tldr: I used GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-3.5 Turbo, and two open-source offline LLMs to create flashcards for a spaced repetition system (Anki) on a mathematical topic; I rated the 100 LLM-suggested...continue reading.
It is New Year’s Day 2023 :sweat_smile:. Happy New Year!!! :fireworks: I am currently driving with my family coast-to-coast on a road trip through the United States, but for New...continue reading.
If we collect independent pairs of observations from some bivariate distribution, then how can we estimate the expected squared perpendicular distance of each such point in the 2D plane from...continue reading.
I can’t count how many times I have looked up the formal (measure theoretic) definitions of conditional probability distribution or conditional expectation (even though it’s not that hard :weary:) Another...continue reading.
For a while now I wanted to migrate my websites away from Github pages. While Github provides an excellent free service, there are some limitations to its capabilities, and the...continue reading.
Last month, after mentioning “deep learning” a few times to some professors, I suddenly found myself in a position where I had to prepare three talks about “deep learning” within...continue reading.
Unfortunately this was not taught in any of my statistics or data analysis classes at university (wtf it so needs to be :scream_cat:). So it took me some time until...continue reading.
The United States Patent and Trademark office (USPTO) provides immense amounts of data (the data I used are in the form of XML files). After coming across these datasets, I...continue reading.
Recently I came across the classical 1983 paper A note on screening regression equations by David Freedman. Freedman shows in an impressive way the dangers of data reuse in statistical...continue reading.
A reviewer asked me to report detailed running times for all (so many :scream:) performed computations in one of my papers, and so I spent a Saturday morning figuring out...continue reading.
The lean startup methodology consists of a set of principles that were proposed and popularized by Eric Ries in the book The Lean Startup (and elsewhere). He believes that startup...continue reading.
Based on an interesting dataset from the Wall Street Journal I made the above visualization of the median starting salary for US college graduates from different undergraduate institutions (I have...continue reading.
In many applications, data naturally form an n-way tensor with n > 2, rather than a “tidy” table. As mentioned in the beginning of my last blog post, a tensor...continue reading.
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Interactive visualization of geospatial data with R Shiny
April 17, 2021
