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My self-hosting journey

1st of August, 2024

Self-hosting your own cloud services not only saves money, it is also a great way to learn read more ...

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On Kalman filters and how I made them 20x faster using Rust

7th of October, 2023

In my first dive into Rust, I implemented an unscented Kalman filter in and made it 20x faster than the equivalent Python implementation. read more ...

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Dev log: interactive website dashboard

1st of May, 2023

I made an interactive dashboard for this website, and here is the story of how I did it. read more ...

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My thesis in a nutshell

26th of February, 2023

Read this blog post if you're curious what I worked on during my PhD! read more ...

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GMRES: or how to do fast linear algebra

29th of March, 2022

Linear least-squares system pop up everywhere, and there are many fast way to solve them. We'll be looking at one such way: GMRES. read more ...

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Machine learning with discretized functions and tensors

10th of March, 2022

We recently made a paper about supervised machine learning using tensors, here's the gist of how this works. read more ...

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Low-rank matrices: using structure to recover missing data

26th of September, 2021

A lot of data is naturally of 'low rank'. I will explain what this means, and how to exploit this fact. read more ...

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How to edit Microsoft Word documents in Python

29th of August, 2021

Parsing and editing Word documents automatically can be extremely useful, but doing it in Python is not that straightforward. read more ...

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Blind deconvolution #4: Blind deconvolution

31st of May, 2021

Finally, let's look at how we can automatically sharpen images, without knowing how they were blurred in the first place. read more ...

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Blind Deconvolution #3: More about non-blind deconvolution

2nd of May, 2021

Deconvolving and sharpening images is actually pretty tricky. Let's have a look at some more advanced methods for deconvolution. read more ...

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Blind Deconvolution #2: Image Priors

9th of April, 2021

In order to automatically sharpen images, we need to first understand how a computer can judge how 'natural' an image looks. read more ...

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Blind Deconvolution #1: Non-blind Deconvolution

13th of March, 2021

Deconvolution is one of the cornerstones of image processing. Let's take a look at how it works. read more ...

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Time series analysis of my email traffic

13th of February, 2021

I have 15 years worth of email traffic data, let's take a closer look and discover some fascinating patterns. read more ...

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Modeling uncertainty in exam scores

9th of November, 2020

We use exams to determine how much a student knows, but exams aren't perfect. How can we estimate the uncertainty in students' exams scores? read more ...

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How big should my validation set be?

26th of August, 2020

Cross validation is extremely important, but how should we choose the size of our validation and test sets? read more ...

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How do my music preferences evolve?

12th of August, 2020

I use last.fm to track my music listening. Let's look at my data to discover how my musical preferences evolve over time. read more ...

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Is my data normal?

10th of August, 2020

Normally distributed data is great, but how do you know whether your data is normally distributed? read more ...

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Bias in figure skating judging

20th of June, 2020

Judging in figure skating is biased. Let's use data science to figure out just how bad the issue is. read more ...

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First post

19th of June, 2020

My first post in this blog read more ...

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