Posts
2017
Priors all the way down
·723 words·4 mins
Data Science
Bayes
Stats
Today I learned something very handy- how to encode subjective beliefs into a Bayesian prior when you only have information on the quantiles.
How I read
·941 words·5 mins
Fun
Books
This year, I read 104 books. My goal was 100. This is probably the maximum number of books I can read and still get something out of.
Power bummer
·1129 words·6 mins
Learning
Stats
Thinking
Data Science
I’ve been thinking a lot about power lately. One of my favorite things!
Automatic desktop backgrounds
·1482 words·7 mins
Tutorial
Fun
Python
One of my first Python projects was automating a daily desktop background.
Journey to the center of data science
·951 words·5 mins
Learning
Data Science
I’ve been asked by more than two people about what my ‘journey to the center of data science’ was and, well, one of my core values is automation.
Hello, Pelican!
·1161 words·6 mins
Tutorial
Python
Meta
For the past few months, I’d been looking to start a mostly-tech blog.
Learning the bash Shell (2005) - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
·291 words·2 mins
Books
Dead-Tree-Book
Tech
Bayesian Methods for Hackers- Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference (Addison-Wesley Data & Analytics) (2015) - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
·358 words·2 mins
Books
Hard-Sciences
Ebook
Tech
Mastering Regular Expressions (2006) - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
·219 words·2 mins
Books
Ebook
Tech
Doing Data Science- Straight Talk from the Frontline (2013) - ⭐⭐⭐
·345 words·2 mins
Books
Hard-Sciences
Dead-Tree-Book
Tech