It’s benign, don’t freak out from the title.
Use Local Linear Regression Instead of a Moving Average
Don’t plot covid numbers with a technique that we know will always be a week behind. It will save lives.
Why Deep Learning Works Even Though It Shouldn’t
Why models always get better when they are bigger and deeper, even when the amount of data they consume stays the same or gets smaller.
Abundance
Abundance is fragile, it is accidental, and it is the most incredible thing on earth.
The Defaults Don’t Work
Our habits and norms are adaptations for a world that no longer exists.
Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?
Social media companies have moderation SNAFUs on a near daily basis. Inevitably, the public and the tech press reacts with incredulity, “This company has so much money. How can they still be so bad at this?” I’m going to tell you how.
MinHashing
Clustering in linear time with a key-value store and a few lines of code.
Ranking Servers for Natural Selection 2
The next version of Natural Selection 2 contains an algorithm I designed for ranking servers. It powers the “play now” button at…
A Skill Ranking System for Natural Selection 2
Inferring player skill in a complicated team-based game.
How to quickly clean up a photo of a drawing using Gimp and Physics
Using a sketch I made of my wife when we were dating, I’m going to show how you can get an image suitable for printing or coloring out of a mediocre photograph.
