Trying To Understand...
...Algorithmic bias
Exploration of one of the papers cited in the *Fairness* chapter of Brian Christian's *The Alignment Problem*.
...K-means++
Quick exploration of the kmeans++ clustering algorithm.
...How to estimate pi.
Illustrating Steven Strogatz's explanation from *Infinite Powers* of how Archimedes estimated the value of pi.
...Chaos with a pocket calculator.
Introduction to chaotic dynamics using the simple 'Logistic Map' population growth example from Robert May's classic paper.
...The El Farol Bar problem.
Simplified simulation of Brian Arthur's 'El-Farol Bar Problem', a staple of complexity economics, using an agent-based model in R.
...Lies and statistics.
A quick summary of Daniel Levitin's "A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics" with some illustrative plots.