Essays

Essays

...by date

2019-10-30 | Estimating vapor pressure from boiling point
2019-10-29 | Understanding the AUROC metric
2019-05-12 | TensorFlow 2 Documentation
2019-04-02 | Why study algorithms?
2019-01-10 | Forays into 3D geometry
2018-11-25 | Algorithmic Bias
2018-10-18 | An Adversarial Adversarial Paper Review Review
2018-10-18 | Carbon dioxide and closed rooms
2018-05-15 | A Deep Dive into Monte Carlo Tree Search
2018-04-04 | Visualizing TensorFlow's streaming shufflers
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

...by category

technical

2019-10-30 | Estimating vapor pressure from boiling point
2019-05-12 | TensorFlow 2 Documentation
2019-04-02 | Why study algorithms?
2019-01-10 | Forays into 3D geometry
2018-11-25 | Algorithmic Bias
2018-10-18 | An Adversarial Adversarial Paper Review Review
2018-10-18 | Carbon dioxide and closed rooms
2017-12-03 | AlphaGo Zero: an analysis
2017-05-11 | The Goose That Stopped Laying Golden Eggs
2017-04-29 | The asymptotic value of 2n choose n
2017-01-20 | Manipulating Probability Distribution Functions
2016-12-28 | Notes on Musical Notation
2016-11-06 | Estimating the Birthday Paradox Cutoff
2016-06-27 | The Ultimatum Game
2016-06-05 | Metabolic networks as computation
2015-11-29 | Running out of Care
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!
2012-06-24 | Four Short Stories on Error Checking
2012-02-03 | Harmonic Curiosities
2011-12-08 | Universities are Fashion Brands
2011-10-23 | Unsolved Problems in Chemistry

code

2019-10-29 | Understanding the AUROC metric
2018-05-15 | A Deep Dive into Monte Carlo Tree Search
2018-04-04 | Visualizing TensorFlow's streaming shufflers
2018-03-10 | Rewriting moderndescartes.com as a static site
2016-12-04 | Using Linear Counting, LogLog, and HyperLogLog to Estimate Cardinality
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
2016-06-07 | What's a TensorFlow?
2016-05-19 | Explaining Backpropagation in Neural Networks using Pascal's Triangle
2015-05-10 | Lessons from a year at Hubspot
2015-03-16 | A Pythonista's Initial Thoughts on Java
2014-10-13 | Coding practices, part 1 of ?
2014-08-23 | Why Idempotency Matters
2014-03-17 | Intraprocess Communication
2014-03-14 | Making "Real" Programs
2014-03-14 | Path Shenanigans
2014-03-07 | Fibs

personal

2017-09-16 | Trip Report: World AI Go Open
2017-03-14 | My Path to Machine Learning
2016-03-26 | Asking for Help
2015-11-07 | Work habits
2015-09-24 | Why I Write
2013-09-09 | Dropping Out of Grad School
2012-01-01 | Identity Crisis
2011-12-13 | Discovering Physics
2011-08-23 | Lessons from Doctor Who
2011-05-21 | Premature Career Decisions
2011-05-15 | Hello World

demos

2014-05-01 | Fractal Plants