The Living Thing

Remix and copyright 2014-10-29 – 2020-01-16

Intellectual property 2014-12-30 – 2020-01-16

Extreme value theory On the decay of awfulness with oftenness 2020-01-13 – 2020-01-15

Academic writing workflow Minimising the friction of of advertising my thoughts in order to maximise the chance a clever thought makes it out there. 2014-10-04 – 2020-01-14

Economic inequality Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature 2014-10-29 – 2020-01-14

Comfy Ubuntu Various bits of setup for a research machine 2014-10-14 – 2020-01-14

Editing images Chinks in my armour of learned photoshop helplessness 2018-10-16 – 2020-01-14

Fonts 2016-01-11 – 2020-01-10

Cloud machine learning Cloudimificating my artificial data learning intelligence brain clever science analyticserisation 2016-08-23 – 2020-01-09

Mathematics without LaΤeΧ 2019-11-19 – 2020-01-06

Organising a music collection Also guessing missing metadata 2020-01-03

Organising a photo collection 2020-01-03

Media metadata management, transcoding and editing 2014-11-27 – 2020-01-03

Plain-text blogging 2014-12-29 – 2020-01-02

Wikis plus also CMSs 2020-01-03 – 2020-01-02

Free content 2014-08-31 – 2020-01-02

Shells That alternative to GUIs by which you replace clicking-on-the-wrong-thing errors with typing-the-wrong-thing errors 2014-10-03 – 2020-01-01

Feed readers/content aggregators 2016-06-29 – 2020-01-01

Julia arrays 2019-12-31

Packaged apps for Linux On having 3 extra suggestions for installing that app on top of the existing 12 2019-08-09 – 2019-12-31

Contemporary horrorists On eldritch terrors from beyond and their Twitter accounts 2019-12-23 – 2019-12-30

Trains #Gunzellyf 2019-12-30

Jupyter The least excruciating compromise between 1) irreproducible science, and 2) spooking your luddite colleagues 2017-02-09 – 2019-12-29

LaΤeΧ Installation 2019-11-19 – 2019-12-29

Editors for LaΤeΧ 2019-11-19 – 2019-12-29

VS Code as LaΤeΧ editor 2019-11-11 – 2019-12-29

Email Doing email better, or better, not doing email at all 2015-01-13 – 2019-12-29

Linux hacks for mouse-haters Things I forget how to do in Linux. 2015-04-27 – 2019-12-29

Website cheat codes 2014-12-23 – 2019-12-28

GPU computation out of the cloud How is deep learning awful this time? 2017-03-23 – 2019-12-28

Esoteric language zoo 2019-12-27

Browse the internet for me Introducing modern automation to the ancient craft of serfing the web and tilling the clickfarm 2016-06-17 – 2019-12-27

Rhetoric Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive 2017-06-07 – 2019-12-27

Information geometry 2011-10-21 – 2019-12-27

Password management 2016-07-20 – 2019-12-26

Browser hacks Castor oil for your webshits 2017-04-20 – 2019-12-26

Cryptocurrencies 2016-09-06 – 2019-12-26

Care and feeding of macOS filesystems 2016-08-04 – 2019-12-24

Tip me 2016-09-06 – 2019-12-24

IDEs for Julia 2019-11-27 – 2019-12-24

Learning in adaptive systems On staring into scopophilic abysses 2019-10-19 – 2019-12-23

Confidentiality, corporate surveillance edition Our revealed preference for revealing our preferences 2018-12-12 – 2019-12-23

Calendars and contact databases, digital, networked 2015-06-25 – 2019-12-23

FFMPEG 2019-11-11 – 2019-12-23

Scalable vector graphics Just Vector Graphics to its friends 2019-12-23

Covariance functions Mercer kernels, positive definite operators, spare reproducing kernels for that Hilbert space I bought on eBay real cheap 2019-09-16 – 2019-12-22

Git tricks 2015-06-26 – 2019-12-22

Nerdview 2014-12-27 – 2019-12-22

Assorted laws and paradoxes I can never remember Eponymous, mostly 2019-12-22

Hawkes processes 2019-12-22

Linux filesystem hacks Various bits of setup for a research machine 2019-12-18 – 2019-12-21

Backups Breaking things safely 2015-01-02 – 2019-12-21

AV controller interfaces 2019-12-10 – 2019-12-18

Australian Authoritarianism Beneath the beach, the barbed wire 2019-08-20 – 2019-12-18

pytorch #torched 2018-05-04 – 2019-12-18

Factor graphs 2019-12-16

Kalman filtering of Gaussian Processes 2019-09-18 – 2019-12-16

Faking being on social media and other parts of the internet too boring to countenance 2016-07-21 – 2019-12-15

Free energy Fancy analogy for understanding cognition 2011-11-27 – 2019-12-11

Message passing algorithms 2014-11-25 – 2019-12-11

Plotting stuff in julia 2019-05-31 – 2019-12-11

Controllerism Making thing happen by waving your arms about on stage 2014-11-17 – 2019-12-10

Visual Studio Code Egg-laying wool milk text editor 2018-01-25 – 2019-12-09

Playing video and audio Continuing difficulty thereof 2014-11-26 – 2019-12-09

Applied string mangling Regex, parsing, tokenising etc 2019-12-09

Hardened mobile Trusting the computer that follows you around all day 2015-02-15 – 2019-12-07

Financing utopia Hedonistic mechanism design 2015-02-16 – 2019-12-07

Markdown An itemised list of the esoteric difficulties of bullet points 2019-07-17 – 2019-12-07

Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat The high price of cheap talk in the mass media 2017-02-12 – 2019-12-07

Terminals More realistically, terminal emulators, because the world is standards lock-in all the way down 2018-10-11 – 2019-12-05

Razerblade Ubuntu 2018-05-28 – 2019-12-05

Permanental point processes 2019-12-04

Spatial point process and their statistics 2016-08-17 – 2019-12-04

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 – 2019-12-03

Passive-aggressive advice on 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 – 2019-12-03

Citation management On PDFcocking 2014-09-08 – 2019-12-03

Gaussian process regression And classification. And extensions. 2019-12-03 – 2019-12-03

Gaussian processes 2016-08-07 – 2019-12-03

Non-uniform signal sampling Discrete sample representation of continuous signals without a grid 2019-01-08 – 2019-12-03

Convergence of random variables 2019-12-03

Zotero 2019-12-01

Markov bridge processes 2019-10-15 – 2019-12-01

Linux audio Making sound by banging rocks together 44 thousand times per second 2018-04-23 – 2019-12-01

Cherchez la martingale Stuff about probability and orthogonality 2019-11-25 – 2019-11-30

Audiobooks Long form podcasts 2014-11-11 – 2019-11-30

LaΤeΧ …and ΤeΧ, and ConTeXt and XeTeX and TeXleMeElmo 2014-09-08 – 2019-11-30

Clojure 2015-01-05 – 2019-11-30

Probabilistic programming a.k.a. Bayesian programming 2019-10-02 – 2019-11-30

Debugging and profiling and accelerating Julia code 2019-11-27

Installing Julia 2019-11-27

Julia interoperation and IO 2019-11-27

Julia ML etc 2019-11-27

Julia, the programming language The hippest way to get your IEEE754 on. Hngh. 2015-03-31 – 2019-11-27

UIs and networking in Julia 2019-11-27

Audio/music corpora Smells like Team Audioset 2014-08-08 – 2019-11-26

Monetizing my music 2015-05-03 – 2019-11-26

Audio source separation 2019-11-04 – 2019-11-26

Time frequency analysis Multiplying your exposure to uncertainty principles 2018-01-06 – 2019-11-26

Unix commands I need often but which are tedious to work anew out each time 2015-11-06 – 2019-11-25

Clipboard managers remembering 2 things at once 2018-08-09 – 2019-11-25

Trusting information Spinning swarm sensing from comment threads 2017-02-09 – 2019-11-25

Internet typography for dummies Writing with 🆕🐜🐜 2019-01-03 – 2019-11-24

Tensorflow the framework to use for deep learning if you groupthink like Google 2016-07-11 – 2019-11-23

Probabilistic neural nets This is Machinelearnese for “Bayesian” 2017-01-11 – 2019-11-23

Music gear Digital amps and mics for the prissy yet broke 2014-08-26 – 2019-11-22

Fancy laptops Wish list, hi-fi 2019-02-12 – 2019-11-22

Bitwig The DAW I hate least 2016-11-26 – 2019-11-22

Automatic differentiation 2016-07-27 – 2019-11-22

Sharing / gig economy Turking your ride 2015-03-22 – 2019-11-21

Music software 2014-11-11 – 2019-11-20

MIDI The near-adequate compromise for digital music that we are stuck with 2015-10-03 – 2019-11-20

Sleep Pathologies and hacks 2017-04-19 – 2019-11-19

Comfy GNOME shell for less UI sadness 2019-08-13 – 2019-11-19

Fish shell A command line shell that does not think that the problem is you 2019-03-30 – 2019-11-19

Remote Desktop 2019-11-18

ssh 2014-12-27 – 2019-11-18

Tunings 2015-10-29 – 2019-11-18

Auditory features descriptors, maps, representations for audio 2019-11-13

Maths hacks 2016-08-18 – 2019-11-13

Classification labelling losses, fitting classifiers etc 2017-02-20 – 2019-11-13

Stationery desire objects 2019-11-12

Machine listening Statistical models for audio 2014-10-10 – 2019-11-12

Probability divergences Metrics, contrasts and divergences and other ways of quantifying how similar are two randomnesses 2014-11-25 – 2019-11-12

Javascript machine learning 2017-01-13 – 2019-11-09

Javascript audio Every program will expand until the point that it can generate cheezy techno 2011-11-25 – 2019-11-08

Presentations Slide decks and other stylised academic dominance displays 2015-06-01 – 2019-11-08

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

Approximate matrix factorisation 2014-08-05 – 2019-11-07

Audio synthesis in python For the right time to use the wrong tool for the job 2018-03-25 – 2019-11-06

Weaponised social media Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape 2019-10-21 – 2019-11-05

Sparse coding How to make big things out of short lists of small things. 2014-11-17 – 2019-11-05

Webhooks 2019-11-05

Smartypants cities 2014-12-25 – 2019-11-05

Analysis/resynthesis of audio 2016-01-15 – 2019-11-04

Wasserstein GANs Fancy regularisation for tricky fakes 2019-05-21 – 2019-11-04

Variational autoencoders 2019-11-04

Music software frameworks and programming languages, for music 2016-08-22 – 2019-11-04

Generative adversarial learning 2016-10-07 – 2019-11-04

Here’s how I would do art with machine learning if I had to 2016-06-06 – 2019-11-04

Academic reading workflow The continuing ascendancy of using piles of dead tree products for understanding cutting edge digital informatics 2016-04-11 – 2019-11-03

Conference posters Comes the time when a student must spell the eldritch symbols for this occult rite of great but inscrutable importance 2018-07-19 – 2019-11-01

Optimal control 2015-06-22 – 2019-11-01

Matrix calculus 2018-07-09 – 2019-10-31

Gamification “Belated Blogging of a Buzzword” achievement unlocked 2019-10-27 – 2019-10-31

Generative art, creative coding, procedural design Teaching my computer to make prettier mistakes than me 2014-09-08 – 2019-10-31

Fit 2015-01-17 – 2019-10-31

Oh, Newcastle Newcastle, Australia, not that weird copy in England 2019-10-31

The Gaussian distribution Also Erf and normality and such 2016-06-27 – 2019-10-31

Aksara Sunda ᮃᮊ᮪ᮞᮛ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ 2015-10-08 – 2019-10-30

Gaussian processes on lattices 2019-10-30

Scientific writing In which style tips are given for the projection of status through nominal phrases and passive voice 2014-12-31 – 2019-10-30

Survey modelling Adjusting for the Lizardman constant 2019-08-29 – 2019-10-30

Timeless works of art The efficient arts hypothesis and artbitrage opportunities 2015-01-12 – 2019-10-29

Indonesia 2016-03-01 – 2019-10-29

Software audio routers Patch cables for the cable-shy 2017-06-03 – 2019-10-29

Status the original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2019-10-28

R The statistical programming language, not the letter 2011-08-07 – 2019-10-28

Inference on graphical models Given what I know about what I know, what do I know? 2017-09-20 – 2019-10-28

Nowhere to hide A catalogue of terrifying surveillance methods I encounter 2019-07-13 – 2019-10-27

Narrative 2019-10-27

DIY internet infrastructure 2019-10-27

Optimisation, Higher order 2019-10-26

Mixture models for density estimation 2016-03-29 – 2019-10-26

Reparameterization tricks in inference Normalizing flows, invertible density models, inference by measure transport, low-dimensional coupling… 2018-04-04 – 2019-10-26

Poisson processes 2019-10-14 – 2019-10-25

Synchronising and backing up securely Dropbox for dropbox haters 2015-01-02 – 2019-10-25

Reputation systems Karma, credit scores, pagerank… 2014-08-05 – 2019-10-25

Alternative social networks 90s style! V. cypherpunk! 2019-08-12 – 2019-10-24

Orthonormal and unitary matrices Energy preserving operators 2019-10-22 – 2019-10-24

Sparse regression 2016-06-23 – 2019-10-24

Ableton Live The de facto standard for techno 2015-01-06 – 2019-10-24

Virtual private networks On browsing the internet confidentially 2017-04-15 – 2019-10-23

Synchronisation and rhythm Especially for generative music 2014-11-03 – 2019-10-23

Containerized apps Doing things that previously took 1 computer using 0.75 computers 2015-11-05 – 2019-10-22

Text editors The best thing since punchcards 2014-11-11 – 2019-10-22

Delays and reverbs for audio processing …ing …ing …ing 2015-11-11 – 2019-10-22

Variational inference On fitting the best model one can be bothered to 2016-03-22 – 2019-10-21

Groupthink, diversity and the wisdom of crowds 2019-09-22 – 2019-10-21

Printing Offline backups that do not need batteries 2018-10-03 – 2019-10-21

QR codes Subtitles for robots 2019-10-30 – 2019-10-21

Capitalism’s end game What money wants 2014-12-31 – 2019-10-20

Solarpunk A tomorrow worth retiring to 2019-10-29 – 2019-10-20

Spreadsheetalikes 2014-10-15 – 2019-10-19

Bayesians vs frequentists Just because we both get the same answer doesn’t mean neither of us is wrong 2014-11-25 – 2019-10-19

Frequentist consistency of Bayesian methods TFW two flawed methods for understanding the world agree with at least each other 2016-04-12 – 2019-10-19

M-open, M-complete, M-closed 2016-05-30 – 2019-10-18

Plotting for the web 2015-11-20 – 2019-10-18

Browser data visualisations 2015-11-20 – 2019-10-18

Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods 2017-08-28 – 2019-10-18

Markov Chains 2019-12-23 – 2019-10-18

Plotting in python Colourizing data for science 2014-10-07 – 2019-10-18

Diagrams Of the kind I need, a practical guide to the creation thereof 2015-03-02 – 2019-10-17

Hedging, portfolio selection etc; applied 2017-05-09 – 2019-10-17

Filter design, linear Especially digital 2017-07-24 – 2019-10-17

Discrete time Fourier and related transforms Also, chirplets, z-transforms, chromatic derivatives… 2019-10-17 – 2019-10-17

Lévy processes 2017-05-29 – 2019-10-16

Gamma processes 2019-10-14 – 2019-10-16

Density estimation Especially non- or semiparametrically 2016-06-06 – 2019-10-16

Subordinators Non-decreasing stochastic processes with a funny name 2019-10-14 – 2019-10-15

Python A programming language whose remarkable feature is working how you imagine, if not how it should 2011-04-18 – 2019-10-15

Deep learning as a dynamical system 2018-08-13 – 2019-10-15

The tidyverse 2019-10-14

Climate crisis The conspiracy of those malign incumbent powers, the laws of physics, against the plucky underdog, coal megacorporations 2011-12-13 – 2019-10-14

Non-negative matrix factorisation 2019-10-14

Mathematics of textiles 2019-10-14

Plotting in R 2019-10-13 – 2019-10-14

Bio computing 2016-05-29 – 2019-10-14

Zeros of random trigonometric polynomials 2019-05-20 – 2019-10-14

Determinantal point processes 2018-07-31 – 2019-10-14

(Reproducing) kernel tricks 2014-08-18 – 2019-10-13

Historical English 2014-09-23 – 2019-10-12

Exponential families 2016-04-19 – 2019-10-12

Generalized Galton-Watson processes 2014-12-28 – 2019-10-11

Branching processes 2014-08-18 – 2019-10-11

Cluster models a.k.a. cascade distributions, Galton-Watson models 2019-10-11

Hardened desktop operating systems Also amnesiac and/or anonymous 2019-09-11 – 2019-10-11

Random matrix theory 2014-11-09 – 2019-10-10

Discrete-measure valued stochastic processes 2019-10-10

Non-Gaussian Bayesian functional regression 2019-10-10

Why does deep learning work? despite the fact we are totally just making this shit up 2017-05-30 – 2019-10-09

Digital scientific workbooks Literate coding for reality 2014-11-17 – 2019-10-09

Who I donate to Expensive value signalling 2019-08-21 – 2019-10-08

Garden hacks 2019-10-08

Time management Akrasia, gamification, hyperbolic discounting, quantified self and voluntary blackmail 2017-06-18 – 2019-10-08

Innovation on the invention of self-moving goalposts 2014-07-27 – 2019-10-08

Betting and prediction markets Market design for good guesses 2017-08-12 – 2019-10-07

The surveillance society All-seeing like a state 2017-02-09 – 2019-10-07

Social norms 2019-10-07

Red-queen social signal dynamics Red queen races in memetic selection on graphs 2018-12-18 – 2019-10-07

Bounded rationality and miscellaneous non von Neumann-Morgenstern rationality postulates 2012-01-13 – 2019-10-05

Voting Systems Mathematics and economics of ballots 2014-09-22 – 2019-10-05

Social psychology Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated? 2017-02-20 – 2019-10-03

Quantum computing 2017-12-14 – 2019-10-03

Encrypting, signing, verifying stuff Alice, Bob, GHCQ 2014-12-27 – 2019-10-03

Inference without KL divergence 2019-10-03

Spatial processes and statistics thereof 2011-07-29 – 2019-10-03

DJing On making people listen to your living room playlist by demanding that they pay for it 2015-02-02 – 2019-10-02

Model selection and inference for time series 2019-07-21 – 2019-10-01

Statistical learning theory for time series 2016-11-03 – 2019-10-01

State filtering parameters Tracking things that don’t move 2017-09-15 – 2019-10-01

Probabilistic graphical models over continuous index sets 2014-08-05 – 2019-09-25

Data sets Questions for answers looking for questions 2015-06-26 – 2019-09-25

Cheap single board computers Raspberry pi et al 2015-09-10 – 2019-09-24

The interpretation of densities as intensities and vice versa Point process of observations ↔ observation of a point process 2016-09-13 – 2019-09-23

Wiener-Khintchine representation Now with bonus Bochner! 2019-05-08 – 2019-09-23

Models for count data 2015-05-14 – 2019-09-22

Correlograms Also covariances 2018-08-08 – 2019-09-22

Covariance estimation for stochastic processes 2014-11-16 – 2019-09-21

Measure concentration inequalities On being 80% sure you are only 20% wrong 2014-11-25 – 2019-09-19

Applied psephology 2016-07-12 – 2019-09-19

Nonparametric state filters via Gaussian Processes 2019-09-18

Posterior inference for beginners *ahem* DJ, where’s the Bayes line? 😬 2016-05-30 – 2019-09-17

Representer theorems 2019-09-16

Blockchain-like things When all you have is a hasher… 2016-10-15 – 2019-09-12

Differentiable learning of automata 2016-10-14 – 2019-09-11

Confidentiality online, journalist edition 2018-12-12 – 2019-09-11

Wirtinger calculus It’s not complicated / It’s complex 2019-05-08 – 2019-09-10

Informations Entropies and other measures of surprise 2011-11-25 – 2019-09-10

Network firewalls, routing etc In which years of study are needed have basic online safety 2018-12-09 – 2019-09-09

Bootstrap 2014-11-26 – 2019-09-09

Large sample theory 2015-02-15 – 2019-09-09

Sneakernets Intermittent connectivity, mesh networks and the Honda protocol 2015-10-03 – 2019-09-09

Secure chat systems Optimising back channel interjections into other people’s meetings 2015-02-15 – 2019-09-09

Decentralized net services Peer-to-peer services, plus other things that people will mistake for blockchain 2017-09-18 – 2019-09-09

Transferring money 2016-09-06 – 2019-09-04

Optimisation, Newton-like 2019-02-05 – 2019-09-03

Text data processing 2014-12-15 – 2019-09-01

Crisis, collapse etc All your base are belong to dust 2018-10-15 – 2019-08-27

Non random sampling Greasing non-squeaky wheels 2019-08-27

DNS On asking strangers for directions 2017-10-13 – 2019-08-26

Go bag, Sydney edition 2019-08-26

Hierarchical models DAGs, multilevel models, random coefficient models, mixed effect models… 2015-06-07 – 2019-08-19

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

Application firewalls Spyware mitigation 2019-06-03 – 2019-08-18

Virtual machines for curmudgeons On pretending you have hardware using software 2015-11-05 – 2019-08-18

Arpeggiate by numbers Workaday automatic composition and sequencing 2015-01-07 – 2019-08-11

EZ cross-platform apps Low-code/ Rapid Application Development, that works across devices 2019-08-11

Harm minimisation for corporate social network users The alternative to harm minimisation for social pariahs 2017-04-05 – 2019-08-09

Mechanism and market design 2014-09-22 – 2019-08-07

Causal inference Confounding! This scientist performed miracle graph surgery during an intervention and you won’t believe what happened next 2016-10-26 – 2019-08-07

Survival analysis and reliability Hazard rates, proportional hazard regression, life testing, mean time to failure 2019-03-12 – 2019-07-23

Bayesian model selection 2017-08-20 – 2019-07-22

Stability in linear dynamical systems This Bodes well 2019-07-19

Natural Gradient descent Climbing slower on the tricky bits 2019-07-18 – 2019-07-19

Optimisation of model functions for experiment design Surrogate optimisation methods for optimising optimisations 2017-04-11 – 2019-07-18

Probability 2011-07-29 – 2019-07-15

Installations (in galleries etc) 2016-08-21 – 2019-07-13

Git GUIs 2019-02-08 – 2019-07-09

Sequential Monte Carlo also “Particle Filters” and a profusion of other simultaneous-discovery names 2014-07-25 – 2019-07-08

Semidefinite proramming 2019-06-29

Optimisation 2014-10-04 – 2019-06-27

Fourier interpolation 2019-06-19

Build tools for data science 2016-07-27 – 2019-06-18

Software package managers 2019-06-15

Topology, applied to problems I know about 2015-01-23 – 2019-06-15

Dilemmas of collective action 2014-11-25 – 2019-06-15

Networking stunts 2016-08-04 – 2019-06-13

Game complexity 2019-06-07

Optimal transport distances Wasserstein distances, Monge-Kantorovich metrics, Earthmover distances 2019-05-30

Neural nets designing the fanciest usable differentiable loss surface 2016-10-14 – 2019-05-27

Making and its discontents Also repairers, innovators, maintainers, disruptors and sustainers, but not passive consumers 2018-09-24 – 2019-05-24

(Weighted) least squares fits 2016-09-22 – 2019-05-22

Stability in dynamical systems Lyapunov exponents and ilk 2019-05-21

Python debugging profiling and testing The whole point of this thing is that it should be easy to fix 2019-04-28

Highly performative computing In soviet Russia, job schedules YOU 2018-03-09 – 2019-04-23

Natural language processing Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move. 2018-01-11 – 2019-04-22

Tests, statistical 2014-08-23 – 2019-04-22

Internet for the marginally online 2019-04-20

Internet for the occasionally online Intermittency in your bandwidth not in your sanity 2017-04-09 – 2019-04-20

How to communicate with humans 2019-04-02 – 2019-04-20

Statistics software 2015-02-28 – 2019-04-18

Low impact fashion Suiting australia 2019-04-18

Computational symbolic mathematics cheating at calculus by computer 2016-10-13 – 2019-04-09

Research discovery Has someone solved the problem you have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2019-04-08

Open notebook science and other strategies for reproducible research 2016-06-07 – 2019-04-05

Research data sharing for research and science 2017-05-31 – 2019-04-02

Differential equations Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought / As doth eternity 2019-03-28

Differential privacy 2016-07-28 – 2019-03-28

Bookkeeping 2019-03-14

Artisanal poverty On the decreasingly relevant business model of cool 2018-03-26 – 2019-03-14

Android hacks 2019-02-23 – 2019-03-14

Hollow states Skim government when fat cats drank the cream 2019-03-13

Particulate masks for my morning commute through heavy industrial districts. 2019-01-18 – 2019-03-11

Weaponised design 2014-10-10 – 2019-03-11

Signal sampling Discrete representation of continuous signals and converse 2017-05-30 – 2019-03-08

Oh, Sydney The rum corps in New South Boomerstan 2019-03-05 – 2019-03-08

Csound a less irritating audio programming language 2017-03-06 – 2019-03-07

Change of time Stochastic processes derived by varying the rate of time’s passage, which is more convenient than you’d think 2015-08-05 – 2019-02-18

Point processes 2016-08-01 – 2019-02-18

Model interpretation, fairness and trust 2018-11-29 – 2019-02-15

3d data A grab bag of point clouds, volumetric data and photogrammetry 2019-02-15

First aid If you are checking this webpage while your colleague bleeds out, you are doing it wrong 2019-02-12

Metis, .*-rationality and the cash value of belief, high modernism and cargo culting and spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society and local knowledge 2017-07-24 – 2019-02-12

Sunda 2015-11-07 – 2019-02-12

Inner product spaces The most highly developed theory of squaring things 2019-01-01 – 2019-02-11

Javascript 2014-10-14 – 2019-02-10

Databases structured data storage for completists and “data science” 2015-03-04 – 2019-02-09

Gradient descent First order of business 2014-10-04 – 2019-02-05

Bikes Especially bikes where I live, which means Sydney at the moment 2014-11-10 – 2019-01-29

Dictionaries 2016-01-31 – 2019-01-24

Task launchers 2017-04-10 – 2019-01-23

Meditation Socially-mandated zoning out 2016-01-05 – 2019-01-22

Mind reading by computer The ultimate inverse problem 2017-07-01 – 2019-01-21

(Audio) sample libraries 2015-09-17 – 2019-01-15

Algorithmic statistics 2014-07-25 – 2019-01-15

Collective information security The world we know is held together by spit and string 2018-11-21 – 2019-01-14

Data summarization On maps drawn at smaller than 1:1 scale 2019-01-14

Nearly sufficient statistics How about “Sufficient sufficiency”? – is that taken? 2018-03-13 – 2019-01-14

Bayesian sparsity 2019-01-08

Voice transcriptions 2019-01-08

Interactive visualisation 2015-03-22 – 2019-01-07

Decaying sinusoid dictionaries 2019-01-07

Normed spaces 2019-01-01 – 2019-01-04

Naming things Hashes, UUIDs, deep and inscrutable singular Names 2016-06-07 – 2018-12-31

Nature, nurture and friends If life gives you lemons, what should you make? 2015-06-05 – 2018-12-28

Overparameterization a.k.a. improper learning 2018-04-04 – 2018-12-11

Confidentiality How to maintain it 2014-08-23 – 2018-12-11

Variational state filtering 2018-03-19 – 2018-12-07

Science, history and philosophy thereof Those who do not do 2017-07-08 – 2018-11-28

Localhost dev server Your own little fake internet 2018-11-26

Academic publishing 2015-07-07 – 2018-11-25

Sun protection 2018-11-21

Learning on manifolds Finding the lowest bit of a krazy straw, from the inside 2011-10-21 – 2018-11-16

Microsoft Azure cloudydoodle number cruncherous thingummy-whotsits 2018-08-09 – 2018-11-16

Machine vision 2015-01-03 – 2018-11-14

Gesture recognition 2014-10-17 – 2018-11-12

How to do academia 2015-06-28 – 2018-11-07

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

Graph Computation 2014-12-17 – 2018-11-06

Free will A matter about which I voluntarily admit I don’t care, but feel constrained to have something to link to when eliding 2012-03-16 – 2018-11-06

Multiple testing 2015-04-22 – 2018-11-05

Networks and graphs, theory thereof 2014-11-24 – 2018-11-05

Numerical libraries 2016-03-01 – 2018-11-04

Signal sampling Discrete sample representation of continuous stochastic processes 2017-05-30 – 2018-10-29

Sauna sweating, deliberately 2017-04-06 – 2018-10-25

Newcomb-type decision problems 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

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 – 2018-10-24

Feedback system identification, linear 2016-07-27 – 2018-10-23

Ergodic theory / mixing For things that probably happen eventually instead of just probably 2011-10-17 – 2018-10-23

Statistical mechanics of statistics 2016-12-01 – 2018-10-23

German 2014-10-17 – 2018-10-23

Compressing artificial neural networks 2016-10-12 – 2018-10-23

Agent-based models Science as Grand Theft Auto 2011-07-28 – 2018-10-23

Anomaly detection I don’t define what is normal, but I know it when I see it 2015-10-06 – 2018-10-22

Surviving bash The flagship product of modern unix is certainly better than any other 80s shell 2018-08-10 – 2018-10-19

Graphic design for the vexed Chinks in my armour of learned photoshop helplessness 2018-10-16

Gender Political and/or empirical engagement therewith 2017-08-13 – 2018-10-16

Pattern formation 2014-12-23 – 2018-10-09

Cracking systems 2018-10-03

Online estimation 2018-09-30

Contemporary neo-feudalism King Bannon, Jester Trump, and the Strange Case of the Fate of Billions 2017-02-04 – 2018-09-27

Voice fakes 2018-09-06

Design patterns Also, life hacks and one-weird-tricks 2018-09-04

Microsoft Windows for the disdainful 2017-02-11 – 2018-08-12

Optimisation, combinatorial 2018-08-11

UIs in Python interacting with an app, a python app, without too much dicking about 2017-06-03 – 2018-08-10

Getting along Tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic; Causes, pathologies and consequences of and suggestions for 2017-02-19 – 2018-08-08

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

Serious number crunching on Google Cloud 2017-03-14 – 2018-07-30

Pro tips for art python 2015-10-19 – 2018-07-27

Javascript user interfaces 2014-11-10 – 2018-07-19

Sundanese music Karawitan, Ketuk Tilu, Jaipongan, Gamelan Degung, Death Metal and similar 2014-11-11 – 2018-07-13

Indonesian music 2016-03-30 – 2018-07-13

Gym togs On getting fancy activewear in Sydney at a competitive price 2018-06-03 – 2018-07-12

Hamiltonian and Langevin Monte Carlo Physics might be on to something 2018-07-31 – 2018-07-12

Submodular functions, maximizing 2018-07-09

Python caches The fastest code is the code you don’t run 2018-07-02

Statistical and mathematical python 2015-04-27 – 2018-06-11

Attention economy 2012-01-13 – 2018-05-28

Facebook messages pro-forma response It doesn’t work but it’s worth trying 2018-04-28

Feature engineering for research and science 2017-05-31 – 2018-04-27

Asynchronous Python It can’t be premature optimisation if it took 20 years to start, right? 2018-03-24 – 2018-04-27

Diagramming and visualising graphical models my need for this is conditionally dependent upon my deadline, given the subject matter 2018-03-29

Javascript apps 2016-01-05 – 2018-02-04

Free/ nonfree speech 2018-01-31

Cooperation Using the vast global technological infrastructure of blogging to notice the self-demonstrating fact that people occasionally work together 2014-11-04 – 2018-01-31

Learnable indexes and hashes 2018-01-12

Signal processing That which you study for 4 years in order to design trippy music visualisers 2015-03-18 – 2018-01-05

Feedback system identification, not necessarily linear 2016-08-01 – 2018-01-03

Semi/weakly-supervised learning On extracting nutrition from bullshit 2017-07-24 – 2018-01-03

Technopoetics 2016-07-26 – 2017-12-23

Quantum information in physics What are qubits again? 2017-07-24 – 2017-12-14

Matlab A method of charging you licensing fees to use the CPU you already bought 2016-06-13 – 2017-12-13

Publication bias Replication crises, P-values, bitching about journals, other debilities of contemporary science at large 2016-08-30 – 2017-12-09

Moral calculus 2014-08-04 – 2017-11-21

Convolutional neural networks 2017-11-10

“Business Leadership” The default pseudo-content for undirected MBA research 2016-05-25 – 2017-11-10

Productivity schemes 2014-10-09 – 2017-11-10

Dynamic Splitting simulation 2017-05-29 – 2017-11-10

Rare-event-conditional estimation 2017-05-29 – 2017-11-10

Gaussian Process simulation and circulant embeddings I might shoehorn Whittle likelihoods in here too 2017-11-10 – 2017-11-10

Better homes and societies 2017-11-01

Faust, the DSP language 2016-08-22 – 2017-10-31

G-factor 2017-10-31

Integral probability metrics 2016-08-21 – 2017-10-31

Recurrent neural networks 2016-06-16 – 2017-10-25

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 – 2017-10-19

Embodiment It’s easier to teach a robot to walk if it has legs. 2015-01-02 – 2017-10-14

Model interpretation 2016-09-01 – 2017-10-13

Dimensionality reduction Wherein I teach myself, amongst other things, how a *sparse* PCA works, and decide where to file multidimensional scaling 2015-03-22 – 2017-10-13

Distributed sensing and swarm sensing 2014-10-13 – 2017-10-12

Clickbait bandit problems Skinnerian human behaviour control 2017-05-18 – 2017-09-28

Learning graphical models from data what is independent of what 2017-09-20 – 2017-09-27

Quantum probability and quantum information, noncommutative probability 2016-10-16 – 2017-09-18

Bandit problems Also reinforcement learning and stochastic control 2014-11-27 – 2017-09-18

Behavioural economics 2011-04-15 – 2017-09-17

Cepstral transforms and harmonic identification 2017-09-12

(Probabilistic) graphical models 2014-08-05 – 2017-09-11

Semantics compressed representations of reality for syntactic agents; also, what stuff means 2014-12-29 – 2017-09-09

AutoML hyperparameter selection with the use of yet more hyperparameters 2017-07-17 – 2017-08-30

Post-selection inference Adaptive data analysis without cheating 2017-08-20

Model/hyperparameter selection 2016-04-15 – 2017-08-20

Brains Neural networks made of real neurons, in functioning brains 2014-11-03 – 2017-08-15

Drugs, recreational 2017-08-07 – 2017-08-09

Optimisation, continuous, primal/dual formulations. 2017-08-07

Quantum-probabilistic graphical models 2017-08-07

Robust statistics 2014-11-25 – 2017-08-07

The conservapedia problem 2017-06-16 – 2017-07-24

Warping and registration problems Matching up of bumps and wibbles in stretchy things 2016-08-17 – 2017-07-23

Our microbiome 2017-07-14

Australian English 2014-08-11 – 2017-07-06

State filtering Kalman and friends 2015-06-22 – 2017-07-06

Stochastic differential equations Itō and friends 2019-09-19 – 2017-07-06

Model averaging On keeping many incorrect hypotheses and using them all as one goodish one 2017-06-20 – 2017-07-04

Schwiizertüütsch Züritüütsch isch aifach schön. 2014-09-22 – 2017-07-03

Chinese language 2017-06-27

Institutions Stable orbits in human systems 2014-10-29 – 2017-06-20

Generalisation in neural networks Generalisation for street fighters 2017-02-12 – 2017-06-20

Generating functions Fancy counting 2017-06-19

Models of computation Turing machines, λ-calculus, term-rewriting and other models of what may be computed. 2017-06-18 – 2017-06-18

Lagrangian mechanics 2015-02-11 – 2017-06-18

Javascript mathematics 2016-05-25 – 2017-06-16

Quantitative risk measures Mathematics of actuarial and financial disaster 2015-04-30 – 2017-06-16

Stochastic processes and fields Probabilistic structures over index sets and state spaces 2014-08-05 – 2017-06-15

Algebraic probability If you liked it then you prob’ly put a ring on it 2017-06-15

Divisibility, decomposability, stability Ways of slicing randomness 2017-06-15

Compressed sensing / compressed sampling The fanciest ways of counting zero 2014-08-18 – 2017-06-14

Effective altruism First world trolley problems 2017-06-06 – 2017-06-06

Adversarial learning Statistics against Shayṭtān 2016-10-07 – 2017-06-01

Thermodynamics of life 2014-09-23 – 2017-05-30

Marketing psychology 2017-04-27 – 2017-05-29

Feller processes, infinitesimal generators 2017-05-29 – 2017-05-29

Politics of play also, playful politics 2014-10-29 – 2017-05-29

Linear and least-squares estimation of point processes 2016-09-21 – 2017-05-29

Machine learning for physics Turbulent mixing at the boundary between two disciplines with differing inertia and viscosity 2017-05-15 – 2017-05-25

Sustainability Anthropocene not heard 2011-04-15 – 2017-05-16

Financial markets Descriptive engagement with reality of 2015-03-14 – 2017-05-15

Financial stability When does volatility become a crash? 2019-10-21 – 2017-05-15

Uncertainty principles 2017-05-14

Podcasts of note 2017-05-11

Waste, and the late capitalist industrial metabolism 2017-05-11

Standards hell Lock-in, QWERTY etc 2015-01-05 – 2017-05-08

Granger causation/Transfer Entropy 2012-07-26 – 2017-05-04

Model complexity penalties Information criteria, degrees of freedom etc 2015-04-22 – 2017-05-03

Our eating disorder 2014-11-30 – 2017-04-28

Recipes, food notes 2015-06-23 – 2017-04-27

Game theory 2016-10-13 – 2017-04-24

Inputting text 2017-04-17 – 2017-04-18

Selling uncertainty 2016-05-25 – 2017-04-16

Learning of manifolds Also topological data analysis; other hip names to follow 2014-08-19 – 2017-04-05

This is a simulation 2017-04-04

On my inability to finish things in finite time 2017-04-04

Human behaviour control, methods for 2017-04-04

Entity embeddings 2017-04-01

Justice 2017-04-01

Flashcards Spaced repetition systems 2015-01-02 – 2017-04-01

Open Source (mostly software) 2017-03-31

Graphic novels/comics etc that I won’t admit to reading when there are deadlines 2015-07-06 – 2017-03-29

Pop social psychology 2015-03-31 – 2017-03-28

Musical metrics and manifolds 2014-09-26 – 2017-03-27

Serious number crunching on Amazon Web Services 2017-03-14 – 2017-03-16

Forecasting 2015-06-16 – 2017-03-11

Supercollider 2011-06-20 – 2017-03-05

Scala 2017-02-11 – 2017-02-28

Psychoacoustics 2016-08-15 – 2017-02-27

Randomised regression 2017-01-13 – 2017-02-22

Functional equations Putting the funk in functions 2017-02-06 – 2017-02-19

Random neural networks 2017-02-17 – 2017-02-19

Fractional Brownian motion 2017-02-18

Independence, conditional, statistical 2016-04-21 – 2017-02-15

Inverse problems 2016-03-30 – 2017-02-14

Quasi Monte Carlo 2015-09-01 – 2017-02-14

Metric entropy 2017-02-13

Random embeddings and hashing 2016-12-05 – 2017-02-13

C++ 2011-04-06 – 2017-02-10

Effective sample size 2016-11-21 – 2017-02-07

Synestizer 2014-11-04 – 2017-01-18

Concatenative synthesis 2015-12-13 – 2017-01-16

Kernel approximation 2016-07-27 – 2017-01-13

Neural network activation functions 2017-01-12

Soft methodology of science 2012-01-13 – 2017-01-12

Running a secure server 2015-12-04 – 2017-01-11

Javascript reactive programming and streams 2016-01-05 – 2017-01-05

Genetic algorithms 2011-04-06 – 2016-12-28

Uncertainty quantification 2016-12-26

Special functions 2014-07-25 – 2016-12-21

Greatest hits 2016-11-19 – 2016-12-12

Phylogeny 2016-10-06 – 2016-10-30

Contagion processes and their statistics 2016-08-30 – 2016-10-28

The simplex 2016-10-25

UNSW Stats reading group 2016 - Causal DAGs An introduction to conditional independence DAGs and their use for causal data. 2016-10-17 – 2016-10-21

Screen capture 2016-10-20

Inference from disorder 2016-10-19

Mexican food suppliers 2016-10-15

Differential geometry, geometric algebra etc 2014-11-27 – 2016-10-13

Maximum likelihood inference 2015-02-15 – 2016-10-13

Distributed optimization for regression 2016-10-11

M-estimation 2016-07-11 – 2016-10-10

Stability (in learning) 2016-05-25 – 2016-10-05

Cross Validation 2016-09-05 – 2016-09-27

Fast multipole methods 2016-08-18 – 2016-09-20

Penalised/regularised regression 2016-06-23 – 2016-09-15

Sparse model selection 2016-09-05 – 2016-09-08

Generalised linear models 2016-03-24 – 2016-08-31

Diversity in Electronic Art 2016-09-01 – 2016-08-23

Genre speciation 2016-08-23

Kernel density estimators 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 2016-07-06 – 2016-08-16

Randomised linear algebra 2016-08-16

Change of probability measure 2015-08-05 – 2016-08-16

Orthogonally decomposable tensors 2016-08-15

Lua 2014-07-25 – 2016-08-12

\*-omics 2016-08-12

State space reconstruction 2014-10-13 – 2016-08-02

Material basis of the economy 2011-10-17 – 2016-08-01

Blind deconvolution 2015-03-01 – 2016-07-27

Dynamical systems 2016-04-26 – 2016-07-27

Maximum processes 2016-07-14

Rummaging in string bags 2015-04-25 – 2016-07-13

Text processing 2015-04-25 – 2016-07-13

Visualising spatial data 2016-07-04

“Approximate models” 2016-07-04

Estimation of mutual information functional from data Informing yourself from your data how informative your data was 2011-04-19 – 2016-06-29

Syntax 2015-01-18 – 2016-06-22

Prepping for the end of (my access too) the (industrialised) world 2016-06-19

Matrix norms, divergences, metrics 2016-06-03 – 2016-06-15

Function approximation and interpolation 2016-06-09

Fluctuation-relaxation/response/dissipation 2016-06-07

Clustering 2015-05-22 – 2016-06-07

Functional regression, spline bases etc 2016-01-05 – 2016-06-07

Iterated function systems 2014-08-14 – 2016-06-06

Probably Approximately Correct 2014-11-24 – 2016-05-29

Fractional differential equations 2016-03-22 – 2016-05-05

Curved exponential families 2016-04-19

Category theory 2011-11-25 – 2016-04-18

Expectation maximisation 2014-08-17 – 2016-04-17

Deconvolution 2015-04-19 – 2016-04-11

Bahasa Indonesia 2015-03-02 – 2016-03-05

Large (output) solvers 2016-03-01

GPU computation mostly for python 2014-10-06 – 2016-01-19

Thermodynamics 2015-02-20 – 2016-01-18

Astroturf and artificial reefs 2016-01-13 – 2016-01-14

Message queues 2016-01-08

HTML for haters 2016-01-04

Foundations of mathematics 2016-01-04

Monte Carlo methods 2014-11-16 – 2015-12-30

Biomimetic algorithms 2015-12-22

Art LISP 2015-01-13 – 2015-12-20

Risk perception 2011-04-14 – 2015-12-19

Indirect inference 2014-12-23 – 2015-12-15

Count time series models 2015-06-03 – 2015-12-09

Boosting, bagging, voting 2015-09-23 – 2015-12-08

Coarse graining 2014-11-11 – 2015-12-02

High frequency time series estimation 2016-06-12 – 2015-12-02

Hidden variable formalisms in quantum mechanics 2015-11-28

Visuals 2015-03-24 – 2015-11-26

Parking sun 2015-11-24 – 2015-11-24

Pattern machine 2011-06-27 – 2015-11-24

Statistical mechanics 2015-11-14

Ensemble Tikoro collaboration 2015-11-12

Basa Sunda The Sundanese Language 2015-11-11

Hiteklotek and Lotekno Sundanese remixes I’m involved in 2015-11-05 – 2015-11-07

Expectation propagation 2015-10-26

Scarce urban resources 2015-10-16

Random number generation 2015-05-14 – 2015-10-13

Spamularity 2015-10-05

Islam 2015-08-22

Crowd-sourced science 2015-08-10

Colour 2015-04-07 – 2015-07-15

Earthquakes 2015-07-14

Stream processing and reactive programming 2014-10-30 – 2015-07-01

Copula functions 2015-06-23

Sigma algebras, probability spaces, measurability The scaffolding of randomness 2015-06-20

Altruism 2014-08-05 – 2015-06-18

Geometry of fitness landscapes 2011-07-27 – 2015-06-17

Architecture (doing it) 2015-06-14

Normal accidents 2015-06-03

Artificial chemistry 2011-12-13 – 2015-05-31

Knowledge geometry 2012-05-23 – 2015-05-31

Sandals 2015-05-22

Complexity 2011-11-25 – 2015-04-11

Technoethnomusicology Global bass, World Music 2.0 etc 2015-04-02 – 2015-04-06

Mixing and mastering for dummies 2015-04-05

Grammatical inference 2011-05-30 – 2015-02-19

Firms: What is WITH you? 2014-10-15 – 2015-02-10

Economics of insurgence 2015-02-02 – 2015-02-08

Microbial Ecology 2015-01-27 – 2015-01-28

Red Wine Headache 2015-01-24

New media art 2015-01-12 – 2015-01-12

Evolution 2014-11-04 – 2015-01-12

Cosmology 2015-01-05

Computational mechanics 2011-10-17 – 2015-01-02

Science for policy 2011-08-07 – 2014-11-26

Statistics 2011-04-15 – 2014-11-26

Algebra I would like to learn 2014-10-15 – 2014-11-22

Flocking 2011-04-19 – 2014-11-20

Indonesian food 2014-11-10

Computational complexity 2014-10-17

Disruptive technology 2014-10-09

Dialects 2014-09-05

Pure 2013-01-01

Dunbar’s number 2011-12-09

Macroeconomics 2011-10-17

Configuration space of the economy 2011-09-07

Margins of isotropic random unit vectors 2011-08-10

Niche construction 2011-07-26

Design grammars 2011-05-30

Econophysics 2011-04-13

Mathematica 2011-04-06

Feral 2010-12-02

Simulation for the social sciences 2010-09-28