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.
Everyone thinks they’re an above average driver. Can that actually be true?
Is drag-and-drop modeling like Azure ML the future of data science?
There is one ‘correct’ way to sort students’ homeworks and exams.
I count how many unique Settlers of Catan setups exist.
A long-time skeptic comes around to actually liking plyr.
Chromebooks are remarkably useful machines for how underpowered they are.
Org-mode is a compelling alternative to reproducible analysis tools like knitr.
Matlab wasn’t working so I decided to rant a little bit.
I recently finished my first year of grad school; here’s how it went.
Some interesting facts about planes and spheres and even higher dimensions.