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• Implementing the bias-corrected and accelerated (BCa) bootstrap

  Posted on July 12, 2020

  I’ve been dabbling in some non-parametric statistics and came to the point where I needed to implement a bootstrapping test myself. It turns out that it is incredibly annoying to implement because I’m apparently too stupid to google the right words to come up with an implementation that you can... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • mathematics
  • programming

• Algorithms do not have 'a complexity'

  Posted on December 9, 2019

  Computational complexity theory (CC) is the study of problems and how to solve them algorithmically. The holy grail of CC is to fully determine the complexity of a problem, that is to answer: How difficult is it to solve this problem? This involves establishing the minimum amount of resources that... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • mathematics

• The best thing about boardgames

  Posted on November 10, 2019

  I am a big fan of boardgames. The older I get, the more I value spending time with other people. However, my favorite thing about boardgames is not actually playing them but reading the rules. This might sound wrong to you, but I am dead serious. Reading well-written rules is... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • mathematics

• Conflict vs. Confrontation

  Posted on October 24, 2019

  It is my firm belief that whenever two or more people spend extended amounts of time together, there will at some point be a conflict. By conflict I mean a disagreement, a conflict of interests, a point of contention or similar. It happens and is part of the human experience.... [Read More]

• Bayes' Theorem, massaged

  Posted on October 23, 2019

  Here is something that always bugged me about the way Bayes’ Theorem is taught (esp. from the perspective of inferential statistics). [Read More]

  Tags:

  • mathematics
  • programming

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