Amazon Redshift, sensibly enough, handles a lot of type conversion implicitly. Numeric types (and many others) generally don’t need to be cast or convert to be compared, added or pretty...
One of the most difficult things to get right about object-oriented programming is learning to choose the right abstractions. It is ultimately a black magic and unless you’re a code-guru...
Linear regression is a basic statistical tool that pretty much anyone who has worked with data is familiar with. In this post, I’m going to discuss some of the math...
For the past few months I’ve been ranting about Edward to anyone who will listen, so I figured I might as well write some if it down so I can...
Simple Markov chains have been the workhorse of blogposts and websites about text generation for many years. They are suprisingly effective at producing quite realistic sentences trained from a quite...
This post means I’ve finished setting up the basic parts of this blog to my satisfaction. I’ll quickly outline some of the decisions that went into this hosting choice and...
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