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Week of 20 April

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Week of 14 April

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Week of 6 April

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.

Q2

A quarter of progress: the benefits (and challenges) of living intentionally

Sunday Links

Week of February 2

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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Week of January 5

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Week of December 29

My biphasic sleep experiment

Giving a different sleep style a try

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?

Sunday Links

Week of December 22: In which the unplanned Hayekian immersion program continues

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.

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.

Sunday Links

Week of December 15, 2013. More economics, with a side of Lisp.

Fall quarter time analysis

A new side of timeboxing revealed.

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.

Q1

Some necessary post-quarter reflections.

Sunday Links

Week of December 8, 2013

Sunday Links

Week of December 1, 2013