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Most posts on this site are about statistics and programming and contain the code to reproduce the results. To reproduce newer posts, use the Pluto.jl notebook link at the bottom of the post. The source code for this website can be found at GitLab.

Posts

• 2023-03-16How open source software projects stay competitive
• How to open source software developers can stay in business according to Hamilton Helmer
• 2023-01-24GPT versus Google
• Comparing results for queries from ChatGPT and Google
• 2022-06-25Why I still recommend Julia (for Data Science)
• A deep dive on why the Julia language is productive
• 2022-03-19Optimizing Julia code
• How running time and time to first X can be reduced by fixing type inference problems.
• 2022-02-16Static site authentication
• Setting up authentication can be quite tricky. This post walks through a few options.
• 2021-12-01Bayesian Latent Profile Analysis (mixture modeling)
• This post discusses some latent analysis techniques and runs a Bayesian analysis for example data where the outcome is continuous, also known as latent profile analysis (LPA).
• 2021-11-17Collinear Bayes
• Verifying that a Bayesian model can handle collinearity better than a Frequentist model.
• 2021-11-07Random forest, Shapley values and multicollinearity
• How well do Shapley values and decision-tree-based models deal with multicollinearity?
• 2021-10-27Nested cross-validation
• Plots for nested cross-validation
• 2021-06-16Increasing model accuracy by using foreknowledge
• Using priors for binary logistic regression
• 2021-01-21Random forest classification in Julia
• Fitting a random forest classifier and reporting accuracy metrics.
• 2020-12-16GitHub and GitLab commands cheatsheet
• A cheatsheet for commands like 'Fix #2334'.
• 2020-11-29Design cheatsheet
• A summary of design tips and tricks.
• 2020-11-14Frequentist and Bayesian coin flipping
• Comparing both statistical paradigms on a coin flipping example.
• 2020-11-07Installing NixOS with encryption on a Lenovo laptop
• Specifically, installing NixOS on the Lenovo Yoga 7.
• 2020-11-04The logit and logistic functions
• Providing the definitions, some plots and useful values to remember.
• 2020-09-26The principle of maximum entropy
• Obtaining the least informative distribution.
• 2020-08-12Writing effectively
• Why writing should be valuable to the reader.
• 2020-07-29Writing checklist
• A list to quickly check for common mistakes in writing.
• 2020-06-28Combinations and permutations
• Deriving the equations for combinations and permutations.
• 2020-06-27Comparing means and SDs
• Transforming means and SDs from numbers in different ranges to the same range.
• 2020-05-11Predicates and reproducibility
• Thinking about the layers above statistics.
• 2020-03-05Simple and binary regression
• Applying a simple and binary (logistic) regression to simulated data.
• 2020-02-02The greatest sales deck someone else has ever seen
• It's Zuora's deck
• 2020-01-24Correlations
• The equations and some examples for the Pearson correlation coefficient.
• 2020-01-16Benefits of writing blog posts
• Convincing myself of why writing is a good habit to have.
• 2019-12-29Statistical power from scratch
• Explaining statistical power by first finding the binomial and normal distributions.
• 2019-12-03Niceties in the Julia programming language
• A quick walk through some Julia syntax and interesting features.
• 2019-12-01NixOS configuration highlights
• Particularily neat parts of using NixOS.
• 2019-10-29Entr
• A tool for executing commands automatically upon file changes.
• 2015-08-25QoS setup using Tomato in combination with an Experiabox
• My first blog post.