We use machine learning to win the iterated prisoner's dilemma in round robin tournaments
and population dynamics. [2017-07-31]
A quick explanation of the basics of classification using a kernel density estimate and Bayes' Theorem. [2016-09-11]
Let's play with prime numbers and machine learning classifiers!
[2016-08-08] [
Notebook]
Monthly CO2 measurements from the Mauna Loa observatory show an increasing
mean over time as well as a seasonal trend. In this notebook we'll see how
to analyze and model this data using autoregressive models (ARMA and ARIMA).
[2016-07-26]
Most people are not trained in statistics or strategic decision making, and as
a data scientist you frequently encounter cognitive biases when explaining
results and making recommendations. This article describes several that I have
encountered.
[2016-07-25]
A breadth-first search always finds a shortest path between two vertices
in a graph, but is the run time always better than depth-first search? No -- in fact,
in some cases BFS can be arbitrarily worse in run time than DFS.
[2016-07-21]
A practice notebook for clustering with scikit learn:
k-Means, DBSCAN, and the silhouette metrics. (Practice for students in my
data science course).
[2016-07-11]
A comparison of linear and logistic models.
[2016-06-27]
A simple example of when a less accurate model
fits the context better. [2016-06-27]
A quick look at some decision boundaries and classification examples with
k-NN, with comparisons to decision tree and linear support vector machine
classifiers. [2016-06-22]
Also: plotting a loss function to see the landscape that gradient descent
optimizes over, and the effect that regularization has on the landscape.
[2016-06-21]
There are many ways to fit a linear regression and in python I find myself commonly using both
scikit-learn and statsmodels. This notebook includes examples from both, polynomial fits, dummy
variables, and other common tasks.
[2016-06-14]
A simple Jupyter notebook exploring the central limit theorem.
[2016-06-05]
Implementing the Moran process, a popular population model of selection, is easy with the Axelrod library.
[2016-03-21]
A quick tutorial of how to visualize, estimate, and classify with the Abalone dataset.
[2015-01-24]
Do mass shootings, gun murders, and gun deaths occur in the states with higher gun ownership? [2015-12-04]
Following the exploratory analysis in the last article, let's take what we learned and build predictive models for both tournament scores and wins. As it turns out, we can find two very good models using multiple linear regression. [2015-11-17]
This is an exploratory data analysis of a collection of 100 iterated prisoner's dilemma strategies, their depth of memory, how they act in various contexts, and how they perform in round-robin tournaments. Part 1 in a series. [2015-11-16]
Last time I talked about a series of metrics for measuring how cooperative a prisoner's dilemma strategy is based on PageRank-like eigenvector methods. In this post we will attempt to infer the memory depth of various strategies. [2015-10-20]
In 2014, Tyler Singer-Clark defined several
morality metrics that evaluate strategies for
iterated prisoner's dilemma tournaments. There is a
good summary
on Scott Aaronson's blog and Singer-Clark's
manuscript [pdf]
is quite readable. The Axelrod library is now capable of reproducing Singer-Clark's results
as well as extending them to the study of all the strategies in the library (currently about
80 ordinary strategies have been implemented). [2015-09-05]
Bayesian inference is the use of Bayes' theorem to develop probability distributions for
various phenomena and can be used to estimate parameters for various probability distributions.
This article has a
companion widget that you should open in a
new window or tab. [2015-08-24]
For
Project Euler Problem 70 I needed to compute a lot of Euler Totients quickly. [2015-08-07]
Recently I was called in for jury duty, my first time in a courtroom as a potential juror, and the first time in a court in many years. It was an enlightening if somewhat disheartening experience. [2015-08-04]