External validity Transfer learning, dataset shift, learning under covariate shift, transferable learning, domain adaptation etc 2020-10-17 – 2020-10-22
Optimisation of surrogate models for experiment design The next best thing to optimizing is optimizing the next best thing 2017-04-11 – 2020-10-13
Hyperparameter optimization in ML Replacing a hyperparameter problem with a hyperhyperparameter problem which feels like progress I guess 2020-09-25 – 2020-10-06
Scientific writing In which style tips are given for the projection of status through nominal phrases and passive voice 2014-12-31 – 2020-09-23
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 – 2020-09-21
Machine learning for physical sciences Turbulent mixing at the boundary between two disciplines with differing inertia and viscosity 2017-05-15 – 2020-09-07
Publication bias Replication crises, P-values, bitching about journals, other debilities of contemporary science at large 2016-08-30 – 2020-09-07
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 – 2020-09-04
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 inference on DAGs Confounding! This scientist performed miracle graph surgery during an intervention and you won’t believe what happened next 2016-10-26 – 2020-09-01
Probabilistic programming programming with probability distributions for, e.g. Bayesian inference or other inference 2019-10-02 – 2020-08-31
Research discovery Has someone answered that question you have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2020-06-26
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 – 2020-04-02
Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat The high price of cheap talk in the mass media 2017-02-12 – 2019-12-07
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
First aid If you are checking this webpage while your colleague bleeds out, you are doing it wrong 2019-02-12