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New Website built with Quarto!

Quarto

AI

I recently rebuilt my personal website using Quarto, mostly via Claude Code. The previous version was built with Franklin.jl, a (really cool) static site generator written…

New Website Built with Franklin.jl!

Julia

Franklin is a static site generator written in pure Julia. It’s pretty neat and used in a lot of places, including the JuliaLang website: https://julialang.org.

One Click Tuner

iOS

Apps

This is a bit off topic for me, but I recently created an iOS Tuner App after not being satisfied with the other tuner apps out there (I play guitar). It was an excuse to…

Choosing a Learning Rate is Hard

Statistics

Machine Learning

Stochastic approximation (SA) algorithms have a wide variety of uses in machine learning and big data. In the SA setup, there’s function you’re trying to minimize,

Why I Use Julia

Julia

When I am asked why I use Julia, my immediate response is “multiple dispatch”. Julia is well-known for performance, but that is only a part of what keeps me using it every…

AdaGrad has a Learning Rate

Statistics

Machine Learning

AdaGrad (PDF) is an interesting algorithm for adaptive element-wise learning rates. First consider a stochastic gradient descent (SGD) update

JuliaML Basics

Julia

JuliaML is a GitHub organization dedicated to building tools for machine learning in Julia. This post serves as an introduction to some of the building blocks which JuliaML…

MM Algorithms

Statistics

Majorization-Minimization (MM) is an important concept in optimization. It is more of a principle than a specific algorithm, and many algorithms can be interpreted under the…

GLMNet Tutorial

R

Recently, a friend informed me that something I created for NC State’s Statistical Learning Group comes up on a google search for “glmnet tutorial”. In fall 2014, I gave an…