Bayes on Aneesh Sathe

Jan 14, 2025

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:06:00 +0000

Font fight! #

The fonts have assembled, their ligatures sharp their curves are shiny. They all line up with perfect kerning… or do they? Your eyes and mind are their battlefield.

https://www.codingfont.com/

I got JetBrains mono btw.

Decentralization is just partial centralization #

Renée DiResta writes about the social media flux in Noema.

Decentralization places a heavy burden on individual instance administrators, mostly volunteers, who may lack the tools, time or capacity to address complex problems effectively.

Jan 9, 2025 - The Age of Fire and Gravel

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:05:00 +0000

Today I discovered the Public Domain Image Archive attached to the Public Domain Review which has some great essays and commentary on image collections, like the one below.

Utagawa Hiroshige: Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e #

Just before Hiroshige died, possibly of cholera, he wrote the following poem:

I leave my brush in the East
And set forth on my journey.
I shall see the famous places in the Western Land.

This was a fortelling of sorts because Hiroshige

Jan. 8, 2025: Count your DIGITS! Drunk Bayesian

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:06:00 +0000

NVIDIA Project DIGITS #

Around 2015 I was putting together funds in academia. Convincing IT, senior professors, and finance that yes, it was worth giving me a LOT of cash to build a workstation with multiple GPUs.

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“No, it isn’t for gaming.”
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“Yes, it will change the world.”
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“No, there are no university rules that hardware bought multiple invoices across multiple departments can’t be used in the same box.”
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“Yes, I’m aware that all my individual quotes are just below the bureaucracy summoning purchase limits.”
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“Yes I tried random forest with the other stats and ML methods, this really is better. How do I know? Well…”

Jan. 5, 2025

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Improving Research Through Safer Learning from Data #

Another one of Frank Harrell’s posts. Given my day job, and the R&D background this one is quite close to home. As a team leader on the industry side one hopes to build a culture with the team that aligns scientific rigor with company goals. Any method, statistical or cultural (in this case both), that solves for this tension will get you the most bang for your buck.