Last time I talked about Dota2, I covered the evolution of the metagame across patches. This time, I'll focus on analyzing the way pros draft - but looking at it using tools from NLP in a very novel way.
How would you teach someone what the word 'rabbit' means ...
read moreTogether with my colleagues Marco Giordan, Andy Collins, and Attila Csikasz-Nagy we just published an analysis of the peer review process of eLife on F1000 here.
It was an interesting experience, and it was my first time leading a project from the start all the way to publication (and now ...
read morePsychology is still reeling from the results of a massive study of reproducibility which found that less than half of statistically significant findings recently published in the top psychology journals remain significant when independently reproduced. If this is new to you, Jesse Singal wrote a great ...
read moreRecently, there's been a highly encouraging push towards a more open science with a greater emphasis on reproducibility, spurred by a few high profile retractions and a growing awareness of the slippery nature of several scientific findings.
This slow shift has important implications. While in ...
read moreOpenBLAS is a terrific open source implementation of the BLAS libraries, forked from the no-longer maintained gotoblas. It's free, fast, available under a fairly permissive license, and quite easy to compile (unlike ATLAS).
Almost all scientific programming languages use BLAS under the hood to do the numerical heavy lifting ...
read moreread moreThe miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for ...