A follow-up to Erik Bernhardsson's post "More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings" using ordered categorical generalized linear models.

Simple intercausal reasoning on a 3-node Bayesian network.

A toy, hand-rolled Bayesian model, optimized via simulated annealing.

Modeling a typical week of RescueTime data via an alternative take on the Dirichlet distribution.

Hand-rolled sparse autoencoders to generate novel world flags.

An introduction to what Docker is and why and how to use it for Kaggle.

Some whirling thoughts on the Trump election.

Recurrent neural network gradients by hand.

A post-mortem statistical simulation of the 2016 Colombian plebiscite.

A 9-month self-curated deep-dive into select topics in machine learning and distributed computing.