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A tutorial on deep-learning, I really enjoyed reading it, but I'm still trying to figure out how this is different than non-linear logistic regression to estimate features then supervised prediction using those features? Or maybe I'm just naive.... Rafa on … Continue reading →

Recently there have been some high profile flameouts in scientific research. A couple examples include the Duke saga, the replication issues in social sciences, p-value hacking, fabricated data, not enough open-access publication, and on and on. Some of these results … Continue reading →

Nature has jumped on to the reproducibility bandwagon and has announced a new approach to improving reproducibility of submitted papers. The new effort is focused primarily and methodology, including statistics, and in making sure that it is clear what an … Continue reading →

One element about the entire discussion about reproducible research that I haven't seen talked about very much is the potential for the lack of reciprocity. I think even if scientists were not concerned about the possibility of getting scooped by … Continue reading →

What it feels like to be bad at math. My personal experience like this culminated in some difficulties with Green's functions back in my early days at USU. I think almost everybody who does enough math eventually runs into a … Continue reading →

Interview with Roger Peng from YCELP on Vimeo. A few weeks ago I sat down with Angel Hsu of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy to talk about some of their work on air pollution indicators. (Note: I … Continue reading →

There's an interesting parallel between the Nevins-Potti debacle (a true debacle, in my mind) and the recent Reinhart-Rogoff kerfuffle. Both were exposed via some essentially small detail that had nothing to do with the real problem. In the case of … Continue reading →