Ephemera

I’m making an effort to mindfully consume content and play around with ideas rather than mindlessly consume. This is a place to record my summaries and reflections on the books, lectures, movies, papers, blog posts, and general content that I am consuming. I make no promises that these will be useful to anyone.

Abundance

Last night we went to see Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein’s Abundance book tour.

Cerberus Race Report

I did a three-day adventure racing stage race

Data Science Job Titles

I attended a nice lunch today with some CMU stats alumni and read an Unofficial Data Science post.

Dollar Auctions

My shower thought for today revolved around dollar auctions.

LLM Lasso

I read a paper using LLMs to generate distinct lasso penalties for each covariate.

DSLs

I muse about domain specific languages

Stuck

I listened to Derek Thompson’s podcast with Atlantic editor Yoni Appelbaum on his upcoming book Stuck: How the Privileged and Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

Neural Media

I watched a Long Now talk on Neural Media

Bayesian Experimental Design

I discuss the main ideas of Bayesian experimental design.

Notes on "The Superiority of Simple Alternatives to Regression for Social Science Prediction"

I discuss an interesting paper about how you might not want to use regression.