The Living Thing

Here are my public notebooks.

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

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

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

Python packaging, dependency management and isolation 2011-04-18 – 2022-07-01

Python Syntactic sugar for compiled code 2011-04-18 – 2022-07-01

Hydrology, applied Rivers, aquifers and other wet things that can flood your house 2020-09-07 – 2022-06-30

Real estate economics Rentiers and the future 2022-01-24 – 2022-06-30

Moral wetware What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate? 2020-04-27 – 2022-06-30

Inverse problems 2016-03-30 – 2022-06-30

Feelings, applied 2022-01-24 – 2022-06-30

Taking notes Notes on notes on notes 2020-02-17 – 2022-06-29

Ensemble Kalman methods Data Assimilation; Sloppy filters for over-ambitious models 2015-06-22 – 2022-06-29

Approximate matrix factorisation Sometimes even exact 2014-08-05 – 2022-06-29

Mathematics without LaTeX 2019-11-19 – 2022-06-29

Algorithmic mechanism design Computational complexity and fairness results for markets and games 2014-09-22 – 2022-06-29

Soft incentive mechanism design Markets, cakes, karma, and reverse game theory, applied to humans 2014-09-22 – 2022-06-29

State filtering for hidden Markov models Kalman and friends 2015-06-22 – 2022-06-28

Betting 2017-05-09 – 2022-06-27

Free content Raiding history for clip art 2014-08-31 – 2022-06-27

Tensor decompositions 2016-08-15 – 2022-06-27

Probably actually reading/writing 2020-03-05 – 2022-06-25

Diversity in teams Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale 2020-05-27 – 2022-06-25

Gender identity Political and/or empirical engagement therewith 2017-08-13 – 2022-06-25

Invasive arguments Weeds in public discourse 2021-12-20 – 2022-06-25

Teamwork 2020-01-26 – 2022-06-25

Bayesian inverse problems in function space a.k.a. Bayesian calibration, model uncertainty for PDEs and other wibbly, blobby things 2020-10-13 – 2022-06-24

Stochastic signal sampling Discrete sample representation of continuous stochastic processes 2017-05-30 – 2022-06-24

Signal sampling Discrete representation of continuous signals and converse 2017-05-30 – 2022-06-24

Differentiable PDE solvers 2017-05-15 – 2022-06-24

Rhetoric Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive 2017-06-07 – 2022-06-24

Tokenism or table stakes? “The least you can do” is the minimum unviable product 2021-12-20 – 2022-06-23

Soft methodology of science 2012-01-13 – 2022-06-23

Jax Julia for python 2020-09-15 – 2022-06-22

Scientific institutions and mechanisms Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2022-06-22

Incoming links and notes 2020-03-05 – 2022-06-21

Coffee and caffeine 2018-03-25 – 2022-06-19

Gamma distributions 2019-10-14 – 2022-06-17

homebrew 2019-06-15 – 2022-06-17

Generic dependency managers 2021-05-03 – 2022-06-17

Unix commands I need often but which are tedious to work anew out each time 2015-11-06 – 2022-06-14

Workhacks How to succeed in business (with or without trying) 2020-07-19 – 2022-06-14

Political axes, political correlations Dimensionality reduction for the Great Society 2021-03-01 – 2022-06-12

Designing less toxic social media 2020-07-12 – 2022-06-11

Pluralistic ignorance, silent majorities, spiral of silence, hidden tribes We all believe that we all believe what we do not believe 2020-06-03 – 2022-06-11

Cheap talk Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc 2020-02-01 – 2022-06-10

Institutions Stable orbits in human systems 2014-10-29 – 2022-06-10

Scientific writing In which tips are given for the projection of status through nominal phrases and passive voice 2014-12-31 – 2022-06-10

Privacy while web browsing Browsing the internet without giving corporations my personal information for free 2018-12-12 – 2022-06-09

HDF5 A data format I need to know about 2020-06-17 – 2022-06-08

Attention management tips for web browsing 2017-04-20 – 2022-06-08

Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods 2017-08-28 – 2022-06-08

Python debugging, profiling and testing It only looks simple when it’s finished 2019-04-28 – 2022-06-07

Markov decision problems 2014-11-27 – 2022-06-07

ssh a.k.a. “Secure shell”, which is not actually a shell but an encrypted network protocol that people like to shell with 2014-12-27 – 2022-06-07

Terminal session management and multiplexing 2020-06-11 – 2022-06-06

Effective altruism First world trolley problems 2017-06-06 – 2022-06-05

Hydra for tracking machine learning experiments 2021-10-20 – 2022-06-03

How to do research careers 2015-06-28 – 2022-06-02

Institutions and governance for mass conversation Discourse red in tooth and claw 2020-02-01 – 2022-05-30

LaTeX …and ΤeΧ, and ConTeXt and XeTeX and TeXleMeElmo 2014-09-08 – 2022-05-30

Who I donate to Expensive value signalling 2019-08-21 – 2022-05-30

Transcoding Digital recordings and converting between them. 2020-04-23 – 2022-05-30

The Illawarra The cheaper bit underneath Sydney comprising Wollongong etc 2022-05-27

Overparameterization in large models Improper learning, benign overfitting, double descent 2018-04-04 – 2022-05-27

Machine learning and statistics in Julia 2019-11-27 – 2022-05-27

Emergent spacetime What are qubits again? 2022-05-26

Podcasts 2017-05-11 – 2022-05-26

Stochastic partial differential equations SDEs taking values in some function space 2021-01-27 – 2022-05-25

VS Code online and networked 2018-01-25 – 2022-05-25

Applied psephology 2016-07-12 – 2022-05-25

Goodhart’s Law 2019-12-22 – 2022-05-25

Autism/allism spectrum 2022-05-25

Spatial data in R 2021-03-21 – 2022-05-24

Statistics and ML in python 2015-04-27 – 2022-05-23

Funerals and other end-of-life stuff Services, enduring guardianships, wills, burials cremations, esp in New South Wales 2022-05-21

VS Code for python A quite good python IDE 2021-08-10 – 2022-05-19

GUIs for numerical array data 2015-03-04 – 2022-05-19

Database and data file GUIs 2015-03-04 – 2022-05-19

Pytorch #torched 2018-05-04 – 2022-05-18

Learning graphical models from data Also, causal discovery, structure discovery 2017-09-20 – 2022-05-18

Graph neural nets 2020-09-16 – 2022-05-18

Implementing neural nets 2016-10-14 – 2022-05-18

Tracking experiments in machine learning 2020-10-23 – 2022-05-17

Crowd-sourced science 2015-08-10 – 2022-05-17

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 – 2022-05-17

Nested sampling 2022-05-16

Databases (for scientists) Stashing experimental data for later use 2015-03-04 – 2022-05-15

Data storage formats 2020-06-17 – 2022-05-15

Memetics Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc 2020-01-30 – 2022-05-14

Text data processing 2014-12-15 – 2022-05-14

Exponential families 2016-04-19 – 2022-05-13

Jupyter UI wrangling What happens inside those notebook cells 2017-02-09 – 2022-05-13

Scaling laws for very large neural nets Compute/size/data tradeoffs 2021-01-14 – 2022-05-12

Smooth transforms of Gaussian noise Delta method, error propagation, unscented transform, Taylor expansion, in finite and inifinite dimensional spaces 2014-11-25 – 2022-05-12

Forecasting Vegan haruspicy 2015-06-16 – 2022-05-11

DNS On asking strangers for directions 2017-10-13 – 2022-05-10

Email Doing email better, or better, not doing email at all 2015-01-13 – 2022-05-10

Email hosts Who handles my mail? And what do they do with it? 2020-12-30 – 2022-05-10

Technological singularities Incorporating hard AI take-offs, game-over high scores, the technium, deus-ex-machina, deus-ex-nube, nerd raptures and so forth 2016-12-01 – 2022-05-10

Matplotlib A way to draw things in python which is better than no way to draw things in python 2014-10-07 – 2022-05-09

Model interpretation and explanation Colorizing black boxes 2016-09-01 – 2022-05-06

System identification using particle filters A.k.a. parameter estimation in data assimilation 2014-07-25 – 2022-05-04

(Discrete-measure)-valued stochastic processes 2019-10-10 – 2022-05-04

Expectation propagation Generalized moment matching 2015-10-26 – 2022-05-04

Forecasting with model averaging Mixture of experts, ensembles and time series 2022-05-04

Static websites JAMstack etc 2014-12-29 – 2022-05-04

Numerical PDE solvers 2016-03-01 – 2022-05-02

But what can I do? The stuff to do to make a better society is pretty easy it turns out 2020-02-06 – 2022-05-02

Climate crisis The conspiracy of those malign incumbent powers, the laws of physics, against the plucky underdog, coal megacorporations 2011-12-13 – 2022-05-02

Quarto 2022-05-01 – 2022-05-01

Synchronising files across machines Dropbox for Dropbox haters 2015-01-02 – 2022-05-01

Anthropic principles Convenience-sampling lived human experience 2020-02-15 – 2022-05-01

Linux audio Making sound by banging rocks together 44 thousand times per second 2018-04-23 – 2022-05-01

knitr/RMarkdown etc 2020-02-02 – 2022-04-30

Farming and husbandry of black swans and dragon kings Heavy tailed and Knightian uncertainties for fun and profit 2020-09-22 – 2022-04-30

Being stroppy For people too perverse to be contrarian 2022-03-04 – 2022-04-30

Generalized Bayesian Computation 2019-10-03 – 2022-04-28

Inference without KL divergence 2019-10-03 – 2022-04-28

SLAM Simultaneous Location and Mapping 2014-11-25 – 2022-04-28

Gradient descent First order of business 2014-10-04 – 2022-04-28

Vecchia factoring of GP likelihoods Ignore some conditioning in the dependencies and attain a sparse cholesky factor for the precision matrix 2022-04-27

Numerical python 2015-04-27 – 2022-04-27

Cohousing in Australia Plus other low-cost, low tedium options for secure habitation somewhere 2021-09-25 – 2022-04-24

Synchrony between things, especially organisms Entrainment, synchronisation, dancing together 2014-11-03 – 2022-04-23

Blogroll The internet of essays 2008-11-02 – 2022-04-22

Utopian governance Hedonistic mechanism design 2020-05-04 – 2022-04-22

Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds Information cascades 2019-09-22 – 2022-04-22

Basis-functions in Gaussian process regression a.k.a Fixed Rank Kriging, basis function regression, weight space, spatial random effects 2022-02-22 – 2022-04-21

VS Code as LaTeX editor 2019-11-11 – 2022-04-21

Voting Systems Mathematics and economics of ballots 2014-09-22 – 2022-04-21

Anomaly detection I don’t define what is abnormal, but I know it when I see it 2015-10-06 – 2022-04-21

Posterior Gaussian process samples by updating prior samples Matheron’s other weird trick 2020-12-03 – 2022-04-21

Hierarchical models DAGs, multilevel models, random coefficient models, mixed effect models, structural equation models… 2015-06-07 – 2022-04-21

Model fairness 2018-11-29 – 2022-04-21

Social media if you must Harm minimisation for corporate social network users 2017-04-05 – 2022-04-21

Markov bridge processes Especially Lévy bridges 2019-10-15 – 2022-04-20

LaTeX mathematics hacks 2014-09-08 – 2022-04-19

Webmail systems 2022-04-18

Divisible, decomposable and stable distributions Ways of slicing randomness 2017-06-15 – 2022-04-18

Email clients 2020-04-21 – 2022-04-18

Generalised Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes AR(1)-like processes 2022-01-10 – 2022-04-17

Blogdown Plus other RMarkdown-derived scholarly blogging systems 2020-08-26 – 2022-04-17

The blogosphere Now with added newsletter-o-sphere 2014-12-29 – 2022-04-17

Tracking my website traffic Optimising scarce attention into the shopping cart widget 2021-01-30 – 2022-04-16

Saying “Bayes” is not enough Bayesians are usually not actually doing Bayesian reasoning well and even if we were, it would be insufficient to do science, or life 2016-05-30 – 2022-04-15

Depression 2022-02-13 – 2022-04-13

Social norms 2019-10-07 – 2022-04-13

Application firewalls Spyware mitigation and bandwidth management 2019-06-03 – 2022-04-10

Laplace approximations in inference Lightweight uncertainties, especially for heavy neural nets 2021-07-28 – 2022-04-10

Particle filters incorporating Interacting Particle Systems, Sequential Monte Carlo and a profusion of other simultaneous-discovery names 2014-07-25 – 2022-04-10

This is a simulation Can the automaton learn to play the game of life? 2017-04-04 – 2022-04-09

Trapped beliefs Thinking now what made sense then 2022-04-09

Stationary Gamma processes 2019-10-14 – 2022-04-08

Particle belief propagation Graphical inference using empirical distribution estimates 2014-07-25 – 2022-04-08

Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo Particle systems as MCMC proposals 2014-07-25 – 2022-04-08

Typesetting algorithms in LaTeX Pseudocode 2014-09-08 – 2022-04-08

Sleep Pathologies and hacks 2017-04-19 – 2022-04-08

Gaussian process regression And classification. And extensions. 2019-12-03 – 2022-04-07

Bayesian nonparametric statistics Updating more dimensions than datapoints 2016-05-30 – 2022-04-07

The levels of simulacra 2018-12-18 – 2022-04-07

Myths Aspirationally self-fulfilling narratives 2022-02-20 – 2022-04-07

Probabilistic neural nets Bayesian and other probabilistic inference in overparameterized ML 2017-01-11 – 2022-04-07

Plotting for the web 2015-11-20 – 2022-04-05

Visual Studio Code for prose for pros 2020-06-12 – 2022-04-05

Orthonormal and unitary matrices Energy preserving operators, generalized rotations 2019-10-22 – 2022-04-05

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 – 2022-04-05

Playing music on the computer Continuing difficulty thereof 2014-11-26 – 2022-04-04

Timeless works of art Aesthetics as a conditional average treatment effect 2015-01-12 – 2022-04-04

Matrix calculus 2018-07-09 – 2022-04-04

Doing complicated things the obvious way and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong 2022-04-04 – 2022-04-04

Predictive coding Does the model that our brains do bayesian variational prediction make any actual predictions about our brains? 2011-11-27 – 2022-04-04

Beta and Dirichlet distributions 2019-10-14 – 2022-04-04

Zotero The adequate citation tool 2019-12-01 – 2022-04-04

Attention economy 2012-01-13 – 2022-04-03

Air pollution For a new century in which inhaling gets only more dangerous 2019-01-18 – 2022-04-03

Gumbel (soft) max tricks Concrete distribution, relaxed categorical etc 2017-02-20 – 2022-04-01

Change points Looking for regime changes in stochastic processes. a.k.a. Switching state space models 2021-11-29 – 2022-04-01

Pólya-Gamma augmentation trick 2017-02-20 – 2022-04-01

The language game Coevolution of words and meanings 2014-12-29 – 2022-04-01

Detecting stationarity in stochastic processes Change-points, trends and transients 2021-11-29 – 2022-04-01

Partition-valued random variates 2022-04-01

Belief propagation 2014-11-25 – 2022-03-31

Digital scientific workbooks Literate coding for reality 2014-11-17 – 2022-03-31

Jupyter front end systems UX design by underfunded committee is how I like my data science experience 2017-02-09 – 2022-03-31

VS Code / VS Codium Egg-laying wool milk code editor 2018-01-25 – 2022-03-30

Random binary vectors The class of distributions that cause you to reinvent Shannon information if you stare at them long enough 2017-02-20 – 2022-03-30

Measure-valued random variates Including completely random measures and many generalizations 2020-10-16 – 2022-03-30

Cloud ML compute vendors 2016-08-23 – 2022-03-29

Gaussian belief propagation Least squares at maximal elaboration 2014-11-25 – 2022-03-28

Classification Computer says no 2017-02-20 – 2022-03-28

Reservoir Computing 2022-03-28

Scattering transform 2022-03-16 – 2022-03-28

LaTeX symbols, fonts and character sets 2020-02-11 – 2022-03-28

Simulating Gaussian processes 2022-03-17

Multivariate Gamma distributions 2019-10-14 – 2022-03-14

COVID-19 in practice SARS-CoV-2 to its friends 2020-11-25 – 2022-03-13

Wiener-Khintchine representations Spectral representations of stochastic processes 2019-05-08 – 2022-03-11

Innovation Side order of progress studies now I guess 2014-07-27 – 2022-03-11

Academic writing workflow Cranking the paper mill in the 21st century 2014-10-04 – 2022-03-10

Contemporary rationalists and contrarians Cloth mother/wire mother for cognition 2020-09-06 – 2022-03-10

Configuring machine learning experiments 2021-10-20 – 2022-03-09

Neural nets with implicit layers Also, declarative networks 2020-12-08 – 2022-03-09

Automatic differentiation in Julia 2016-07-27 – 2022-03-09

Genetic programming 2015-12-22 – 2022-03-09

Causal inference on DAGs Confounding! This scientist performed a miracle graph surgery intervention and you won’t believe what happened next 2016-10-26 – 2022-03-08

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 – 2022-03-08

Sparse coding Wavelets, matching pursuit, overcomplete dictionaries… 2014-11-17 – 2022-03-07

Generative flow 2022-03-07

Data dashboards and ML demos On assuring the client that you are doing something data-sciency because it looks like in the movies 2020-03-12 – 2022-03-07

Survival analysis and reliability Hazard rates, proportional hazard regression, life testing, mean time to failure 2019-03-12 – 2022-03-07

Website cheat codes CSS, SCSS, SASS, HTML, UX, Web 2.0, RFC, Yeah you know me 2014-12-23 – 2022-03-06

QR codes Subtitles for robots 2019-10-30 – 2022-03-06

Science; Sociology and institution design for Scientist, falsify thyself 2020-05-17 – 2022-03-06

Plotting in R 2019-10-13 – 2022-03-05

Astroturf and artificial reefs On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet 2016-01-13 – 2022-03-04

Measurement, analytics and performance indicators Street fighting statistics 2014-09-22 – 2022-03-04

Journalism, normative Sensors for the superorganism 2020-01-26 – 2022-03-04

Learning stuff Shoving knowledge into my brain 2020-06-16 – 2022-03-04

Self-supervised learning I just wanna be meeeeee / with high probabilityyy ♬♪ 2022-03-04

Machine learning for partial differential equations 2017-05-15 – 2022-03-04

Machine learning for physical sciences Turbulent mixing at the boundary between two disciplines with differing inertia and viscosity 2017-05-15 – 2022-03-04

Interaction effects are probably what we want to estimate 2022-01-25 – 2022-03-04

Fish shell A command line shell that does not think that the problem is you 2019-03-30 – 2022-03-04

Race, genetics and politics of Ethnicity too. 2021-12-20 – 2022-03-04

Fun with rotational symmetries 2021-01-29 – 2022-03-03

Matrix- and vector-valued generalizations of Gamma processes 2019-10-14 – 2022-03-03

Lévy Gamma processes 2019-10-14 – 2022-03-03

Microsoft Windows for the avoidant 2017-02-11 – 2022-03-01

Sydney lifestyle theme village The sunniest mortgage farm in the Southern Hemisphere! 2019-03-05 – 2022-02-28

Gaussian processes on lattices 2019-10-30 – 2022-02-28

Designing social movements Minimum viable utopia 2021-05-01 – 2022-02-28

Rituals and beliefs that bind 2021-05-01 – 2022-02-28

The social brain Rubber-duck-typing 2011-12-09 – 2022-02-27

Sufficiently good hedonism Tractable trade-offs between limited time and limited cash and limited imagination for the most happiness 2020-06-23 – 2022-02-27

Symbolic and substantive insurrections Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building 2022-02-20 – 2022-02-27

Conditional expectation and probability 2020-02-04 – 2022-02-25

Learning Gaussian processes which map functions to functions 2020-12-07 – 2022-02-25

Akrasia Description to come later 2017-06-18 – 2022-02-25

Learning with conservation laws, invariances and symmetries 2020-04-11 – 2022-02-25

Subordinators Non-decreasing Lévy processes with weird branding 2019-10-14 – 2022-02-24

Moloch, slack and hyperselection Weak selection versus goodharting 2021-12-25 – 2022-02-22

Deep learning as a dynamical system 2018-08-13 – 2022-02-22

Stability in dynamical systems Lyapunov exponents and ilk 2019-05-21 – 2022-02-22

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 – 2022-02-22

DIY VPN access point 2020-08-16 – 2022-02-21

Adversarial learning Statistics against Shayṭtān 2016-10-07 – 2022-02-21

Audio sample management 2021-09-14 – 2022-02-19

Bayes for beginners 2016-05-30 – 2022-02-19

Moral calculus 2014-08-04 – 2022-02-19

Differentiable learning of automata 2016-10-14 – 2022-02-19

Visualising probabilistic graphical models Also related models, such as Neural nets 2018-03-29 – 2022-02-18

M-estimation 2016-07-11 – 2022-02-17

Our eating disorder 2014-11-30 – 2022-02-17

Javascript user interfaces 2014-11-10 – 2022-02-17

Message-passing algorithms in graphical models Cleaving reality at the joint, then summing it at the marginal 2014-11-25 – 2022-02-17

Politics as statistical learner 2022-01-31 – 2022-02-17

How to communicate with humans 2019-04-02 – 2022-02-17

Reproducible research Open notebooks etc 2016-06-07 – 2022-02-15

Betting and prediction markets Market design for good guesses 2017-08-12 – 2022-02-15

System identification in continuous time Learning in continuous ODEs, SDEs and CDEs 2016-08-01 – 2022-02-15

Stylus input 2017-04-17 – 2022-02-14

Neurons Neural networks made of real neurons, in functioning brains 2014-11-03 – 2022-02-14

Ergodicity and mixing Things that probably happen eventually on average 2011-10-17 – 2022-02-13

Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2022-02-13

Window management in macOS 2020-10-06 – 2022-02-13

Tiling window managers Desktop management for Tetris fans 2019-08-13 – 2022-02-13

Diversity in society Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic 2017-02-19 – 2022-02-13

Academic reading workflow The continuing ascendancy of using piles of dead tree products for understanding cutting edge digital informatics 2016-04-11 – 2022-02-13

Visual node based programming a.k.a. dataflow graphs, patchers, visual coding, flow-based programming 2020-06-13 – 2022-02-12

Probabilistic programming Doing statistics using the tools of computer science 2019-10-02 – 2022-02-11

Subculture dynamics Coalitions, scenes, fandoms, subcultures, normies, hipsters, sects, and tribes at scale 2018-12-18 – 2022-02-11

Risk perception and communication 2011-04-14 – 2022-02-11

Academic publishing 2015-07-07 – 2022-02-11

Variational inference On fitting something not too far from a pretty good model that is not too hard 2016-03-22 – 2022-02-10

Reshipping 2021-12-02 – 2022-02-09

Factor graphs 2019-12-16 – 2022-02-09

Probabilistic graphical models 2014-08-05 – 2022-02-08

Random graphical models Causality in amongst confusion 2021-10-26 – 2022-02-07

Cooperation in evolutionary context ‘Cui bono’ for selfishness 2020-04-27 – 2022-02-07

Sexual ethics and institutions 2020-06-07 – 2022-02-07

Evolution 2014-11-04 – 2022-02-07

Cryptocurrencies Imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin 2016-09-06 – 2022-02-05

Phylogeny 2016-10-06 – 2022-02-05

Teaching How-to 2020-02-11 – 2022-02-05

Outsourcing, applied 2021-02-27 – 2022-02-05

Recommender systems 2020-11-30 – 2022-02-04

Git GUIs 2019-02-08 – 2022-02-04

Gender equity, feminism etc Political and/or empirical engagement therewith 2017-08-13 – 2022-02-04

Javascript machine learning 2017-01-13 – 2022-02-03

Javascript mathematics 2016-05-25 – 2022-02-03

Visualising geospatial data Geographic information systems, or, as we in the trade refer to them, “maps” 2016-07-04 – 2022-02-02

Sociology and politics of information Epistemic democracy, cognitive democracy, the great society 2022-01-09 – 2022-02-02

Neural learning for spatiotemporal systems 2020-09-16 – 2022-02-02

Neural nets for “implicit representations” 2021-01-21 – 2022-02-01

Neural nets with basis decomposition layers 2021-03-09 – 2022-02-01

Here’s how I would do art with machine learning if I had to 2016-06-06 – 2022-02-01

Karhunen-Loève expansions 2019-09-16 – 2022-02-01

Video editing 2020-04-23 – 2022-01-30

Ethical consumption Socialism as a Service 2020-02-06 – 2022-01-30

Indonesia 2016-03-01 – 2022-01-30

Running neural nets backwards 2022-01-29

Dunning-Kruger theory of mind On anthropomorphising humans 2020-06-18 – 2022-01-28

Drugs, recreational 2017-08-07 – 2022-01-28

Spatial processes and statistics thereof 2011-07-29 – 2022-01-28

Statistics and machine learning 2011-04-15 – 2022-01-27

Feedback system identification, not necessarily linear Learning dynamics from data 2016-08-01 – 2022-01-27

Hypothesis tests, statistical 2014-08-23 – 2022-01-27

Bootstrap Shuffling reality to produce your data 2014-11-26 – 2022-01-27

Teaching mathematics and statistics 2020-02-12 – 2022-01-27

Economic inequality Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature 2014-10-29 – 2022-01-26

Learning on manifolds Finding the lowest bit of a krazy straw, from the inside 2011-10-21 – 2022-01-26

Psychometrics Dimensionality reduction for souls 2017-10-31 – 2022-01-26

Prepping for the end of (my access to) the (industrialised) world 2016-06-19 – 2022-01-24

Quantum computing 2017-12-14 – 2022-01-21

Plotting in python Jack of all trades, old master of none 2014-10-07 – 2022-01-21

Feedback system identification, linear 2016-07-27 – 2022-01-21

(Outlier) robust statistics 2014-11-25 – 2022-01-21

DIY Artisanal poverty, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms 2018-03-26 – 2022-01-20

Time management The psychology of getting stuff done 2017-06-18 – 2022-01-20

Multi fidelity models Data-driven coarse graining. Also multi-scale models. 2020-08-24 – 2022-01-20

E-readers Very expensive paper substitute that breaks if I drop it 2016-04-11 – 2022-01-20

Status The original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2022-01-20

Dunning-Kruger theory of institutions Lay theories of social mechanisms 2022-01-20

Dunning-Kruger theory of society Lay theories of groups 2022-01-20

Android hacks 2019-02-23 – 2022-01-19

Care and feeding of macOS filesystems 2016-08-04 – 2022-01-19

Containerized apps Doing things that previously took 0.5 computers using 0.4 computers 2015-11-05 – 2022-01-19

Software package managers 2019-06-15 – 2022-01-19

Video conferencing and other ways of working together, or at least around each other 2015-02-15 – 2022-01-17

Risk perception and communication 2011-04-14 – 2022-01-17

Sex and sexology Incorporating smut, lewdness, and prurience 2020-06-07 – 2022-01-17

Modern conspiracy theorising You are only reading this because the Deep State wants you to 2020-08-16 – 2022-01-16

Faust, the DSP language 2016-08-22 – 2022-01-16

Bounded rationality Plus miscellaneous rationality postulates restricting von Neumann-Morgenstern 2012-01-13 – 2022-01-15

Social psychology Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated? 2017-02-20 – 2022-01-14

Bayesian inverse problems 2016-03-30 – 2022-01-13

Bounded rationality at large It is as if we knew what we were doing 2012-01-13 – 2022-01-12

Gamma-Beta algebra 2019-10-14 – 2022-01-12

Categorical random variates 2017-02-20 – 2022-01-12

Linux-compatible laptops I love linux but I hate googling for “wifi hangs after suspend” 2018-05-28 – 2022-01-11

Hardened desktop operating systems Also amnesiac and/or anonymous 2019-09-11 – 2022-01-11

Dropbox if you must {#dropbox} or gdrive, onedrive etc 2015-01-02 – 2022-01-11

Synchronising config files across machines 2015-01-02 – 2022-01-11

Quantified self Instrumentation and analytics for body and soul. 2022-01-11

Statistical projectivity 2020-04-26 – 2022-01-11

Standards hell Lock-in, QWERTY, coordination problems etc 2015-01-05 – 2022-01-11

Generalised autoregressive processes 2022-01-10

Mind as statistical learner 2022-01-09

Presentations Slide decks and other stylised academic dominance displays 2015-06-01 – 2022-01-09

Comfy Ubuntu Now with added Pop!_OS 2014-10-14 – 2022-01-08

Code editors The best thing since punchcards 2014-11-11 – 2022-01-08

Calendars and contact databases 2015-06-25 – 2022-01-08

Email clients on linux The constant low-level grind of a long term co-dependent relationship 2020-04-21 – 2022-01-08

R packaging, installation etc 2020-11-30 – 2022-01-07

Matrix-valued random variates 2021-12-01 – 2022-01-06

Git tricks 2015-06-26 – 2022-01-05

Stickers Printouts that you do not lose because they are adhered to a very large thing 2020-01-31 – 2022-01-05

Red queen social signal dynamics Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices 2018-12-18 – 2022-01-05

Music software frameworks and programming languages, for music 2016-08-22 – 2022-01-05

Apple laptops Wish list, hi-fi 2019-02-12 – 2022-01-05

Backups Version control for horrible data 2015-01-02 – 2022-01-05

Metis and .*-rationality High modernism, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society, technocracy, local knowledge, normies and sects 2017-07-24 – 2022-01-02

Group size Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination 2011-12-09 – 2022-01-02

Reparameterization tricks in inference Pathwise gradient estimation, nNormalizing flows, invertible density models, inference by measure transport, low-dimensional coupling… 2018-04-04 – 2021-12-21

Time frequency analysis Multiplying your exposure to uncertainty principles 2018-01-06 – 2021-12-21

Monte Carlo gradient estimation Especially stochastic automatic differentiation 2020-09-30 – 2021-12-20

Bikes Especially bikes where I live, which means Sydney at the moment 2014-11-10 – 2021-12-15

R The statistical programming language, not the letter 2011-08-07 – 2021-12-14

Mellin transforms 2021-01-29 – 2021-12-14

Diversity as an end in itself On a rich an vibrant ecosystem of culture and thought 2021-12-13

Causality via potential outcomes Neyman-Rubin, counterfactuals, conditional treatment effects, and related tricks 2016-10-26 – 2021-12-10

Diffusion of innovations Epidemiology of widgets 2020-01-30 – 2021-12-10

Causal inference in highly parameterized ML 2020-09-18 – 2021-12-10

Gradient descent, Newton-like, stochastic 2020-01-23 – 2021-12-09

Variational state filtering 2018-03-19 – 2021-12-08

Bundled/ packaged apps for Linux On unifying the existing 3 app distribution stand ards by adding 3 additionll app distribution standards 12 2019-08-09 – 2021-12-02

Convolutional subordinator processes 2021-03-08 – 2021-12-01

Random rotations 2021-05-18 – 2021-12-01

Multi-output Gaussian process regression 2020-12-02 – 2021-11-26

Pyro Approximate maximum in the density of probabilistic programming effort 2019-10-02 – 2021-11-25

Combining kernels 2019-09-16 – 2021-11-25

Sydney food suppliers Practical bulk budget Sydney gourmet 2016-10-15 – 2021-11-25

Gaussian Processes as stochastic differential equations Imposing time on things 2019-09-18 – 2021-11-25

Ensembling neural nets Monte Carlo 2020-12-14 – 2021-11-25

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 – 2021-11-24

t-processes 2021-11-10 – 2021-11-24

Genre speciation 2016-08-23 – 2021-11-24

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2021-01-14 – 2021-11-23

Convolutional neural networks 2017-11-10 – 2021-11-21

Trading, hedging and portfolios in practice 2017-05-09 – 2021-11-18

Gamification “Belated Blogging of a Buzzword” achievement unlocked 2019-10-27 – 2021-11-18

Lévy processes 2017-05-29 – 2021-11-17

Confidential internet search engines 2021-08-02 – 2021-11-17

Neural nets for “implicit representations” 2021-01-21 – 2021-11-16

Decentralized net services a.k.a. web3, DEX, P2P, Peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend; Internet for an untrustworthy world 2017-09-18 – 2021-11-15

Financing utopia Hedonistic mechanism design 2015-02-16 – 2021-11-12

Cooperation amongst humans 2014-11-04 – 2021-11-12

Optimisation 2014-10-04 – 2021-11-11

Neural diffusion models 2021-11-11

Diagrams Of the kind I need, a practical guide to the creation thereof 2015-03-02 – 2021-11-11

Deep generative models 2020-12-10 – 2021-11-11

Digital nostalgia Pixel art, geocities chic, cyberpunk retrofuturism 2020-05-15 – 2021-11-09

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 – 2021-11-08

Tip me 2016-09-06 – 2021-11-04

Project management With special attention to speculative and innovative projects 2021-03-23 – 2021-11-04

External validity and dataset shift Also transfer learning, learning under covariate shift, transferable learning, domain adaptation etc 2020-10-17 – 2021-11-03

Spreadsheetalikes 2014-10-15 – 2021-11-03

Editing images with machine learning Chinks in my armour of learned Photoshop helplessness 2018-10-16 – 2021-11-02

Sexy plants 2020-05-28 – 2021-11-02

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

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

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

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

Better homes and societies On destinations 2017-11-01 – 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dual booting MS Windows and linux 2014-10-14 – 2021-10-11

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Economics of automation When to the robots come for my job? 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

Fonts Typefaces I need, which is to say, for web pages and scientific papers 2016-01-11 – 2021-09-18

Heavy tails Weird things about rare massive events 2020-01-13 – 2021-09-18

GIFs 2019-11-11 – 2021-09-17

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

China 2021-09-16

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

Maths hacks 2016-08-18 – 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vector Gaussian processses 2020-12-02 – 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

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

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

Risk neutral measure 2021-10-15 – 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

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

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

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

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

Morphogenesis 2011-01-19 – 2021-07-26

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Backward stochastic differential equations 2019-09-19 – 2021-06-22

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ecology 2015-01-27 – 2021-06-01

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

Decoupling the economy from energy 2021-05-21

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

Transforms of random variates 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

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

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

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

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

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

Kernel zoo 2019-09-16 – 2021-03-30

Colour 2015-04-07 – 2021-03-24

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

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

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

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

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

Technopoetics 2016-07-26 – 2021-03-12

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

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

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 involved in bullet points 2019-07-17 – 2021-03-03

pandoc An itemised list of the esoteric difficulties involved in bullet points 2019-07-17 – 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

Convolutional Gaussian processes 2021-03-01

Random fields as stochastic differential equations Precision vs covariance, fight! 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

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

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

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 and other self-hosting madness 2015-12-04 – 2021-01-19

Bayesians vs frequentists Just because we both get the same answer doesn’t mean neither of us is wrong 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

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

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

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

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

Tracking experiments 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

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

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

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

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

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

Fintech, assorted 2020-10-05

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

Alternative file managers 2020-10-04

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 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

Big data ML best practice 2020-09-16 – 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Footwear 2015-05-22 – 2020-08-14

Minimum description length 2020-08-06

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

Combinatorics of note 2020-07-18

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lévy stochastic differential equations 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

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

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

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

C++ 2011-04-06 – 2020-04-27

The cross entropy method 2020-04-24

Mixture models for density estimation 2016-03-29 – 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

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

Garden hacks 2019-10-08 – 2020-04-14

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

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

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

Visualising data Philosophy and psychology of good plots 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

Kernel approximation 2016-07-27 – 2020-03-06

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

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

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

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

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

Addiction 2021-05-24 – 2020-01-28

Medicalisation 2020-01-28

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

*-omics 2016-08-12 – 2020-01-22

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

(Reproducing) kernel tricks 2014-08-18 – 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

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

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

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

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 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

Webhooks 2019-11-05

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

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

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

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

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

Random (element) matrix theory 2014-11-09 – 2019-10-10

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 Conversely, precision estimation 2014-11-16 – 2019-09-21

Defining dynamics via Gaussian processes 2019-09-18

Representer theorems 2019-09-16

Automatic programming 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

Go bag, Sydney edition 2019-08-26

Sandboxing apps Upon letting strangers into your house, just so long as they don’t open the door to that one forbidden room 2019-08-09 – 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

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

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

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 identification 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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

Compressed sensing and sampling A fancy ways of counting zero 2014-08-18 – 2017-06-14

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

Entity embeddings 2017-04-01

Justice 2017-04-01

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

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 statistica inference 2016-10-11

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

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