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Sunday Links
Week of 20 April
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Sunday Links
Week of 14 April
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Sunday Links
Week of 6 April
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Goals for Spring 2014
I made wonderful progress this winter after establishing for myself a set of diverse goals. In this post I’ll set myself up for similar success in the spring with a new collection of things to aim for.
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Q2
A quarter of progress: the benefits (and challenges) of living intentionally
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Sunday Links
Week of February 2
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Kneser-Ney smoothing explained
I explain a popular smoothing method applied to language models. The post describes Kneser-Ney as it applies to bigram language models and offers some intuition on why it works well.
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Sunday Links
Week of January 5
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Sunday Links
Week of December 29
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My biphasic sleep experiment
Giving a different sleep style a try
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The wacky economics of gift-giving
Why do we give presents rather than cash? What is it that makes some gifts offensive and others lovely?
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Sunday Links
Week of December 22: In which the unplanned Hayekian immersion program continues
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Imperat aut servit: Managing our knowledge inheritance
How do we manage the weight of our intellectual inheritance? An examination of the historical practice of writing during and after reading, and a suggested answer to that question.
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German 2014
A new year, a new language. I discuss the reasoning for establishing this year-long goal and detail the techniques I plan to use this year to follow through.
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Sunday Links
Week of December 15, 2013. More economics, with a side of Lisp.
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Fall quarter time analysis
A new side of timeboxing revealed.
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Goals for Winter 2014
I wrote in yesterday's quarterly review about living more intentionally. I'd like to begin to follow through over the next few days by establishing public goals over two time horizons: quarterly goals and yearly goals.
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Q1
Some necessary post-quarter reflections.
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Sunday Links
Week of December 8, 2013
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Sunday Links
Week of December 1, 2013