During the week, I often collect and share links I find interesting on Elder Research’s Slack. I shared a short list on LinkedIn and reproduce it here.
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Univariate Distribution Relationships. Every few years someone digs up one of these probability distribution maps, and this one is especially neat because the different distributions are clickable and provide documentation.
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Andrej Karpathy shares on YouTube how he uses large language models day to day. Plenty of useful tips, though I’m just starting to work out my thoughts re: vibe coding and tools like [Cursor][] or Simon Willison’s excellent tool, llm.
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I gave a talk on Friday about sparsity-inducing priors in Bayesian modeling, including the Horseshoe, R2D2, and ARR2 priors. Michael Betancourt also has an excellent case study on sparsity:
“Handling Sparsity via the Horseshoe”
“Bayesian Regression Using a Prior on the Model Fit” on arXiv
“The ARR2 prior” on arXiv
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Super interesting, from Bruce Schneier: Picking up abandoned S3 buckets—that various clients still access!—and using them to deliver malware.
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A GitHub template you can aim at a website and collect changes over time.
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Very long list of (to me fairly obscure) macOS tips.