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I don't like the skateboarding analogy to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo because it's too easy to misinterpret what the algorithm actually does.My brain is running on fumes, but let's use those

"Discovery" is by far at the most damaging concept is science and, in my opinion, at the heart of all of the poor methodology frustrating so many scientific fields. Because

A short thread on what I think is particularly useful intuition for the application of computational statistics. Deterministic methods, like variational Bayes, utilize _rigid_ approximations. Ultimately these methods try to

During Timnit's excellent talk (which you can watch below) the question of whether or not the process of statistical inference, and indeed a scientific method, can be objective and I

One of my favorite insights from differential geometry is that often it's more useful to think about the evolution of a system as an entire trajectory instead of the motion

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