Essays
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...by date
- 2023-01-03 | The FactoBattery
- 2022-12-30 | I was fired from HubSpot in 2016
- 2022-11-27 | For Want of a JOIN
- 2022-09-10 | Machine Learning for Scent Prediction
- 2022-07-24 | A Diabolically Difficult Chemistry Puzzle
- 2022-07-13 | The Chemistry of Refrigerants
- 2022-07-09 | The Sulfur Untethering
- 2022-05-28 | Notes on the Earth's Carbon Cycle
- 2022-03-22 | Deep Learning on Electronic Medical Records is doomed to fail
- 2022-02-27 | Unexpected Shunts in the Supply Chain
- 2022-02-22 | 2021 Advent of Code in Haskell
- 2022-01-23 | Bulk and Cut as a Metaphor for Codebase Growth
- 2021-08-02 | Carbon Neutral Concrete - the numbers
- 2021-03-28 | Homeostasis and Volatility
- 2020-09-13 | Data-oriented Programming in Python
- 2020-09-13 | Vectorizing Graph Algorithms
- 2019-10-30 | Estimating vapor pressure from boiling point
- 2019-10-29 | Understanding the AUROC metric
- 2019-04-02 | Why study algorithms?
- 2019-01-10 | Forays into 3D geometry
- 2018-11-25 | Algorithmic Bias
- 2018-10-18 | Carbon dioxide and closed rooms
- 2018-10-18 | An Adversarial Adversarial Paper Review Review
- 2018-05-15 | A Deep Dive into Monte Carlo Tree Search
- 2018-04-04 | How to shuffle in TensorFlow
- 2018-03-10 | Rewriting moderndescartes.com as a static site
- 2017-12-03 | AlphaGo Zero: an analysis
- 2017-09-16 | Trip Report: World AI Go Open
- 2017-05-11 | The Goose That Stopped Laying Golden Eggs
- 2017-04-29 | The asymptotic value of 2n choose n
- 2017-03-14 | My Path to Machine Learning
- 2017-01-20 | Manipulating Probability Distribution Functions
- 2016-12-28 | Notes on Musical Notation
- 2016-12-04 | Using Linear Counting, LogLog, and HyperLogLog to Estimate Cardinality
- 2016-11-06 | Estimating the Birthday Paradox Cutoff
- 2016-10-18 | Bitpacking and Compression of Sparse Datasets
- 2016-10-06 | Profiling with Flame graphs
- 2016-09-22 | Why RESTful APIs?
- 2016-09-04 | How (Not?) to Use Python's List Comprehensions
- 2016-09-02 | How to Detect Edges using ConvNets
- 2016-09-02 | Proper Initialization of Weights for DCNNs
- 2016-08-23 | Implementing the Game of Go (Part 1)
- 2016-07-05 | Training AlphaGo's Policy Network
- 2016-06-27 | The Ultimatum Game
- 2016-06-07 | What's a TensorFlow?
- 2016-06-05 | Metabolic networks as computation
- 2016-05-19 | Explaining Backpropagation in Neural Networks using Pascal's Triangle
- 2016-03-26 | Asking for Help
- 2015-11-29 | Running out of Care
- 2015-11-07 | Work habits
- 2015-09-24 | Why I Write
- 2015-05-10 | Lessons from a year at Hubspot
- 2015-03-16 | A Pythonista's Initial Thoughts on Java
- 2015-03-01 | Why We Hate Surge Pricing - and what Uber can do about it
- 2014-11-29 | It's not about the culture code!
- 2014-10-13 | Coding practices, part 1 of ?
- 2014-08-23 | Why Idempotency Matters
- 2014-05-01 | Fractal Plants
- 2014-03-17 | Intraprocess Communication
- 2014-03-14 | Making "Real" Programs
- 2014-03-14 | Path Shenanigans
- 2014-03-07 | Fibs
- 2013-09-09 | Dropping Out of Grad School
- 2012-06-24 | Four Short Stories on Error Checking
- 2012-02-03 | Harmonic Curiosities
- 2012-01-01 | Identity Crisis
- 2011-12-13 | Discovering Physics
- 2011-12-08 | Universities are Fashion Brands
- 2011-10-23 | Unsolved Problems in Chemistry
- 2011-08-23 | Lessons from Doctor Who
- 2011-05-21 | Premature Career Decisions
- 2011-05-15 | Hello World