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stat_rethinking_2024
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Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
+1 for the Rethinking Statistics book by McElreath. I recently took the 2024 edition of the self-paced course https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2024 and the lectures on youtube are amazing. He's not just teaching stats, but how to do science!
Another, more basic, book on Bayesian stats is: https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkBayes2/ The author uses the grid approximation for everything, so there is no need to get into Stan or other framework.
Myself, I'm still trying to (re)learn frequentist stuff properly (will post a separate comment about that), but the deeper I go the more convinced I am that it is total crap, and my desire to convert to the church of Bayes increases...
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Bayesians Moving from Defense to Offense
Thanks for the "Statistical Rethinking" recommendation. I had watched some of McElreath's lectures so I knew of the book, but next year I think I'm finally going to read it from end to end and follow along the 2024 course schedule: https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2024#calendar-...
I had previously started the BDA course, which is another famous Bayesian course, see https://avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_Aalto/ but I didn't finish it due to travel.
No more excuses in 2024... time to level-up the Bayesian modelling skill ;)
- Statistical Rethinking (2024 Edition)
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Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
Finnish, mostly. I moved to Finland a few years ago and have been making slow but consistent progress along the vectors I care about ever since. I just wish language learning didn't take so much time.
I've built some little tools for the task, which ended up teaching me enough about modern development that I could enter back into software as a career without too much hassle. There were no good Anki frequency list decks, so I made https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1331009943 and later https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1149950470 .
These in turn led me to devour a book on the inner workings of SQLite and web dev, because I needed some way to scrape Tatoeba without losing my data every time. Eventually I got good enough to start reading the 'clear Finnish's news, but then I realized YLE.fi didn't seem to have an easy way for me to scrape all previous news articles, so I built https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/selkouutiset-archive/ as an excuse to get a little deeper into Hugo and also learn some stuff about Git modules, systemd timers, doing things on a Raspberry Pi, doing things in GCP...
... And finally today I made the first lurching version prototype of a flashcard generator for that news archive, at https://github.com/Selkouutiset-Archive/selkokortti . I guess I just keep stringing the tools and interests I have together to make bigger and bigger things. Maybe that's all a career/vocation really is at the end of the day.
I've also been learning a lot about QEMU and virtualization. That's mostly for work. I make software that runs on trains.
What are some alternatives?
gol - Haskell implementation of Conways' Game of Life.
Unwrap - Learn Swift interactively on your iPhone.
InkChatGPT - Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) LLM app
nixos-eris - My attempt at a reproducible OS using NixOS
TrinityCore - TrinityCore Open Source MMO Framework (master = 10.2.7.54673, 3.3.5 = 3.3.5a.12340, wotlk_classic = 3.4.3.54261, cata classic = 4.4.0.54027)
eev - a tool for automating almost everything (with Emacs)