Sep 2, 2018 · 4 minute read · Comments
Why do men called John outnumber all women as CEOs, Senators and on death row?
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Aug 11, 2018 · 2 minute read · Comments
A not very good instruction that nonetheless worked for me.
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Jul 22, 2018 · 20 minute read · Comments
On why many intellectual jobs are pretend jobs, why pretend work is actually a valid way of assessing real work, and on how pretend work can be used as a ponzi scheme with others at the top.
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Jul 21, 2018 · 12 minute read · Comments
personal
A review of my graduate education. What I learned in the last two years and what I hope to achieve in the next five.
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Feb 8, 2018 · 2 minute read · Comments
RGPSAndroid
How to make a timeline of GPS measurements.
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Dec 1, 2017 · 9 minute read · Comments
RFacebook
Made for a class. Thought I'd share.
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Oct 25, 2017 · 5 minute read · Comments
Latin AmericaCubaAirbnbFundraising
For the last year I have been helping people in Cuba sell tourism services online. In practice, this usually means creating accomodation listings on sites like Airbnb...
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Aug 29, 2017 · 7 minute read · Comments
RMaps
I've been playing around with my data from Google...
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Aug 18, 2017 · 2 minute read · Comments
RShinyCosta RicaLatin America
One of the first things a traveller notices when going to Costa Rica is that almost every town or city is named after a Saint. Growing up in Costa Rica, I just assumed this was something true of all Latin American countries, a legacy of Spanish colonial times. California has San Jose, San Fransisco, etc. I thought it was like that from California to Argentina.
After some travelling in Latin America I realised this was simply not true.
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May 22, 2017 · 1 minute read · Comments
RBayes
Graphs to accompany my poster presentation.
The data set The generated data is plotted below: Metropolis Hastings Algorithm This visual explanation of the Metropolis Hastings algorithm shows the proposal and the true density along with the Metropolis Hastings step. It was inspired and adapted from code by Balazs Torok.
Diagnostic Plots for Beta 2 via Gibbs Sampler Autocorrelation Plot The autocorrelations are negligable, suggesting good mixing.
Running Means Plot The running means have settled.
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