The 2019 UK election under AV
On December 12 this year, there were parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom for the third time in five years. The country is in the middle of an unpre...
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I am an Australian data scientist and mathematician, living in Tel Aviv.
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The Setup
In this post I answer the interview questions from The Setup. This is an updated version of this post which I wrote in 2016, which is itself an updated versi...
Regression
At work recently I gave a 90-minute colloquium talk on regression. We have a monthly series of talks where researchers and data scientists discuss fundamenta...
The curse of dimensionality and the weak law of large numbers
I was recently re-reading some fantastic course notes by the peerless Terence Tao on basic statistics from a fairly high mathematical standpoint as I wanted ...
Deep learning and the universal approximation theorem
Deep learning, and in particular deep neural networks, is one of the most popular and powerful tools of modern data science. Using analogies from neuroscien...