Quarto Swiss army knife for hand-whittling scientific reports, slides and blogs 2022-05-01 – 2023-01-03
Machine learning for physical sciences Turbulent mixing at the boundary between two disciplines with differing inertia and viscosity 2017-05-15 – 2022-12-07
Scientific writing In which tips are given for the projection of status through nominal phrases and passive voice 2014-12-31 – 2022-11-06
Tribal sorting and polarization Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2022-10-08
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
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
Mechanism design for reputation systems Karma, credit scores, pagerank, optimised ad hominem reasoning… 2014-08-05 – 2022-08-02
Saying “Bayes” is not enough Bayesians are usually not actually doing Bayesian reasoning well and even if we were, it would be insufficient to do science, or life 2016-05-30 – 2022-04-15
Opinion dynamics 1: Social contagion moves hearts and minds How to win elections and influence people 2020-08-30 – 2022-03-03
Probabilistic programming Doing statistics using the tools of computer science 2019-10-02 – 2022-02-11
Learning on manifolds Finding the lowest bit of a krazy straw, from the inside 2011-10-21 – 2022-01-26
Metis and .*-rationality High modernism, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society, technocracy, local knowledge, normies and sects 2017-07-24 – 2022-01-02
Causality via potential outcomes Neyman-Rubin, counterfactuals, conditional treatment effects, and related tricks 2016-10-26 – 2021-12-10
External validity and dataset shift Also transfer learning, learning under covariate shift, transferable learning, domain adaptation etc 2020-10-17 – 2021-11-03
First aid If you are checking this webpage while your colleague bleeds out, you are doing it wrong 2019-02-12 – 2021-10-22
Hyperparameter optimization Replacing a hyperparameter problem with a hyperhyperparameter problem which feels like progress I guess 2020-09-25 – 2021-10-20
Research discovery Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2021-10-13
Publication bias Replication crises, P-values, bitching about journals, other debilities of contemporary science at large 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-22
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
Differentiable model selection Differentiable hyperparameter search, and architecture search, and optimisation optimisation by optimisation and so on 2020-09-25 – 2021-04-13
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
Causal graphical model reading group 2020 An introduction to conditional independence DAGs and their use for causal inference. 2020-08-30 – 2020-09-03
Causal Bayesian networks Staged tree models, probability trees …Causalan Bayesian networks 2020-11-01 – 2020-09-01
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