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 (🚧).

Scientific institutions and mechanisms Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2023-12-08

Hallucinations 2017-08-07 – 2023-12-08

Microsoft Windows for the avoidant 2017-02-11 – 2023-12-08

Audio/music corpora Smells like Team Audioset 2014-08-08 – 2023-12-06

Generative music with language+diffusion models 2022-09-16 – 2023-12-06

Neural denoising diffusion models Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs), score-based generative models, generative diffusion processes, neural energy models… 2021-11-11 – 2023-12-06

The simplest thing Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering 2020-02-03 – 2023-12-06

Ethical consumption Veganisms, boycotts and missing mechanisms 2020-02-06 – 2023-12-05

Voice transcriptions and speech recognition 2019-01-08 – 2023-12-05

Effective altruism First world trolley problems 2017-06-06 – 2023-12-05

Moral wetware What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate? 2020-04-27 – 2023-12-05

Natural language processing software Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move. 2018-01-11 – 2023-12-03

Audiobooks Long form podcasts 2014-11-11 – 2023-12-02

Computational Fluid Dynamics 2021-01-27 – 2023-11-30

System identification in continuous time Learning in continuous ODEs, SDEs and CDEs 2016-08-01 – 2023-11-30

Python caches The fastest code is the code you don’t run 2018-07-02 – 2023-11-30

Learning graphical models from time series Also, causal discovery, structure discovery in time series 2017-09-20 – 2023-11-28

Neural process regression 2019-12-03 – 2023-11-28

Data storage formats 2020-06-17 – 2023-11-27

Simulation-based inference 2014-12-23 – 2023-11-23

Learning from ranking, learning to predict ranking Learning preferences, ordinal regressions etc 2020-09-16 – 2023-11-22

Visualising data Philosophy and psychology of good plots 2016-07-04 – 2023-11-21

Incoming links and notes 2020-03-05 – 2023-11-21

Multi fidelity models Data-driven multi-scale sampling, multi-resolution, super-resolution 2020-08-24 – 2023-11-20

Science communication On making people feel they are smart enough to teach themselves, or failing that, that they are smart enough to fund YOU to teach yourself 2021-06-02 – 2023-11-20

Australian authoritarianism Beneath the beach, the barbed wire 2019-08-20 – 2023-11-18

Machine learning for partial differential equations 2017-05-15 – 2023-11-17

Hardware for neural networks Neuromorphic computing, rewriting Turing machines for blobby grey matter, other hybrid ideas 2023-11-16

Automatic differentiation 2016-07-27 – 2023-11-15

Calibration of probabilistic forecasts Proper scoring rules, skill scores etc 2015-06-16 – 2023-11-15

Feedback system identification, not necessarily linear Learning dynamics from data 2016-08-01 – 2023-11-15

Generative industrial design 2022-09-16 – 2023-11-13

pandoc An itemised list of the esoteric difficulties involved in bullet points 2019-07-17 – 2023-11-13

Learning new languages Mostly as an adult 2020-06-16 – 2023-11-11

Designing social movements Synthetic biology for utopian egregores 2021-05-01 – 2023-11-10

Git GUIs 2019-02-08 – 2023-11-09

Comfort traps On edging life with the optimal amount of friction 2023-09-17 – 2023-11-09

Procedurally generated diagrams Of the kind I need, a practical guide to the creation thereof 2015-03-02 – 2023-11-09

Diagrams Of the kind I need, a practical guide to the creation thereof 2015-03-02 – 2023-11-09

Javascript/browser vector graphics 2015-11-20 – 2023-11-09

Free content Raiding history for clip art 2014-08-31 – 2023-11-08

Javascript user interfaces 2014-11-10 – 2023-11-08

Lotekno Also, other Sundanese music projects I have been involved in 2015-11-05 – 2023-11-06

Playing video Pumping bits to eyeballs 2020-04-23 – 2023-11-06

Big history Cliodynamics, deep history, big-picture history 2018-12-18 – 2023-11-06

Quantization 2016-03-29 – 2023-11-02

Sexual ethics and institutions 2020-06-07 – 2023-10-31

Rationalists in Australia and surrounding regions 2023-10-30

Python debugging, profiling and testing It only looks simple when it’s finished 2019-04-28 – 2023-10-27

Hydrology, applied Rivers, aquifers and other wet things that can flood your house 2020-09-07 – 2023-10-27

Non-negative matrix factorisation 2019-10-14 – 2023-10-26

Causal inference in highly parameterized ML 2020-09-18 – 2023-10-24

Learning under distribution shift Also transfer learning, covariate shift, transferable learning, domain adaptation, transportability etc 2020-10-17 – 2023-10-24

Numerical PDE solvers 2016-03-01 – 2023-10-23

Time management The psychology of getting stuff done 2017-06-18 – 2023-10-20

Physics-informed neural networks 2019-10-15 – 2023-10-19

Neural PDE operator learning Especially forward operators. Image-to-image regression, where the images encode a physical process. 2019-10-15 – 2023-10-19

Interpersonal relationships Applied. Love, friendship, trust and oxytocin, considered dyadically 2022-01-24 – 2023-10-18

VS Code for python An acceptable python IDE for very low cost 2021-08-10 – 2023-10-17

Pytorch #torched 2018-05-04 – 2023-10-17

Classification Computer says no 2017-02-20 – 2023-10-13

Internet search engines Tips, tricks, confidentiality 2021-08-02 – 2023-10-12

Probably actually reading/writing 2020-03-05 – 2023-10-11

Wicked tail risks x-risk, y-risk, jackpot, die-risk, 2015-04-30 – 2023-10-11

Technological singularities Incorporating hard AI take-offs, game-over high scores, the technium, deus-ex-machina, deus-ex-nube, nerd raptures and so forth 2016-12-01 – 2023-10-11

Static website editors The vision of Netscape Composer and HotDog, finally realised 2014-12-29 – 2023-10-10

Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder 2022-09-25 – 2023-10-07

Bureaucracy Iron Laws and Moral Mazes 2020-02-02 – 2023-10-07

Recipes Especially meta-recipes 2015-06-23 – 2023-10-06

Text data processing 2014-12-15 – 2023-10-04

Decoupling the economy from energy 2021-05-21 – 2023-10-03

Material basis of the economy 2011-10-17 – 2023-10-03

Brain-like neuronal computation 2015-12-22 – 2023-10-03

Making macOS behave itself Things I have to do to keep my laptop running so I can google how to fix other things 2015-04-27 – 2023-10-02

Whom to live amongst Designing housesholds, bash’es, families, villages 2021-09-25 – 2023-10-02

Fashion Theory and practice of hip garments 2020-07-10 – 2023-10-02

DNS On asking strangers for directions 2017-10-13 – 2023-10-02

Low-rank matrices 2014-08-05 – 2023-09-29

Matrix inverses 2014-08-05 – 2023-09-29

Canalization in human learning agents Thinking now what made sense then 2022-04-09 – 2023-09-29

Clickbait bandit problems On using computers to program humans 2017-05-18 – 2023-09-29

Gradient flows infinitesimal optimization 2020-01-30 – 2023-09-28

Misrule, punks and ravers Peasantpunk, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget, metis farming, the feast of fools in suburbia, crusty rituals for the churchless, oxytocin fixes, mock chivalric orders, squads 2018-03-26 – 2023-09-26

Power generation, engineering and use On the magical, terrible requisites of keeping the lights on 2021-05-04 – 2023-09-25

Probabilistic numerics 2023-07-13 – 2023-09-25

Weaponised design 2014-10-10 – 2023-09-25

Machine learning for climate systems 2020-04-02 – 2023-09-25

Python Syntactic saccharine for compiled code 2011-04-18 – 2023-09-25

Superstimuli 2023-09-25

VS Code / VS Codium Egg-laying wool milk code editor 2018-01-25 – 2023-09-25

Moloch, slack and hyperselection Weak selection versus goodharting, 内卷, involution 2021-12-25 – 2023-09-25

Hybrid machine/human ML 2021-09-13 – 2023-09-23

Degrowth Yurtopia 2019-10-29 – 2023-09-23

Ecomodernism A tomorrow worth retiring to 2019-10-29 – 2023-09-23

Coffee and caffeine 2018-03-25 – 2023-09-21

Data dashboards and ML demos On assuring the client that you are doing something data-sciency because it looks like in the movies 2020-03-12 – 2023-09-20

Bayesian inference for misspecified models 2016-05-30 – 2023-09-20

Orthonormal and unitary matrices Energy preserving operators, generalized rotations 2019-10-22 – 2023-09-19

Static websites Websites that are just files on a server, which is all I need 2014-12-29 – 2023-09-19

Comment systems for static websites Minimum viable interaction for the web 2019-12-29 – 2023-09-19

Taking notes Notes on notes on notes 2020-02-17 – 2023-09-19

Differential geometry, geometric algebra etc 2014-11-27 – 2023-09-19

Exit/voice dilemmas Fix this one or build another? 2018-12-18 – 2023-09-18

Sufficiently good hedonism Trade-offs between limited time, limited cash and limited imagination, toward the most happiness 2020-06-23 – 2023-09-18

Image file formats 2018-10-16 – 2023-09-17

Privacy while web browsing Browsing the internet without giving corporations my personal information for free 2018-12-12 – 2023-09-16

Unix commands I need often but which are tedious to work anew out each time 2015-11-06 – 2023-09-15

Cohousing in Australia Plus other low-cost, low-tedium options for secure habitation 2021-09-25 – 2023-09-15

Emoji 2019-01-03 – 2023-09-13

Statistics and machine learning 2011-04-15 – 2023-09-13

Nearly-low-rank Hermitian matrices a.k.a. perturbations of the identity, low-rank-plus-diagonal matrices 2014-08-05 – 2023-09-13

Footwear 2015-05-22 – 2023-09-13

Akrasia Description to come later 2017-06-18 – 2023-09-09

Random number generation 2015-05-14 – 2023-09-08

Quarto Swiss army knife for hand-whittling scientific reports, slides and blogs 2022-05-01 – 2023-09-08

Incentive alignment problems What is your loss function? 2014-09-22 – 2023-09-08

Pornography and other lewd art Morsels of oddity from the depiction of human sexual behaviour 2020-04-22 – 2023-09-06

The Jupyter Cinematic Universe A constellation of somewhat-compatible technologies from which we can extract a compromise between ease of 1) actually doing data science and 2) seeming to laypeople to be doing data science 2017-02-09 – 2023-09-05

Informations Entropies and other measures of surprise 2011-11-25 – 2023-09-04

Annealing in inference Tempering, cooling, Platt scaling… 2020-09-30 – 2023-09-04

Zotero The adequate citation tool 2019-12-01 – 2023-09-04

Academic writing workflow Cranking the paper mill in the 21st century 2014-10-04 – 2023-09-04

Fediverse Mastodon et al 2019-08-12 – 2023-08-30

Autism/allism spectrum 2022-05-25 – 2023-08-30

Bregman divergences 2023-08-29

Mirror descent 2019-12-29 – 2023-08-29

Code generation, programming assistants 2021-10-14 – 2023-08-28

Monte Carlo methods 2014-11-16 – 2023-08-26

Python packaging, dependency management and isolation “import antigravity” raises an exception if you want CUDA antigravity 2011-04-18 – 2023-08-25

VS Code as LaTeX editor 2019-11-11 – 2023-08-25

Potential theory in probability Something about harmonic functions or whatever 2020-02-12 – 2023-08-24

VS Code online and networked 2018-01-25 – 2023-08-24

Gradient descent First order of business 2014-10-04 – 2023-08-24

Reshipping 2021-12-02 – 2023-08-23

Approximate matrix factorisations and decompositions Sometimes even exact 2014-08-05 – 2023-08-23

Browser machine learning 2017-01-13 – 2023-08-22

Status The original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2023-08-21

Sydney lifestyle theme village The sunniest mortgage farm in the Southern Hemisphere! 2019-03-05 – 2023-08-20

Sleep Pathologies and hacks 2017-04-19 – 2023-08-16

Virtual machines for curmudgeons On pretending to have hardware using software 2015-11-05 – 2023-08-15

ML on small devices Putting intelligence on chips small enough to be in disconcerting places 2016-10-14 – 2023-08-14

Naming things Hashes, UUIDs, haecceities, deep and inscrutable singular Names 2016-06-07 – 2023-08-11

Generalised autoregressive processes 2022-01-10 – 2023-08-11

Community Engineering, maintaining, organizing… 2020-02-02 – 2023-08-09

Nostr Social media for the stroppy 2023-08-08 – 2023-08-09

Secure Scuttlebutt et al Social media for off-the-grid 2020-11-18 – 2023-08-08

Materials informatics Machine learning in condensed matter physics, chemistry and materials science 2023-08-01 – 2023-08-08

Non-uniform signal sampling Discrete sample representation of continuous signals without a grid 2019-01-08 – 2023-08-08

Doing it yourself Peasantpunk, artisanal poverty, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms 2018-03-26 – 2023-08-08

Doing complicated things the obvious way and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong 2022-04-04 – 2023-08-07

Modern conspiracy theorising Someone paid me to write this 2020-08-16 – 2023-08-07

Timeless works of art Aesthetics as a conditional average treatment effect 2015-01-12 – 2023-08-07

Science; Institution design for “Scientist, falsify thyself”. Peer review, academic incentives, credentials, evidence and funding… 2020-05-17 – 2023-08-07

DJing On encouraging people to listen to your living room playlist by demanding that they pay for it 2015-02-02 – 2023-08-07

Firefox 2017-04-20 – 2023-08-07

Snowmobile or bicycle? Complement or substitute? 2023-03-23 – 2023-08-07

Economics of large language models 2023-03-23 – 2023-08-07

Music gear Pragmatic digital amps and microphones 2014-08-26 – 2023-08-07

Real estate economics Passive-aggressive income 2022-01-24 – 2023-08-06

Community governance Coordinating human beings by collective application of social force 2020-02-02 – 2023-08-06

Metis and .*-rationality High modernism, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society, technocracy, local knowledge 2017-07-24 – 2023-08-04

Large sample theory 2015-02-15 – 2023-08-02

The social brain Rubber-duck-typing 2011-12-09 – 2023-08-02

Gradient steps to an ecology of mind The best as enemy of the good 2011-11-27 – 2023-08-02

Genetic programming 2015-12-22 – 2023-08-02

Bitter lessons in compute and cleverness Operationalizing the scaling hypothesis 2021-01-14 – 2023-08-02

Ablation studies and lesion studies In order to understand it we must be able to break it 2016-10-26 – 2023-08-01

Algorithmic mechanism design Designing markets and games to achieve what we collectively want from what we individually want 2014-09-22 – 2023-08-01

Learnable coarse-graining Approximate meso-scale physics 2020-08-24 – 2023-08-01

Plotting in python Jack of all trades, old master of none 2014-10-07 – 2023-08-01

AV controller interfaces 2019-12-10 – 2023-08-01

Ergonomics 2020-03-27 – 2023-07-31

Noise pollution 2021-05-26 – 2023-07-31

Factor graphs 2019-12-16 – 2023-07-31

Crisis, collapse etc All your base are belong to dust 2018-10-15 – 2023-07-31

Polynomial bases 2021-01-29 – 2023-07-28

Gaussian process regression And classification. And extensions. 2019-12-03 – 2023-07-28

Python spatial statistics 2020-09-11 – 2023-07-26

Semidefinite proramming 2019-06-29 – 2023-07-24

Optimisation 2014-10-04 – 2023-07-24

Model averaging On keeping many incorrect hypotheses and using them all as one goodish one 2017-06-20 – 2023-07-24

Matrix calculus 2018-07-09 – 2023-07-24

Healthcare in Australia 2021-02-13 – 2023-07-23

M-open, M-complete, M-closed 2016-05-30 – 2023-07-23

(Reproducing) kernel tricks 2014-08-18 – 2023-07-21

Devcontainers 2023-07-14 – 2023-07-19

The Gaussian distribution The default probability distribution 2016-06-27 – 2023-07-19

Geoscience 2020-09-11 – 2023-07-19

Hydra for tracking machine learning experiments 2021-10-20 – 2023-07-19

Bio marker tracking We are probably not going to optimize ourselves out of mortality, but it feels good to try nonetheless 2022-01-11 – 2023-07-18

Hypothesis tests, statistical 2014-08-23 – 2023-07-18

Feed readers Automated content aggregation for an internet designed to inform you rather than distract you 2016-06-29 – 2023-07-17

Reinforcement learning 2014-11-27 – 2023-07-17

3d data A grab bag of point clouds, volumetric data and photogrammetry 2019-02-15 – 2023-07-17

Generative art with language+diffusion models 2022-09-16 – 2023-07-16

Codebraid Minimalist scientific workbook 2023-07-14

Calendars and scheduling software 2015-06-25 – 2023-07-14

Gaussian process ensembles Bayesian committee machines, product-of-experts 2023-07-12

Synchronising config files across machines 2015-01-02 – 2023-07-11

Blogdown Plus other RMarkdown-derived scholarly blogging systems 2020-08-26 – 2023-07-09

The returns on hierarchy in group coordination Optimising egalitarianism 2019-10-25 – 2023-07-07

Homebrew Minimalist software management for POSIX systems 2019-06-15 – 2023-07-05

Editors for LaTeX 2019-11-19 – 2023-07-04

Syncthing A good, easy, peer-to-peer free Dropbox-like system for the modern paranoid age 2019-01-02 – 2023-07-04

Bayes neural nets via subsetting weights 2017-01-11 – 2023-07-03

Rough path theory and signature methods 2021-04-02 – 2023-06-29

Academic reading workflow The continuing ascendancy of using piles of dead tree products for understanding cutting edge digital informatics 2016-04-11 – 2023-06-29

Neural nets with implicit layers Also, declarative networks, bi-level optimization and other ingenious uses of the implicit function theorem 2020-12-08 – 2023-06-28

Exponential families 2016-04-19 – 2023-06-28

Position encoding Also Fourier features 2021-01-21 – 2023-06-23

Journalism, normative Sensors for the superorganism 2020-01-26 – 2023-06-23

Teamwork 2020-01-26 – 2023-06-22

Curators of nice bits of internet The delightful web 2021-05-03 – 2023-06-19

Decaying sinusoid dictionaries 2019-01-07 – 2023-06-15

Markdown An itemised list of the esoteric difficulties involved in bullet points 2019-07-17 – 2023-06-15

Neural nets that do symbolic maths 2019-12-09 – 2023-06-14

Spatial data in R 2021-03-21 – 2023-06-13

LaTeX …and ΤeΧ, and ConTeXt and XeTeX and TeXleMeElmo 2014-09-08 – 2023-06-13

Neural vector embeddings Hyperdimensional Computing, Vector Symbolic Architectures, Holographic Reduced Representations 2017-12-20 – 2023-06-13

Medicalisation 2020-01-28 – 2023-06-10

Research discovery Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2023-06-06

Noise contrastive estimation Also “negative sampling”. 2020-04-22 – 2023-06-06

Statistical mechanics of statistics 2016-12-01 – 2023-06-02

Fish shell A command line shell that does not think that the problem is you 2019-03-30 – 2023-06-02

Bayesian model calibration 2017-04-11 – 2023-06-01

Climate change The conspiracy of those malign incumbent powers, the laws of physics, against the plucky underdog, coal megacorporations 2011-12-13 – 2023-05-31

Who I donate to Expensive value signalling 2019-08-21 – 2023-05-31

Tabular data processing in python CSV to Data lake 2020-11-30 – 2023-05-29

Matrix norms, divergences, metrics 2016-06-03 – 2023-05-29

PDF, Portable Document Format How we may use a thousand dollar computer to simulate a one cent piece of paper with zero day exploits 2018-06-03 – 2023-05-28

Livescribe 2017-04-17 – 2023-05-26

Stylus input 2017-04-17 – 2023-05-26

Bikes Especially bikes where I live, which means Sydney at the moment 2014-11-10 – 2023-05-26

Bayes functional regression 2019-12-03 – 2023-05-25

Non-Gaussian Bayesian functional regression 2019-10-10 – 2023-05-25

Recurrent / convolutional / state-space Translating between means of approximating time series dynamics 2016-04-05 – 2023-05-24

State filtering for hidden Markov models Kalman and friends 2015-06-22 – 2023-05-24

Nerdview 2014-12-27 – 2023-05-23

Singular Value Decomposition The ML workhorse 2014-08-05 – 2023-05-23

Neural learning dynamical systems 2018-08-13 – 2023-05-23

Dropbox if you must 2015-01-02 – 2023-05-20

Saying “Bayes” is not enough The other secret steps to doing Bayesian statistics 2016-05-30 – 2023-05-19

Gradient descent, first-order, stochastic a.k.a. SGD, as seen in deep learning 2020-01-30 – 2023-05-19

Belief propagation 2014-11-25 – 2023-05-17

Canonical correlation 2014-08-23 – 2023-05-17

Method of Adjoints for differentiating through ODEs 2017-09-15 – 2023-05-15

Differentiable PDE solvers 2017-05-15 – 2023-05-15

IPython Jupyter’s forgotten uncle 2011-04-18 – 2023-05-15

Matrix square roots Whitening, preconditioning etc 2014-08-05 – 2023-05-13

Jax Julia for python 2020-09-15 – 2023-05-12

Hyperparameter optimization Replacing a hyperparameter problem with a hyperhyperparameter problem which feels like progress 2020-09-25 – 2023-05-12

Databases (for scientists) Stashing experimental data for later use 2015-03-04 – 2023-05-06

Conformal prediction 2016-12-26 – 2023-05-05

Multi-objective optimisation 2021-07-14 – 2023-05-04

Optimal transport inference I feel the earth mover under my feet, I feel the ψ tumbling down, I feel my heart start to trembling, whenever you’re around (my barycentre) 2021-03-16 – 2023-05-03

Maximum Mean Discrepancy 2016-08-21 – 2023-05-03

Distances between Gaussian distributions Nearly equivalent to distances between symmetric positive definite matrices 2016-06-27 – 2023-05-03

Reparameterization methods for MC gradient estimation Pathwise gradient estimation, 2018-04-04 – 2023-05-02

Normalizing flows Invertible density models, sounding clever by using the word diffeomorphism like a real mathematician 2018-04-04 – 2023-05-02

Monte Carlo gradient estimation 2020-09-30 – 2023-05-02

Combining kernels 2019-09-16 – 2023-05-02

Academic publishing 2015-07-07 – 2023-05-01

Numerical libraries 2016-03-01 – 2023-04-28

Scheduling jobs on HPC clusters for modern ML nerds In Soviet Russia, job puts YOU in queue 2018-03-09 – 2023-04-28

Bayesian posterior inference via optimisation Conditioning by gradient 2020-08-17 – 2023-04-28

Data summarization On maps drawn at smaller than 1:1 scale 2019-01-14 – 2023-04-27

Probabilistic neural nets Bayesian and other probabilistic inference in overparameterized ML 2017-01-11 – 2023-04-27

Neural implicit representations Neural nets as coordinate mappings 2021-01-21 – 2023-04-26

Dynamics of recommender systems and other AI social interventions at societal scale Variational approximations to high modernism 2023-07-03 – 2023-04-26

Covariance estimation Esp Gaussian 2014-11-16 – 2023-04-26

Quantified self Instrumentation and analytics for body and soul. Punk DIY precision medicine. 2022-01-11 – 2023-04-24

Legibility and automation Variational approximations to high modernism as AI modernism 2017-07-24 – 2023-04-22

Lua 2014-07-25 – 2023-04-21

Model order reduction 2015-03-22 – 2023-04-21

Secure chat systems Optimising back channel interjections into other people’s meetings 2015-02-15 – 2023-04-21

Agent-based models Science as Grand Theft Auto 2011-07-28 – 2023-04-19

ΦFlow A modern python computational fluid dynamics library for ML research 2022-06-24 – 2023-04-17

Recursive identification Learning forward dynamics by looking at time series. 2017-09-15 – 2023-04-16

Code editors The best thing since punchcards 2014-11-11 – 2023-04-14

How to do research funding 2015-06-28 – 2023-04-14

Performance indicators, Measurement, analytics Street fighting statistics 2014-09-22 – 2023-04-13

Online collaboration tools 2020-06-01 – 2023-04-13

Indyweb, small web, cozy web 2020-03-05 – 2023-04-13

Jupyter front end systems UX design by underfunded committee is how I like my data science experience 2017-02-09 – 2023-04-12

Leakage in predictive models 2016-09-05 – 2023-04-12

Configuring python with “.env” files 2017-04-18 – 2023-04-11

Cheap talk Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc 2020-02-01 – 2023-04-11

Addiction 2021-05-24 – 2023-04-07

Optimal rotations 2021-05-18 – 2023-04-06

Mathematica 2011-04-06 – 2023-04-05

Webmail systems 2022-04-18 – 2023-04-05

Offline email syncing with bonus email wrangling 2020-12-30 – 2023-04-05

Email clients on linux The constant low-level grind of a long term co-dependent relationship 2020-04-21 – 2023-04-05

Expectation propagation Generalized moment matching 2015-10-26 – 2023-04-03

MLP-Mixer neural networks 2021-11-21 – 2023-03-30

Contemporary neo-feudalism & endimming 2017-02-04 – 2023-03-27

Particle filters incorporating Interacting Particle Systems, Sequential Monte Carlo and a profusion of other simultaneous-discovery names 2014-07-25 – 2023-03-24

Git tricks 2015-06-26 – 2023-03-24

Practical text generation and writing assistants 2019-01-08 – 2023-03-23

Transformer networks The transformer-powered subtitle for this article is “Our most terrifyingly effective weapon against the forces of evil is our ability to laugh at them.” 2017-12-20 – 2023-03-22

PDF viewers On turning texts into font rendering errors 2020-02-11 – 2023-03-21

Deep sets invariant and equivariant functions 2022-11-24 – 2023-03-21

Ensemble Kalman methods Data Assimilation; Data fusion; Sloppy filters for over-ambitious models 2015-06-22 – 2023-03-18

(Nearly-)Convex relation of nonconvex problems 2018-04-04 – 2023-03-17

Symbolic regression 2023-03-14

Hugo Lightweight static site utility 2020-08-26 – 2023-03-11

Markdown editors 2020-05-09 – 2023-03-10

Visual Studio Code for prose for pros 2020-06-12 – 2023-03-03

Sparse coding with learnable dictionaries 2014-11-17 – 2023-03-02

Online whiteboards 2020-08-26 – 2023-02-27

Teaching mathematics and especially statistics 2020-02-12 – 2023-02-23

Tensor decompositions 2016-08-15 – 2023-02-21

Transport maps Inference by measure transport, low-dimensional coupling… 2018-04-04 – 2023-02-21

UX 2018-10-16 – 2023-02-21

Contemporary techno-horror On eldritch terrors from beyond and their Twitter accounts 2019-12-23 – 2023-02-20

Disgust 2019-12-23 – 2023-02-19

External validity When does what I learn on one data set apply to another? 2020-10-17 – 2023-02-16

Scaling laws for very large neural nets Compute/size/data tradeoffs 2021-01-14 – 2023-02-16

The Matrix-Gaussian distribution 2022-08-19 – 2023-02-16

Interoperating with R 2011-08-07 – 2023-02-13

Jupyter UI wrangling What happens inside those notebook cells doesnt stay inside tgose notebook cells 2017-02-09 – 2023-02-13

UIs in Python interacting with an app, a python app, without too much dicking about 2017-06-03 – 2023-02-13

Generative flow nets Gflownets 2021-11-11 – 2023-02-13

Tolerating Jupyter’s file format In order to make your python code accessible, we wrapped it into encoded javascript strings. No need to thank us. 2017-02-09 – 2023-02-13

Diffusion of innovations Epidemiology of widgets 2020-01-30 – 2023-02-09

Shells That alternative to GUIs by which you replace clicking-on-the-wrong-thing errors with typing-the-wrong-thing errors 2014-10-03 – 2023-02-09

Last-layer Bayes neural nets Bayesian and other probabilistic inference in overparameterized ML 2017-01-11 – 2023-02-09

Predictive coding Does the model that our brains do bayesian variational prediction make any actual predictions about our brains? 2011-11-27 – 2023-02-09

IDEs for Julia 2019-11-27 – 2023-02-08

manim pedagogic animations via python 2018-10-07 – 2023-02-06

Visualising probabilistic graphical models Also related models, such as Neural nets 2018-03-29 – 2023-02-02

Maths hacks 2016-08-18 – 2023-02-01

Web API automation 2020-06-04 – 2023-01-31

When to argue ad hominem Skin in the game, vested interests, overt and covert prejudices, lived experience, Dunning-Kruger outgroup effects, genealogy of knowledge, aetiology, donatism, genealogy of knowledge 2020-02-01 – 2023-01-28

Implementing neural nets 2016-10-14 – 2023-01-27

Conference posters 2018-07-19 – 2023-01-27

Web scraping Turns out we can get information off the internet 2016-06-17 – 2023-01-24

Models of inequity Sharpening the fuzzy process of bias, discrimination and inequity 2017-08-13 – 2023-01-19

Browser graphics 2015-11-20 – 2023-01-18

Statistics and ML in python 2015-04-27 – 2023-01-18

Javascript audio Every program will expand until the point that it can generate cheezy techno 2011-11-25 – 2023-01-16

Research data sharing 2017-05-31 – 2023-01-16

Matplotlib A way to draw things in python, which is better than no way to draw things in python 2014-10-07 – 2023-01-16

Bounded rationality at large It is as if we knew what we were doing 2012-01-13 – 2023-01-15

Weaponizing social media Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape 2019-10-21 – 2023-01-15

Melbourne Australia’s culture sweatshop 2021-10-18 – 2023-01-15

Drugs, recreational 2017-08-07 – 2023-01-14

Variational message-passing algorithms in graphical models Cleaving reality at the joint, then summing it at the marginal 2014-11-25 – 2023-01-12

Numerical python 2015-04-27 – 2023-01-12

Goodhart’s Law 2019-12-22 – 2023-01-11

(Kernelized) Stein variational gradient descent KSVD, SVGD 2022-11-02 – 2023-01-09

Comfy Ubuntu Now with added Pop!_OS 2014-10-14 – 2023-01-09

Highly performative computing Research cluster computing 2018-03-09 – 2023-01-06

Probability divergences Metrics, contrasts and divergences and other ways of quantifying how similar are two randomnesses 2014-11-25 – 2023-01-06

Password management 2016-07-20 – 2023-01-05

Image search 2021-08-02 – 2023-01-05

Special LaTeX symbols 2020-02-11 – 2023-01-04

Elliptical distributions 2015-06-23 – 2023-01-03

BibLaTeX Also BibTeX if you must 2020-09-29 – 2022-12-23

Transforms of Gaussian noise Delta method, error propagation, unscented transform, Taylor expansion… 2014-11-25 – 2022-12-23

Bayesian model selection by model evidence maximisation Type II maximum likelihood, marginal maximum likelihood, Bayes Occam’s razor 2017-08-20 – 2022-12-22

Meditation and enlightenment Fundamental well-being, nondual medidation, non-symbolic experience, samadhi, socially-approved zoning out, YOL∞ 2016-01-05 – 2022-12-21

Economic development 2014-10-29 – 2022-12-20

Neural codecs Digital recordings and converting between them. 2020-04-23 – 2022-12-19

Graph neural nets 2020-09-16 – 2022-12-19

Australia in data 2020-01-25 – 2022-12-15

Fitness health Getting swole and/or deferring death 2015-01-17 – 2022-12-14

Synchronising files across machines Dropbox for Dropbox haters 2015-01-02 – 2022-12-12

Open Source (mostly software) On published schematics for cheap objects 2017-03-31 – 2022-12-12

Typing weird symbols Writing with added 🆕🐜🐜 2019-01-03 – 2022-12-09

Machine learning for physical sciences Turbulent mixing at the boundary between disciplines with differing inertia and viscosity 2017-05-15 – 2022-12-07

COVID-19 in practice SARS-CoV-2 to its friends 2020-11-25 – 2022-12-07

Mind as statistical learner 2020-06-23 – 2022-12-06

Density ratio tricks 2022-12-06

Growing up 2022-04-13 – 2022-11-27

Statistical relational learning 2020-04-26 – 2022-11-22

Models of computation Turing machines, λ-calculus, term-rewriting and other models of what may be computed. 2017-06-18 – 2022-11-22

Adverse advice selection 2022-01-25 – 2022-11-15

Hamiltonian and Langevin Monte Carlo Physics might be on to something 2018-07-31 – 2022-11-14

Cooperation in evolutionary context ‘Cui bono’ for selfishness 2020-04-27 – 2022-11-08

Explorables and interactives Between exploratory data analysis and games 2020-03-12 – 2022-11-07

Plotly A pretty good plotting system. 2015-11-20 – 2022-11-06

But what can I do? Recommended behaviour to make society better is to think, then act 2020-02-06 – 2022-11-06

Interaction effects and subgroups are probably what we want to estimate 2022-01-25 – 2022-11-06

Personalized medicine Precision medicine 2022-01-25 – 2022-11-06

How to communicate with humans 2019-04-02 – 2022-11-06

Scientific writing In which tips are given for the projection of status through nominal phrases and passive voice 2014-12-31 – 2022-11-06

Queerness 2021-05-06 – 2022-11-06

Blogroll The internet of essays 2008-11-02 – 2022-11-06

Travel hacks for technomads 2019-05-18 – 2022-11-06

Electric cars 2014-11-10 – 2022-11-05

Organising a photo collection 2020-01-03 – 2022-11-05

Feelings, applied 2022-01-24 – 2022-11-04

Email hosts Who handles my mail? And what do they do with it? 2020-12-30 – 2022-11-04

How to do research careers 2015-06-28 – 2022-11-04

Emancipating my tribe Inclusivism and exclusivism in sacred and secular subcultures. Or, scaling up the in-group. 2021-12-20 – 2022-11-01

Deep learning as a dynamical system 2018-08-13 – 2022-10-30

The edge of chaos Computation, evolution, competition and other past-times of faculty 2016-12-01 – 2022-10-30

Pluralism, multiculturalism, politics 2020-02-01 – 2022-10-29

Casual anthropic principles Convenience-sampling lived human experience 2020-02-15 – 2022-10-28

Bayesian sparsity 2019-01-08 – 2022-10-25

Python cluster computing Parallel computing, wherein a head process spawns workers executing some python function 2016-08-23 – 2022-10-23

Python pickling Parallel computing, wherein assume a head process with spawn workers 2016-08-23 – 2022-10-23

Randomised linear algebra 2016-08-16 – 2022-10-22

Online learning 2018-09-30 – 2022-10-20

Anomaly detection I don’t define what is abnormal, but I know it when I see it 2015-10-06 – 2022-10-20

Narrative 2019-10-27 – 2022-10-20

Neural tangent kernel 2020-12-09 – 2022-10-14

Editing images Chinks in my armour of learned Photoshop helplessness 2018-10-16 – 2022-10-13

Continuous and equilibrium probabilistic graphical models 2014-08-05 – 2022-10-10

Tribal sorting and polarization Polarization and fragmentation by browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2022-10-08

Data sets Questions for answers looking for questions 2015-06-26 – 2022-10-08

Forecasting Vegan haruspicy 2015-06-16 – 2022-10-08

Social organisation of knowledge Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2022-10-07

Intellectual property especially in science and technology. 2014-12-30 – 2022-10-06

Nootropics The struggle to find a drug that makes you so fast that you save more time taking it than you lose reading about it 2017-08-07 – 2022-10-06

The blogosphere Now with added newsletter-o-sphere 2014-12-29 – 2022-10-06

Transcoding Digital recordings and converting between them. 2020-04-23 – 2022-10-05

Precision matrix estimation Especially Gaussain 2014-11-16 – 2022-10-04

(Weighted) least squares fits 2016-09-22 – 2022-10-04

Biomimetic algorithms 2015-12-22 – 2022-10-03

Multi level marketing Pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, Newcomb unboxing 2022-10-02 – 2022-10-02

Learning graphical models from data Also, causal discovery, structure discovery 2017-09-20 – 2022-10-01

Langevin dynamcs MCMC 2020-08-17 – 2022-10-01

Python CLIs Putting the “argument” in “command-line argument” 2021-07-02 – 2022-09-29

Bayesian inverse problems in function space a.k.a. Bayesian calibration, model uncertainty for PDEs and other wibbly, blobby things 2020-10-13 – 2022-09-26

Squads Small scale collectives 2022-06-25 – 2022-09-25

Depression 2022-02-13 – 2022-09-25

Physical infrastructure 2022-09-24

Innovation Side order of progress studies now I guess 2014-07-27 – 2022-09-24

The interpretation of RV densities as point process intensities and vice versa Point process of observations ↔ observation of a point process 2016-09-13 – 2022-09-24

Score matching 2021-11-11 – 2022-09-23

Gaussian process inference by partial updates 2020-12-03 – 2022-09-22

Generalised Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes Markov/AR(1)-like processes 2022-01-10 – 2022-09-21

Conditional expectation and probability 2020-02-04 – 2022-09-21

Posterior Gaussian process samples by updating prior samples Matheron’s other weird trick 2020-12-03 – 2022-09-20

Ensemble Kalman methods for training neural networks Data assimilation for network weights 2022-09-20

Penalised/regularised regression 2016-06-23 – 2022-09-19

Eye/head-tracking input Mousing using my face 2022-09-15 – 2022-09-16

Multi-agent self 2022-09-11

LaTeX mathematics hacks 2014-09-08 – 2022-09-07

Data versioning 2020-03-11 – 2022-09-07

Laplace approximations in inference Lightweight uncertainties, especially for heavy neural nets 2021-07-28 – 2022-09-06

Soft methodology of science 2012-01-13 – 2022-09-06

Terminals More realistically, terminal emulators, because anyone who owns an actual working VT102 these days is not using it to do work 2018-10-11 – 2022-09-06

Gaussian belief propagation Least squares at maximal elaboration 2014-11-25 – 2022-09-01

Scattering transforms 2022-03-16 – 2022-08-31

Distributional robustness in inference 2019-07-12 – 2022-08-30

State space reconstruction 2014-10-13 – 2022-08-30

Learning stuff Shoving knowledge into my brain 2020-06-16 – 2022-08-30

Managing people Making piece with the fact that I cannot do everything myself 2020-07-19 – 2022-08-30

Containerized apps (for scientists) Doing things that previously took 0.5 computers using 0.4 computers 2015-11-05 – 2022-08-29

Factorial hidden Markov models 2022-08-29

Mellin transforms 2021-01-29 – 2022-08-28

Project management With special attention to speculative and innovative projects 2021-03-23 – 2022-08-28

Semantics Compressed representations of reality for syntactic agents; which might be what meaning means 2014-12-29 – 2022-08-28

Cluster B personality disorders 2022-06-20 – 2022-08-26

Generic variance reduction in Monte Carlo samplers 2022-08-25

Julia interoperation and foreign function interfaces 2019-11-27 – 2022-08-25

Elliptical belief propagation Generalized least generalized squares 2022-08-22 – 2022-08-23

Apptainer Containerized apps for research 2015-11-05 – 2022-08-22

Bayes linear methods some kind of approximate Bayes thing 2022-08-17 – 2022-08-18

Recommender systems 2020-11-30 – 2022-08-15

Video editing 2020-04-23 – 2022-08-15

Practical LaTeX fonts and character sets 2020-02-11 – 2022-08-11

Tensorboard 2020-10-23 – 2022-08-10

Video conferencing and other ways of working together, or at least around each other 2015-02-15 – 2022-08-10

Automatic differentiation in Julia 2016-07-27 – 2022-08-09

Neural nets with implicit layers Also, declarative networks, bi-level optimization and other ingenious uses of the implicit function theorem 2020-12-08 – 2022-08-09

Contemporary rationalists Cloth mother/wire mother for cognition 2020-09-06 – 2022-08-09

Proof assistants Automated theorem provers 2019-12-09 – 2022-08-09

Tracking experiments in machine learning 2020-10-23 – 2022-08-08

Data cleaning 90% of statistics 2020-01-22 – 2022-08-08

Observablejs 2022-08-07

Vector icons 2014-11-10 – 2022-08-07

Social factors in information security Our revealed preference for revealing our preferences 2018-11-21 – 2022-08-07

Academic blogging workflow Minimising the friction of advertising my thoughts in order to maximise the chance each thought gets advertised. Not covered: maximising quality of thoughts. 2020-05-22 – 2022-08-07

Urbanism Stuff about cities 2014-12-25 – 2022-08-06

Causal inference on DAGs Confounding! This scientist performed a miracle graph surgery intervention and you won’t believe what happened next 2016-10-26 – 2022-08-06

Instumental variables and two stage regression Confounding! This scientist performed a miracle graph surgery intervention and you won’t believe what happened next 2016-10-26 – 2022-08-06

Mathematics without LaTeX 2019-11-19 – 2022-08-06

Futurism Useful ways of imaginatively forecasting 2014-12-31 – 2022-08-06

Economic inequality Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature 2014-10-29 – 2022-08-06

Learning Gamelan 2016-04-05 – 2022-08-05

Neural net attention mechanisms On brilliance through selective ignorance 2017-12-20 – 2022-08-05

ELBO Evidence lower bound, variational free energy etc 2020-10-02 – 2022-08-03

Mechanism design for reputation systems Karma, credit scores, pagerank, optimised ad hominem reasoning… 2014-08-05 – 2022-08-02

Spreadsheetalikes 2014-10-15 – 2022-08-02

Javascript mathematics 2016-05-25 – 2022-08-02

Virtual private mesh networks Pretending your phone is on your LAN 2017-04-15 – 2022-07-30

Gaussian process regression software And classification. 2019-12-03 – 2022-07-29

Scenius 2020-01-26 – 2022-07-28

Microstressors Asymmetric interactions in aggregate, microinequity, microaggressions 2020-02-01 – 2022-07-28

Diversity in teams Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale 2020-05-27 – 2022-07-28

Neural learning for spatiotemporal systems 2020-09-16 – 2022-07-28

Gamma distributions 2019-10-14 – 2022-07-27

Bayes linear regression and basis-functions in Gaussian process regression a.k.a Fixed Rank Kriging, weight space GPs 2022-02-22 – 2022-07-27

Simulating Gaussian processes on a lattice 2022-03-17 – 2022-07-26

Models of human cultural reproduction Egregores, superorganisms, memeplexes 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-26

Subculture dynamics Coalitions, scenes, fandoms, subcultures, normies, hipsters, sects, and tribes at scale 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-26

Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation 2021-07-28 – 2022-07-26

Gradient descent, Newton-like 2019-02-05 – 2022-07-25

Conflict theorist models of coordination 2022-07-20 – 2022-07-24

Red queen social signal dynamics Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-24

Bayes for beginners 2016-05-30 – 2022-07-23

Partial differential equations 2021-01-27 – 2022-07-23

Trauma and resilience 2021-07-19 – 2022-07-23

Data centric AI 2022-07-21

Julia, the programming language The hippest way to get your IEEE754 on. Hngh. 2015-03-31 – 2022-07-19

Fun tricks in non-convex optimisation 2014-10-04 – 2022-07-14

Australia You’re standing in it 2020-01-25 – 2022-07-14

Empirical mode decomposition Multiplying your exposure to uncertainty principles 2018-01-06 – 2022-07-12

Iterated and evolutionary game theory 2016-10-13 – 2022-07-09

Performance indicators, measurement, analytics Street fighting statistics 2014-09-22 – 2022-07-09

Being stroppy For malcontents too perverse to be contrarian like everyone else 2022-03-04 – 2022-07-06

Dilemmas of collective action 2014-11-25 – 2022-07-05

Rituals and beliefs that bind 2021-05-01 – 2022-07-05

Astroturf and artificial reefs On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet 2016-01-13 – 2022-07-03

Comfy GNOME shell Sparing thoughts for the desktop whatsit favoured by the thoughtless 2019-08-13 – 2022-07-03

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

Moral attribution and diffusion On institutions for siphoning blame 2020-04-27 – 2022-06-30

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

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

Betting 2017-05-09 – 2022-06-27

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

Invasive arguments Inflammatory topics, toxplasmic incidents. Weeds in public discourse 2021-12-20 – 2022-06-25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Plants 2020-05-28 – 2022-06-02

Institutions and governance for, and using, mass conversation Discourse red in tooth and claw versus the sovereign 2020-02-01 – 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

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

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

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

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

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

Nested sampling 2022-05-16

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

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

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

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

Measure-valued stochastic processes Moving masses 2020-10-16 – 2022-05-03

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, Doob h-transforms 2019-10-15 – 2022-04-20

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

Email clients 2020-04-21 – 2022-04-18

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

Social norms 2019-10-07 – 2022-04-13

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

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

Beta Processes 2019-10-14 – 2022-04-08

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

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, Schelling points in the social construction of reality, stone soups and Tinkerbell effects 2022-02-20 – 2022-04-07

Probabilistic neural nets Inferring distributions in neural nets 2017-01-11 – 2022-04-07

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

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

Beta and Dirichlet distributions 2019-10-14 – 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

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

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

Reservoir Computing 2022-03-28

Simulating Gaussian processes 2022-03-17

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

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

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

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

Plotting in R 2019-10-13 – 2022-03-05

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

Race, 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

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

OODA loops 2021-05-01 – 2022-02-28

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

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

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

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

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

M-estimation 2016-07-11 – 2022-02-17

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

Politics as statistical learner 2022-01-31 – 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

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

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

Tiling window managers Desktop management how Pajitnov intended 2019-08-13 – 2022-02-13

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

Experimental ethics and observational data 2011-04-14 – 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Docker containerized apps (for scientists) 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mind as statistical learner 2022-01-09

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

Calendars and contacts GUIs for Linux 2015-06-25 – 2022-01-08

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

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

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

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

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

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

Diversity as an end in itself On a rich and 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

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

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

t-processes, t-distributions 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

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

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

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

Tip me 2016-09-06 – 2021-11-04

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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

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

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

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

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

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

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 words and sentences and such 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

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

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

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

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

Virtual private networks More options for internet privacy 2017-04-15 – 2021-08-12

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

Generalized 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

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

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

Contact tracing Reverse engineering social graphs for the control of contagions of pathogens, subversive ideology and other substances of interest 2020-03-21 – 2021-07-28

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 His eyes are like angels but his heart is cold / No need to ask / He’s a Stein operator 2021-03-12 – 2021-06-01

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

Transforms of random variates 2020-06-04 – 2021-05-14

Stochastic Taylor expansion Polynomial approximations of small randomnesses, Itô’s lemma 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

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

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

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

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

Path integral formulations of SDEs 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

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

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

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

Measure concentration inequalities The fancy name for probability inequalities 2014-11-25 – 2021-03-04

Sauna sweating, deliberately 2017-04-06 – 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

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 Remote work 2020-06-01 – 2021-02-03

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

Covariance functions Variograms, Mercer kernels, positive definite operators, spare reproducing kernels for that Hilbert space I bought on eBay real cheap 2019-09-16 – 2021-01-05

Nowhere to hide A catalogue of terrifying surveillance methods I encounter 2019-07-13 – 2021-01-03

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

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

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

Distributed consistency Getting stuff down in crowds of computers 2020-12-01

Distribution regression 2020-12-01

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

Tensor regression 2020-11-19

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

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

Julia, testing and packaging 2020-10-27

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

GP inducing features 2020-10-16 – 2020-10-26

GP inducing variables 2020-10-16 – 2020-10-26

Localized Gaussian processes 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 stochastic control 2014-11-27 – 2020-10-16

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

Julia IO 2019-11-27 – 2020-10-09

Agtech/Agritech Dotcomese for “agricultural technology” 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

Monte Carlo optimisation 2020-09-30

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

Webcams 2020-09-27 – 2020-09-26

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

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

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

Data dimensionality reduction Wherein I teach myself, amongst other things, feature selection, how a sparse PCA works, and decide where to file multidimensional scaling 2015-03-22 – 2020-09-11

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

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

Homo ludens Play 2014-10-29 – 2020-09-08

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

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

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

Ethnomusicology 2015-04-02 – 2020-08-22

Ethnomusicology in the technologised, globalised world Global bass, World Music 2.0, folkwaves etc 2015-04-02 – 2020-08-22

Bookkeeping 2019-03-14 – 2020-08-20

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

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

Minimum description length 2020-08-06

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 planet 2018-06-03 – 2020-04-23

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

Matching and weighting 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

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

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

Epidemics 2020-03-10 – 2020-04-03

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Psychoacoustics 2016-08-15 – 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

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

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

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

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 Sometimes it is 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 can agree with at least each other 2016-04-12 – 2019-10-19

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

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

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

Defining dynamics via Gaussian processes 2019-09-18

Representer theorems 2019-09-16

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Evidential decision theory I know that you know what I think you know about what we all know about people who write about strong AI online. 2018-10-24

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

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

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

Submodular functions, maximizing 2018-07-09

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

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

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

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

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

Women in electronic and popular music 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

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

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

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