A Concrete Analysis of Newcomb’s Problem
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I first heard of Newcomb’s problem back in 1974, and have thought about it
off and on ever since. I’ve now written a detailed analysis of the problem,
ther...
Agentic Coding Ascension Notes
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I’ve found agentic coding (with Anthropic’s Claude) to be something between
an x10 and x100 multiplier on what I personally can do in a software
engineerin...
Retirement!
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The time has come! After more than 30 years of software development at
MathWorks, I have decided to retire. Friday, March 29, will be my last day.
For 18...
Data is pure gold in the right hands
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Applying technology like machine learning to transaction data could
significantly increase the proportion of money laundering activity that is
detected. It...
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*What Programming do Predictive Modelers Need to Know?*
Dean Abbott
SmarterHQ and Abbott Analytics
Note: this post, almost 7 years after posting 5/22/2017)...
A New Dawn for Local Learning Methods?
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The relentless improvement in speed of computers continues. While some
technical barriers to this progress have begun to emerge, exploitation of
parallelis...
Compressing GeoJSON with Python
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GeoJSON can get quite big when you need represent complex maps with lots of
polygons. Even though it compresses well, being text, it can still be quite
a h...
HACC-spatial scripts
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Since I’ve been asked quite often recently to publish the HACC-spatial
scripts for the respective algorithm I developed in my PhD thesis, this
post will li...
What does leadership look like? By Vaclav Havel
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After reading my recent response to her question, "What does leadership
look like in a healthy network," Claire Reinelt referred me to Vaclav
Havel, leader...
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Moving
I've been considering starting over with this blog thing for a while, so I
thought I'd put up a post warning the few people who follow this blog....
Variation Testing
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What effect do subtle differences have upon website pages? There is growing
interest in this area across a variety of groups. Here is a sample of
sites/ser...