PoliSci Annotated Bibliography

Critical analysis of Naguib Mahfouz's novel 'The Thief and the Dogs'

The Post-Revolutionary Literary Revolutionary

A biographical survey of US presidents through 2020

Survey of U.S. Presidents

Comparing Apples and Oranges

Critical analysis of William Faulkner's novel 'The Sound and the Fury'

The Deafening Sound of Life

A bag head come to claim his throne

On Circles

On Suffering

Geometric Statistics

Halting problems, but not the ones you have in mind

Statistical Geometry

Not Your Father's Calculus

Ostende mihi heros

Honor Among Sieves

CPU Schedulers

Annihilating Hilbert's 2nd Problem

The Path Integral

Useless Solutions Call for Useless Problems

AlphaZero should've been called 'Go-NaD'

ML 7: De-noising Auto Encoders

Umber

GPUs

Digest from a paper presented at NeurIPS '24

ML 6: Characterizations of Federated Learning

Moonwalking through Conway's Game of Life

Looking forward into the past

De-bunking the bed

Gravity's Rainbow

Haskell is divinely inspired, so it makes sense that I can't hardly read it and that the hoogle docs burn my skin.

Reflection Without Remorse

Salvation's Edge: Verity

Memory

Galois Theory 2: The General Quintic is Dead and Évariste Killed Him

Shapley values, Quadratic Voting, and Quadratic Finance

Shapley, Weyl, Buterin, Freedman, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Kant

elementary symmetric polynomials and power sums of symmetric polynomials

Galois Theory 1: Prelude to the Nonexistence of the General Quintic

Digest: Thynges that are thynges, that ARE other thynges

Roger Zelazny's 'Lord of Light' and GZA's 'Liquid Swords'

Which Way, Western Man?

An overview of the computer which put man on the Moon from an amateur systems enthusiast perspective

The Apollo Guidance Computer

It's a Complex Situation

A geometric interpretation of the an error detecting code using dihedral group of order 10

Librarians, Luhn, and Lizard Brain 

Using tensors, lasers to find a faster means of matrix multiplication

2.3728596

Understanding fundaments of category theory with counter examples

Digest: Things that are things, but not other things

Goodhart's Law

You know what really funges my tokens?

Smiting the Demon Number: How to Solve a Rubik's Cube

psychology, subitization, chunking, a prison style tattoo gun

The Magical Number Seven

FLDR? I Barely Even Know Her!

punk rock & conflict free replicated data types

Strong Eventual Consistency

 How to be a Successful Software Engineer

Error Correcting Codes and future-proofing space craft

Voyager 2

Notes on Information Theory from Claude, Hamming, Hadamard, CMU, Wiley

Notes on Information Theory

Reject modernity (transformers); embrace tradition (markov chains)

 ML 5: If My Mother Had Wheels She Would Have Been a Markov Chain Language Model

A collection notes on Category Theory for personal reference.

Notes on Category Theory

Nimbers, pencil, and paper, combinatorial game theory

Towards Computational Game Theory Part 2

Using spreadsheets, (not) Gavel, Social Choice Theory

Reasonable Judging

Towards Computational Game Theory Part 1

Shapley-Shubrik, Banzhaf, python, a suspicious amount of hypotheticals

Voting Power

I argue that the problem of redistricting is better solved by computational models than by humans, and that their adoption is not only an ethical and logistical possibility, but rather a vast improvement over current techniques.

Abdicating to the Algorithms: Solving the Redistricting Problem

Daniel's knowledge + Monte Carlo simulations

Digest: Modeling Uncertainty

Graphs, analysis, networks flows, borderline fake math

CS 4104 Algorithms Notes

Digest: Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete

Visualizing the Josephus Problem with p5.js

Visualizing the Josephus Problem

Write-up of introductory webscraping techniques using Python, pandas, and beautiful soup

Webscraping Workshop

Building a React component with the Google Maps API

'Places Traveled' React Component

Everything as before + remote tools, engagement tactics, and more!

How to Improve Your Digital Hackathon

Implementing a simple mark-and-sweep garbage collection strategy

Garbage Collection

Digest: Occam's Razor

Optimal Match Making using Bayesian Inference

Digest: TrueSkill 2: Better Bayesian Assumptions Boogaloo

ML 4: Kit & Kaboodle

Derivations from Ioannidis' 2005 article: 'Why Most Published Research Findings Are False' and discussion of the replication crisis

Digest: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

A plan, a good team, and lots of lead time!

How to Improve Your Hackathon

Taking a look at a fascinating relationship between Fibonacci numbers and unit conversion while also learning some Python tools along the way.

Fibonacci Numbers as Conversion Heuristics

John Stuart Mill’s "On Liberty": Embracing Heresy

This text was generated by a rnn with 700 hidden nodes across 4 layers trained on everything I've has ever written over 500 epochs

ML 3.5: A Post by Peter?

Terrible Turing Machines - Season 1

ML 3: A Summary of a Summary: DQN Bottlenecks

Digest: Documentation

Digest: Extensional vs. Intuitive Reasoning

ML 2: A Discussion of Action Spaces

Overview of a Summary of Reinforcement Learning

ML 1: Reinforcement Learning, So Hot Right Now

Given n-dimensional data that we can classify into various categories, we can use KNN to predict what class an unknown n-dimensional data-point falls into based on its proximity to the nearest K points.

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