Posts

New MI Post at SAS

My new post demonstrating how to do Bayesian analysis with MI is live.
Feb 18, 2025 1 min read

Cooling Utensils

A fun physics problem people keep getting wrong, despite knowing all the relevant physics.
Jan 17, 2025 6 min read

Convenience Sampling and Mensa

Substack’s algorithm for figuring out what I like to read is still serving up some odd stuff, but this time it found a good article. In The Mensa Fallacy Emil Kirkegaard takes on Karpinski et al (2018) which claimed that high intelligence is a risk factor for both psychological and physiological disease.
Dec 24, 2024 3 min read

Remote Hosted, Local Jupyter?!

If you visit the Project Jupyter website you’ll encounter a bunch of “try it in your browser” buttons. If you’ve used Jupyter for a decade or so like me, you probably have also been ignoring these buttons.
Dec 23, 2024 2 min read

Lotteries and Pascal's Mugging

Most have heard of Pascal’s wager, but have you heard of the thought experiment known as Pascal’s mugging? The mugging attempts to reframe the essence of the wager argument using only finite values, thereby getting around some standard objections to the wager argument.
Dec 18, 2024 5 min read

The Data Don't Speak for Themselves

Ever heard someone say they were “letting the data speak for itself?” I often encounter this phrase on the internet by someone claiming not to be interpreting the data, but merely relaying facts.
Nov 25, 2024 7 min read

From p-Values to Bayes Factors

Improve the interpretation of your frequentist analysis output’s strength of evidence by incorporating Bayes factor bounds using SAS.
Nov 13, 2024 6 min read

Some Thoughts on Parenting

I have recently returned to work from my paternity leave. I really enjoyed my time with my youngest and am grateful to SAS for providing 8 weeks of paid paternity leave – a benefit that remains uncommon in the United States.
Aug 22, 2024 6 min read

Programming Links - July

From the null program: Object Oriented C Skeeto’s C coding style Portable Makefiles Beating NumPy’s Matrix Multiplication in C. A list of cli-tools provided by Python.
Jul 10, 2024 1 min read

Get SSH Keys From Github

Did you know you can get your public SSH keys via GitHub? I recently installed Ubuntu Server to VM. During the installation process, it asked for my GitHub username and then populated the authorized_keys file with my public keys.
Apr 22, 2024 1 min read