This site contains my personal blog.

It’s a place for my thoughts, reflections, and short snippets of code to demonstrate my ideas.

This site is built with fastpages, An easy to use blogging platform with extra features for Jupyter Notebooks.

Posts

How I’d do it all over again
How I would approach my PhD if I were to start it anew.
Dec 24, 2020
First things first: Protocols, type annotations, and unit tests
A description and demonstration of using protocols to start test driven development.
Nov 17, 2020
On the use of command line interfaces
A description of benefits from and suggestions for using command line interfaces to encapsulate each project step.
Oct 24, 2020
Project life-cycles in data science and research
Data science and research project life-cycles.
Sep 30, 2020
Visualizing Prior Distributions
Primer on visualizing prior distributions.
Aug 31, 2020
On Priors for Neural Networks
A review of two research papers pointing to the need for carefully chosen priors for one's neural networks.
Jul 29, 2020
PyTorch Tutorial
A tutorial on how to use PyTorch for discrete choice modeling.
Jun 25, 2020
On good models and good research
My personal characterization of good research.
Apr 20, 2020
On the need for structure… directory structure
A description of benefits from and suggestions for setting up a good project directory structure.
Mar 14, 2020