The Living Thing

Here are my public notebooks.

This means: these notebooks concern topics about which I wish to inform myself. All conclusions are provisional, all ideas are half-baked and nothing, at all, has been reviewed. Typos, spelling errors and bad edits abound. You’re welcome.

Much of this information is digested from the blogs on my blogroll, or the papers on my reading list.

These are rated on the 3 point scale of Usefulness (🔧), Novelty (💡), Uncertainty (🤪) and Roughness (🚧).

Python Syntactic saccharine for compiled code 2011-04-18 – 2023-09-25
Degrowth Yurtopia 2019-10-29 – 2023-09-23
Ecomodernism A tomorrow worth retiring to 2019-10-29 – 2023-09-23
Comfort traps On being careful what I wish for 2023-09-17 – 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 2020-03-12 – 2023-09-20
Making macOS behave itself Things I have to do to keep my laptop running so I can google how to fix other things 2015-04-27 – 2023-09-19
Static websites Websites that are just files on a server, which is I need 2014-12-29 – 2023-09-19
Taking notes Notes on notes on notes 2020-02-17 – 2023-09-19
Sufficiently good hedonism Trade-offs between limited time and limited cash and limited imagination for the most happiness 2020-06-23 – 2023-09-18
Privacy while web browsing Browsing the internet without giving corporations my personal information for free 2018-12-12 – 2023-09-16
Cohousing in Australia Plus other low-cost, low-tedium options for secure habitation 2021-09-25 – 2023-09-15
Emoji 2019-01-03 – 2023-09-13
Nearly-low-rank matrices a.k.a. perturbations of the identity, low-rank-plus-diagonal matrices 2014-08-05 – 2023-09-13
Akrasia Description to come later 2017-06-18 – 2023-09-09
Quarto Swiss army knife for hand-whittling scientific reports, slides and blogs 2022-05-01 – 2023-09-08
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 2017-02-09 – 2023-09-05
Informations Entropies and other measures of surprise 2011-11-25 – 2023-09-04
Zotero The adequate citation tool 2019-12-01 – 2023-09-04
Fediverse Mastodon et al 2019-08-12 – 2023-08-30
Pytorch #torched 2018-05-04 – 2023-08-22
Status The original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2023-08-21
Sleep Pathologies and hacks 2017-04-19 – 2023-08-16
ML on small devices Putting intelligence on chips small enough to be in disconcerting places 2016-10-14 – 2023-08-14
Naming things Hashes, UUIDs, haecceities, deep and inscrutable singular Names 2016-06-07 – 2023-08-11
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 2018-03-26 – 2023-08-11
Recipes Especially meta-recipes 2015-06-23 – 2023-08-10
Community Engineering, maintaining, organizing… 2020-02-02 – 2023-08-09
Nostr Social media for the stroppy 2023-08-08 – 2023-08-09
Materials informatics Machine learning in condensed matter physics, chemistry and materials science 2023-08-01 – 2023-08-08
Doing it yourself Peasantpunk, artisanal poverty, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms 2018-03-26 – 2023-08-08
Science; Institution design for “Scientist, falsify thyself”. Peer review, academic incentives, credentials, evidence and funding… 2020-05-17 – 2023-08-07
DJing On encouraging people to listen to your living room playlist by demanding that they pay for it 2015-02-02 – 2023-08-07
Neural PDE operator learning Especially forward operators. Image-to-image regression, where the images encode a physical process. 2019-10-15 – 2023-08-07
Music gear Pragmatic digital amps and microphones 2014-08-26 – 2023-08-07
Community governance Coordinating human beings by collective application of social force 2020-02-02 – 2023-08-06
Metis and .*-rationality High modernism, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society, technocracy, local knowledge 2017-07-24 – 2023-08-04
Technological singularities Incorporating hard AI take-offs, game-over high scores, the technium, deus-ex-machina, deus-ex-nube, nerd raptures and so forth 2016-12-01 – 2023-08-02
Algorithmic mechanism design Designing markets and games to achieve what we collectively want from what we individually want 2014-09-22 – 2023-08-01
Model averaging On keeping many incorrect hypotheses and using them all as one goodish one 2017-06-20 – 2023-07-24
Bio marker tracking We are probably not going to optimize ourselves out of mortality, but it feels good to try nonetheless 2022-01-11 – 2023-07-18
Feed readers Automated content aggregation for an internet designed to inform you rather than distract you 2016-06-29 – 2023-07-17
3d data A grab bag of point clouds, volumetric data and photogrammetry 2019-02-15 – 2023-07-17
Codebraid Minimalist scientific workbook 2023-07-14
Blogdown Plus other RMarkdown-derived scholarly blogging systems 2020-08-26 – 2023-07-09
Homebrew Minimalist software management for POSIX systems 2019-06-15 – 2023-07-05
Syncthing A good, easy, peer-to-peer free Dropbox-like system for the modern paranoid age 2019-01-02 – 2023-07-04
Academic reading workflow The continuing ascendancy of using piles of dead tree products for understanding cutting edge digital informatics 2016-04-11 – 2023-06-29
Neural nets with implicit layers Also, declarative networks, bi-level optimization and other ingenious uses of the implicit function theorem 2020-12-08 – 2023-06-28
Hydrology, applied Rivers, aquifers and other wet things that can flood your house 2020-09-07 – 2023-06-26
Free content Raiding history for clip art 2014-08-31 – 2023-06-16
Bureaucracy Iron Laws and Moral Mazes 2020-02-02 – 2023-06-15
Markdown An itemised list of the esoteric difficulties involved in bullet points 2019-07-17 – 2023-06-15
LaTeX …and ΤeΧ, and ConTeXt and XeTeX and TeXleMeElmo 2014-09-08 – 2023-06-13
Neural vector embeddings Hyperdimensional Computing, Vector Symbolic Architectures, Holographic Reduced Representations 2017-12-20 – 2023-06-13
Research discovery Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2023-06-06
Fish shell A command line shell that does not think that the problem is you 2019-03-30 – 2023-06-02
Climate change The conspiracy of those malign incumbent powers, the laws of physics, against the plucky underdog, coal megacorporations 2011-12-13 – 2023-05-31
PDF, Portable Document Format How we may use a thousand dollar computer to simulate a one cent piece of paper with zero day exploits 2018-06-03 – 2023-05-28
Bikes Especially bikes where I live, which means Sydney at the moment 2014-11-10 – 2023-05-26
Neural denoising diffusion models Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs), score-based generative models, generative diffusion processes, neural energy models… 2021-11-11 – 2023-05-25
IPython Jupyter’s forgotten uncle 2011-04-18 – 2023-05-15
Jax Julia for python 2020-09-15 – 2023-05-12
Hyperparameter optimization Replacing a hyperparameter problem with a hyperhyperparameter problem which feels like progress 2020-09-25 – 2023-05-12
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) 2021-03-16 – 2023-05-03
Normalizing flows Invertible density models, sounding clever by using the word diffeomorphism like a real mathematician 2018-04-04 – 2023-05-02
Quantified self Instrumentation and analytics for body and soul. Punk DIY precision medicine. 2022-01-11 – 2023-04-24
Lua 2014-07-25 – 2023-04-21
Secure chat systems Optimising back channel interjections into other people’s meetings 2015-02-15 – 2023-04-21
pandoc An itemised list of the esoteric difficulties involved in bullet points 2019-07-17 – 2023-04-20
ΦFlow A modern python computational fluid dynamics library for ML research 2022-06-24 – 2023-04-17
Code editors The best thing since punchcards 2014-11-11 – 2023-04-14
Jupyter front end systems UX design by underfunded committee is how I like my data science experience 2017-02-09 – 2023-04-12
Cheap talk Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc 2020-02-01 – 2023-04-11
Email clients on linux The constant low-level grind of a long term co-dependent relationship 2020-04-21 – 2023-04-05
Fashion Theory and practice of hip garments 2020-07-10 – 2023-03-27
Particle filters incorporating Interacting Particle Systems, Sequential Monte Carlo and a profusion of other simultaneous-discovery names 2014-07-25 – 2023-03-24
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.” 2017-12-20 – 2023-03-22
PDF viewers On turning texts into font rendering errors 2020-02-11 – 2023-03-21
Deep sets invariant and equivariant functions 2022-11-24 – 2023-03-21
Ensemble Kalman methods Data Assimilation; Data fusion; Sloppy filters for over-ambitious models 2015-06-22 – 2023-03-18
Hugo Lightweight static site utility 2020-08-26 – 2023-03-11
Transport maps Inference by measure transport, low-dimensional coupling… 2018-04-04 – 2023-02-21
UX 2018-10-16 – 2023-02-21
External validity When does what I learn on one data set apply to another? 2020-10-17 – 2023-02-16
Jupyter UI wrangling What happens inside those notebook cells doesnt stay inside tgose notebook cells 2017-02-09 – 2023-02-13
UIs in Python interacting with an app, a python app, without too much dicking about 2017-06-03 – 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. 2017-02-09 – 2023-02-13
Shells That alternative to GUIs by which you replace clicking-on-the-wrong-thing errors with typing-the-wrong-thing errors 2014-10-03 – 2023-02-09
Predictive coding Does the model that our brains do bayesian variational prediction make any actual predictions about our brains? 2011-11-27 – 2023-02-09
manim pedagogic animations via python 2018-10-07 – 2023-02-06
Diagrams Of the kind I need, a practical guide to the creation thereof 2015-03-02 – 2023-02-02
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 2020-02-01 – 2023-01-28
Web scraping Turns out we can get information off the internet 2016-06-17 – 2023-01-24
Models of inequity Sharpening the fuzzy process of bias, discrimination and inequity 2017-08-13 – 2023-01-19
Javascript audio Every program will expand until the point that it can generate cheezy techno 2011-11-25 – 2023-01-16
Matplotlib A way to draw things in python, which is better than no way to draw things in python 2014-10-07 – 2023-01-16
Weaponizing social media Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape 2019-10-21 – 2023-01-15
Melbourne Australia’s culture sweatshop 2021-10-18 – 2023-01-15
Comfy Ubuntu Now with added Pop!_OS 2014-10-14 – 2023-01-09
Probability divergences Metrics, contrasts and divergences and other ways of quantifying how similar are two randomnesses 2014-11-25 – 2023-01-06
BibLaTeX Also BibTeX if you must 2020-09-29 – 2022-12-23
Meditation Socially-approved zoning out 2016-01-05 – 2022-12-21
Neural codecs Digital recordings and converting between them. 2020-04-23 – 2022-12-19
Fitness health Getting swole and/or deferring death 2015-01-17 – 2022-12-14
Models of computation Turing machines, λ-calculus, term-rewriting and other models of what may be computed. 2017-06-18 – 2022-11-22
Time management The psychology of getting stuff done 2017-06-18 – 2022-11-08
Plotly A pretty good plotting system. 2015-11-20 – 2022-11-06
But what can I do? Recommended behaviour to make society better is to think, then act 2020-02-06 – 2022-11-06
Scientific writing In which tips are given for the projection of status through nominal phrases and passive voice 2014-12-31 – 2022-11-06
Blogroll The internet of essays 2008-11-02 – 2022-11-06
Email hosts Who handles my mail? And what do they do with it? 2020-12-30 – 2022-11-04
Emancipating my tribe Inclusivism and exclusivism in sacred and secular subcultures. Or, scaling up the in-group. 2021-12-20 – 2022-11-01
The edge of chaos Computation, evolution, competition and other past-times of faculty 2016-12-01 – 2022-10-30
Python cluster computing Parallel computing, wherein a head process spawns workers executing some python function 2016-08-23 – 2022-10-23
Python pickling Parallel computing, wherein assume a head process with spawn workers 2016-08-23 – 2022-10-23
Anomaly detection I don’t define what is abnormal, but I know it when I see it 2015-10-06 – 2022-10-20
Editing images Chinks in my armour of learned Photoshop helplessness 2018-10-16 – 2022-10-13
Data sets Questions for answers looking for questions 2015-06-26 – 2022-10-08
Nootropics The struggle to find a drug that makes you so fast that you save more time taking it than you lose reading about it 2017-08-07 – 2022-10-06
The blogosphere Now with added newsletter-o-sphere 2014-12-29 – 2022-10-06
Transcoding Digital recordings and converting between them. 2020-04-23 – 2022-10-05
Python CLIs Putting the “argument” in “command-line argument” 2021-07-02 – 2022-09-29
Squads Small scale collectives 2022-06-25 – 2022-09-25
Innovation Side order of progress studies now I guess 2014-07-27 – 2022-09-24
Terminals More realistically, terminal emulators, because anyone who owns an actual working VT102 these days is not using it to do work 2018-10-11 – 2022-09-06
Learning stuff Shoving knowledge into my brain 2020-06-16 – 2022-08-30
Managing people Making piece with the fact that I cannot do everything myself 2020-07-19 – 2022-08-30
Project management With special attention to speculative and innovative projects 2021-03-23 – 2022-08-28
Semantics Compressed representations of reality for syntactic agents; which might be what meaning means 2014-12-29 – 2022-08-28
Apptainer Containerized apps for research 2015-11-05 – 2022-08-22
Video conferencing and other ways of working together, or at least around each other 2015-02-15 – 2022-08-10
Neural nets with implicit layers Also, declarative networks, bi-level optimization and other ingenious uses of the implicit function theorem 2020-12-08 – 2022-08-09
Academic blogging workflow Minimising the friction of advertising my thoughts in order to maximise the chance each thought gets advertised. Not covered: maximising quality of thoughts. 2020-05-22 – 2022-08-07
Urbanism Stuff about cities 2014-12-25 – 2022-08-06
Causal inference on DAGs Confounding! This scientist performed a miracle graph surgery intervention and you won’t believe what happened next 2016-10-26 – 2022-08-06
Futurism Useful ways of imaginatively forecasting 2014-12-31 – 2022-08-06
Economic inequality Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature 2014-10-29 – 2022-08-06
ELBO Evidence lower bound, variational free energy etc 2020-10-02 – 2022-08-03
Microstressors Asymmetric interactions in aggregate, microinequity, microaggressions 2020-02-01 – 2022-07-28
Diversity in teams Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale 2020-05-27 – 2022-07-28
Subculture dynamics Coalitions, scenes, fandoms, subcultures, normies, hipsters, sects, and tribes at scale 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-26
Australia You’re standing in it 2020-01-25 – 2022-07-14
Being stroppy For malcontents too perverse to be contrarian like everyone else 2022-03-04 – 2022-07-06
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 2021-06-02 – 2022-07-05
Comfy GNOME shell Sparing thoughts for the desktop whatsit favoured by the thoughtless 2019-08-13 – 2022-07-03
Hydrology, applied Rivers, aquifers and other wet things that can flood your house 2020-09-07 – 2022-06-30
Moral wetware What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate? 2020-04-27 – 2022-06-30
Gender identity Political and/or empirical engagement therewith 2017-08-13 – 2022-06-25
Invasive arguments Inflammatory topics, toxplasmic incidents. Weeds in public discourse 2021-12-20 – 2022-06-25
Signal sampling Discrete representation of continuous signals and converse 2017-05-30 – 2022-06-24
Rhetoric Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive 2017-06-07 – 2022-06-24
Workhacks How to succeed in business (with or without trying) 2020-07-19 – 2022-06-14
Institutions Stable orbits in human systems 2014-10-29 – 2022-06-10
HDF5 A data format I need to know about 2020-06-17 – 2022-06-08
ssh a.k.a. “Secure shell”, which is not actually a shell but an encrypted network protocol that people like to shell with 2014-12-27 – 2022-06-07
Plants 2020-05-28 – 2022-06-02
The Illawarra The cheaper bit underneath Sydney comprising Wollongong etc 2022-05-27
Memetics Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc 2020-01-30 – 2022-05-14
DNS On asking strangers for directions 2017-10-13 – 2022-05-10
Email Doing email better, or better, not doing email at all 2015-01-13 – 2022-05-10
Linux audio Making sound by banging rocks together 44 thousand times per second 2018-04-23 – 2022-05-01
SLAM Simultaneous Location and Mapping 2014-11-25 – 2022-04-28
Voting Systems Mathematics and economics of ballots 2014-09-22 – 2022-04-21
Hierarchical models DAGs, multilevel models, random coefficient models, mixed effect models, structural equation models… 2015-06-07 – 2022-04-21
Myths Aspirationally self-fulfilling narratives, Schelling points in the social construction of reality, stone soups and Tinkerbell effects 2022-02-20 – 2022-04-07
Air pollution For a new century in which inhaling gets only more dangerous 2019-01-18 – 2022-04-03
Change points Looking for regime changes in stochastic processes. a.k.a. Switching state space models 2021-11-29 – 2022-04-01
Random binary vectors The class of distributions that cause you to reinvent Shannon information if you stare at them long enough 2017-02-20 – 2022-03-30
Sparse coding Wavelets, matching pursuit, overcomplete dictionaries… 2014-11-17 – 2022-03-07
Website cheat codes CSS, SCSS, SASS, HTML, UX, Web 2.0, RFC, Yeah you know me 2014-12-23 – 2022-03-06
QR codes Subtitles for robots 2019-10-30 – 2022-03-06
Subordinators Non-decreasing Lévy processes with weird branding 2019-10-14 – 2022-02-24
Neurons Neural networks made of real neurons, in functioning brains 2014-11-03 – 2022-02-14
Diversity in society Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic 2017-02-19 – 2022-02-13
Variational inference On fitting something not too far from a pretty good model that is not too hard 2016-03-22 – 2022-02-10
Cryptocurrencies Imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin 2016-09-06 – 2022-02-05
Teaching How-to 2020-02-11 – 2022-02-05
Bootstrap Shuffling reality to produce your data 2014-11-26 – 2022-01-27
Psychometrics Dimensionality reduction for souls 2017-10-31 – 2022-01-26
E-readers Very expensive paper substitute that breaks if I drop it 2016-04-11 – 2022-01-20
Sex and sexology Incorporating smut, lewdness, and prurience 2020-06-07 – 2022-01-17
Bounded rationality Plus miscellaneous rationality postulates restricting von Neumann-Morgenstern 2012-01-13 – 2022-01-15
Social psychology Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated? 2017-02-20 – 2022-01-14
Standards hell Lock-in, QWERTY, coordination problems etc 2015-01-05 – 2022-01-11
Presentations Slide decks and other stylised academic dominance displays 2015-06-01 – 2022-01-09
Stickers Printouts that you do not lose because they are adhered to a very large thing 2020-01-31 – 2022-01-05
Backups Version control for horrible data 2015-01-02 – 2022-01-05
Group size Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination 2011-12-09 – 2022-01-02
R The statistical programming language, not the letter 2011-08-07 – 2021-12-14
Bundled/ packaged apps for Linux On unifying the existing 3 app distribution stand ards by adding 3 additionll app distribution standards 12 2019-08-09 – 2021-12-02
Pyro Approximate maximum in the density of probabilistic programming effort 2019-10-02 – 2021-11-25
Gamification “Belated Blogging of a Buzzword” achievement unlocked 2019-10-27 – 2021-11-18
Decentralized net services a.k.a. web3, DEX, P2P, Peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend; Internet for an untrustworthy world 2017-09-18 – 2021-11-15
Digital nostalgia Pixel art, geocities chic, cyberpunk retrofuturism 2020-05-15 – 2021-11-09
Tip me 2016-09-06 – 2021-11-04
First aid If you are checking this webpage while your colleague bleeds out, you are doing it wrong 2019-02-12 – 2021-10-22
German Für Konsonantkenner 2014-10-17 – 2021-10-20
(Geo)spatial data sets In which I complain about paying a nominal fee for giant rocket robots that scan the earth from space 2021-03-02 – 2021-10-13
Printing Offline backups that do not need batteries 2018-10-03 – 2021-10-11
Science for policy Using evidence and reason to govern ourselves 2011-08-07 – 2021-09-22
Hygienic masks Medical/anti-infectious masks 2020-08-01 – 2021-09-20
Fonts Typefaces I need, which is to say, for web pages and scientific papers 2016-01-11 – 2021-09-18
Heavy tails Weird things about rare massive events 2020-01-13 – 2021-09-18
GIFs 2019-11-11 – 2021-09-17
Meta learning Few-shot learning, learning fast weights, learning to learn 2021-09-16
Governance of the commons On the mysterious fact that most people get on with most of their neighbours most of the time 2014-10-29 – 2021-09-02
Cloud machine learning Cloudimificating my artificial data learning intelligence brain clever science analyticserisation 2016-08-23 – 2021-09-01
X11, Wayland etc The other antiquated windowing system 2019-08-13 – 2021-08-18
Hardened mobile Trusting the computer that follows you around all day 2015-02-15 – 2021-08-07
Cascade models a.k.a. cluster distributions, Galton-Watson models 2019-10-11 – 2021-08-04
Contact tracing Reverse engineering social graphs for the control of contagions of pathogens, subversive ideology and other substances of interest 2020-03-21 – 2021-07-28
Publication bias Replication crises, P-values, bitching about journals, other debilities of contemporary science at large 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-22
Science History, sociology and philosophy thereof 2017-07-08 – 2021-07-21
IDEs for R Friendly UIs for the almost-friendly statistical programming language 2011-08-07 – 2021-07-18
Media virality Strategic modelling for content creators 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-15
Tensorflow The framework to use for deep learning if you groupthink like Google 2016-07-11 – 2021-07-07
Graph sampling Estimating functionals of graphs 2020-02-15 – 2021-07-06
ML Koans Passing through the NAND-gate 2021-06-23
Stein’s method His eyes are like angels but his heart is cold / No need to ask / He’s a Stein operator 2021-03-12 – 2021-06-01
Compressing neural nets pruning, compacting and otherwise fitting a good estimate into fewer parameters 2016-10-14 – 2021-05-07
The simplest thing Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering 2020-02-03 – 2021-04-27
Free will A matter about which I voluntarily admit I don’t care, but am compelled to have something to link to when eliding 2012-03-16 – 2021-04-23
Cats 2021-04-14 – 2021-04-14
Health and chemistry Pollution, ambient poisons and other things it turns out I cannot rely upon the state to protect me from 2021-04-14 – 2021-04-14
Differentiable model selection Differentiable hyperparameter search, and architecture search, and optimisation optimisation by optimisation and so on 2020-09-25 – 2021-04-13
Colour 2015-04-07 – 2021-03-24
Sauna sweating, deliberately 2017-04-06 – 2021-03-03
Chaos expansions Polynomial chaos, generalized polynomial chaos, arbitrary chaos etc 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 2021-02-12
Bayesians vs frequentists Just because we both get the same answer doesn’t mean neither of us is wrong 2014-11-25 – 2021-01-14
Auditory features descriptors, maps, representations for audio 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 2016-06-17 – 2021-01-07
Covariance functions Variograms, Mercer kernels, positive definite operators, spare reproducing kernels for that Hilbert space I bought on eBay real cheap 2019-09-16 – 2021-01-05
Nowhere to hide A catalogue of terrifying surveillance methods I encounter 2019-07-13 – 2021-01-03
Audiovisuals Synesthetic and other cross-media audio stunts 2020-10-26
Time Certain quirks of entropy 2020-10-20
Stan The flagship Bayesian workhorse 2020-10-19
Agtech Dotcom for “agricultural technology” 2020-10-05
AutoML 2017-07-17 – 2020-10-02
Data dimensionality reduction Wherein I teach myself, amongst other things, feature selection, how a sparse PCA works, and decide where to file multidimensional scaling 2015-03-22 – 2020-09-11
Neural nets Designing the fanciest usable differentiable loss surface 2016-10-14 – 2020-09-09
Remote Desktop Business model: Uber for pixels 2019-11-18 – 2020-07-31
Learning of manifolds Also topological data analysis; other hip names to follow 2014-08-19 – 2020-06-23
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 2014-10-09 – 2020-06-05
Audiobooks Long form podcasts 2014-11-11 – 2020-05-27
MAPLE An OK computer algebra system 2020-05-19
C++ 2011-04-06 – 2020-04-27
Gym togs On getting fancy activewear of low impact to my pocket and the planet 2018-06-03 – 2020-04-23
Queueing The mathematical field whose major result is enraging you about call centres 2015-06-03 – 2020-04-06
Visualising data Philosophy and psychology of good plots 2016-07-04 – 2020-03-19
Tool discovery Settling upon an adequate gizmo to identify other adequate gizmos 2020-02-19 – 2020-03-12
Restricted isometry properties Plus incoherence, irrepresentability, and other uncertainty bounds for a sparse world, and maybe frame theory, what’s that now? 2017-06-12 – 2020-03-09
Bias reduction Estimating the bias of an estimator so as to subtract it off again 2020-02-26
Asynchronous Python It can’t be premature optimisation if it took 20 years to start 2018-03-24 – 2020-02-17
Sunda 2015-11-07 – 2020-02-16
R Shiny Statistics through the internet 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 2015-08-05 – 2020-02-10
Infinitesimal generators Generators of the transition semi-group, connection to Kolmogorov forward equations 2017-05-29 – 2020-02-05
Wikis plus also CMSs 2020-01-03 – 2020-01-02
FFMPEG 2019-11-11 – 2019-12-23
Controllerism Making thing happen by waving your arms about on stage 2014-11-17 – 2019-12-10
Bitwig The DAW I hate least 2016-11-26 – 2019-11-22
MIDI The near-adequate compromise for digital music that we are stuck with 2015-10-03 – 2019-11-20
Phase retrieval I’ve got the power. / Like the crack of the whip/ I snap attack/ Front to back 2017-01-16 – 2019-11-07
Oh, Newcastle Newcastle, Australia, not that weird copy in England 2019-10-31
Aksara Sunda ᮃᮊ᮪ᮞᮛ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ 2015-10-08 – 2019-10-30
Ableton Live The de facto standard for techno 2015-01-06 – 2019-10-24
Rhythm Especially for generative music 2014-11-03 – 2019-10-23
Sneakernets Intermittent connectivity, mesh networks and the Honda protocol 2015-10-03 – 2019-09-09
Sandboxing apps Upon letting strangers into your house, just so long as they don’t open the door to that one forbidden room 2019-08-09 – 2019-08-18
Making and its discontents Also repairers, innovators, maintainers, disruptors and sustainers, but not passive consumers 2018-09-24 – 2019-05-24
Hollow states Skim government when fat cats drank the cream 2019-03-13
Csound a less irritating audio programming language 2017-03-06 – 2019-03-07
The right words That which I substitute with the long words 2017-06-15 – 2018-11-07
Atom A text editor I seemed to be using 2017-06-19 – 2018-11-06
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. 2018-10-24
Surviving bash The flagship product of modern unix is certainly better than any other 80s shell 2018-08-10 – 2018-10-19
Linear algebra If the thing is twice as big, the transformed version of the thing is also twice as big. {End} 2011-04-06 – 2018-08-07
Sundanese music Karawitan, Ketuk Tilu, Jaipongan, Gamelan Degung, Death Metal and similar 2014-11-11 – 2018-07-13
Python caches The fastest code is the code you don’t run 2018-07-02
Signal processing That which you study for 4 years in order to design trippy music visualisers 2015-03-18 – 2018-01-05
Matlab A method of charging you licensing fees to use the CPU you already bought 2016-06-13 – 2017-12-13
Embodiment It’s easier to teach a robot to walk if it has legs. 2015-01-02 – 2017-10-14
Quantum probability and quantum information, noncommutative probability 2016-10-16 – 2017-09-18
Flashcards Spaced repetition systems 2015-01-02 – 2017-04-01
Scala 2017-02-11 – 2017-02-28
Statistical learning theory Eventually including structural risk minimisation, risk bounds, hopefully-uniform convergence rates, VC-dimension, generalisation-and-stability framings etc 2016-07-06 – 2016-08-16
Syntax Formal language theory 2015-01-18 – 2016-06-22