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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...

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A 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...

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Apps 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...

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GAMs 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...

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Bayesian 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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Feel-good conspiracy theories

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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A meditation for technical geniuses

A quick diversion from studying to comment on a phenomenon I’ve witnessed at least a few times. Imagine a brilliant technical prodigy, fluent in several programming languages, adept at statistical...

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print(“Hello World!”);

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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

A 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...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Apps 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...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

GAMs 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Bayesian 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...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Feel-good conspiracy theories

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...

View Article


A meditation for technical geniuses

A quick diversion from studying to comment on a phenomenon I’ve witnessed at least a few times. Imagine a brilliant technical prodigy, fluent in several programming languages, adept at statistical...

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Clik here to view.

repoRter.nih: a convenient R interface to the NIH RePORTER Project API

Introduction The US National Institute of Health (NIH) received funding of approximately $42 billion in fiscal year 2022; $31 billion (72%) of this was awarded by the NIH in the form of research grant...

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