The Living Thing

Diversity, cultivating 2020-05-27

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

Link rot, mitigating 2020-05-27

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

Teamwork 2020-01-26 – 2020-05-27

Assorted laws and paradoxes I can never remember Eponymous, mostly 2019-12-22 – 2020-05-26

Taking notes Notes on notes on notes 2020-02-17 – 2020-05-26

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

Plotting stuff in julia 2019-05-31 – 2020-05-26

Julia interoperation and IO 2019-11-27 – 2020-05-26

Plain-text blogging 2014-12-29 – 2020-05-25

Mathematics without LaΤeΧ 2019-11-19 – 2020-05-25

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

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

Incoming links and notes 2020-03-05 – 2020-05-24

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

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

Moloch, mazes and slack 2020-03-17 – 2020-05-24

Lévy stochastic differential equations 2020-05-23

Julia, the programming language The hippest way to get your IEEE754 on. Hngh. 2015-03-31 – 2020-05-22

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 – 2020-05-22

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

Knowledge geometry 2012-05-23 – 2020-05-22

Polynomial chaos expansion 2020-05-21 – 2020-05-22

Academic reading workflow The continuing ascendancy of using piles of dead tree products for understanding cutting edge digital informatics 2016-04-11 – 2020-05-21

Forecasting Haruspicy 2.0 2015-06-16 – 2020-05-21

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

Secure chat systems Optimising back channel interjections into other people’s meetings 2015-02-15 – 2020-05-20

Weaponised social media Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape 2019-10-21 – 2020-05-20

Digital scientific workbooks Literate coding for reality 2014-11-17 – 2020-05-20

Voice fakes 2018-09-06 – 2020-05-19

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

But what can I do? The stuff to do to make a better society is so easy that it is embarrassing if you are not doing it 2020-02-06 – 2020-05-19

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

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

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

MAPLE An OK computer algebra system 2020-05-19

Debugging, profiling and accelerating Julia code 2019-11-27 – 2020-05-18

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

Stochastic differential equations Itō and friends 2019-09-19 – 2020-05-18

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

Passive-aggressive advice on making macOS behave itself Things I have to do to keep my laptop running so I can google how to fix other things 2015-04-27 – 2020-05-17

Science, sociology and institution design for Scientist, research thyself 2020-05-17

Economics on networks 2020-05-17

Semantics Compressed representations of reality for syntactic agents; which might be what meaning means 2014-12-29 – 2020-05-16

Utopian governance Hedonistic mechanism design 2020-05-04 – 2020-05-16

Voice transcriptions 2019-01-08 – 2020-05-16

Synchronising and backing up securely Dropbox for Dropbox haters 2015-01-02 – 2020-05-15

Tensorflow The framework to use for deep learning if you groupthink like Google 2016-07-11 – 2020-05-15

Comfy GNOME shell Sparing thoughts for the desktop whatsit favoured by the thoughtless 2019-08-13 – 2020-05-15

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

Fonts Typefaces as I need them, which is for web pages and scientific papers 2016-01-11 – 2020-05-13

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

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

Presentations Slide decks and other stylised academic dominance displays 2015-06-01 – 2020-05-12

Highly performative computing In Soviet Russia, job puts YOU in queue 2018-03-09 – 2020-05-12

Sydney food suppliers Practical bulk budget Sydney gourmet 2016-10-15 – 2020-05-12

Oh, Sydney The rum corps in New South Boomerstan 2019-03-05 – 2020-05-12

ssh “secure shell”, which is not a shell but is a useful way that we log in to the back-end of things 2014-12-27 – 2020-05-11

GPU computation out of the cloud How is deep learning awful this time? 2017-03-23 – 2020-05-11

IDEs for Julia 2019-11-27 – 2020-05-11

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

Contact tracing Reverse engineering social graphs for the control of contagions of pathogens, subversive ideology and other substances of interest to control 2020-03-21 – 2020-05-10

Playing music on the computer Continuing difficulty thereof 2014-11-26 – 2020-05-09

Markdown editors 2020-05-09

Footwear 2015-05-22 – 2020-05-09

R The statistical programming language, not the letter 2011-08-07 – 2020-05-07

Research discovery Has someone answered that question you have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2020-05-07

Measure concentration inequalities On being 80% sure you are only 20% wrong 2014-11-25 – 2020-05-06

Zotero The adequate citation tool 2019-12-01 – 2020-05-04

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

Reparameterization tricks in inference Normalizing flows, invertible density models, inference by measure transport, low-dimensional coupling… 2018-04-04 – 2020-05-01

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

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

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

Python A programming language whose remarkable feature is working how you imagine, if not how it should 2011-04-18 – 2020-04-30

Clipboard managers Remembering two things at once 2018-08-09 – 2020-04-30

LaΤeΧ …and ΤeΧ, and ConTeXt and XeTeX and TeXleMeElmo 2014-09-08 – 2020-04-29

VS Code as LaΤeΧ editor 2019-11-11 – 2020-04-29

Visual Studio Code/ VS Codium Egg-laying wool milk text editor 2018-01-25 – 2020-04-29

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

Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods 2017-08-28 – 2020-04-28

Containerized apps Doing things that previously took 1 computer using 0.75 computers 2015-11-05 – 2020-04-28

Networking stunts 2016-08-04 – 2020-04-28

Scientific writing In which style tips are given for the projection of status through nominal phrases and passive voice 2014-12-31 – 2020-04-28

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

Status The original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2020-04-27

Evolution 2014-11-04 – 2020-04-27

C++ 2011-04-06 – 2020-04-27

Web browser hacks Castor oil for your webshits 2017-04-20 – 2020-04-27

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

Cooperation in evolutionary context 2020-04-27

Statistical projectivity 2020-04-26

Statistics and machine learning 2011-04-15 – 2020-04-26

GPU computation 2014-10-06 – 2020-04-26

Automatic differentiation 2016-07-27 – 2020-04-26

How to do academia 2015-06-28 – 2020-04-24

Variational autoencoders 2019-11-04 – 2020-04-24

The cross entropy method 2020-04-24

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

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

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

Transcoding and playing audiovisuals 2020-04-23

Probabilistic neural nets Machinelearnese for “Bayesian” 2017-01-11 – 2020-04-23

Orthonormal and unitary matrices Energy preserving operators 2019-10-22 – 2020-04-23

Free content Raiding history for clip art 2014-08-31 – 2020-04-22

Likelihood free inference 2020-04-22

Machine learning for physical sciences Turbulent mixing at the boundary between two disciplines with differing inertia and viscosity 2017-05-15 – 2020-04-22

Video conferencing 2015-02-15 – 2020-04-22

Pornography Morsels of oddity from the depiction of human sexual behaviour 2020-04-22

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

Learning summary statistics 2020-04-22

Email clients 2020-04-21 – 2020-04-22

Colour 2015-04-07 – 2020-04-22

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

Databases 2015-03-04 – 2020-04-22

Databases viewers / editors 2015-03-04 – 2020-04-22

Email Doing email better, or better, not doing email at all 2015-01-13 – 2020-04-21

Survey modelling Adjusting for the Lizardman constant 2019-08-29 – 2020-04-21

Feed readers/content aggregators 2016-06-29 – 2020-04-21

Virtual private networks On browsing the internet confidentially 2017-04-15 – 2020-04-20

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

Terminals More realistically, terminal emulators, because the world is standards lock-in all the way down 2018-10-11 – 2020-04-20

Time management Akrasia, gamification, hyperbolic discounting, quantified self and voluntary blackmail 2017-06-18 – 2020-04-20

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

Indyweb 2020-03-05 – 2020-04-17

Automatic differentiation in Julia 2016-07-27 – 2020-04-17

Statistical and mathematical python 2015-04-27 – 2020-04-16

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

Reproducible research Open notebooks etc 2016-06-07 – 2020-04-16

Python packaging and environemnts 2011-04-18 – 2020-04-15

Research data sharing for research and science 2017-05-31 – 2020-04-15

Convenient Razer Ubuntu on the Razer blade 2018-05-28 – 2020-04-14

Garden hacks 2019-10-08 – 2020-04-14

Microsoft Windows for the disdainful 2017-02-11 – 2020-04-12

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

Financing utopia Hedonistic mechanism design 2015-02-16 – 2020-04-10

Decentralized net services a.k.a. DEX, P2P, Peer-to-peer. Internet for an untrustworthy world. 2017-09-18 – 2020-04-10

Browse the internet for me Introducing modern automation to the ancient crafts of serfing the web and tilling the clickfarm 2016-06-17 – 2020-04-10

Supercollider 2011-06-20 – 2020-04-10

Hardened desktop operating systems Also amnesiac and/or anonymous 2019-09-11 – 2020-04-09

How to reduce corporate spying on you 2018-12-12 – 2020-04-09

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

Journalism, normative 2020-01-26 – 2020-04-09

How to reduce government spying on you 2018-12-12 – 2020-04-09

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

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

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

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

Data versioning 2020-03-11 – 2020-04-06

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

Alternative social networks V. cypherpunk! much 733+! 2019-08-12 – 2020-04-06

Citation management On PDFcocking 2014-09-08 – 2020-04-05

Editing images Chinks in my armour of learned Photoshop helplessness 2018-10-16 – 2020-04-05

Neural nets designing the fanciest usable differentiable loss surface 2016-10-14 – 2020-04-05

Epidemics 2020-03-10 – 2020-04-03

Probabilistic programming a.k.a. Bayesian programming 2019-10-02 – 2020-04-03

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

Climate crisis versus ML 2020-04-02

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 – 2020-04-02

Groupthink, diversity and the wisdom of crowds 2019-09-22 – 2020-04-02

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

Music software 2014-11-11 – 2020-04-01

Graphics input 2017-04-17 – 2020-03-31

Teaching and doing mathematics remotely 2020-03-16 – 2020-03-31

Organising a photo collection 2020-01-03 – 2020-03-29

Independence, conditional, statistical 2016-04-21 – 2020-03-28

Ergonomic work 2020-03-27

Risk perception 2011-04-14 – 2020-03-27

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

Here’s how I would do art with machine learning if I had to 2016-06-06 – 2020-03-24

Natural language processing Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move. 2018-01-11 – 2020-03-23

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

Model interpretation, fairness and trust 2018-11-29 – 2020-03-22

Clickbait bandit problems Skinnerian human behaviour control 2017-05-18 – 2020-03-21

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

Boosting, bagging and other weak-learner ensemble methods A selection of randomly stopped clocks is never far from wrong 2015-09-23 – 2020-03-21

LaΤeΧ symbols, fonts and character sets 2020-02-11 – 2020-03-20

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

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

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

Rhetoric Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive 2017-06-07 – 2020-03-19

Gaussian process regression And classification. And extensions. 2019-12-03 – 2020-03-19

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

Bootstrap Shuffling reality to produce your data 2014-11-26 – 2020-03-18

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

Cross validation 2016-09-05 – 2020-03-13

Data dashboards On assuring the client that you are doing something data-sciency with clickable widgets 2020-03-12

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

Cloud machine learning Cloudimificating my artificial data learning intelligence brain clever science analyticserisation 2016-08-23 – 2020-03-11

Economics of insurgence 2015-02-02 – 2020-03-10

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

Monetizing my music 2015-05-03 – 2020-03-09

Optimal transport metrics Wasserstein distances, Monge-Kantorovich metrics, Earthmover distances 2019-05-30 – 2020-03-06

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

Gender Political and/or empirical engagement therewith 2017-08-13 – 2020-03-06

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

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

Python debugging profiling and testing The whole point of this thing is that it should be easy to fix 2019-04-28 – 2020-03-05

Morphogenesis 2011-01-19 – 2020-03-05

Julia arrays 2019-12-31 – 2020-03-05

Music gear Digital amps and mics for the prissy yet broke 2014-08-26 – 2020-03-04

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

Particulate masks For my morning commute through heavy industrial districts and bushfires 2019-01-18 – 2020-03-04

Inference on social graphs Heterogeneous media and controls 2019-09-22 – 2020-03-04

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

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

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

Soft methodology of science 2012-01-13 – 2020-03-02

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

Gamma processes 2019-10-14 – 2020-02-28

Diagramming and visualising graphical models my need for this is conditionally dependent upon my deadline, given the subject matter 2018-03-29 – 2020-02-26

Path continuity of stochastic processes 2020-02-26

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

Model complexity penalties Information criteria, degrees of freedom etc 2015-04-22 – 2020-02-26

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

The simplest thing Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Burkean engineering 2020-02-03 – 2020-02-23

Unix commands I need often but which are tedious to work anew out each time 2015-11-06 – 2020-02-21

Calendars and contact databases 2015-06-25 – 2020-02-19

Text data processing 2014-12-15 – 2020-02-18

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

Hedging and portfolios in practice 2017-05-09 – 2020-02-18

Remix and copyright 2014-10-29 – 2020-02-17

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

X is Yer than Z 2019-10-29 – 2020-02-14

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

Metis and .*-rationality The cash value of belief, high modernism and cargo culting, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society and local knowledge 2017-07-24 – 2020-02-13

Yak shaving 2020-02-13

Cryptographic tokens, distributed ledgers, and blockchain-like-things When all you have is a hasher… 2016-10-15 – 2020-02-13

Lévy processes 2017-05-29 – 2020-02-12

Red-queen social signal dynamics Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices 2018-12-18 – 2020-02-12

Potential theory in probability 2020-02-12

Teaching How-to 2020-02-11 – 2020-02-12

Teaching Statistics With a side order of communicating statistics 2020-02-12

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

Dimensionality reduction Wherein I teach myself, amongst other things, how a sparse PCA works, and decide where to file multidimensional scaling 2015-03-22 – 2020-02-11

R Shiny Statistics through the internet 2020-02-11

LaΤeΧ Installation 2019-11-19 – 2020-02-10

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

Cascade models a.k.a. cluster distributions, Galton-Watson models 2019-10-11 – 2020-02-10

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

Typing weird symbols Writing with 🆕🐜🐜 2019-01-03 – 2020-02-07

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

Games 2020-01-22 – 2020-02-06

pytorch #torched 2018-05-04 – 2020-02-06

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

Subordinators Non-decreasing Lévy processes with weird branding 2019-10-14 – 2020-02-05

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

Polynomial chaos expansion 2020-05-21 – 2020-02-05

Conditional expectation and probability 2020-02-04

knitr/RMarkdown 2020-02-02

Bureaucracy Iron Laws and Moral Mazes 2020-02-02

Community Engineering, maintaining, organizing 2020-02-02

Timeless works of art The efficient arts hypothesis, artbitrage 2015-01-12 – 2020-02-02

Free speech Upon the diverse camps of people using their freedom of speech to accuse one another of depriving them of it 2020-02-01

Git GUIs 2019-02-08 – 2020-01-30

Remote Desktop Business model: Uber for pixels 2019-11-18 – 2020-01-30

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

Cryptocurrencies 2016-09-06 – 2020-01-30

Mathematica 2011-04-06 – 2020-01-29

Git tricks 2015-06-26 – 2020-01-29

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

Encrypting, signing, verifying stuff Alice, Bob, GCHQ 2014-12-27 – 2020-01-29

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

Bandit problems Also reinforcement learning and stochastic control 2014-11-27 – 2020-01-28

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

Drugs, recreational 2017-08-07 – 2020-01-28

Medicalisation 2020-01-28

Australia in data 2020-01-25

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

Recurrent neural networks 2016-06-16 – 2020-01-23

Applied string mangling Regexes, parsing, tokenising etc 2019-12-09 – 2020-01-23

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

The Gaussian distribution Also Erf and normality and such 2016-06-27 – 2020-01-23

*-omics 2016-08-12 – 2020-01-22

Graph computation 2014-12-17 – 2020-01-22

Jupyter The least excruciating compromise between 1) irreproducible science, and 2) spooking your luddite colleagues 2017-02-09 – 2020-01-22

Data cleaning 90% of statistics 2020-01-22

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

Economic inequality Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature 2014-10-29 – 2020-01-22

Margins of isotropic random unit vectors 2011-08-10 – 2020-01-20

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trains #Gunzellyf 2019-12-30

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

Esoteric language zoo 2019-12-27

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

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

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

Tip me 2016-09-06 – 2019-12-24

FFMPEG 2019-11-11 – 2019-12-23

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

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

Nerdview 2014-12-27 – 2019-12-22

Hawkes processes 2019-12-22

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

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

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

Factor graphs 2019-12-16

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Permanental point processes 2019-12-04

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

Probabilistic spectral analysis 2019-11-13 – 2019-12-03

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

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

Convergence of random variables 2019-12-03

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

Clojure 2015-01-05 – 2019-11-30

Installing Julia 2019-11-27

Julia ML etc 2019-11-27

Local and networked UIs in Julia 2019-11-27

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tunings 2015-10-29 – 2019-11-18

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

Maths hacks 2016-08-18 – 2019-11-13

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

Stationery desire objects 2019-11-12

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

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

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

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

Phase retrieval I’ve got the power. / Like the crack of the whip/ I snap attack/ Front to back 2017-01-16 – 2019-11-07

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

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

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

Webhooks 2019-11-05

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fit 2015-01-17 – 2019-10-31

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

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

Gaussian processes on lattices 2019-10-30

Indonesia 2016-03-01 – 2019-10-29

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

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

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

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

Narrative 2019-10-27

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Markov Chains 2019-12-23 – 2019-10-18

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

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

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

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

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

Python, compilation and accelerating 2019-10-15

The tidyverse 2019-10-14

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

Non-negative matrix factorisation 2019-10-14

Mathematics of textiles 2019-10-14

Plotting in R 2019-10-13 – 2019-10-14

Bio computing 2016-05-29 – 2019-10-14

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

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

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

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

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

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

Non-Gaussian Bayesian functional regression 2019-10-10

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

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

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

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

Social norms 2019-10-07

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

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

Inference without KL divergence 2019-10-03

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nonparametric state filters via Gaussian Processes 2019-09-18

Representer theorems 2019-09-16

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Go bag, Sydney edition 2019-08-26

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

Sandboxing apps Upon letting strangers into your house, just so long as they don’t open the door to that one forbidden room 2019-08-09 – 2019-08-18

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Probability 2011-07-29 – 2019-07-15

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

Semidefinite proramming 2019-06-29

Optimisation 2014-10-04 – 2019-06-27

Fourier interpolation 2019-06-19

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

Software package managers 2019-06-15

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

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

Game complexity 2019-06-07

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

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

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

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

Travel hacks 2019-05-18

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

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

Internet for the marginally online 2019-04-20

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

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

Low impact fashion Suiting australia 2019-04-18

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

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

Bookkeeping 2019-03-14

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

Android hacks 2019-02-23 – 2019-03-14

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Javascript 2014-10-14 – 2019-02-10

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

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

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

Dictionaries 2016-01-31 – 2019-01-24

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bayesian sparsity 2019-01-08

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

Decaying sinusoid dictionaries 2019-01-07

Normed spaces 2019-01-01 – 2019-01-04

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

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

Science, history and philosophy thereof 2017-07-08 – 2018-11-28

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

Sun protection 2018-11-21

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nootropics The struggle to find a drug that makes you so fast that you save more time taking it than you lose reading about it 2017-08-07 – 2018-10-24

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

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

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

German 2014-10-17 – 2018-10-23

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

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

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

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

Field Programmable hardware and ilk 2018-10-03

Online estimation 2018-09-30

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

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

Optimisation, combinatorial 2018-08-11

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

Linear algebra If the thing is twice as big, the transformed version of the thing is also twice as big. {End} 2011-04-06 – 2018-08-07

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

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

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

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

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

Submodular functions, maximizing 2018-07-09

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

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

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

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

Coffee 2018-03-25

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

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

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

Technopoetics 2016-07-26 – 2017-12-23

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

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

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

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

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

Productivity schemes If you can tell me why this placeholder post from 2017 is still consistently in my top 10 most popular posts I would be grateful 2014-10-09 – 2017-11-10

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

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

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

Better homes and societies 2017-11-01

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

G-factor 2017-10-31

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quantum-probabilistic graphical models 2017-08-07

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

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

Our microbiome 2017-07-14

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

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

Chinese language 2017-06-27

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

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

Generating functions Fancy counting 2017-06-19

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uncertainty principles 2017-05-14

Podcasts of note 2017-05-11

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

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

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

Game theory 2016-10-13 – 2017-04-24

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

This is a simulation 2017-04-04

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

Entity embeddings 2017-04-01

Justice 2017-04-01

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

Open Source (mostly software) 2017-03-31

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

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

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

Scala 2017-02-11 – 2017-02-28

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

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

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

Fractional Brownian motion 2017-02-18

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

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

Metric entropy 2017-02-13

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

Synestizer 2014-11-04 – 2017-01-18

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

Neural network activation functions 2017-01-12

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

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

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

Uncertainty quantification 2016-12-26

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

Greatest hits 2016-11-19 – 2016-12-12

Phylogeny 2016-10-06 – 2016-10-30

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

The simplex 2016-10-25

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

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

M-estimation 2016-07-11 – 2016-10-10

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genre speciation 2016-08-23

Music software frameworks and programming languages, for music 2016-08-22

Kernel density estimators 2016-03-05 – 2016-08-18

Statistical learning theory Eventually including structural risk minimisation, risk bounds, hopefully-uniform convergence rates, VC-dimension, generalisation-and-stability framings etc 2016-07-06 – 2016-08-16

Randomised linear algebra 2016-08-16

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

Orthogonally decomposable tensors 2016-08-15

Lua 2014-07-25 – 2016-08-12

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

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

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

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

Maximum processes 2016-07-14

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

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

Visualising spatial data 2016-07-04

“Approximate models” 2016-07-04

Syntax 2015-01-18 – 2016-06-22

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

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

Function approximation and interpolation 2016-06-09

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

Clustering 2015-05-22 – 2016-06-07

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

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

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

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

Curved exponential families 2016-04-19

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

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

Deconvolution 2015-04-19 – 2016-04-11

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

Large (output) solvers 2016-03-01

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

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

Message queues 2016-01-08

Foundations of mathematics 2016-01-04

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

Biomimetic algorithms 2015-12-22

Art LISP 2015-01-13 – 2015-12-20

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

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

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

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

Hidden variable formalisms in quantum mechanics 2015-11-28

Visuals 2015-03-24 – 2015-11-26

Parking sun 2015-11-24 – 2015-11-24

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

Statistical mechanics 2015-11-14

Ensemble Tikoro collaboration 2015-11-12

Basa Sunda The Sundanese Language 2015-11-11

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

Expectation propagation 2015-10-26

Scarce urban resources 2015-10-16

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

Spamularity 2015-10-05

Islam 2015-08-22

Crowd-sourced science 2015-08-10

Earthquakes 2015-07-14

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

Copula functions 2015-06-23

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

Altruism 2014-08-05 – 2015-06-18

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

Architecture (doing it) 2015-06-14

Normal accidents 2015-06-03

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

Complexity 2011-11-25 – 2015-04-11

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

Mixing and mastering for dummies 2015-04-05

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

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

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

Red Wine Headache 2015-01-24

New media art 2015-01-12 – 2015-01-12

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

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

Statistics 2011-04-15 – 2014-11-26

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

Flocking 2011-04-19 – 2014-11-20

Indonesian food 2014-11-10

Computational complexity 2014-10-17

Disruptive technology 2014-10-09

Net censorshop 2014-10-08

Dialects 2014-09-05

Pure 2013-01-01

Dunbar’s number 2011-12-09

Macroeconomics 2011-10-17

Configuration space of the economy 2011-09-07

Niche construction 2011-07-26

Design grammars 2011-05-30

Econophysics 2011-04-13

Feral 2010-12-02

Simulation for the social sciences 2010-09-28

Quantum computing 0001-01-01