Blogs

Notes on statistics, machine learning, AI, or whatever else has been holding my attention. 7 posts.

2024

The Importance of Double and Triple Checking How the best result of my PhD turned out to be a bug in a MATLAB one-liner.

PhD · Research · Coding

2023

2 Years of PhD Research: Stein Discrepancies with a Twist Estimating a density when your data stops at a boundary you cannot describe.

PhD · Research · Truncated Density Estimation

2022

Exploring Natural Language Embeddings of A Game of Thrones Words are wind.

NLP · BERT · Data Visualisation

2021

How can we do data science without all of our data? An exploration of truncated probability density estimation, and how to solve the problem with score matching for unnormalised models.

Score Matching · Density Estimation · Statistics

2020

How random are you? An exploration into human randomness.

Probability · Analysis · Data Visualisation

Natural Language Analysis of the Lyrics of Kanye West I know I act a fool but, I promise you I’m going back to school.

NLP · Data Analysis · Text Generation

Electricity Demand Forecasting Hackathon Fitting GAMs against the clock, and losing to a random forest in the final minute.

GAM · Modelling · Prediction