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2024
Accessing my home server around the world with custom domain names
Building a Startup with AI with Jowanza Joseph
A builder of systems, a path to unveil
My summer doing math (?) research
AI Assisted Programming with Ravi Mody
How I am Productive
Good programming languages are nice but not vital
Announcing the Python Developer Tooling Handbook
On Inspiration
2022
No Silver Bullet
My first strongman competition
Apache Pulsar with Jowanza Joseph
2021
Code Review Guidelines for Data Science Teams
Ocean Engineering to Data Science
Hiring Data Scientists with Roy Keyes
The Programming Book That Made My Career
Feature Stores with Willem Pienaar
2020
Evolution of a Data Scientist with Adam Laiacano
git check-ignore
Customer Focused Data Science with Mike Rogers
Fizz Buzz Book with Joel Grus
Goodnight Zoom
Tips for Working from Home
Ten Years of Data Science with Josh Wills and Oscar Boykin
2019
My Tweets in the News
Installing Python on Mohave with pyenv
Access a IPython repl from pdb
Right Code, Right Place, Right Time
2018
Devops Empowered Data Science with Ansible
Challenges in Applying Machine Learning to Cybersecurity
Wrong Figures, Right Answers?
I Basically Can't Hire People Who Don't Know Git
George Washington's Struggle for Inbox Zero
A Subjective and Anecdotal FAQ on Becoming a Data Scientist
Optimism is essential to scientific success
dothopper photography
John Cook’s Ten Year Blogging Endeavour
2017
An Infosec Limerick
Neal Ford on Companies Ignoring Developer Costs
How I Became a Data Scientist Despite Having Been a Math Major: The Talk
Zen of Git
Python Plotting for Exploratory Data Analysis
Parallelizing a Python Function for the Extremely Lazy
CondaHTTPError: HTTP 401 UNAUTHORIZED for url
Choice of the Name Dynamic Programming
Adversarial Learning: Stories of Degradation and Humiliation
Build a Real Time Machine Learning System
Like most great mathematicians, he expects universal precision
Metawork is more interesting than work
Towards Reducing Distractions while Working
Web Development and Design for the Backend Developer
Automating Python with Ansible
Naive Bayes Meme
Some Reflections on Being Turned Down for a Lot of Data Science Jobs
Logistic Regression Rules Everything Around Me
How I Quit My Ph.D. and Learned to Love Data Science
Your Old Tweets from This Day
Compare RSA Key with Fingerprint in Github
2016
The perils of thinkism
Tallest Data Scientist
Get Pykafka to work with rdkafka on Linux
Data Scientists Need More Automation
Filter by date in a Pandas MultiIndex
Speeding up PyMC3 NUTS Sampler
Understanding Probabilistic Topic Models By Simulation
Undersampled Radio Interview
Setting Up supervisord
Entropy of a Discrete Probability Distribution
Cross Entropy and KL Divergence
Photos Featured on Smithsonian Magazine
Find Files Modified in last N Minutes
Faster SSH Access to Remote Computers
Configuring Impala Query Results with impalarc
Using Conda with the Fish Shell
Searching the tweets of people you follow
Concatenate files with header row
Testing whether a Python string contains an integer
Ultralight Backpacking for the Ultratall
Don't Buffer Python's stdout
Econtalk
Column binding two Panda's Dataframes
Printing Pandas Data Frames as HTML in Jupyter Notebooks
Impala Doesn't Have a histogram() function
Creating Impala Tables from Pandas Dataframes
Using rbenv for Ruby Versions
Galileo's Conflict was Science vs. Science
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Bot
Mentions of John Cook on Github
Quotes from Former Professors
2015
I Love Twitter
My Python Environment Workflow with Conda
Sequential Minimal Optimization Algorithm for Support Vector Machines
Knitting
Using Twitter Data to Gain Insights into E-cigarette Marketing and Locations of Use
Tweets I'm Proud Of (2)
Notes on Dirichlet Processes
Nonparametric Latent Dirichlet Allocation
A Joke
Data Science and Agriculture
Classes Future Programmers Should Take
Dealing with Outliers
Profile in Computational Imagination
On Showing Your Work
A Programmer's Portfolio
High Quality Code at Quora
10x Engineering
Handy One-off Webpages
Thinking at Work
How I Became a Data Scientist Despite Having Been a Math Major
Links for March 23, 2015
Concatenate MP3 Files
Links for March 13, 2015
Introduction to PySpark
Links for January 19, 2015
2014
Links for December 29, 2014
Links for December 22, 2014
ShouldIGetAPhD.com
Links for December 6, 2014
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Links for November 12, 2014
Links for November 3, 2014
Links for November 1, 2014
Pyspark's AggregateByKey Method
Links for September 30, 2014
Links for September 25, 2014
Links for September 20, 2014
Quickly Converting Python Dict to JSON
Shortcut to Switch to Previous Git Branch
Links for September 10, 2014
Tracking Weight Loss with R, Hazel, Withings, and IFTTT
Links for August 30, 2014
Links for August 28, 2014
Keeping IPython Notebooks Running in the Background
Links for August 25, 2014
Links for August 23, 2014
2013
Noisy Series and Body Weight Part 2
Tweeting Primes
Sublime Text and Markdown
The Incessant Commentary on Being Tall
Noisy Series and Body Weight
Guide to Monte Carlo Methods?
Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization
Introduction to Scikit-Learn
2012
Bringing Operations Research into the 21st Century with Online Video
Pickle and Redis
Operations Research and Computer Programming
Notes on the Derivation of Least Squares Policy Iteration
Calculus Haikus and Limericks
Teaching Students to Fail
My Email Analytics
Average Area of a Random Hull
Operations Research, Machine Learning, and Optimization
Stephen Wolfram's AMA
The Spelling Corrector that Got Me Interested in Machine Learning
Mathematica: A Love Story
Mathematicians, Engineers, and Businessmen on NPC Problems
The Efficient Research Hypothesis
From Nuclear Weapons to Operations Research
What do all operations researchers know?
Carrots, Oatmeal, Operations Research
2010
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