The Living Thing

Differentiable PDE solvers Method of adjoints etc 2017-05-15 – 2021-10-28

Machine learning for partial differential equations 2017-05-15 – 2021-10-28

Our eating disorder 2014-11-30 – 2021-10-28

High dimensional statistics 2015-03-12 – 2021-10-28

Teaching and doing mathematics remotely 2020-03-16 – 2021-10-28

Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2021-10-28

How to communicate with humans 2019-04-02 – 2021-10-28

COVID-19 in practice My other epidemiological case study 2020-11-25 – 2021-10-28

Political axes Dimensionality reduction for the Great Society 2021-03-01 – 2021-10-28

Stylus input 2017-04-17 – 2021-10-28

Sex and sexology Incorporating smut, lewdness, and prurience 2020-06-07 – 2021-10-28

Data cleaning 90% of statistics 2020-01-22 – 2021-10-28

Anthropic principles Convenience-sampling lived human experience 2020-02-15 – 2021-10-28

But what can I do? The stuff to do to make a better society is so easy that it is embarrassing if you are not doing it 2020-02-06 – 2021-10-28

Random graphical models Causality in amongst confusion 2021-10-26 – 2021-10-28

Mathematics without LaTeX 2019-11-19 – 2021-10-28

LaTeX …and ΤeΧ, and ConTeXt and XeTeX and TeXleMeElmo 2014-09-08 – 2021-10-28

Conversation dynamics in the internet age I tried to make this about “free speech” and “political correctness” but my deep disinterest in that framing won out 2020-02-01 – 2021-10-28

Spectral graph theory Linear signals on graphs 2014-11-24 – 2021-10-27

Graph neural nets 2020-09-16 – 2021-10-27

Causal inference in highly parameterized ML 2020-09-18 – 2021-10-27

Better homes and societies On destinations 2017-11-01 – 2021-10-27

Sleep Pathologies and hacks 2017-04-19 – 2021-10-27

Probably Approximately Correct 2014-11-24 – 2021-10-27

Trousers 2020-09-05 – 2021-10-27

Fashion Theory and practice of hip garments 2020-07-10 – 2021-10-27

Presentation tools 2015-06-01 – 2021-10-26

Gaussian process regression And classification. And extensions. 2019-12-03 – 2021-10-26

External validity Transfer learning, dataset shift, learning under covariate shift, transferable learning, domain adaptation etc 2020-10-17 – 2021-10-26

Survey modelling Adjusting for the Lizardman constant 2019-08-29 – 2021-10-24

Weaponizing social media Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape 2019-10-21 – 2021-10-24

Who I donate to Expensive value signalling 2019-08-21 – 2021-10-22

First aid If you are checking this webpage while your colleague bleeds out, you are doing it wrong 2019-02-12 – 2021-10-22

Eyewear 2020-09-14 – 2021-10-21

Python debugging, profiling and testing It only looks simple when it’s finished 2019-04-28 – 2021-10-20

Experiment tracking for machine learning 2021-10-20 – 2021-10-20

German Für Konsonantkenner 2014-10-17 – 2021-10-20

Blogdown Plus other RMarkdown-derived scholarly blogging systems 2020-08-26 – 2021-10-20

VS Code / VS Codium Egg-laying wool milk code editor 2018-01-25 – 2021-10-20

Gender Political and/or empirical engagement therewith 2017-08-13 – 2021-10-20

Networks and graphs, theory thereof 2014-11-24 – 2021-10-20

Scientific writing In which tips are given for the projection of status through nominal phrases and passive voice 2014-12-31 – 2021-10-20

Knowledge geometry 2012-05-23 – 2021-10-20

Hyperparameter optimization Replacing a hyperparameter problem with a hyperhyperparameter problem which feels like progress I guess 2020-09-25 – 2021-10-20

Plotting in python Jack of all trades, old master of none 2014-10-07 – 2021-10-20

Experiment tracking for machine learning 2020-10-23 – 2021-10-19

Data dashboards On assuring the client that you are doing something data-sciency because it looks like in the movies 2020-03-12 – 2021-10-19

Highly performative computing In Soviet Russia, job puts YOU in queue 2018-03-09 – 2021-10-18

Pytorch #torched 2018-05-04 – 2021-10-16

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 – 2021-10-16

Economics on networks 2020-05-17 – 2021-10-16

Optimisation 2014-10-04 – 2021-10-15

Fun with rotational symmetries 2021-01-29 – 2021-10-14

Firefox 2017-04-20 – 2021-10-14

Neural music synthesis 2016-01-15 – 2021-10-14

Research discovery Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2021-10-13

(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

Matplotlib A way to draw things in python which is better than no way to draw things in python 2014-10-07 – 2021-10-13

Fun with determinants Especially Jacobian determinants 2011-04-06 – 2021-10-12

Random neural networks 2017-02-17 – 2021-10-12

Printing Offline backups that do not need batteries 2018-10-03 – 2021-10-11

Playing music on the computer Continuing difficulty thereof 2014-11-26 – 2021-10-11

Planning under uncertainty Transcending planning-though-hope-and-haruspicy 2020-04-23 – 2021-10-10

Dunning-Kruger theory of mind On anthropomorphising humans 2020-06-18 – 2021-10-10

Contemporary rationalists and contrarians Cloth mother/wire mother for cognition 2020-09-06 – 2021-10-10

Narrative 2019-10-27 – 2021-10-10

Mathematica 2011-04-06 – 2021-10-08

Multilinear algebra Outer products, tensors, einstein summation 2021-10-08

Missing data Imputation, estimation despite etc 2021-10-07

Diagrams Of the kind I need, a practical guide to the creation thereof 2015-03-02 – 2021-10-07

Polynomial bases 2021-01-29 – 2021-10-06

Localhost dev server Your own little fake internet 2018-11-26 – 2021-10-06

Neural nets for “implicit representations” 2021-01-21 – 2021-10-05

Mind as statistical learner 2020-06-23 – 2021-10-05

Email clients on linux The constant low-level grind of a long term co-dependent relationship 2020-04-21 – 2021-10-04

Climate crisis The conspiracy of those malign incumbent powers, the laws of physics, against the plucky underdog, coal megacorporations 2011-12-13 – 2021-10-03

Utopian governance Hedonistic mechanism design 2020-05-04 – 2021-10-03

The Gaussian distribution The probability distribution that you give up and use in the end 2016-06-27 – 2021-10-03

Indyweb 2020-03-05 – 2021-10-02

Numerical PDE solvers 2016-03-01 – 2021-10-02

Project management With special attention to speculative and innovative projects 2021-03-23 – 2021-10-02

Psychometrics Dimensionality reduction for souls 2017-10-31 – 2021-10-02

Neural net attention mechanisms On brilliance through selective ignorance 2017-12-20 – 2021-10-01

Probabilistic neural nets Bayesian and other probabilistic inference in overparameterized ML 2017-01-11 – 2021-09-30

Soft methodology of science 2012-01-13 – 2021-09-28

Gradient descent at scale Practical implementation of large optimisations 2021-07-14 – 2021-09-28

Algorithmic statistics Probably also algorithmic information theory 2014-07-25 – 2021-09-26

Brains Neural networks made of real neurons, in functioning brains 2014-11-03 – 2021-09-26

Jax Julia for python 2020-09-15 – 2021-09-25

Cohousing in Australia Plus other low-cost, low tedium options for secure habitation somewhere 2021-09-25

Regularising neural networks Generalisation for street fighters 2017-02-12 – 2021-09-24

Orthonormal and unitary matrices Energy preserving operators, generalized rotations 2019-10-22 – 2021-09-22

Cloud machine learning compute vendors 2016-08-23 – 2021-09-22

Science for policy Using evidence and reason to govern ourselves 2011-08-07 – 2021-09-22

Fractals and self-similarity 2011-11-13 – 2021-09-22

Metis and .*-rationality High modernism, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society, technocracy, and local knowledge 2017-07-24 – 2021-09-20

Community governance Coordinating human being by application of social force 2020-02-02 – 2021-09-20

Machine learning for physical sciences Turbulent mixing at the boundary between two disciplines with differing inertia and viscosity 2017-05-15 – 2021-09-20

Taking notes Notes on notes on notes 2020-02-17 – 2021-09-20

Economics of automation When to the robots come for my job? 2021-09-20

Implementing neural nets 2016-10-14 – 2021-09-20

Incoming links and notes 2020-03-05 – 2021-09-20

Arpeggiate by numbers Workaday automatic composition and sequencing 2015-01-07 – 2021-09-20

Hygienic masks Medical/anti-infectious masks 2020-08-01 – 2021-09-20

Approximate Bayesian Computation Posterior updates without likelihood 2020-08-25 – 2021-09-20

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 – 2021-09-19

Decentralized net services a.k.a. DEX, P2P, Peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend; Internet for an untrustworthy world 2017-09-18 – 2021-09-19

Timeless works of art The efficient arts hypothesis, artbitrage, arts and crafts in mass production 2015-01-12 – 2021-09-18

Bootstrap Shuffling reality to produce your data 2014-11-26 – 2021-09-18

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

Memetics Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc 2020-01-30 – 2021-09-18

Moloch and hyperselection Weak selection versus goodharting 2020-03-17 – 2021-09-18

Institutions Stable orbits in human systems 2014-10-29 – 2021-09-18

DIY Artisanal poverty, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget 2018-03-26 – 2021-09-18

GIFs 2019-11-11 – 2021-09-17

Clickbait bandit problems On using computers to program humans 2017-05-18 – 2021-09-16

Reproducible research Open notebooks etc 2016-06-07 – 2021-09-16

Software engineering for scientists 2016-06-07 – 2021-09-16

Meta learning Few-shot learning, learning fast weights, learning to learn 2021-09-16

Biological basis of language 2018-01-11 – 2021-09-16

Natural language processing Automatic processing of labguage 2018-01-11 – 2021-09-16

Free content Raiding history for clip art 2014-08-31 – 2021-09-16

Databases viewers / editors 2015-03-04 – 2021-09-15

Data storage formats 2020-06-17 – 2021-09-15

Numerical python 2015-04-27 – 2021-09-15

Audio sample management 2021-09-14 – 2021-09-14

Fractional differential equations 2016-03-22 – 2021-09-13

User interface design 2021-09-13

Voice transcriptions and speech recognition 2019-01-08 – 2021-09-13

Calendars and contact databases 2015-06-25 – 2021-09-12

Sydney lifestyle theme village The sunniest mortgage farm in the Southern Hemisphere! 2019-03-05 – 2021-09-12

Particulate masks and air pollution For a new century in which inhaling gets only more dangerous 2019-01-18 – 2021-09-10

Synchrony between things, especially organisms Entrainment, synchronisation, dancing together 2014-11-03 – 2021-09-08

Maths hacks 2016-08-18 – 2021-09-08

Teaching mathematics and statistics With a side order of communicating science 2020-02-12 – 2021-09-08

Economic inequality Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature 2014-10-29 – 2021-09-08

Video conferencing 2015-02-15 – 2021-09-08

Software audio routers Patch cables for the cable-shy 2017-06-03 – 2021-09-08

Software video routers 2017-06-03 – 2021-09-08

Wirtinger calculus It’s not complicated / It’s complex 2019-05-08 – 2021-09-07

Neural nets with implicit layers Also, declarative networks 2020-12-08 – 2021-09-07

Australian authoritarianism Beneath the beach, the barbed wire 2019-08-20 – 2021-09-06

Recurrent neural networks 2016-06-16 – 2021-09-06

Forecasting Haruspicy 2.0 2015-06-16 – 2021-09-06

Diagramming and visualising graphical models and neural networks My need for this is conditionally dependent upon my deadline, given the subject matter 2018-03-29 – 2021-09-06

Learning stuff Shoving knowledge into my brain 2020-06-16 – 2021-09-06

Alternative social networks V. cypherpunk! much 733+! 2019-08-12 – 2021-09-05

Standards hell Lock-in, QWERTY etc 2015-01-05 – 2021-09-03

Monte Carlo methods 2014-11-16 – 2021-09-02

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

Path smoothness properties of stochastic processes Continuity, differentiability and other smoothness properties 2020-02-26 – 2021-09-02

Journalism, normative 2020-01-26 – 2021-09-02

Cloud machine learning Cloudimificating my artificial data learning intelligence brain clever science analyticserisation 2016-08-23 – 2021-09-01

Fish shell A command line shell that does not think that the problem is you 2019-03-30 – 2021-08-31

Git tricks 2015-06-26 – 2021-08-31

Stochastic calculus Itô and friends 2019-09-19 – 2021-08-31

Status The original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2021-08-30

Automatic differentiation in Julia 2016-07-27 – 2021-08-27

Karhunen-Loève expansions 2019-09-16 – 2021-08-27

Time management Akrasia, gamification, hyperbolic discounting, quantified self and voluntary blackmail 2017-06-18 – 2021-08-26

Python packaging, dependency management and isolation 2011-04-18 – 2021-08-26

Scientific community Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24

Teaching How-to 2020-02-11 – 2021-08-24

Inverse problems 2016-03-30 – 2021-08-23

Wiener-Khintchine representations Spectral representations of stochastic processes 2019-05-08 – 2021-08-23

VS Code as R IDE 2021-10-06 – 2021-08-22

Baby’s first private cloud 2021-08-08 – 2021-08-20

R The statistical programming language, not the letter 2011-08-07 – 2021-08-20

DIY VPN access point 2020-08-16 – 2021-08-20

Home networks for lazy dummies 2020-08-16 – 2021-08-19

LaTeX symbols, fonts and character sets 2020-02-11 – 2021-08-18

X11, Wayland etc The other antiquated windowing system 2019-08-13 – 2021-08-18

Multi-output Gaussian process regression 2020-12-02 – 2021-08-16

Vector Gaussian processses 2020-12-02 – 2021-08-16

Group size Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination 2011-12-09 – 2021-08-16

Convolutional stochastic processes Moving averages of noise 2021-03-01 – 2021-08-16

Web browser hacks Castor oil for your webs—ts 2017-04-20 – 2021-08-13

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 – 2021-08-12

Jupyter front end systems UX design by underfunded committee is how I like my data science experience 2017-02-09 – 2021-08-12

Virtual private networks On browsing the internet safely and maybe even confidentially 2017-04-15 – 2021-08-12

Editing images Chinks in my armour of learned Photoshop helplessness 2018-10-16 – 2021-08-12

Modern conspiracy mania You are only reading this because the Deep State wants you to 2020-08-16 – 2021-08-11

Social media if you must Harm minimisation for corporate social network users is the alternative to harm minimisation for social pariahs 2017-04-05 – 2021-08-11

Designing social movements Minimum viable utopia 2021-05-01 – 2021-08-11

VS Code for python A quite good python IDE 2021-08-10

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 – 2021-08-10

Why is Australian internet shit? 2021-08-10

Design grammars 2011-05-30 – 2021-08-09

Grammar induction 2011-05-30 – 2021-08-09

Microsoft Windows for the avoidant 2017-02-11 – 2021-08-09

Synchronising files across machines Dropbox for Dropbox haters 2015-01-02 – 2021-08-08

Risk neutral measure 2021-10-15 – 2021-08-08

Risk neutral measure 2021-10-15 – 2021-08-08

Trading, hedging and portfolios in practice 2017-05-09 – 2021-08-08

Hardened mobile Trusting the computer that follows you around all day 2015-02-15 – 2021-08-07

Rough path theory Also, signatures. 2021-04-02 – 2021-08-05

Automatic differentiation 2016-07-27 – 2021-08-05

Generalised linear models 2016-03-24 – 2021-08-05

GPU computation 2014-10-06 – 2021-08-04

Feedback system identification, not necessarily linear 2016-08-01 – 2021-08-04

Tests, statistical Maybe also design of experiments while we are here? 2014-08-23 – 2021-08-04

Sequential experiments Especially multiple sequential experiments 2021-08-04

Cascade models a.k.a. cluster distributions, Galton-Watson models 2019-10-11 – 2021-08-04

System76 laptops Luxury linux 2018-05-28 – 2021-08-03

Comfy Ubuntu Now with added Pop!_OS 2014-10-14 – 2021-08-03

Models for count data 2015-05-14 – 2021-08-03

Unix/linux distros explained as bikes 2021-08-02 – 2021-08-02

Image search 2021-08-02

Neural network activation functions 2017-01-12 – 2021-08-02

Organising a photo collection 2020-01-03 – 2021-08-02

Games, computer, recreational 2020-01-22 – 2021-08-02

Music gear Digital amps and mics for the prissy yet broke 2014-08-26 – 2021-07-30

Online whiteboards 2020-08-26 – 2021-07-30

Spatial data in R 2021-03-21 – 2021-07-29

Hydrology models Rivers, aquifers and other wet things that can flood your house 2020-09-07 – 2021-07-29

Tiling window managers Basing your workflow on Tetris seems like a great use of time 2019-08-13 – 2021-07-29

Probably actually reading 2020-03-05 – 2021-07-29

Community Engineering, maintaining, organizing… 2020-02-02 – 2021-07-29

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

Laplace approximations in inference Posterior updates without likelihood 2021-07-28

Comfy GNOME shell Sparing thoughts for the desktop whatsit favoured by the thoughtless 2019-08-13 – 2021-07-27

Digital scientific workbooks Literate coding for reality 2014-11-17 – 2021-07-27

Risk perception and communication 2011-04-14 – 2021-07-27

Morphogenesis 2011-01-19 – 2021-07-26

Here’s how I would do art with machine learning if I had to 2016-06-06 – 2021-07-26

Generic cloud machines 2016-08-23 – 2021-07-26

Email hosts Who handles my mail? 2020-12-30 – 2021-07-25

Sydney food suppliers Practical bulk budget Sydney gourmet 2016-10-15 – 2021-07-25

Code editors The best thing since punchcards 2014-11-11 – 2021-07-22

Publication bias Replication crises, P-values, bitching about journals, other debilities of contemporary science at large 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-22

Innovation Can I patent self-moving goalposts? 2014-07-27 – 2021-07-21

Science History, sociology and philosophy thereof 2017-07-08 – 2021-07-21

Recommender systems 2020-11-30 – 2021-07-19

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2021-01-14 – 2021-07-19

Trauma, managing 2021-07-19 – 2021-07-19

IDEs for R Friendly UIs for the almost-friendly statistical programming language 2011-08-07 – 2021-07-18

Email clients 2020-04-21 – 2021-07-17

Contagion processes and their statistics 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-15

Media virality Strategic modelling for content creators 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-15

Learning summary statistics 2020-04-22 – 2021-07-15

GPU computation out of the cloud How is deep learning awful this time? 2017-03-23 – 2021-07-15

Multi-task ML 2021-07-14

ML on small devices Putting intelligence on chips small enough to be in disconcerting places 2016-10-14 – 2021-07-13

How to reduce corporate spying on me, hopefully 2018-12-12 – 2021-07-12

Financing utopia Hedonistic mechanism design 2015-02-16 – 2021-07-11

Sexual ethics and institutions 2020-06-07 – 2021-07-11

Overparameterization a.k.a. improper learning 2018-04-04 – 2021-07-08

Bureaucracy Iron Laws and Moral Mazes 2020-02-02 – 2021-07-08

Tensorflow The framework to use for deep learning if you groupthink like Google 2016-07-11 – 2021-07-07

Point process intensities and statistical estimation thereof 2016-08-01 – 2021-07-07

Monetizing my music 2015-05-03 – 2021-07-07

Graph sampling Estimating functionals of graphs 2020-02-15 – 2021-07-06

Uncertainty quantification 2016-12-26 – 2021-07-06

Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds 2019-09-22 – 2021-07-05

Visualising geospatial data Geographic information systems 2016-07-04 – 2021-07-05

Semi/weakly-supervised learning On extracting nutrition from bullshit 2017-07-24 – 2021-07-05

Applied string mangling Regexes, parsing, tokenising etc 2019-12-09 – 2021-07-05

Australia in data 2020-01-25 – 2021-07-04

Python CLIs Putting the “argument” in “command-line argument” 2021-07-02

Blogroll The internet of essays 2008-11-02 – 2021-07-02

Effective altruism First world trolley problems 2017-06-06 – 2021-07-01

Moral philosophy 2014-08-04 – 2021-07-01

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 – 2021-06-30

Extreme value theory On the decay of awfulness with oftenness 2020-01-13 – 2021-06-30

Contemporary techno-horrorists On eldritch terrors from beyond and their Twitter accounts 2019-12-23 – 2021-06-29

Distributed sensing, swarm sensing, adaptive social learning 2014-10-13 – 2021-06-28

Predictive coding Fancy analogy for brains 2011-11-27 – 2021-06-24

Algebraic probability If you liked it then you prob’ly put a ring on it 2017-06-15 – 2021-06-24

Stochastic partial differential equations 2021-01-27 – 2021-06-24

Marine biology and ecology 2021-06-24

Gaussian processes 2016-08-07 – 2021-06-23

ML Koans Passing through the NAND-gate 2021-06-23

Stochastic differential equations 2019-09-19 – 2021-06-22

Causality via potential outcomes Neyman-Rubin, counterfactuals, instrumental variables and related tricks 2016-10-26 – 2021-06-21

Learning on tabular data 2020-11-30 – 2021-06-21

Bikes Especially bikes where I live, which means Sydney at the moment 2014-11-10 – 2021-06-21

Typing weird symbols Writing with 🆕🐜🐜 2019-01-03 – 2021-06-19

Jupyter The least excruciating compromise between ease of 1) doing data science and 2) seeming to laypeople to be doing data science 2017-02-09 – 2021-06-18

Jupyter UI wrangling What happens inside those notebook cells 2017-02-09 – 2021-06-18

Random-forest-like methods A selection of randomly stopped clocks is never far from wrong. 2015-09-23 – 2021-06-17

Voice fakes 2018-09-06 – 2021-06-17

Ensembling neural nets Monte Carlo 2020-12-14 – 2021-06-15

Phylogeny 2016-10-06 – 2021-06-14

Organising a music collection Also guessing missing metadata 2020-01-03 – 2021-06-14

DJing On encouraging people to listen to your living room playlist by demanding that they pay for it 2015-02-02 – 2021-06-14

Care and feeding of macOS filesystems 2016-08-04 – 2021-06-09

Random rotations 2021-05-18 – 2021-06-08

Optimal transport metrics Wasserstein distances, Monge-Kantorovich metrics, Earthmover distances 2019-05-30 – 2021-06-08

Deep generative models 2020-12-10 – 2021-06-08

Energy based models Inference with kinda-tractable un-normalized densities 2021-06-07

Unix commands I need often but which are tedious to work anew out each time 2015-11-06 – 2021-06-05

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

Technological singularities Incorporating hard AI take-offs, game-over high scores, the technium, god-in-the-cloud, deus-ex-machina, nerd raptures and so forth 2016-12-01 – 2021-06-01

Stein’s method 2021-03-12 – 2021-06-01

Ecology 2015-01-27 – 2021-06-01

Sexy plants 2020-05-28 – 2021-05-29

Text data processing 2014-12-15 – 2021-05-24

Isotropic random vectors 2011-08-10 – 2021-05-24

Neural net kernels 2019-09-16 – 2021-05-24

Randomized low dimensional projections 2021-03-12 – 2021-05-24

Burning bootable USB drives, SD cards etc 2021-05-23 – 2021-05-24

Drugs, recreational 2017-08-07 – 2021-05-24

Software package managers 2019-06-15 – 2021-05-24

Gaussian Process regression via state filtering Imposing time on things 2019-09-18 – 2021-05-21

Decoupling the economy from energy 2021-05-21

Hedonism, practising The Good Life as far as I recognise it 2020-06-23 – 2021-05-21

Causal inference on DAGs Confounding! This scientist performed miracle graph surgery during an intervention and you won’t believe what happened next 2016-10-26 – 2021-05-19

Video editing 2020-04-23 – 2021-05-18

Limit Theorems Asymptotic distributions of random processes 2014-11-25 – 2021-05-17

Cryptocurrencies Imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin 2016-09-06 – 2021-05-17

Transforms of RVs 2020-06-04 – 2021-05-14

Stochastic Taylor expansion Polynomial approximations of small randomnesses 2020-10-15 – 2021-05-14

Cross validation 2016-09-05 – 2021-05-13

Complexity of markets Computation in economic mechanisms 2021-02-20 – 2021-05-13

Deep Gaussian process regression 2021-05-13

Probability divergences Metrics, contrasts and divergences and other ways of quantifying how similar are two randomnesses 2014-11-25 – 2021-05-12

Infinite width limits of neural networks 2020-12-09 – 2021-05-11

Computational symbolic mathematics Cheating at calculus exams 2016-10-13 – 2021-05-11

Social norms 2019-10-07 – 2021-05-10

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 – 2021-05-08

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 – 2021-05-07

Compressing neural nets pruning, compacting and otherwise fitting a good estimate into fewer parameters 2016-10-14 – 2021-05-07

Spectral factorization 2021-05-05 – 2021-05-07

Pornography Morsels of oddity from the depiction of human sexual behaviour 2020-04-22 – 2021-05-07

Queerness 2021-05-06

Wiener-Hopf method Righteous hack for certain integral equations 2021-05-05

Power generation, engineering and use Miscellaneous links on the magical terrible process of keeping the lights on 2021-05-04

Curators of the internet 2021-05-03 – 2021-05-03

Diversity, oddness and multiculturalism in humans On clone wars 2020-05-27 – 2021-05-03

Digital nostalgia Pixel art, geocities chic, cyberpunk retrofuturism 2020-05-15 – 2021-05-03

Generic dependency managers 2021-05-03

The simplest thing Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering 2020-02-03 – 2021-04-27

Fourier transforms 2021-01-29 – 2021-04-26

Feed readers Automated content aggregation for an internet designed to inform you rather than distract you 2016-06-29 – 2021-04-24

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

Inference without KL divergence 2019-10-03 – 2021-04-23

Transcoding and playing audio/video 2020-04-23 – 2021-04-23

Audio sample libraries 2015-09-17 – 2021-04-22

LaTeX Installation 2019-11-19 – 2021-04-19

Editors for LaTeX 2019-11-19 – 2021-04-19

Secure chat systems Optimising back channel interjections into other people’s meetings 2015-02-15 – 2021-04-19

Path integral formulations Feynman path integrals, esp for stochastic processes 2021-04-19

Cryptographic tokens, distributed ledgers, and blockchain-like-things When all you have is a hasher… 2016-10-15 – 2021-04-19

Tracking my website traffic Optimising scarce attention into the shopping cart widget 2021-01-30 – 2021-04-19

Static sites 2014-12-29 – 2021-04-19

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 – 2021-04-15

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

ML benchmarks and their pitfalls On marginal efficiency gain in paperclip manufacture 2020-08-16 – 2021-04-13

Differentiable model selection Differentiable hyperparameter search, and architecture search, and optimisation optimisation by optimisation and so on 2020-09-25 – 2021-04-13

Linux-compatible laptops I love linux but I hate googling for “wifi hangs after suspend” 2018-05-28 – 2021-04-11

Open Source (mostly software) On published schematics for cheap objects 2017-03-31 – 2021-04-09

Prediction processes Some kind of weird time series formalism 2021-04-09

Dynamical systems via Koopman operators Composition operators, Dynamic Extended Mode decompositions… 2020-10-13 – 2021-04-09

Databases (for scientists) Stashing experimental data for later use 2015-03-04 – 2021-04-09

Statistics and machine learning 2011-04-15 – 2021-04-08

Kernel zoo 2019-09-16 – 2021-03-30

Science; Sociology and institution design for Scientist, falsify thyself 2020-05-17 – 2021-03-30

Colour 2015-04-07 – 2021-03-24

Generically approximating probability distributions 2021-03-12 – 2021-03-22

Remix and copyright 2014-10-29 – 2021-03-18

Assorted laws and paradoxes Mostly-eponymous laws I would confound without this note 2019-12-22 – 2021-03-18

BibLaTeX Also BibTeX if you must 2020-09-29 – 2021-03-18

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 empirical density in minimal transport cost 2021-03-16

Determinantal point processes 2018-07-31 – 2021-03-16

Scaling laws for very large neural nets 2021-01-14 – 2021-03-15

Model interpretation and explanation Colorizing black boxes 2016-09-01 – 2021-03-15

IDEs for Julia 2019-11-27 – 2021-03-15

Password management 2016-07-20 – 2021-03-14

Backups Version control for horrible data 2015-01-02 – 2021-03-14

Academic reading workflow The continuing ascendancy of using piles of dead tree products for understanding cutting edge digital informatics 2016-04-11 – 2021-03-12

Git GUIs 2019-02-08 – 2021-03-12

Technopoetics 2016-07-26 – 2021-03-12

Log concave distributions associated tools 2017-08-28 – 2021-03-11

Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods 2017-08-28 – 2021-03-11

Probabilistic programming Programming with probability distributions for, e.g. Bayesian inference 2019-10-02 – 2021-03-10

Statistics, computational complexity thereof 2020-11-03 – 2021-03-10

Classification Computer says no 2017-02-20 – 2021-03-09

Neural nets with basis decomposition layers 2021-03-09

Reparameterization tricks in inference Normalizing flows, invertible density models, inference by measure transport, low-dimensional coupling… 2018-04-04 – 2021-03-08

Stochastic processes which represent measures over the reals 2020-10-16 – 2021-03-08

Convolutional subordinator processes 2021-03-08

Matrix measure concentration inequalities and bounds 2014-11-25 – 2021-03-08

Shells That alternative to GUIs by which you replace clicking-on-the-wrong-thing errors with typing-the-wrong-thing errors 2014-10-03 – 2021-03-05

Measure concentration inequalities On being 80% sure I am only 20% wrong 2014-11-25 – 2021-03-04

Fit 2015-01-17 – 2021-03-03

Sauna sweating, deliberately 2017-04-06 – 2021-03-03

Markdown An itemised list of the esoteric difficulties of bullet points 2019-07-17 – 2021-03-03

knitr/RMarkdown 2020-02-02 – 2021-03-03

Learning on manifolds Finding the lowest bit of a krazy straw, from the inside 2011-10-21 – 2021-03-03

Mind reading by computer The ultimate inverse problem 2017-07-01 – 2021-03-03

Memory in machine learning 2021-03-03 – 2021-03-03

Combining kernels 2019-09-16 – 2021-03-01

Terminal session management and multiplexing 2020-06-11 – 2021-03-01

Convolutional Gaussian processes 2021-03-01

Random fields as stochastic differential equations 2020-10-12 – 2021-03-01

Stochastic processes on manifolds 2021-03-01

Learning covariance functions Learning a family of covariances at once 2019-09-16 – 2021-03-01

Red queen social signal dynamics Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices 2018-12-18 – 2021-02-27

Podcasts 2017-05-11 – 2021-02-26

Presentations Slide decks and other stylised academic dominance displays 2015-06-01 – 2021-02-25

Frames and Riesz bases Generalisations of orthogonal bases 2017-06-12 – 2021-02-24

Conference posters 2018-07-19 – 2021-02-22

Causal inference in the continuous limit 2021-02-17

Stability in linear dynamical systems This Bodes well 2019-07-19 – 2021-02-16

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

Make your own podcast why not 2017-05-11 – 2021-02-09

E-readers and other over-engineered paper emulators 2016-04-11 – 2021-02-07

Online collaboration 2020-06-01 – 2021-02-03

Online collaboration tools 2020-06-01 – 2021-02-03

Partial differential equations 2021-01-27 – 2021-02-01

Integral transforms 2021-01-29 – 2021-01-30

Android hacks 2019-02-23 – 2021-01-30

Feynman-Kac formulae 2021-01-27

Miscellaneous nonstationary kernels 2019-09-16 – 2021-01-21

Warping of stationary stochastic processes 2019-09-16 – 2021-01-21

Running a secure server 2015-12-04 – 2021-01-19

Containerized apps Doing things that previously took 0.5 computers using 0.4 computers 2015-11-05 – 2021-01-16

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 crafts of serfing the web and tilling the clickfarm 2016-06-17 – 2021-01-07

Statistical mechanics of statistics 2016-12-01 – 2021-01-06

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

Email Doing email better, or better, not doing email at all 2015-01-13 – 2020-12-30

Genre speciation 2016-08-23 – 2020-12-24

VS Code as LaTeX editor 2019-11-11 – 2020-12-17

Why does deep learning work? Are we in the pocket of Big VRAM? 2017-05-30 – 2020-12-14

Generative adversarial networks 2016-10-07 – 2020-12-14

Sun protection 2018-11-21 – 2020-12-10

Nonparametrically learning dynamical systems 2018-08-13 – 2020-12-08

Data sets Questions for answers looking for questions 2015-06-26 – 2020-12-02

Random embeddings and hashing 2016-12-05 – 2020-12-01

Randomised regression 2017-01-13 – 2020-12-01

Concurrency 2020-12-01

Julia, the programming language The hippest way to get your IEEE754 on. Hngh. 2015-03-31 – 2020-12-01

Distribution regression 2020-12-01

Julia ML etc 2019-11-27 – 2020-11-30

R packaging, installation etc 2020-11-30

Variational inference by message-passing in graphical models 2014-11-25 – 2020-11-25

Probabilistic spectral analysis 2019-11-13 – 2020-11-25

Crowd-sourced science 2015-08-10 – 2020-11-24

Tensor decompositions 2016-08-15 – 2020-11-19

Tensor regression 2020-11-19

Secure Scuttlebutt Social media for off-the-grid 2020-11-18 – 2020-11-18

Julia arrays 2019-12-31 – 2020-11-14

Hardened desktop operating systems Also amnesiac and/or anonymous 2019-09-11 – 2020-11-13

Observability and sensitivity in learning dynamical systems Parameter identifiability in dynamical models 2020-11-09

Experiment tracking for computation in science 2020-10-23 – 2020-11-06

Weighted data in statistics 2020-11-04 – 2020-11-06

Chromium browsers 2017-04-20 – 2020-11-03

Management Upon having and being a boss 2019-04-02 – 2020-11-02

Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods 2020-06-28 – 2020-10-28

ELBO Evidence lower bound, variational free energy etc 2020-10-02 – 2020-10-28

Julia, testing and packaging 0001-01-01 – 2020-10-27

Gradient descent First order of business 2014-10-04 – 2020-10-27

Efficient factoring of GP likelihoods 2020-10-16 – 2020-10-26

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

The levels of simulacra 2018-12-18 – 2020-10-19

Bandit problems Also reinforcement learning and stochastic control 2014-11-27 – 2020-10-16

Solarpunk A tomorrow worth retiring to 2019-10-29 – 2020-10-15

Differentiating through the Gamma 2020-06-12 – 2020-10-15

Automatic design of experiments Minesweeper++ 2017-04-11 – 2020-10-13

Gamma processes 2019-10-14 – 2020-10-13

Inverse problems for complex models a.k.a. Bayesian calibration, model uncertainty 2020-10-13

Julia interoperation and IO 2019-11-27 – 2020-10-09

Subordinators Non-decreasing Lévy processes with weird branding 2019-10-14 – 2020-10-08

Agtech Dotcom for “agricultural technology” 2020-10-05

Fintech, assorted 2020-10-05

Rhetoric Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive 2017-06-07 – 2020-10-05

Convenient Razer Ubuntu on the Razer blade 2018-05-28 – 2020-10-05

Alternative file managers 2020-10-04

Spreadsheetalikes 2014-10-15 – 2020-10-03

Sparse model selection 2016-09-05 – 2020-10-02

AutoML 2017-07-17 – 2020-10-02

Natural language processing software Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move. 2018-01-11 – 2020-10-01

Monte Carlo gradient estimation 2020-09-30

Monte Carlo optimisation 2020-09-30

Splitting simulation 2017-05-29 – 2020-09-28

Webcams 2020-09-27 – 2020-09-26

Research data sharing for science 2017-05-31 – 2020-09-23

Quantitative risk measurement Mathematics of actuarial and financial disaster 2015-04-30 – 2020-09-22

Clipboard managers Remembering two things at once 2018-08-09 – 2020-09-21

Gamification “Belated Blogging of a Buzzword” achievement unlocked 2019-10-27 – 2020-09-21

Big data ML best practice 2020-09-16 – 2020-09-21

How to do academia 2015-06-28 – 2020-09-21

Virtual machines for curmudgeons On pretending to have hardware using software 2015-11-05 – 2020-09-21

Python, compilation and acceleration of 2019-10-15 – 2020-09-21

Graph computation 2014-12-17 – 2020-09-20

Filter design, linear Especially digital 2017-07-24 – 2020-09-18

Data summarization On maps drawn at smaller than 1:1 scale 2019-01-14 – 2020-09-18

Non-Gaussian Bayesian functional regression 2019-10-10 – 2020-09-16

Gaussian process quantile regression 2020-09-16

Independence, conditional, statistical 2016-04-21 – 2020-09-13

Statistics of spatio-temporal processes 2020-09-11 – 2020-09-11

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

Variational autoencoders 2019-11-04 – 2020-09-10

Neural nets designing the fanciest usable differentiable loss surface 2016-10-14 – 2020-09-09

Politics of play also, playful politics 2014-10-29 – 2020-09-08

Music software 2014-11-11 – 2020-09-07

Visual node based programming a.k.a. dataflow graphs, patchers, visual coding, flow-based programming 2020-06-13 – 2020-09-03

Data versioning 2020-03-11 – 2020-09-02

Causal Bayesian networks Staged tree models, probability trees …Causlan Bayesian networks 2020-11-01 – 2020-09-01

Statistics and ML in python 2015-04-27 – 2020-08-27

Online learning 2018-09-30 – 2020-08-26

Emulators and surrogate models Shortcuts in scientific simulation using ML 2020-08-12 – 2020-08-26

Plotting in R 2019-10-13 – 2020-08-26

Multi fidelity models 2020-08-24

Contemporary ethnomusicology Global bass, World Music 2.0 etc 2015-04-02 – 2020-08-22

Model fairness 2018-11-29 – 2020-08-21

Semantics Compressed representations of reality for syntactic agents; which might be what meaning means 2014-12-29 – 2020-08-21

Bookkeeping 2019-03-14 – 2020-08-20

Outsourcing, applied 0001-01-01 – 2020-08-20

Mathematics of textiles 2019-10-14 – 2020-08-20

Bushfire models 2020-09-07 – 2020-08-19

Zotero The adequate citation tool 2019-12-01 – 2020-08-17

Footwear 2015-05-22 – 2020-08-14

Minimum description length 2020-08-06

Visual Studio Code for prose for pros 2020-06-12 – 2020-08-01

Dilemmas of collective action 2014-11-25 – 2020-08-01

Remote Desktop Business model: Uber for pixels 2019-11-18 – 2020-07-31

Plotting stuff in julia 2019-05-31 – 2020-07-25

Lévy processes 2017-05-29 – 2020-07-25

Recommended workplace habits 2020-07-19

Combinatorics of note 2020-07-18

Networking stunts 2016-08-04 – 2020-07-17

Citation management On PDFcocking 2014-09-08 – 2020-07-14

(Outlier) robust statistics 2014-11-25 – 2020-07-14

Designing less toxic social media 2020-07-12

(Approximate) matrix factorisation 2014-08-05 – 2020-07-03

Web API automation 2020-06-04 – 2020-07-03

Low code development 2020-07-03

Task launchers 2017-04-10 – 2020-07-02

Financial markets Descriptive engagement with reality of 2015-03-14 – 2020-07-02

Teamwork 2020-01-26 – 2020-07-02

Website cheat codes CSS, SCSS, SASS, HTML, UX, Web 2.0, RFC, Yeah you know me 2014-12-23 – 2020-07-02

Economics of insurgence 2015-02-02 – 2020-07-01

Debugging, profiling and accelerating Julia code 2019-11-27 – 2020-06-26

Learning of manifolds Also topological data analysis; other hip names to follow 2014-08-19 – 2020-06-23

Contemporary neo-feudalism & endimming 2017-02-04 – 2020-06-23

Model complexity penalties Information criteria, degrees of freedom etc 2015-04-22 – 2020-06-22

Firms: What is WITH you? 2014-10-15 – 2020-06-16

Deep fakery 2020-06-15

Numerical libraries 2016-03-01 – 2020-06-13

Stochastic signal sampling Discrete sample representation of continuous stochastic processes 2017-05-30 – 2020-06-11

Encrypting, signing, verifying stuff Alice, Bob, GCHQ 2014-12-27 – 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 2014-10-09 – 2020-06-05

Installing Julia 2019-11-27 – 2020-06-03

Pluralistic ignorance We all believe that we all believe what we do not believe 2020-06-03

Inference on social graphs Heterogeneous media and controls 2019-09-22 – 2020-06-03

Window management in macOS 2020-10-06 – 2020-06-03

Functional regression 2016-01-05 – 2020-05-28

Long memory time series 2011-11-13 – 2020-05-28

Databases for realtime stuff For when log files seem dated 2020-02-18 – 2020-05-27

Link rot, mitigating 2020-05-27

How to reduce government spying on you 2018-12-12 – 2020-05-27

Audiobooks Long form podcasts 2014-11-11 – 2020-05-27

Natural gradient descent Climbing slower on the tricky bits 2019-07-18 – 2020-05-26

Getting along Tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic; Causes, pathologies and consequences of 2017-02-19 – 2020-05-25

Malliavin calculus 2020-05-23 – 2020-05-25

Variational inference On fitting the best model one can be bothered to 2016-03-22 – 2020-05-24

Incentive mechanism design Markets, cakes, karma, and games 2014-09-22 – 2020-05-24

Measurement, analytics and performance indicators 2014-09-22 – 2020-05-24

Lévy stochastic differential equations 2020-05-23

Quantum computing 2017-12-14 – 2020-05-23

Naming things Hashes, UUIDs, deep and inscrutable singular Names 2016-06-07 – 2020-05-21

Audio/music corpora Smells like Team Audioset 2014-08-08 – 2020-05-19

Matrix calculus 2018-07-09 – 2020-05-19

Screen capture and screen casting 2016-10-20 – 2020-05-19

Javascript apps 2016-01-05 – 2020-05-19

MAPLE An OK computer algebra system 2020-05-19

Graphic novels/comics etc Stuff I won’t admit to reading when there are deadlines 2015-07-06 – 2020-05-18

Academic writing workflow Cranking the paper mill in the 21st century 2014-10-04 – 2020-05-18

Directed graphical models 2017-09-20 – 2020-05-13

New-wave jigsaw puzzles 2018-12-14 – 2020-05-13

The money laundry, ownership and control Paypal for the 1% 2020-05-13

AV controller interfaces 2019-12-10 – 2020-05-11

Markdown editors 2020-05-09

Learning with conservation laws, invariances and symmetries 2020-04-11 – 2020-05-01

Linux audio Making sound by banging rocks together 44 thousand times per second 2018-04-23 – 2020-05-01

Adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo samplers 2020-04-28 – 2020-04-30

Tuning an MCMC sampler 2020-04-30 – 2020-04-30

Empirical estimation of information Informing yourself from your data how informative your data was 2011-04-19 – 2020-04-28

Statistical relational learning 2020-04-26 – 2020-04-27

Evolution 2014-11-04 – 2020-04-27

C++ 2011-04-06 – 2020-04-27

Cooperation amongst humans 2014-11-04 – 2020-04-27

Cooperation in evolutionary context 2020-04-27

Statistical projectivity 2020-04-26

The cross entropy method 2020-04-24

Mixture models for density estimation 2016-03-29 – 2020-04-24

Convolutional neural networks 2017-11-10 – 2020-04-24

Gym togs On getting fancy activewear of low impact to my pocket and the urban ecology 2018-06-03 – 2020-04-23

Likelihood free inference 2020-04-22

Waste, and the late capitalist industrial metabolism 2017-05-11 – 2020-04-22

Post stratification Making the optimal beverage from the fruit life gave you 2020-04-22

Javascript user interfaces 2014-11-10 – 2020-04-20

DIY computer radio 2020-03-05 – 2020-04-17

Academic publishing 2015-07-07 – 2020-04-16

Garden hacks 2019-10-08 – 2020-04-14

Learning graphical models from data What is independent of what? 2017-09-20 – 2020-04-11

Supercollider 2011-06-20 – 2020-04-10

How to reduce criminals spying on you 2018-10-03 – 2020-04-09

Confidentiality How to maintain it 2014-08-23 – 2020-04-09

Analysis/resynthesis of audio 2016-01-15 – 2020-04-09

Social factors in information security Our revealed preference for revealing our preferences 2018-11-21 – 2020-04-09

Linux hacks for the command-line Intermittently needed cheat codes 2015-04-27 – 2020-04-09

Particle filters incorporating Interacting Particle Systems, Sequential Monte Carlo and a profusion of other simultaneous-discovery names 2014-07-25 – 2020-04-08

Queueing The mathematical field whose major result is enraging you about call centres 2015-06-03 – 2020-04-06

Browser graphics 2015-11-20 – 2020-04-06

Hygiene, empirical 2020-02-21 – 2020-04-06

Learning Gamelan 2016-04-05 – 2020-04-06

Epidemics 2020-03-10 – 2020-04-03

Deep learning as a dynamical system 2018-08-13 – 2020-04-02

Nonparametrically learning spatiotemporal systems 2020-09-16 – 2020-04-02

Climate crisis versus ML 2020-04-02

Internet for the occasionally online Intermittency in your bandwidth not in your sanity 2017-04-09 – 2020-04-01

Ergonomic work 2020-03-27

Teaching computers to write music 2016-06-06 – 2020-03-25

Graphic design for the vexed 2018-10-16 – 2020-03-23

Agent-based models Science as Grand Theft Auto 2011-07-28 – 2020-03-23

Model averaging On keeping many incorrect hypotheses and using them all as one goodish one 2017-06-20 – 2020-03-22

Nature, nurture and friends If life gives you lemons, what should you make? 2015-06-05 – 2020-03-21

Bounded rationality and miscellaneous non-von Neumann-Morgenstern rationality postulates 2012-01-13 – 2020-03-19

Plotting for the web 2015-11-20 – 2020-03-19

Visualising data 2016-07-04 – 2020-03-19

The surveillance society All-seeing like a state 2017-02-09 – 2020-03-19

Encrypted filesystem on linux 2020-03-17 – 2020-03-17

Order statistics 2019-02-21 – 2020-03-17

DIY internet infrastructure 2019-10-27 – 2020-03-17

Capitalism’s end game What money wants 2014-12-31 – 2020-03-17

Tool discovery Settling upon an adequate gizmo to identify other adequate gizmos 2020-02-19 – 2020-03-12

Faking being on social media and other parts of the internet too boring to countenance 2016-07-21 – 2020-03-11

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

Diff/merge tools 2020-02-07 – 2020-03-09

Historical English 2014-09-23 – 2020-03-05

System monitoring Yak shaving my router crash 2020-02-18 – 2020-03-05

Schwiizertüütsch … isch aifach schön 2014-09-22 – 2020-03-04

Stickers Printouts that you do not lose 2020-01-31 – 2020-03-03

Effective sample size 2016-11-21 – 2020-03-03

Recipes Especially meta-recipes 2015-06-23 – 2020-03-03

Mechanism design for reputation systems Karma, credit scores, pagerank… 2014-08-05 – 2020-03-02

Bias reduction Estimating the bias of an estimator so as to subtract it off again 2020-02-26

HTML for haters Plus also CSS. 2016-01-04 – 2020-02-24

Learnable indexes and hashes 2018-01-12 – 2020-02-18

Microsoft Azure cloudydoodle numberpants crunchery 2018-08-09 – 2020-02-18

Selling uncertainty On the marginal price of ignorance 2016-05-25 – 2020-02-18

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

Cepstral transforms and harmonic identification 2017-09-12 – 2020-02-13

Yak shaving 2020-02-13

Potential theory in probability Something about harmonic functions or whatever 2020-02-12

PDF viewers On turning texts into font rendering errors 2020-02-11

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

Cheap single board computers Raspberry pi et al 2015-09-10 – 2020-02-09

Branching processes 2014-08-18 – 2020-02-07

Gradient descent, first-order, stochastic a.k.a. SGD, as seen in deep learning 2020-01-30 – 2020-02-07

Digital forensics 2020-02-04 – 2020-02-07

Survival analysis and reliability Hazard rates, proportional hazard regression, life testing, mean time to failure 2019-03-12 – 2020-02-05

Infinitesimal generators Generators of the transition semi-group, connection to Kolmogorov forward equations 2017-05-29 – 2020-02-05

Conditional expectation and probability 2020-02-04

Bayes for beginners 2016-05-30 – 2020-01-31

Poisson processes 2019-10-14 – 2020-01-29

Psychoacoustics 2016-08-15 – 2020-01-28

Divisibility, decomposability, stability Ways of slicing randomness 2017-06-15 – 2020-01-28

Addiction 2021-05-24 – 2020-01-28

Medicalisation 2020-01-28

Differential privacy 2016-07-28 – 2020-01-24

Gradient descent, Newton-like, stochastic 2020-01-23

*-omics 2016-08-12 – 2020-01-22

Learning in adaptive systems On staring into scopophilic abysses 2019-10-19 – 2020-01-22

Markov bridge processes 2019-10-15 – 2020-01-20

(Reproducing) kernel tricks 2014-08-18 – 2020-01-20

Applied psephology 2016-07-12 – 2020-01-20

Intellectual property especially in science and technology. 2014-12-30 – 2020-01-16

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

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

Trains #Gunzellyf 2019-12-30

Esoteric language zoo 2019-12-27

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

Tip me 2016-09-06 – 2019-12-24

FFMPEG 2019-11-11 – 2019-12-23

Scalable vector graphics “SVG” to its friends 2019-12-23

Nerdview 2014-12-27 – 2019-12-22

Hawkes processes 2019-12-22

Linux filesystem hacks 2019-12-18 – 2019-12-21

Factor graphs 2019-12-16

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

Permanental point processes 2019-12-04

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

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

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

Clojure 2015-01-05 – 2019-11-30

Local and networked UIs in Julia 2019-11-27

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tunings 2015-10-29 – 2019-11-18

Machine listening Statistical models for audio 2014-10-10 – 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

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

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

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

Webhooks 2019-11-05

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gaussian processes on lattices 2019-10-30

Indonesia 2016-03-01 – 2019-10-29

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

Undirected graphical models 2017-09-20 – 2019-10-28

Gradient descent, Higher order 2019-10-26

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The tidyverse 2019-10-14

Non-negative matrix factorisation 2019-10-14

Bio computing 2016-05-29 – 2019-10-14

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

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

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

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

(Discrete-measure)-valued stochastic processes 2019-10-10

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defining dynamics via Gaussian processes 2019-09-18

Representer theorems 2019-09-16

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

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

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

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

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

Gradient descent, Newton-like 2019-02-05 – 2019-09-03

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

Biased sampling models 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

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

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

Probability 2011-07-29 – 2019-07-15

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

Semidefinite proramming 2019-06-29

Fourier interpolation 2019-06-19

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

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

Game complexity 2019-06-07

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

Travel hacks 2019-05-18

Wiener theorem Now with bonus Bochner! 2019-05-08

Wacky regression 2015-09-23 – 2019-05-02

Internet for the marginally online 2019-04-20

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

Low impact fashion Suiting australia 2019-04-18

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Javascript 2014-10-14 – 2019-02-10

Alzheimers and the microbiome Your digestive system eating your brain 2019-01-29

Dictionaries 2016-01-31 – 2019-01-24

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

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

Bayesian sparsity 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

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

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

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

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

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

Sparse stochastic processes and sampling Discrete sample representation of sparse continuous stochastic processes 2018-11-22 – 2018-10-29

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

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

Ergodic theory / mixing For things that probably happen eventually 2011-10-17 – 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

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

Field Programmable hardware and ilk 2018-10-03

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coffee 2018-03-25

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

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

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

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

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

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

Relative age and dating Quantifying cradle-snatching 2017-10-14

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

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

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

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

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

Gradient descent, continuous, primal/dual formulations. 2017-08-07

Quantum-probabilistic graphical models 2017-08-07

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 for hidden Markov models Kalman and friends 2015-06-22 – 2017-07-06

Chinese language 2017-06-27

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uncertainty principles 2017-05-14

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

Game theory 2016-10-13 – 2017-04-24

This is a simulation 2017-04-04

Entity embeddings 2017-04-01

Justice 2017-04-01

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

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

Scala 2017-02-11 – 2017-02-28

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

Fractional Brownian motion 2017-02-18

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

Metric entropy 2017-02-13

Synestizer 2014-11-04 – 2017-01-18

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

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

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

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

Greatest hits 2016-11-19 – 2016-12-12

The simplex 2016-10-25

Inference from disorder 2016-10-19

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

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

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

Diversity in Electronic Art 2016-09-01 – 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

Lua 2014-07-25 – 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

Kernel approximation 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

“Approximate models” 2016-07-04

Syntax Formal language theory 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

Clustering 2015-05-22 – 2016-06-07

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

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

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

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

Message queues 2016-01-08

Foundations of mathematics 2016-01-04

Biomimetic algorithms 2015-12-22

Art LISP 2015-01-13 – 2015-12-20

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

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

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

Earthquakes 2015-07-14

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

Copula functions 2015-06-23

Elliptical distributions 2015-06-23

Sigma algebras, probability spaces, measure theory 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

Complexity 2011-11-25 – 2015-04-11

Mixing and mastering for dummies 2015-04-05

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

Red Wine Headache 2015-01-24

New media art 2015-01-12 – 2015-01-12

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

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

Dual booting MS Windows and linux 2014-10-14

Disruptive technology 2014-10-09

Net censorship 2014-10-08

Dialects 2014-09-05

Pure 2013-01-01

Macroeconomics 2011-10-17

Configuration space of the economy 2011-09-07

Niche construction 2011-07-26

Python Syntactic sugar for compiled code 2011-04-18

Econophysics 2011-04-13

Feral 2010-12-02

Simulation for the social sciences 2010-09-28