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Bayes (1)
Introduction to Empirical Bayes June 21, 2018
A few months ago, I stumbled on to the wonderful book ‘Introduction to Empirical Bayes’ written by David Robinson. I really, really enjoyed the book (I had r...
ML (3)
A toy Neural Network and an introduction to Tensorflow May 21, 2022
I’m currently exploring ChatGPT and while I’m doing this, I am revisiting common ML concepts, and exploring libraries like the tensorflow library.
Building your own neural network May 20, 2022
So what’s the big deal with AI?
Hyperparameter tuning and ChatGPT's first failure mode! May 22, 2022
In the previous post, we used ChatGPT to build a toy neural network model that classifies diagnostic aspirates into ‘Malignant’ or ‘Benign’ diagnoses. That t...
R (1)
Introduction to Empirical Bayes June 21, 2018
A few months ago, I stumbled on to the wonderful book ‘Introduction to Empirical Bayes’ written by David Robinson. I really, really enjoyed the book (I had r...
adventure (5)
First ever Snowhike! January 15, 2021
I completed my first-ever snowhike on December 20th, 2020 with my friend Katya Moniz. She gave me a pair of (enormous) snow-shoes I could use, and we hiked u...
Guanajuato, Ciudad de las Ranas August 8, 2016
One week after we visited Ensenada, Heather and I flew to Guanajuato to teach our second development course. There, we met up with Alejandro Sanchez-Alvarado...
Joshua Tree Adventure! February 14, 2015
Joshua Tree, 2015
Trip to Chiapas March 31, 2015
Heather and I took a short trip to Chiapas that was truly magical. Chiapas is a beautiful state in southern Mexico. Along with Oaxaca, it has the largest Nat...
Yosemite Backcountry Camping June 6, 2016
On June 3rd to the 6th, Heather, Manuel, Charlotte and I headed to Yosemite National Park to do some backcountry camping. Yosemite is a beautiful National Pa...
biophysics (1)
How much COVID is there, exactly? January 4, 2021
SARS-Cov2 by the numbers
clustering (2)
Non-negative matrix factorization March 23, 2018
I wrote a short tutorial on NMF. Initially, I was skeptical about NMF, but I ended up learning a lot about it, and I discovered that the implementation makes...
t-SNE is a plotting, not a clustering, algorithm March 21, 2018
Table of Contents SNE t-SNE Drawbacks Code
epidemiology (6)
Back of the envelope calculation of R_0 for the SARS-Cov-2 Delta strain November 18, 2021
A few months ago, the Delta strain made its conspicuous landing in the US. This strain is more contagious than the original SARS-Cov-2, but by how much?
COVID-19 April 12, 2020
I really did not expect 2020 to go this way. I thought it would be quite different. Maybe you’ve been living under a rock, so I should catch you up briefly o...
COVID-19 Daily Updates April 13, 2020
Here’s a rolling analysis that I will keep up-to-date and refreshed throughout the academic. The analysis relies on data from the NYT to track the pandemic t...
Happy New Year! How effective does a vaccine have to be to eliminate SARS-Cov2 from the planet? January 2, 2021
The Moderna, Pfizer and Astrazeneca vaccines are out! What an exciting way to start 2021. Everyone wants them, but the question I have been pondering the fir...
What does it mean to socially distance November 16, 2020
I am SO tired of socially distancing. I want to hang out with 1 or 2 different people every day. That’s not a lot, right?! I am being reasonable if I do that...
What does it mean to socially distance PART 2 November 23, 2020
One of the things that bothered me about the previous post was that it did not address the enormous heterogeneity that has characterized this pandemic. So, i...
life (1)
On Kindness November 24, 2019
On September 12, 2019, I lost everything. In the aftermath of a brutal assault, I found myself alone, with no money, severely injured in a strange city. The ...
outreach (2)
Clubes de Ciencia MX, Ensenada Version, 2017 July 31, 2016
In July, Heather and I headed down to Ensenada to teach a Clubes workshop. Originally I wasn’t supposed to go with her, but her co-instructor cancelled at th...
Guanajuato, Ciudad de las Ranas August 8, 2016
One week after we visited Ensenada, Heather and I flew to Guanajuato to teach our second development course. There, we met up with Alejandro Sanchez-Alvarado...
pandemic (7)
Back of the envelope calculation of R_0 for the SARS-Cov-2 Delta strain November 18, 2021
A few months ago, the Delta strain made its conspicuous landing in the US. This strain is more contagious than the original SARS-Cov-2, but by how much?
COVID-19 April 12, 2020
I really did not expect 2020 to go this way. I thought it would be quite different. Maybe you’ve been living under a rock, so I should catch you up briefly o...
COVID-19 Daily Updates April 13, 2020
Here’s a rolling analysis that I will keep up-to-date and refreshed throughout the academic. The analysis relies on data from the NYT to track the pandemic t...
Happy New Year! How effective does a vaccine have to be to eliminate SARS-Cov2 from the planet? January 2, 2021
The Moderna, Pfizer and Astrazeneca vaccines are out! What an exciting way to start 2021. Everyone wants them, but the question I have been pondering the fir...
How much COVID is there, exactly? January 4, 2021
SARS-Cov2 by the numbers
What does it mean to socially distance November 16, 2020
I am SO tired of socially distancing. I want to hang out with 1 or 2 different people every day. That’s not a lot, right?! I am being reasonable if I do that...
What does it mean to socially distance PART 2 November 23, 2020
One of the things that bothered me about the previous post was that it did not address the enormous heterogeneity that has characterized this pandemic. So, i...
personal (1)
On Kindness November 24, 2019
On September 12, 2019, I lost everything. In the aftermath of a brutal assault, I found myself alone, with no money, severely injured in a strange city. The ...
programming (3)
Introduction to Empirical Bayes June 21, 2018
A few months ago, I stumbled on to the wonderful book ‘Introduction to Empirical Bayes’ written by David Robinson. I really, really enjoyed the book (I had r...
Non-negative matrix factorization March 23, 2018
I wrote a short tutorial on NMF. Initially, I was skeptical about NMF, but I ended up learning a lot about it, and I discovered that the implementation makes...
t-SNE is a plotting, not a clustering, algorithm March 21, 2018
Table of Contents SNE t-SNE Drawbacks Code
science (4)
Back of the envelope calculation of R_0 for the SARS-Cov-2 Delta strain November 18, 2021
A few months ago, the Delta strain made its conspicuous landing in the US. This strain is more contagious than the original SARS-Cov-2, but by how much?
Introduction to Empirical Bayes June 21, 2018
A few months ago, I stumbled on to the wonderful book ‘Introduction to Empirical Bayes’ written by David Robinson. I really, really enjoyed the book (I had r...
Non-negative matrix factorization March 23, 2018
I wrote a short tutorial on NMF. Initially, I was skeptical about NMF, but I ended up learning a lot about it, and I discovered that the implementation makes...
t-SNE is a plotting, not a clustering, algorithm March 21, 2018
Table of Contents SNE t-SNE Drawbacks Code