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First post! So enthuse! Welcome to my blog and my new domain. I wanted to say something more than hello so here is a meta post about the blog itself. I’ve set this blog up as an outlet for recording...
View ArticleA Great Store of Codfish
English explorers were a trifle on-the-nose with their naming conventions in the early 1600s when Bartholemew Gosnold gave the name “Cape Cod” to the sandy, hooked peninsula in southeastern...
View ArticleApps for Hartford – haRtisan
Happy 2021. Volunteering is probably related to the meaning of life somehow, at least indirectly. Part of the reason I decided to stand up this site was to have a means of publishing tools that will...
View ArticleGAMs and scams: Part 1
People who do statistical modeling for insurance applications usually know their way around a GLM pretty well. In pricing applications, GLMs can produce a reasonable model to serve as the basis of a...
View ArticleBayesian Model Based Optimization in R
Model-based optimization (MBO) is a smart approach to tuning the hyperparameters of machine learning algorithms with less CPU time and manual effort than standard grid search approaches. The core idea...
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I’m a bit dismayed with the quality of the news reporting I’m seeing over the past few days. I’m talking about that David-and-Goliath story featuring a gritty, if not mettlesome, band of small-time...
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