Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization

I had the honor of being a technical reviewer for John Myles White's outstanding book, "Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization: Developing, Deploying, and Debugging."

Pickle and Redis

A 2012 talk from PyCarolinas about persisting data with Python

Notes on the Derivation of Least Squares Policy Iteration

Calculus Haikus and Limericks

Limericks and haikus written by my calculus students

Teaching Students to Fail

Students need to learn to take risks, fail, and rebound

The Efficient Research Hypothesis

The progression of knowledge isn't efficient!