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Simpson’s Paradox (2016)
A riveting tale of how good data can lead to bad decisions.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 36 posts.
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A Brief Guide to a Few Algebraic Structures
Occasional writings about Haskell.
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Faster remainders when the divisor is a constant: beating compilers & libdivide
Not all instructions on modern processors cost the same. Additions and subtractions are cheaper than multiplications which are themselves cheaper than divisions. For this reason, compilers frequently replace division instructions by multiplications. Roughly speaking, it works in this manner. Suppose that you want to…
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Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018)
You may be interested in my new arXiv paper, joint work with Xi Cheng, an undergraduate at UC Davis (now heading to Cornell for grad school); Bohdan Khomtchouk, a post doc in biology at Stanford; a…
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Logic Puzzles with Prolog (2017)
Solving Logic Puzzles with Prolog