There are significant changes happening in distributed systems. Object storage is becoming the database, tools for transactional processing and analytical processing are becoming one in the same, and there are new programming models that promise some combination of superior security, … Read more
set.seed(7777) # for reproducible numbers library(survival) library(randomForest) library(boot) library(randomForestSRC) library(prodlim) # for ‘sindex’ call library(rms) # Generate Google corpus model for use in main analysis # Load the data, fit, and plot: index read.csv(“https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/2013-google-index.csv”, colClasses=c(“Date”,”double”,”character”)) # an exponential doesn’t fit … Read more
David Gal writes: I wanted to share the attached paper on choice prediction that I recently co-authored with Itamar Simonson in case it’s of interest. I think it’s somewhat related to your work on the Piranha Problem, in that it … Read more
Inspired by a great video by Veritasium about analog computers and Andrew Carol’s Lego Antikythera mechanism I decided to try to build Sir William Thomson’s tide predicting machine out of Lego. Before I get into the details, here is a … Read more