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  • Jul 22
    Essay My Road to Bayesian Stats

    By 2015, I had heard of Bayesian Stats but didn’t bother to go deeper into it. After all, significance stars, and p-values worked fine. I started to explore Bayesian Statistics when considering small sample sizes in …

    4 min
  • Jul 20
    Essay The secret flag of content

    I don’t have any fun when I use LLMs to write. It may have perceived utility: popping out a LinkedIn article or two everyday. But I bet no one is actually reading. It’s a strip mall for a thumb stroll. LLMs suck at …

    2 min
  • Jul 19
    Essay What do platforms really do?

    In 1986, David S. Landes wrote the essay, ‘What Do Bosses Really Do?’. He argues that the historical role of the ‘boss’ was an essential function for organizing production and connecting producers to markets. Digital …

    3 min
  • Jul 18
    Essay Hack, Hacky, Hacker

    A few days ago I wrote about the beauty of great documentation; this is the evil twin post. The spectrum of meaning across the words hack, hacky, and hacker form a horseshoe when thinking about postures toward life. On …

    3 min
  • Jul 17
    Essay A Good Dictionary

    Yesterday I wrote about good documentation opening doors to options you didn’t realize you had. In the book On Writing Well Zinsser mentions how one of his key tools is the dictionary. That got me curious about the …

    2 min