My own journey from academia to data-science was hard and annoying. The hard part was becoming a decent coder. The annoying part was the math. Not because the math was...
These are not my favorite Christmas movies. They are my favorite movie recommendations. The distinction manifests in the fact that “It’s a Wonderful Life”, a very good movie, is not...
Congratulations class of 2018! The degrees which you have earned are merely sign posts on the journeys you’ve enabled through years of arduous study. When I graduated, I would never...
I miss my mommy and daddy. I want to go home. I have lived out of the house for over a decade now, but I miss it. I miss watching...
This post is something of a sequel to a post from two years ago where I used commutative diagrams to understand finance. A few people wanted me to write a...
“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas This post...
I ended an earlier post by suggesting a new definition of a probability distribution. I glossed over the bulk of the math in that post, so I’ll attempt to remedy...
Prologue This will be the first in a 3-part series where I grapple with the foundations of probability theory. Caution: If you find commutative diagrams to be impenetrable, then you...
Teens seem to get all the fun when it comes to new books about a dystopian future society which mirrors our own. The most notable example is “The Hunger Games”,...
Preface This is actually a repost from my old blog link. I’m reposting it because I hope to write the sequel soon. Introduction The intended audience for this post is...