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2025
- Apr 09 · Semantic Unit Testing
- Mar 19 · Three symmetric math riddles
- Jan 15 · Optimizing Jupyter Notebooks for LLMs
2024
- Jul 15 · Win your fantasy league using operations research
- Jul 05 · Something happens to everyone.
- Jun 21 · In defense of Leetcode Interviews
- Jun 06 · Good code is rarely read
- Feb 22 · You need more than p-values
- Feb 12 · hn-index
- Feb 05 · A search engine in 80 lines of Python
- Jan 25 · ChatGPT knows things that Google doesn't
- Jan 18 · Guide to onboarding in a new job
- Jan 01 · 2023 review
2023
- Dec 10 · I hate MFA
- Nov 30 · Conditioning is grouping by
- Nov 14 · The least controversial movie
- Oct 10 · Reading S3 data from local PySpark
- Sep 18 · Stupid by choice
- Sep 14 · Different Types of Means
- Aug 18 · How far can you jump from a swing?
- Aug 12 · Expected $k$ highest value from $n$ Gaussian draws.
- Aug 12 · Analyzing Gender Gap in Chess
- Aug 01 · Good Science, Good Engineering.
- Jul 25 · You're the best at something.
- Jul 20 · Automate your static blogroll.
- Jul 20 · 512KB Club
- Jul 18 · About math limitations.
- Jul 15 · Nobody cares about your blog.
- Jul 13 · Why did I make my blog uglier?
- Jul 01 · A game for the next 15 years: counting license plates
- Jun 13 · How much for your brain?
- Jun 07 · Debunking the Myth of Dollar Cost Averaging
- May 23 · A randomized voting strategy
- Feb 24 · How to initialize your bias.
- Feb 16 · The error of the error.
- Jan 16 · The Sweet Spot for Buying Used Cars.
- Jan 11 · Discovering the best Chess960 variation.
- Jan 01 · 2022 review
2022
- Dec 26 · Can Random Forests overfit?
- Nov 24 · Mate with only pawns and no promotions.
- Oct 20 · Computability Theory (ii): uncomputable numbers.
- Oct 19 · Computability Theory (i): the Halting Problem.
- Sep 28 · Choose the smallest number not chosen yet.
- Sep 10 · TIL: constant folding in python.
- Aug 27 · L1 regularization from a bayesian perspective
- Jul 29 · Field theory for recurrent mobility
- Jul 25 · Your laptop is an implementation detail
- Jul 13 · Vectorizing impossible operations: boolean algebra, sets, and filters
- Jul 06 · Data science preflight checklist.
- May 25 · Why do we minimize the mean squared error?
- May 24 · Training TensorFlow models with big tabular datasets (iii): preparing a warmup for TensorFlow models.
- May 23 · Why bureaucracy is fundamentally wrong.
- May 09 · Feynman's Restaurant Problem.
- May 04 · Counterintuitive statistics (i): a fair coin game.
- Apr 25 · Training TensorFlow models with big tabular datasets (ii)
- Apr 22 · Coding sucks.
- Apr 15 · Training TensorFlow models with big tabular datasets (i).
- Mar 24 · Continuous Blackjack (ii): deriving basic equations from two other perspectives.
- Mar 11 · Continuous Blackjack (i): introduction and first results.
- Feb 07 · Data Science and Software Engineering (I)