estimator distribution
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
2020-09-30 — 2020-09-30

Splitting simulation

Bayes
density
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
tail risk
time series
2017-05-29 — 2020-09-28

Webcams

communicating
computers are awful
photon choreography
2020-09-27 — 2020-09-26

Quantitative risk measurement

Mathematics of actuarial and financial disaster
catastrophe
density
economics
probability
tail risk
statistics
2015-04-30 — 2020-09-22

Clipboard managers

Remembering two things at once
compsci
computers are awful
faster pussycat
2018-08-09 — 2020-09-21

Graph computation

compsci
networks
2014-12-17 — 2020-09-20

Filter design, linear

Especially digital
dynamical systems
Hilbert space
signal processing
statistics
time series
2017-07-24 — 2020-09-18

Gaussian process quantile regression

Hilbert space
kernel tricks
ordinal
regression
tail risk
2020-09-16 — 2020-09-16

Independence, conditional, statistical

algebra
functional analysis
graphical models
metrics
model selection
networks
probability
statistics
2016-04-21 — 2020-09-13

Statistics of spatio-temporal processes

Gaussian
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
spatial
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2020-09-11 — 2020-09-11

Data dimensionality reduction

Wherein I teach myself, amongst other things, feature selection, how a sparse PCA works, and decide where to file multidimensional scaling
classification
compsci
feature construction
functional analysis
information
linear algebra
machine learning
networks
neural nets
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
topology
2015-03-23 — 2020-09-11

Variational autoencoders

approximation
Bayes
generative
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
2019-11-04 — 2020-09-10

Neural nets

Designing the fanciest usable differentiable loss surface
machine learning
neural nets
optimization
2016-10-14 — 2020-09-09

Homo ludens

Play
culture
design
diy
making things
2014-10-29 — 2020-09-08

Live looping music software

making things
music
signal processing
2014-11-11 — 2020-09-07

Causal graphical model reading group 2020

An introduction to conditional independence DAGs and their use for causal inference.
algebra
how do science
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2020-08-30 — 2020-09-03

Causal Bayesian networks

Staged tree models, probability trees …Causalan Bayesian networks
algebra
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2020-11-01 — 2020-09-01

Emulators and surrogate models via ML

Shortcuts in scientific simulation using ML
feature construction
functional analysis
linear algebra
machine learning
networks
neural nets
PDEs
physics
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
statmech
surrogate
2020-08-12 — 2020-08-26

Ethnomusicology in the technologised, globalised world

Global bass, World Music 2.0, folkwaves etc
culture
information provenance
making things
music
technology
2015-04-02 — 2020-08-22

Mathematics of textiles

algebra
topology
2019-10-14 — 2020-08-20

Bushfire models

geometry
how do science
machine learning
physics
statmech
straya
2020-09-07 — 2020-08-19

Minimum description length

And other takes on learning-as-compression
Bayes
information
model selection
statistics
stringology
2020-08-06 — 2020-08-06

Remote Desktop

Business model: Uber for pixels
computers are awful
confidentiality
UI
2019-11-18 — 2020-07-31

Plotting stuff in julia

computers are awful
dataviz
julia
photon choreography
statistics
2019-05-31 — 2020-07-25

Combinatorics of note

compsci
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
pseudorandomness
stringology
2020-07-18 — 2020-07-18

Networking stunts

computers are awful
computers are awful together
macos
2016-08-04 — 2020-07-17

Citation management

On PDFcocking
academe
collective knowledge
computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
workflow
2014-09-08 — 2020-07-14

Low code development

browser
computers are awful
confidentiality
faster pussycat
2020-07-03 — 2020-07-03

Task launchers

computers are awful
faster pussycat
2017-04-10 — 2020-07-02

Financial markets

Descriptive engagement with reality of
economics
incentive mechanisms
institutions
markets
money
wonk
2015-03-14 — 2020-07-02

Economics of insurgence

cooperation
democracy
distributed
economics
game theory
networks
squad
wonk
2015-02-02 — 2020-07-01

Debugging, profiling and accelerating Julia code

computers are awful
julia
premature optimization
2019-11-27 — 2020-06-26

Learning of manifolds

Also topological data analysis; other hip names to follow
feature construction
functional analysis
machine learning
networks
neural nets
statistics
topology
2014-08-19 — 2020-06-23

Firms: What is WITH you?

cooperation
economics
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
2014-10-15 — 2020-06-16

Deep fakery

collective knowledge
economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
machine learning
neural nets
photon choreography
2020-06-15 — 2020-06-15

Encrypting, signing, verifying stuff

Alice, Bob, GCHQ
adversarial
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
cryptography
incentive mechanisms
2014-12-28 — 2020-06-09

Productivity schemes

If you can tell me why this placeholder post from 2014 is still consistently in my top 10 most popular posts I would be grateful
economics
faster pussycat
game theory
institutions
mind
2014-10-09 — 2020-06-05

Installing Julia

computers are awful
julia
2019-11-27 — 2020-06-03

Inference on social graphs

Heterogeneous media and controls
causality
collective knowledge
cooperation
distributed
game theory
networks
social graph
2019-09-22 — 2020-06-03

Functional regression

calculus
dynamical systems
functional analysis
Hilbert space
nonparametric
sparser than thou
time series
2016-01-05 — 2020-05-28

Long memory time series

model selection
regression
self similar
signal processing
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2011-11-13 — 2020-05-28

Databases for realtime stuff

For when log files seem dated
computers are awful
data sets
real time
2020-02-18 — 2020-05-27

Link rot, mitigating

computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
distributed
diy
economics
2020-05-27 — 2020-05-27

How to reduce government spying on you

computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
security
wonk
2018-12-12 — 2020-05-27

Natural gradient descent

Climbing slower on the tricky bits
functional analysis
geometry
optimization
statistics
2019-07-18 — 2020-05-26

Malliavin calculus

dynamical systems
SDEs
signal processing
stochastic processes
time series
2020-05-23 — 2020-05-25

Variational inference

On fitting the best model one can be bothered to
approximation
metrics
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
statistics
2016-03-22 — 2020-05-24

Lévy stochastic differential equations

dynamical systems
Hilbert space
SDEs
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2020-05-23 — 2020-05-23

Screen capture and screen casting

diy
making things
2016-10-20 — 2020-05-19

Javascript apps

computers are awful
javascript
2016-01-05 — 2020-05-19

MAPLE

An OK computer algebra system
algebra
compsci
computers are awful
stringology
2020-05-19 — 2020-05-19

Graphic novels/comics etc

Stuff I won’t admit to reading when there are deadlines
2015-07-06 — 2020-05-18

Directed graphical models

algebra
graphical models
hidden variables
hierarchical models
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2017-09-20 — 2020-05-13

New-wave jigsaw puzzles

making things
photon choreography
2018-12-14 — 2020-05-13

Adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo samplers

Bayes
estimator distribution
Markov processes
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
2020-04-28 — 2020-04-30

Tuning an MCMC sampler

Bayes
estimator distribution
Markov processes
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
2020-04-30 — 2020-04-30

Empirical estimation of information

Informing yourself from your data how informative your data was
classification
compsci
information
metrics
nonparametric
statistics
statmech
2011-04-19 — 2020-04-28

C++

computers are awful
premature optimization
2011-04-06 — 2020-04-27

The cross entropy method

Bayes
estimator distribution
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
2020-04-24 — 2020-04-24

Mixture models for density estimation

Bayes
classification
clustering
compsci
convolution
density
information
linear algebra
nonparametric
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
2016-03-29 — 2020-04-24

Gym togs

On getting fancy activewear of low impact to my pocket and the planet
fashion
gear
health
2018-06-03 — 2020-04-23

Waste, and the late capitalist industrial metabolism

ecology
economics
sustainability
wonk
2017-05-11 — 2020-04-22

Matching and weighting

Making the optimal beverage from the fruit life gave you
Bayes
confidentiality
hidden variables
hierarchical models
mind
networks
regression
sociology
statistics
wonk
2020-04-22 — 2020-04-22

DIY computer radio

computers are awful together
2020-03-05 — 2020-04-17

Garden hacks

diy
sustainability
2019-10-08 — 2020-04-14

Supercollider

computers are awful
making things
music
2011-06-20 — 2020-04-10

How to reduce criminals spying on you

computers are awful
confidentiality
wonk
2018-10-03 — 2020-04-09

Analysis/resynthesis of audio

algebra
generative art
machine learning
machine listening
making things
music
networks
probability
signal processing
statistics
2016-01-15 — 2020-04-09

Linux hacks for the command-line

Intermittently needed cheat codes
computers are awful
POSIX
2015-04-28 — 2020-04-09

Queueing

The mathematical field whose major result is enraging you about call centres
count data
probability
statistics
time series
2015-06-04 — 2020-04-06

Hygiene, empirical

diy
health
2020-02-21 — 2020-04-06

Epidemics

branching
count data
drugs
health
life
networks
SDEs
social graph
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2020-03-10 — 2020-04-03

Internet for the occasionally online

Intermittency in your bandwidth not in your sanity
computers are awful
computers are awful together
confidentiality
distributed
diy
economics
2017-04-09 — 2020-04-01

Teaching computers to write music

buzzword
computers are awful
generative art
machine learning
making things
music
neural nets
2016-06-06 — 2020-03-25

Graphic design for the vexed

making things
photon choreography
2018-10-16 — 2020-03-23

Nature, nurture and friends

If life gives you lemons, what should you make?
evolution
gene
semantics
2015-06-05 — 2020-03-21

The surveillance society

All-seeing like a state
confidentiality
cooperation
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
policy
straya
the rather superior sort of city
wonk
2017-02-09 — 2020-03-19

Encrypted filesystem on linux

computers are awful
POSIX
2020-03-17 — 2020-03-17

Order statistics

ordinal
probability
regression
statistics
2019-02-21 — 2020-03-17

DIY internet infrastructure

confidentiality
distributed
diy
economics
P2P
2019-10-27 — 2020-03-17

Capitalism’s end game

What money wants
cooperation
economics
hand wringing
wonk
2014-12-31 — 2020-03-17

Tool discovery

Settling upon an adequate gizmo to identify other adequate gizmos
collective knowledge
computers are awful
faster pussycat
2020-02-19 — 2020-03-12

Faking being on social media

and other parts of the internet too boring to countenance
diy
doing internet
faster pussycat
workflow
2016-07-21 — 2020-03-11

Science networking

communicating
cooperation
culture
mind
wonk
2017-06-07 — 2020-03-09

Restricted isometry properties

Plus incoherence, irrepresentability, and other uncertainty bounds for a sparse world, and maybe frame theory, what’s that now?
functional analysis
Hilbert space
linear algebra
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
2017-06-12 — 2020-03-09

Diff/merge tools

computers are awful
information provenance
stringology
workflow
2020-02-07 — 2020-03-09

Kernel approximation

algebra
functional analysis
Hilbert space
linear algebra
model selection
nonparametric
probabilistic algorithms
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
2016-07-27 — 2020-03-06

System monitoring

Yak shaving my router crash
computers are awful
data sets
diy
2020-02-18 — 2020-03-05

Schwiizertüütsch

… isch aifach schön
language
2014-09-22 — 2020-03-04

Effective sample size

dynamical systems
model selection
Monte Carlo
signal processing
statistics
time series
2016-11-21 — 2020-03-03

Bias reduction

Estimating the bias of an estimator so as to subtract it off again
estimator distribution
nonparametric
probabilistic algorithms
statistics
2020-02-26 — 2020-02-26

HTML for haters

Plus also CSS.
computers are awful
making things
photon choreography
UI
2016-01-04 — 2020-02-24

Learnable indexes and hashes

approximation
feature construction
geometry
high d
language
linear algebra
machine learning
metrics
networks
neural nets
statistics
topology
2018-01-12 — 2020-02-18

Microsoft Azure cloudydoodle numberpants crunchery

compsci
computers are awful
concurrency hell
premature optimization
2018-08-09 — 2020-02-18

Selling uncertainty

On the marginal price of ignorance
collective knowledge
economics
how do science
mind
sociology
wonk
2016-05-25 — 2020-02-18

Concurrent programming

Threads, locks, cores, conditions
compsci
computers are awful
concurrency hell
2018-03-24 — 2020-02-17

Sunda

music
nusantara
place
South East Asia
Sunda
2015-11-07 — 2020-02-16

Cepstral transforms and harmonic identification

dynamical systems
Hilbert space
machine listening
music
signal processing
statistics
time series
2017-09-12 — 2020-02-13

Yak shaving

faster pussycat
2020-02-13 — 2020-02-13

R Shiny

Statistics through the internet
computers are awful
how do science
number crunching
statistics
UI
2020-02-11 — 2020-02-11

Random change of time

Stochastic processes derived by varying the rate of time’s passage, which is more convenient than I imagined
functional analysis
measure
probability
time series
2015-08-05 — 2020-02-10

Cheap single board computers

Raspberry pi et al
computers are awful
diy
hardware
2015-09-10 — 2020-02-09

Branching processes

branching
count data
functional analysis
Lévy processes
point processes
probability
statistics
time series
2014-08-18 — 2020-02-07

Digital forensics

computers are awful
information provenance
photon choreography
statistics
2020-02-04 — 2020-02-07

Infinitesimal generators

Generators of the transition semi-group, connection to Kolmogorov forward equations
dynamical systems
Lévy processes
Markov processes
probability
SDEs
stochastic processes
2017-05-29 — 2020-02-05

Poisson point processes

Lévy processes
point processes
probability
spatial
stochastic processes
2019-10-14 — 2020-01-29

Psychoacoustics

making things
mind
music
perception
2016-08-15 — 2020-01-28

Differential privacy

confidentiality
statistics
2016-07-28 — 2020-01-24

*-omics

buzzword
gene
information provenance
networks
stringology
2016-08-12 — 2020-01-22

Learning in adaptive systems

On staring into scopophilic abysses
economics
hidden variables
hierarchical models
machine learning
mind
sociology
statistics
wonk
2019-10-19 — 2020-01-22

Switching to netlify

communicating
computers are awful together
diy
doing internet
faster pussycat
plain text
UI
workflow
2020-01-06 — 2020-01-06

Media metadata management and editing

computers are awful
faster pussycat
making things
music
photon choreography
standards
2014-11-28 — 2020-01-03

Wikis

plus also CMSs
collective knowledge
computers are awful
faster pussycat
information provenance
2020-01-03 — 2020-01-02

Trains

#Gunzellyf
hardware
travel
2019-12-30 — 2019-12-30

Esoteric language zoo

compsci
computers are awful
faster pussycat
stringology
2019-12-27 — 2019-12-27

Information geometry

functional analysis
geometry
networks
probability
score function
statistics
2011-10-21 — 2019-12-27

FFMPEG

computers are awful
music
premature optimization
2019-11-11 — 2019-12-23

Hawkes processes

branching
count data
functional analysis
point processes
probability
social graph
statistics
time series
virality
2019-12-22 — 2019-12-22

Linux filesystem hacks

computers are awful
POSIX
2019-12-18 — 2019-12-21

Controllerism

Making thing happen by waving your arms about on stage
machine learning
making things
music
real time
UI
2014-11-18 — 2019-12-10

Permanental point processes

linear algebra
Monte Carlo
point processes
2019-12-04 — 2019-12-04

Spatial point process and their statistics

spatial
statistics
statmech
2016-08-17 — 2019-12-04

Convergence of random variables

dynamical systems
functional analysis
model selection
probability
stochastic processes
2019-12-03 — 2019-12-03

Cherchez la martingale

Stuff about probability and orthogonality
dynamical systems
Hilbert space
linear algebra
probability
SDEs
signal processing
time series
2019-11-26 — 2019-12-01

Clojure

compsci
computers are awful
2015-01-05 — 2019-11-30

Local and networked UIs in Julia

computers are awful
julia
UI
2019-11-27 — 2019-11-27

Audio source separation

algebra
generative art
machine learning
machine listening
making things
music
networks
probability
signal processing
statistics
2019-11-05 — 2019-11-26

Trusting information

Spinning swarm sensing from comment threads
collective knowledge
confidentiality
game theory
incentive mechanisms
mind
sociology
wonk
2017-02-09 — 2019-11-25

Bitwig

The DAW I hate least
computers are awful
generative art
music
2016-11-26 — 2019-11-22

Sharing / gig economy

Turking your ride
economics
hand wringing
wonk
2015-03-23 — 2019-11-21

MIDI

The near-adequate compromise for digital music that we are stuck with
music
standards
2015-10-03 — 2019-11-20

Tunings

algebra
machine learning
machine listening
making things
music
2015-10-29 — 2019-11-18

Machine listening

Statistical models for audio
computers are awful
java
machine learning
machine listening
making things
music
python
signal processing
2014-10-10 — 2019-11-12

Coupling in stochastic process

metrics
probability
statistics
2020-04-17 — 2019-11-12

ISMIR 2019

Music Nerds in Delft
computers are awful
machine learning
machine listening
making things
music
signal processing
2019-11-04 — 2019-11-09

Phase retrieval

I’ve got the power. / Like the crack of the whip/ I snap attack/ Front to back
feature construction
Hilbert space
machine learning
model selection
neural nets
optimization
2017-01-17 — 2019-11-08

Webhooks

computers are awful
faster pussycat
2019-11-05 — 2019-11-05

Smartypants cities

buzzword
cooperation
culture
design
diy
economics
housing
incentive mechanisms
institutions
insurgency
making things
policy
spatial
straya
the rather superior sort of city
wonk
2014-12-26 — 2019-11-05

Optimal control

bandit problems
Bayes
dynamical systems
linear algebra
optimization
probability
sciml
signal processing
statistics
time series
2015-06-22 — 2019-11-01

Generative art, creative coding, procedural design

Teaching my computer to make prettier mistakes than me
computers are awful
generative art
making things
music
photon choreography
2014-09-08 — 2019-10-31

Oh, Newcastle

Newcastle, Australia, not that weird copy in England
straya
2019-10-31 — 2019-10-31

Undirected graphical models

algebra
graphical models
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2017-09-20 — 2019-10-28

Gradient descent, Higher order

functional analysis
neural nets
optimization
statmech
2019-10-26 — 2019-10-26

Sparse regression

estimator distribution
functional analysis
linear algebra
model selection
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2016-06-23 — 2019-10-24

Ableton Live

The de facto standard for techno
computers are awful
generative art
music
2015-01-06 — 2019-10-24

Rhythm

Especially for generative music
dynamical systems
making things
music
signal processing
sync
2014-11-03 — 2019-10-23

Delays and reverbs for audio processing

…ing …ing …ing
dynamical systems
linear algebra
music
regression
signal processing
time series
2015-11-11 — 2019-10-22

Frequentist consistency of Bayesian methods

TFW two flawed methods for understanding the world can agree with at least each other
Bayes
how do science
statistics
2016-04-12 — 2019-10-19

Discrete time Fourier and related transforms

Also, chirplets, z-transforms, chromatic derivatives…
convolution
functional analysis
Hilbert space
nonparametric
signal processing
sparser than thou
2019-10-17 — 2019-10-17

Density estimation

Especially non- or semiparametrically
convolution
density
functional analysis
nonparametric
probability
statistics
2016-06-06 — 2019-10-16

The tidyverse

computers are awful
number crunching
R
statistics
2019-10-14 — 2019-10-14

Bio computing

compsci
life
machine learning
neuron
2016-05-29 — 2019-10-14

Zeros of random trigonometric polynomials

control
functional analysis
probability
signal processing
2019-05-20 — 2019-10-14

Generalized Galton-Watson processes

branching
count data
probability
time series
2014-12-29 — 2019-10-11

Random (element) matrix theory

algebra
functional analysis
geometry
high d
linear algebra
measure
probabilistic algorithms
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
spheres
2014-11-10 — 2019-10-10

Correlograms

Also covariances
dynamical systems
Hilbert space
linear algebra
signal processing
statistics
time series
2018-08-08 — 2019-09-22

Defining dynamics via Gaussian processes

Bayes
dynamical systems
Gaussian
generative
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
linear algebra
probability
sciml
signal processing
state space models
statistics
time series
2019-09-18 — 2019-09-18

Representer theorems

approximation
functional analysis
Hilbert space
kernel tricks
metrics
statistics
2019-09-16 — 2019-09-16

Network firewalls, routing etc

In which years of study are needed have basic online safety
computers are awful
macos
2018-12-09 — 2019-09-09

Sneakernets

Intermittent connectivity, mesh networks and the Honda protocol
computers are awful together
confidentiality
distributed
diy
economics
P2P
2015-10-03 — 2019-09-09

Biased sampling models

Greasing non-squeaky wheels
hidden variables
statistics
2019-08-27 — 2019-08-27

Go bag, Sydney edition

catastrophe
diy
economics
fashion
sustainability
2019-08-26 — 2019-08-26

Sandboxing apps

Upon letting strangers into your house, just so long as they don’t open the door to that one forbidden room
computers are awful
diy
2019-08-10 — 2019-08-18

EZ cross-platform apps

Low-code/ Rapid Application Development, that works across devices
computers are awful
javascript
2019-08-11 — 2019-08-11

Probability

algebra
functional analysis
probability
2011-07-29 — 2019-07-15

Installations (in galleries etc)

computers are awful
diy
making things
2016-08-21 — 2019-07-13

Fourier interpolation

feature construction
functional analysis
linear algebra
networks
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2019-06-19 — 2019-06-19

Build tools for data science

faster pussycat
premature optimization
2016-07-27 — 2019-06-18

Topology, applied to problems I know about

networks
topology
2015-01-23 — 2019-06-15

Game complexity

compsci
economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
markets
2019-06-07 — 2019-06-07

Making and its discontents

Also repairers, innovators, maintainers, disruptors and sustainers, but not passive consumers
design
diy
gender
2018-09-24 — 2019-05-24

Wiener theorem

Now with bonus Bochner!
functional analysis
Hilbert space
optimization
signal processing
stochastic processes
2019-05-08 — 2019-05-08

Wacky regression

classification
functional analysis
model selection
nonparametric
optimization
regression
2015-09-23 — 2019-05-02

Statistics software

computers are awful
number crunching
statistics
2015-02-28 — 2019-04-18

Low impact fashion

Suiting australia
diy
economics
fashion
sustainability
wonk
2019-04-18 — 2019-04-18

Ordinary differential equations

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought / As doth eternity
calculus
functional analysis
Hilbert space
statistics
2019-03-28 — 2019-03-28

Hollow states

Skim government when fat cats drank the cream
cooperation
economics
hand wringing
institutions
wonk
2019-03-13 — 2019-03-13

Csound

a less irritating audio programming language
computers are awful
diy
generative art
lua
making things
music
2017-03-06 — 2019-03-07

Point processes

branching
point processes
spatial
statmech
2016-08-01 — 2019-02-18

Inner product spaces

The most highly developed theory of squaring things
algebra
functional analysis
Hilbert space
metrics
nonparametric
2019-01-01 — 2019-02-11

Javascript

compsci
computers are awful
2014-10-15 — 2019-02-10

Alzheimers and the microbiome

Your digestive system eating your brain
health
life
mind
2019-01-29 — 2019-01-29

Dictionaries

language
2016-01-31 — 2019-01-24

Nearly sufficient statistics

How about “Sufficient sufficiency”? — is that taken?
approximation
estimator distribution
functional analysis
information
linear algebra
metrics
model selection
optimization
probabilistic algorithms
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
uncertainty
2018-03-13 — 2019-01-14

Normed spaces

algebra
functional analysis
metrics
nonparametric
2019-01-01 — 2019-01-04

Machine vision

computers are awful
machine learning
machine vision
2015-01-04 — 2018-11-14

Gesture recognition

machine learning
making things
music
real time
UI
2014-10-18 — 2018-11-12

The right words

That which I substitute with the long words
making things
writing
2017-06-15 — 2018-11-07

Atom

A text editor I seemed to be using
compsci
computers are awful
faster pussycat
plain text
UI
workflow
2017-06-19 — 2018-11-06

Multiple testing

decision theory
high d
how do science
linear algebra
machine learning
model selection
nonparametric
statistics
uncertainty
2015-04-22 — 2018-11-05

Sparse stochastic processes identification and sampling

Discrete sample representation of sparse continuous stochastic processes
calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
Lévy processes
physics
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
time series
uncertainty
2018-11-22 — 2018-10-29

Evidential decision theory

I know that you know what I think you know about what we all know about people who write about strong AI online.
agents
economics
game theory
mind
2018-10-24 — 2018-10-24

Surviving bash

The flagship product of modern unix is certainly better than any other 80s shell
computers are awful
macos
POSIX
2018-08-10 — 2018-10-19

Pattern formation

chemistry
generative art
life
photon choreography
self similar
spatial
statmech
stochastic processes
2014-12-23 — 2018-10-09

Field Programmable hardware and ilk

diy
premature optimization
2018-10-03 — 2018-10-03

10 years of the Living Thing!

making things
review
2018-10-03 — 2018-10-03

Design patterns

Also, life hacks and one-weird-tricks
design
UI
2018-09-05 — 2018-09-05

Optimisation, combinatorial

functional analysis
optimization
statmech
2018-08-11 — 2018-08-11

Serious number crunching on Google Cloud

computers are awful
concurrency hell
premature optimization
2017-03-14 — 2018-07-30

Art Python

computers are awful
generative art
music
UI
2015-10-19 — 2018-07-27

Sundanese music

Karawitan, Ketuk Tilu, Jaipongan, Gamelan Degung, Death Metal and similar
music
nusantara
South East Asia
Sunda
2014-11-11 — 2018-07-13

Submodular functions, maximising

complexity
compsci
optimization
2018-07-09 — 2018-07-09

Facebook messages pro-forma response

It doesn’t work but it’s worth trying
computers are awful
confidentiality
diy
wonk
2018-04-28 — 2018-04-28

Feature engineering

for research and science
academe
how do science
2017-05-31 — 2018-04-27

How is foreign filesystem access in macOS awful this week?

computers are awful
macos
2016-08-04 — 2018-04-27

Signal processing

That which you study for 4 years in order to design trippy music visualisers
dynamical systems
Hilbert space
signal processing
statistics
time series
2015-03-19 — 2018-01-05

Quantum information in physics

What are qubits again?
physics
quantum
statmech
2017-07-24 — 2017-12-14

Matlab

A method of charging you licensing fees to use the CPU you already bought
computers are awful
linear algebra
signal processing
2016-06-13 — 2017-12-13

“Business Leadership”

The default pseudo-content for undirected MBA research
incentive mechanisms
institutions
mind
wonk
2016-05-25 — 2017-11-10

Rare-event-conditional estimation

Bayes
estimator distribution
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
probability
2017-05-29 — 2017-11-10

Embodiment

It’s easier to teach a robot to walk if it has legs.
AI
evolution
snarks
2015-01-03 — 2017-10-14

Quantum probability

and quantum information, noncommutative probability
Hilbert space
probability
quantum
2016-10-16 — 2017-09-18

Behavioural economics

bounded compute
economics
mind
sociology
2011-04-15 — 2017-09-17

Post-selection inference

Adaptive data analysis without cheating
information
model selection
statistics
2017-08-20 — 2017-08-20

Model/hyperparameter selection

information
model selection
statistics
2016-04-15 — 2017-08-20

Gradient descent, continuous, primal/dual formulations.

functional analysis
optimization
statmech
2017-08-07 — 2017-08-07

Quantum-probabilistic graphical models

graphical models
machine learning
networks
probability
quantum
statistics
2017-08-07 — 2017-08-07

Warping and registration problems

Matching up of bumps and wibbles in stretchy things
functional analysis
measure
probability
time series
2016-08-17 — 2017-07-23

Our microbiome

adaptive
ecology
food
gene
2017-07-14 — 2017-07-14

Australian English

language
straya
2014-08-11 — 2017-07-06

In Wild Air

making things
review
2017-07-02 — 2017-07-02

Chinese language

china
language
2017-06-27 — 2017-06-27

Generating functions

Fancy counting
combinatorics
count data
probability
statistics
2017-06-19 — 2017-06-19

Lagrangian mechanics

functional analysis
optimization
physics
2015-02-11 — 2017-06-18

Stochastic processes and fields

Probabilistic structures over index sets and state spaces
probability
stochastic processes
time series
2014-08-05 — 2017-06-15

Compressed sensing and sampling

A fancy ways of counting zero
functional analysis
linear algebra
model selection
probabilistic algorithms
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
2014-08-18 — 2017-06-14

Marketing psychology

Bayes
hidden variables
hierarchical models
machine learning
networks
probability
regression
statistics
wonk
2017-04-27 — 2017-05-29

Linear and least-squares estimation of point processes

branching
spatial
2016-09-21 — 2017-05-29

Sustainability

Anthropocene not heard
catastrophe
collective knowledge
economics
incentive mechanisms
life
sustainability
wonk
2011-04-15 — 2017-05-16

Financial stability

When does volatility become a crash?
catastrophe
economics
incentive mechanisms
institutions
markets
money
tail risk
2019-10-21 — 2017-05-15

Uncertainty principles

functional analysis
Hilbert space
probability
2017-05-14 — 2017-05-14

Granger causation/Transfer Entropy

information
statistics
stringology
time series
2012-07-26 — 2017-05-04

Game theory

bounded compute
cooperation
economics
game theory
incentive mechanisms
mind
2016-10-13 — 2017-04-24

Flashcards

Spaced repetition systems
faster pussycat
language
learning
mind
2015-01-03 — 2017-04-01

Musical metrics and manifolds

algebra
machine learning
making things
mind
music
perception
2014-09-26 — 2017-03-27

How is deep learning on Amazon EC2 awful this week?

computers are awful
concurrency hell
premature optimization
2017-03-16 — 2017-03-16

Serious number crunching on Amazon Web Services

computers are awful
concurrency hell
premature optimization
2017-03-14 — 2017-03-16

How is Google Cloud ML awful this week?

computers are awful
concurrency hell
premature optimization
2017-03-16 — 2017-03-16

Scala

computers are awful
premature optimization
2017-02-11 — 2017-02-28

Functional equations

Putting the funk in functions
algebra
convolution
functional analysis
Hilbert space
2017-02-06 — 2017-02-19

Fractional Brownian motion

probability
self similar
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2017-02-18 — 2017-02-18

Quasi Monte Carlo

concurrency hell
Monte Carlo
probabilistic algorithms
pseudorandomness
2015-09-01 — 2017-02-14

Metric entropy

approximation
functional analysis
measure
probability
statistics
2017-02-13 — 2017-02-13

Garbled highlights from NIPS 2016

neural nets
statistics
2016-12-05 — 2017-02-03

Synestizer

javascript
machine vision
making things
music
portable
UI
2014-11-04 — 2017-01-18

Concatenative synthesis

Hilbert space
machine listening
making things
music
2015-12-13 — 2017-01-16

Javascript reactive programming and streams

computers are awful
concurrency hell
javascript
UI
2016-01-05 — 2017-01-05

Genetic algorithms

computers are awful
evolution
machine learning
2011-04-06 — 2016-12-29

Special functions

physics
probability
statistics
2014-07-25 — 2016-12-21

Greatest hits

computers are awful
machine learning
making things
music
signal processing
2016-11-19 — 2016-12-13

The simplex

classification
metrics
probability
statistics
2016-10-25 — 2016-10-25

UNSW Stats reading group 2016 - Causal DAGs

An introduction to conditional independence DAGs and their use for causal data.
machine learning
networks
probability
statistics
2016-10-17 — 2016-10-21

Maximum likelihood inference

likelihood
optimization
probability
score function
statistics
2015-02-16 — 2016-10-13

Distributed statistica inference

computers are awful
concurrency hell
distributed
optimization
premature optimization
statmech
2016-10-11 — 2016-10-11

Stability (in learning)

estimator distribution
model selection
statistics
uncertainty
2016-05-25 — 2016-10-05

Fast multipole methods

Hilbert space
premature optimization
2016-08-18 — 2016-09-20

Women in electronic and popular music

diy
music
wonk
2016-09-01 — 2016-08-23

Kernel density estimators

convolution
nonparametric
statistics
2016-03-05 — 2016-08-18

Statistical learning theory

Eventually including structural risk minimisation, risk bounds, hopefully-uniform convergence rates, VC-dimension, generalisation-and-stability framings etc
approximation
functional analysis
machine learning
measure
metrics
model selection
optimization
probability
statmech
2016-07-06 — 2016-08-16

Change of probability measure for a stochastic process

density
measure
probability
time series
2015-08-05 — 2016-08-16

Surviving macOS server

computers are awful together
macos
2016-08-04 — 2016-08-04

Blind deconvolution

convolution
functional analysis
linear algebra
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2015-03-01 — 2016-07-27

Dynamical systems

calculus
dynamical systems
geometry
Hilbert space
how do science
Lévy processes
machine learning
neural nets
PDEs
physics
regression
sciml
SDEs
signal processing
statistics
statmech
stochastic processes
sync
time series
uncertainty
2016-04-26 — 2016-07-27

Maximum processes

probability
stochastic processes
2016-07-14 — 2016-07-14

Text processing

music
NLP
search
semantics
stringology
2015-04-26 — 2016-07-13

Rummaging in string bags

music
search
semantics
stringology
2015-04-26 — 2016-07-13

“Approximate models”

statistics
2016-07-04 — 2016-07-04

Syntax

Formal language theory
compsci
language
neuron
stringology
2015-01-18 — 2016-06-22

Function approximation and interpolation

convolution
functional analysis
Hilbert space
nonparametric
signal processing
sparser than thou
2016-06-09 — 2016-06-09

Function approximation and interpolation

convolution
functional analysis
Hilbert space
nonparametric
signal processing
sparser than thou
2016-06-09 — 2016-06-09

Clustering

Bayes
clustering
convolution
density
feature construction
networks
nonparametric
probability
sparser than thou
statistics
2015-05-23 — 2016-06-07

Iterated function systems

functional analysis
grammar
life
making things
photon choreography
self similar
2014-08-14 — 2016-06-06

Category theory

algebra
compsci
2011-11-25 — 2016-04-18

Deconvolution

convolution
density
functional analysis
linear algebra
nonparametric
probability
signal processing
sparser than thou
statistics
2015-04-20 — 2016-04-11

Bahasa Indonesia

language
nusantara
2015-03-02 — 2016-03-05

Message queues

computers are awful
computers are awful together
concurrency hell
premature optimization
2016-01-08 — 2016-01-08

Foundations of mathematics

logic
2016-01-04 — 2016-01-04

Art LISP

compsci
computers are awful
making things
2015-01-13 — 2015-12-20

Count time series models

count data
probability
regression
statistics
time series
2015-06-04 — 2015-12-09

High frequency time series estimation

finance
regression
statistics
stochastic processes
time series
2016-06-12 — 2015-12-02

Hidden variable formalisms in quantum mechanics

how do science
probability
quantum
2015-11-28 — 2015-11-28

Visuals

computers are awful
photon choreography
2015-03-24 — 2015-11-26

Parking sun

generative art
making things
music
2015-11-24 — 2015-11-24

Pattern machine

buzzword
computers are awful
generative art
machine learning
making things
music
neural nets
2011-06-27 — 2015-11-24

Statistical mechanics

economics
game theory
statmech
2015-11-14 — 2015-11-14

Ensemble Tikoro collaboration

making things
music
nusantara
South East Asia
Sunda
2015-11-12 — 2015-11-12

Scarce urban resources

culture
design
diy
the rather superior sort of city
2015-10-16 — 2015-10-16

How to make crazy experiment on sound design (sic)

diy
music
signal processing
2015-09-17 — 2015-09-17

Islam

culture
history
religion
2015-08-22 — 2015-08-22

Earthquakes

branching
PDEs
physics
statmech
2015-07-14 — 2015-07-14

Stream processing and reactive programming

computers are awful
concurrency hell
premature optimization
signal processing
stringology
2014-10-31 — 2015-07-01

Copula functions

density
probability
tail risk
statistics
2015-06-24 — 2015-06-24

Sigma algebras, probability spaces, measure theory

The scaffolding of randomness
algebra
functional analysis
networks
probability
time series
2015-06-21 — 2015-06-21

Altruism

cooperation
economics
snarks
wonk
2014-08-05 — 2015-06-18

Geometry of fitness landscapes

evolution
geometry
optimization
topology
2011-07-27 — 2015-06-17

Architecture (doing it)

design
the rather superior sort of city
2015-06-15 — 2015-06-15

Normal accidents

adaptive
cooperation
culture
economics
engineering
ethics
incentive mechanisms
institutions
tail risk
wonk
2015-06-03 — 2015-06-03

Artificial chemistry

grammar
stringology
time series
2011-12-13 — 2015-05-31

Sparse regression for inhomogeneous Hawkes processes

My MSc thesis with Professors Didier Sornette and Sara van de Geer
count data
regression
sparser than thou
time series
2015-04-28 — 2015-05-12

Complexity

statistics
statmech
2011-11-25 — 2015-04-11

Mixing and mastering for dummies

computers are awful
diy
music
2015-04-05 — 2015-04-05

Microbial Ecology

adaptive
ecology
gene
life
2015-01-27 — 2015-01-28

Red Wine Headache

drugs
health
2015-01-24 — 2015-01-24

New media art

computers are awful
generative art
making things
2015-01-13 — 2015-01-13

Algebra I would like to learn

algebra
stringology
2014-10-15 — 2014-11-22

Flocking

distributed
statmech
swarm
2011-04-19 — 2014-11-21

Indonesian food

food
nusantara
2014-11-11 — 2014-11-11

Computational complexity

complexity
compsci
pseudorandomness
2014-10-17 — 2014-10-17

Disruptive technology

economics
technology
2014-10-09 — 2014-10-09

Dialects

language
2014-09-05 — 2014-09-05

Pure

computers are awful
2013-01-01 — 2013-01-01

Research proposal: Grammars of music

language
project
2012-11-11 — 2012-11-11

Time machine 2012

making things
review
2012-09-09 — 2012-09-09

Dorkbot group show 2012

making things
review
2012-03-10 — 2012-03-10

Macroeconomics

economics
2011-10-17 — 2011-10-17

Configuration space of the economy

economics
geometry
topology
2011-09-07 — 2011-09-07

Morandini and Blamey

making things
review
2011-08-27 — 2011-08-27

Dorkbot group show 2011

making things
review
2011-04-15 — 2011-04-15

Econophysics

buzzword
distributed
economics
statmech
wonk
2011-04-13 — 2011-04-13

Honours thesis

economics
project
wonk
2010-12-16 — 2010-12-16

Feral

making things
music
project
2010-12-02 — 2010-12-02

Simulation for the social sciences

sociology
statmech
2010-09-28 — 2010-09-28

The after party for the American Century

making things
review
2010-06-17 — 2010-06-17

SXSW from the gutter

making things
review
2010-03-17 — 2010-03-17

Transmediale 2010

making things
review
2010-03-15 — 2010-03-15

How to discover new media art on the web

2010-01-19 — 2010-01-19

Sofa surfing Electrofringe 2009

2009-10-15 — 2009-10-15

Mellifera

a show about VR bees I reviewed
generative art
making things
review
2009-04-28 — 2009-04-28

The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie robot

making things
review
robots
2009-03-21 — 2009-03-21

Jakarta Biennale 2009 (Realtime Magazine)

making things
review
2009-02-28 — 2009-02-28

Jakarta Biennale 2009 (Sentap! Magazine)

making things
review
robots
2009-02-05 — 2009-02-05

Electrofringe will eat itself

2008-10-15 — 2008-10-15

Dancing machine

making things
review
robots
2008-09-30 — 2008-09-30
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